Arundinella.'] OLXxrii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 75 



8> Andropogon capillaris, Herb. Heyne. — Arundinella sp., Wall. Cat. n. 

 8665 A. 



The Decoan, Seyne. Pulnbt HitLS, Herb. Wight (d. 3338). 



Stem erect from a tuberous rhizome which is clothed with the woolly bases of 

 ■leaf-sheaths. Leaves 6-12 by ^-J in., acuminate, base rather narrow ; upper sheaths 

 glabrous j ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 5-7 in., flexuous ; rachis filiform, scaberu- 

 lousj branches few, 4-6 in., naked below except a solitary long-pedioelled axillary 

 spikelet ; pedicels capillary. — An obscure plant. Nees describes the leaves as with 

 sparsely setulose margins, and gl. I V as mucronate, from which it is evident that 

 the awn has fallen away in his specimen. This latter suggested the name mutica, 

 which, being misleading, I have replaced by Heyne's of capillaris. Wight's Pulney 

 spe(umens have a slightly hairy panicle 3 in. long, with more numerous close-set 

 branches and closer spikelets. Lisboa (Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soo. v. (1890) 

 344) gives mntica as a common plant all over Bombay, but without seeing specimens 



I cannot confirm this. 



16. A. laxiflora, Hook. f. ; very slender, glabrous, leaves narrow, 

 panicle effuse, branches spreading capillary solitary alternate or opposite 

 or tbe lower fascicled, branchlets spreading, spikelets |-J in. solitary 

 shorter tban their capillary pedicels, gl. I =: j II ovate aoamiuate 3-nerved, 



II ovate-lanceolate 5-nerved, III longer tban I oblong acute, IV longer 

 than III oblong-lanceolate scaberuloos, awn or shortly exserted. A. 

 nervosa, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 362 {excl.' Syn.) ; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 106. 



Cetlon, Gardner} Central Province, alt. 3-5C00 ft., Thwaites (O.P. 919). 



Annual ? glabrous. Stem 12-30 in., tufted, geniculately ascending, nodes glabrous. 

 Leavers 4-8 by ^5 in., finely acuminate ; ligule narrow, membranous, ciliate. 

 Panicle 4-6 in., green. Ol. I scabrid on the keel or not; IV bearded at the base or 

 not J column of awn twisted. — The open panicle with long capillary pedicels of the 

 spikelet and quite acute gl. III which is i longer than I, characterize this species. 

 One specimen ( Gardner, n. 1007) has no trace of an awn. 



*** Awn 0, or very short and hardly exserted (see also A. laxiflora). 



17. A. Wallichii, Nees ex 8teud. Syn. Cham. 114 ; perennial, stout, 

 erect; panicle elongate contracted strict, branches l-lj in. stout stiff 

 spiciform, spikelets 3-4-seriate ovoid secund densely imbricate very 

 stoutly pedicelled setose, gl. I nearly = II ovate acute 3-5-nerved, 



III oblong obtuse 5-nerved, IV ovoid subacute nearly smooth, awn 

 ' or very short. Dwthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 13. Panioum strictum, Eoxb. 



Fl. Ind. i. 303. P. bengalense, Spreng. Syst. i. 311 ; Steud. 8yn. Oram. 48. 

 P. pyramidale, 13? Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8700. — Panicum, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8700.— Arundinella ? Wall. Oat. a. 



Teopical Himalaya; on dry banks from Simla to Sikkim, alt. 1-6000 ft. 

 Benq-al, Behak, the Khasia, Naga and Satpuba Hills. Bttema ; Shan Hills, 

 Mandiers. — DisTElB. Tonkin. 



Stem 1-3 ft., from a woody creeping or tufted hard rhizome ; nodes bearded or 

 not. Leaves 12-18 by J-f in., all radical in small forms, glabrous hairy or villous, 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; sheath smooth scabrid or villous ; ligule a ridge of hairs. 

 Panicle ti-12 in. (the stoutest of the Indian species) ; branches ^-1 in., lower some- 

 times whorled, erecto-patent, flowering to the base; rachis angular, scabrid. Spike- 

 lets green or purplish ; gl. IV naked at the base ; awn not twisted. 



18. A. Clarkei, Hook.f.; tall, very stout, leaves very long, panicle 

 very large subcorymbiform, branches 3-8 in. fascicled erect very slender 

 simple upper much longer than the rachis, spikelets ^0-5 in. 1-2-seriate 

 secund shortly pedicelled, gl. I = i II ovate acute 5-nerved, II ovate- 



