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frequently gathered in fastigiate bundles, rarely the lowermost 1-3 pairs homo- 

 gamous ; joints and pedicels filiform, compressed, solid or slightly grooved, 

 disarticulating horizontally ; spikelets deciduous, the sessile with the adjacent 

 joint and pedicels. Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed, awned ; callus small, 

 shortly bearded. Involucral glumes equal, thinly chartaceous to membranous, 

 lower 2-keeled, with narrow inflexed margins, upper boat-shaped, 3-nerved, 

 acutely keeled. Lower floral glume hyaline, nerveless, upper reduced to a hya- 

 line upwards firmer linear stipe passing into a slender awn. Stamens 3. Stig- 

 mas exserted laterally near the middle of the spikelet, longer than the styles. 

 Pedicelled spikelet awnless ; somewhat similar to the sessile. 



Species about 5, in the tropical and warm -temperate parts of the Old World. 



Cooke knew one species from the Presidency which he described under the 

 name of Andropogon foveolatus, Del. We add Eremopogon Paranjpyeanum, 

 Blatter and McCann. 



1. Lower involucral glume of sessile spikelet 4-nerv- 



ed ... ... ... ... ... 1. E. foveolatus. 



2. Lower involucral glume of sessile spikelet faintly 



5-7-nerved ... ... ... ... 2. E. Paranjpyeanum 



1. Eremopogon foveolatus, Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix (1917), 183.— 

 Andropogon foveolatus, Del. Fl. Egypte 16, t. 8, fig. 2 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 35, t. 22 ; Hack. Monogr/ Androp. 402 ; Hook. f. F. B. 1. vii, 168 ; 

 Cke. ii, 977.— A. strictus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 260. — A. monosiachyus, Spreng. 

 Pug. ii, 9.— Hypogynium foveolatum, Haines Bot. Bihar and Orissa (1924), 

 1041. 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality : Sind : Sehwan to Laki, foot of hills (Sabnis B 651 !). — Gujarat : 

 Road to Lasandra (Chibber !) ; Bhuj Hill, Cutch (Blatter 3765 !) —Khandesh : 

 Umalla, Tapti Bank (Blatter and Hallberg 5222 ! ); Bhusawal (McCann 4243 !); 

 Bor, Bori River (Blatter and Hallberg 4309 !) ; Naradana (Blatter and Hallberg 

 5180 \).—Konkan: Parel, poor specimen (McCann 5373 \).—Deccan . Pan- 

 chgani, roadside, elevation 4,000 ft., rainfall 60 " (Sedgwick and Bell 

 4735 !) ; Yeola (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona !) ; Arangaon, Ahmednagar (Ryan !) ; 

 Chattarshinji Hill (Ezekiel!); Deolali (Blatter 4550 !) ; Manmad (Blatter 

 A?61 !) ; Panchgani (Blatter and Hallberg B1245!).— S. M. Country : Dharwar, 

 elevation 2,400 ft., rainfall 34 " (Sedgwick 1825 !) ; Haveri (Talbot 2229 !). 



Distribution: Tropical Africa (Upper Guinea, Nileland), Canaries, from 

 Egypt and Tropical Arabia to the drier parts of India. 



2. Eremopogon Paranjpyeanum, Blatter & McCann, comb. nov. — Andro- 

 pogon Paranjpyeanum, Bhide in Journ. and Proc. Asiat. Soc. Beng., New 

 series, vii (1911), 514. 



Descriptioti : A delicate-looking grass. Stems slender, erect, 30-45 cm. 

 high; upper nodes pubescent; leaves 2'5-7 # 5 cm. by 2 mm., subcordate at 

 base, long-hairy on both sides, the margins thickened and minutely irregularly 

 repand and spinulosely serrulate ; sheaths glabrous ; ligule a short erose 

 membrane. Racemes solitary, 12-25 mm. long (without the awns), on a very 

 slender peduncle. Sessile spikelets 3 mm. long. Lower involucral glume 

 oblong, obtuse, faintly 5-7-nerved, glabrous, margins narrowly incurved, keels 

 shortly ciliate at the apex, upper just a little longer than the lower, 3-nerved, 

 oblong, apiculate. Lower floral glume shorter than the involucral glumes, 

 hyaline and with ciliate margins, epaleate, upper floral glume consisting of the 

 narrow base of the awn, just a little more than half as long as the lower in- 

 volucral glume, obscurely margined and 1-nerved with 2 obscure narrow lobes 

 at the apex, and an interposed slender, twisted, scabrid awn about 4 cm. long, 

 bearing a bisexual flower. Pedicelled spikelets about 4 mm. long. Lower 

 involucral glume oblong, obtuse, 7-9-nerved, margins incurved and broadly 

 winged at the keels, wings shortly ciliate towards the apex, upper involucral 

 glume a little shorter than the lower, oblong, acute, 3-nerved, margins ciliate. 

 Lower floral glume shorter than the upper involucral, hyaline, ciliate, faintly 

 3-5-nerved, epaleate, male. Joints and pedicels compressed, obliquely truncate, 

 |-§ as long as the sessile spikelets and ciliate with short white hairs on both 

 sides. 



Locality : S. M. Country : Castle Rock (Bhide !). 

 ( Distribution : So far endemic. 



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