Arundinella.'] clxxiii. GRAMiNEis. (J. D. Hooker.) 71 



6. A., khaseana, NeesexSieud. Syn. Gram. 115; tall, robust, leaves 

 narrow, panicle 6-18 in. branches long or short erect scabrid, spikelets 

 i-^ in. setose with long tubercled based bristles, gl. I and II aristately 

 acuminate, 1= f II 5-nerved, II 5-nerved, III acuminate or subaristate, 

 IV oblong-lanceolate nearly smooth. Arundinella ? Wall. Cat. n. 8672. 



Khasia Hilis; alt. 4-6000 ft., common. 



&tem 3-6 ft., from a woody tufted rootstock, as thick as a swan's quill or less, 

 nodea pubescent or bearded. Leaves 6-12 in., and sheaths glabrous pilose or 

 villous; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle effuse or contracted or thyrsiform ; 

 branches 1-6 in. long. Spikelets pedicelled, crowded or distant, dark green j gl. IV. 

 with the median awn variable in length, strongly twisted at the stout base, lateral 

 awns short. 



** Awn solitary, longer than the spibelet. 



t Spikelets about ^^ ' lo *"• ^onff. 



7. A- agrostoldes; Trin. 8p. Grram. Ic. t. 265 ; annual, villous or 

 glabrescent, leaves brond flat flaccid, panicle contracted, branches fascicled 

 suberect, spikelets glabrous or setose, gl. I = J II ovate acuminate 3-5- 

 nerved, II subaristately acuminate 5-nerved, III subacute 3-5-nerved, IV 

 oblong-lanceolate scabrid. Stevd. Syn. Gram. 116. A. holooides, Trin. in 

 Bull. 8e. Acad. Petersh. i. (1836) 71. Braudtia holcoides, Kunth jRevis. 

 Gram. ii. 129, 1. 170 ; Steud. I. c— Arundinella ? Wall. Gat. n. 8671. 



SoTiTH Decoan, and the Concan, &c., Wight, &c. Tenasseeim, WalUeh, 

 Seller. — Disteib. Philippines. 



Stem 6-18 in., stout or slender. Leaves 1-4 in., up to \ in. broad, narrowed to 

 the base, and sheaths usually clothed with long soft hairs ; ligule a ridge of hairs. 

 Panicle 1-9 in., always contracted ; branches i-1 in., capillary, suberect, sparingly 

 divided ; gl. I and II rarely without bristles ; III male or neuter ; column of awn 

 exserted, twisted. 



Var. ciliata; panicle more copiously setose, spikelets rather larger. Arundinella 

 ciliata, Nees in Wight Oat. n. 1666. A. pilosa, Bochat. in Hohen. PI. Ind. Or. n. 

 647 & 935 ; Miq. in Verh. Nedel. Ind. iii. iv. (1851) 30. Holeus ciliatns, Roxb. 

 Fl. lad. i. 318. Andropogon panioeus, Seyne ex Wall. I. c. if" in Herb. Bottl. 

 Perotis polystachya, Herb. Begne ex Wall. I, c. The Deccan Peninsula, from the 

 Concan southward. Moulmein, Griffith. — Arundinella, Wall. Cat. n. 8664. 



8. A. tenella^ Nees ex Steud. Syn. Graim. 115; annual, glabrous, 

 leaves flaccid lanceolate, panicle very large efEuse copiously branched, 

 rachis and branches capillary spreading, spikelets xVlfe i°- solitary long- 

 pedioelled glabrous or sparsely setose, gl. I = | 111 8-nerved, It ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, III 5-nerved, IV oblong, awn twice as 

 long as the spikelet. Wight Cat. n. 1668 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 292 ; 

 Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 13 ; Liaboa in Jowm. Bomb. Nat. Sist. Soc. v. 

 (1891) 345. A. pumila, Steud. I. c. 114 ; Liaboa I. c. Acratherum pumilum, 

 Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 414, t. 100. Anemagrostis teuella, 

 Wight ex Steud. I. c. 



Western Himalaya ; Garwhal, alt. 4O0O ft. Rajpootana, on Mt. Abu, &e. 

 Behae and Oenteai India, alt. 3-400O ft. The Khasia Hills, the Concan 

 and Peou. — Disteib. Abyssinia. 



Stem 6-20 in., erect, soft, leafy, very sparsely hairy. Leaves from ovate and 

 2-4 in. long, to linear-lanceolate and 14 in. long, often | in. broad, acuminate, 

 membranous, many-nerved, base narrow ; sheath rarely hairy ; ligule short, hairy .^ 

 Panicle 2-10 in. ; rachis slender, strict, erect ; branches alternate or the lower 



