Arundinella.'] clxxui. graminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 77 



5-n.erved, III rather longer than I, obtuse S-nerved, IV lanceolate base 

 naked, awn 0. 



The CoNOAN, Stocks ; Kineshwur, at the foot of the Ghats, Dalz. ^ Q-ibs. 



Stem 6 ft., branched below, as thick as a goose-quill at 18 in. below the naniole, 

 nodes swollen. Leaves 12-24 in., finely acuminate, subcoriaceous, many-nerved, 

 scabrid above, glabrous or sparingly hairy, margins smooth ; sheath sparingly bairv ; 

 ligule a narrow glabrous membrane. Pamicle &-7 in. long by 2-3 broad, brush-like, 

 branches uniform, quite concealing the angular scabrid raohis. Spiheleta brownish, 

 short and broad, keel of gl. I scabrid. — A distinct-looking plant, nearest perhaps to 

 A. Clwrkei in inflorescence. 



22. A. blephariphylla, Trim. mss. ; tall, stout, leafy, leaves long 

 broad thin smooth, margins setosely serrulate, panicle broadly oblong, 

 branches laxly whorled spreading filiform, spikelets J in. snbsolitary as 

 long as their pedicels glabrous, gl. I = J II broadly ovate acute 3-nerved, 

 II ovate acuminate 5-nerved, IV oblong subacute 5-nerved, IV lanceolate 

 scaberulous base naked, awn 0. — Panioum blephariphyllnm. Trim, in Lond. 

 Joum. Bot. xxii. (1885) 272, Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105. 



Ceyion ; margins of woods by the sea at Eesanwelle, Ikrguson, Trimen. 

 Annual ? Stem 3 ft. and upwards, nodes glabrous. Leaves 12-18 by nearly 



I in., rather membranous ; sheath loose j ligule obscure. Famcle 4-6 in. ; racliis 

 strict, nearly smooth ; branches spreading or snbrecurved j axils hairy The speci- 

 mens are few, but the species appears to be a distinct one, nearest to A. leptochloa, 

 which has narrower more coriaceous leaves and smaller spikelets, 



23. A. ThwaltesU, Hook. f. ; very slender, glabrous, leaves very 

 narrow, panicle oblong effuse, branches capillary solitary alternate or the 

 lower fascicled, branchlets spreading, spikelets ^ in. solitary shorter than 

 their capillary pedicels, gl. I = f III very broadly ovate acute 3-5-nerved, 



II broadly ovate acuminate 5-nerved, III as long as II acute 7-nerved, IV 

 lanceolate acute, awn 0. A. nervosa, var. Thwaites mss. 



Cetlon, Wallcer ? ; Ambagamowa district, Thwaites (C.P. 3782). 



Stem 2-3 ft., strict, erect; nodes glabrous. Leaves 4-8 by l-^- in., finely 

 acuminate; ligule a short ciliate membrane. Pamiele 8-5 in., branches naked at the 

 base. Spikelets more turgid and coriaceous than usual in the genus, with shorter, 

 broader, shorter pointed, purplish glumes; lY naked at the base. — Nearly allied to 

 A. laxiflora, but has much broader glumes, of which III is longer than I and about 

 as long as II, 



XrUDBTEEMIirABlE SPECIES. 



A. nroiCA, Trin. mss. ex Steud. Nom. E3,. II i. 143 = Agrostis biseta, Serh. 

 Spreng. — Name only. 



A. SPICATA, Dalz. in Salt. l[ Oihs. Bottib. Fl. 293 ; stem 1 ft., leaves 1-1^ by 

 ^ in. ensiform and sheaths hispid, spike 1^ in. cylindric (as in Setaria) dense-fld. 

 gl. I ^ in. lanceolate subulate subpilose 3-nerved, upper |- in. long-attenuated 

 and folded concealing the awn. — The Concan, on the Mahableshwur Hills, 

 common. 



A. JAPONIC A, ButMt Grass. N.W. India, 13, 



13. SETARXAi Beauv. ~ 



Spikelets 1- rarely 2-fld., not awned, clustered on the very short 

 branches of a spike-like or narrowly pyramidal panicle, articulate on very 

 short pedicels which bear a persistent involucel of few or many scabrid or 

 barbed bristles (barren branchlets). Glumes 4, membranous ; I = about 



