72 CLXxiii. GRAMiNB*. (J. D. Hooker.) [Arundinella. 



subverticillately fascicled, each with widely spreading capillary branches and branch- 

 lets. SpikeUts the smallest of the geuns, usually shorter than their capillary 

 pedicels ; gl. IV scabrid above ; column of awn slightly twisted. 



9. A. pygrmea, JBboi. /. ; annual, very small, slender, leaves chiefly 

 radical narrow hispidly hairy nerveless except the midrib margins serru- 

 late, panicle erect efEuse, branches few capillary, spikelets few j^jin. setose, 

 gl. I = § II ovate acute 3-nerved, II ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate 6- 

 nerved, III obtuse obscurely 5-nerved, IV oblong truncate, awn twice as 

 long as the spikelet. 



NoETH Oanaea, Lishoa. 



Whole plant 6 inches high and very slender. — Closely allied to A. tenella, but 

 very much smaller, with very slender stem, narrow chiefly radical leaves 1-li in. by 

 -j^ in., sparsely clothed with long bristles, and a very sparingly divided panicle with 

 few larger spikelets on very long capillary pedicels. — The specimens are very poor, 

 and the character given may hence require modification. 



10. A. Itletzli, 3ochst. ex Miq. in Verh. Ned. Inst. Ill Iv. (1851) 31 ; 

 tall, glabrous, leaves linear, panicle 3-10 in. effuse erect or inclined branches 

 alternate or fascicled elongate, spikelets y\-r5 in. subsecnnd, long or short 

 pedicelled glabrous or sparsely setulose, gl. 1 = J II ovate acuminate 3- 

 nerved, II ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, III acute 5-7-nerved, IV 

 oblong truncate obtuse or i-etuse scaberulous, awn about twice as long as 

 the spikelet. Steud. Syn. Gram. 116 (excl. Syn. Boxb.) ; Sochst. in Herb. 

 SoTienack. n. 257. A. agroatoides, Trin. var. tenella. Herb. Ind. Or. Ef. 

 ^ T. Agrostis fusoa, Seyne ex Wall. Cat. ^ in Herb. Rottler. — Arundi- 

 nella, Wall. Cat. n. 8668. 



UiLQHiRi HiLiiS J the Wynaad, Eeyne. The Concan and Canara, Lam, Mete, 

 Thomson, Woodrotv, &c. 



Annual ? 1-3 fi. high. Leaves 4-6 by \-\ in., scaberulous and sheath more or 

 less hairy or glabrous. Panicle 1-8 in.; rachis slender, smooth or subscaberulous; 

 branches 1-4 in., uniformly flowering. Spikelets green or purplish, solitary or 2-nate, 

 longer or shorter than their pedicels wliich are sometimes J in. long ; gl. I nerves 

 sometimes scabrid ; IV very obscurely bearded at the bi\se, awn straight, — Holien- 

 acker's specimens appear to be annual, Heyne's have a small hard rootstook. This 

 is certainly not Roxburgh's Holcus nervosus, which Stendel cites for it. The panicle 

 varies greatly in length, breadth and composition ; in small specimens it is short and 

 triangular with spreading nearly simple branches, in taller it is more effuse with 

 long flexuous branches and much longer pedicels. 



tt BpiJcelets more than -^ in. long. 



11. A. villosa, Arn. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 115 ; stems tufted villous 

 below the very narrow panicle, rachis villous, branches spiciform short 

 simple hirsute, spikelets ^J in. secund crowded setosely hirsute, gl. I = f 

 II ovate acuminate 3-5-nerved, II subaristately acuminate .5-nerved, III 

 acute 5-nerved neuter or male, IV oblong-lanceolate very minutely 

 scaberulous, awn not twice-as long as the spikelet. Thw. lEnum. PI. Zeyl. 

 362 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Fl. 106. 



Eastben Himalaya, the Khasia HiijLS, Central India, the Decoas Penik- 

 STJLA & Ceylon. 



Stem 12-16 in., slender, stifle, leafy at the villous h&se.T Leaves 4-8 by f^V^ '"■> 

 strict, rather rigid, glabrous tomentose or villous j lignle of long hairs. Fanicle 2-4 

 in., spiciform ; branches i-f in., brown. Spikelets subdistichously crowded, spreading 

 or erect; column of awn included twisted. — Nees, according to Steudel, describes 

 gl. IV. as 2. toothed. I find it to be usually rounded at the tip, but 2-toothed in 



