130 CLXXiii. GBAMiNEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Iselicumum. 



on Parusn ith. Cenibal Ihma. (Calt. in Bengal, ICurz.) — Disteib. Afifghaiiistan, 

 China, Philippinea. 



Stems 2-3 ft., tufted, sparingly branched. Blender, grooved on one side, smooth. 

 lieaves 1-2 ft. by -ro~s '"•> concave or convolute, base obtuse fimbriate, margins 

 scaberulous; sheath glabious, old basal forming with the vfool a thickened mass ; 

 ligule a ridge of hairs. Spihes 1-2 in., close together or placed apart, erect, golden 

 or rusty villous ; joints and pedicels = J the lower spikelet, slender, shortly eiliate, 

 bearded at the base. Spikelets i-| in., lanceolate, callus hairs short; gl. I sab- 

 chartaceous, margined with long rufous hairs ; II rather longer, 3-5-nerved, eiliate, 

 keel bearded below; III oblone, obtuse, tip eiliate, nerveless, paleate; palea entire 

 or2-lobed, tip eiliate ; IV = II, l-nerved, awn as long as the spikelet; palea short, 

 ovate, obtuse, tip fimbriate. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile. — Hackel points 

 out that except for the inflorescence this is more a Spodiopogon or Pollinia than an 

 IscluBmum, and should perhaps form a genus. The woolly stem-base recalls Pollinia 

 velutina and ph(Bothrix. 



8 1. pilosum, BacA. Jforaojrr. J^wrfrqp. 240; tall, robust, leaves narrow, 

 spikes 2-6 villous, gl.I of sessile spikelet lanceolate bioaspidate translucent 

 dorsally flat or depressed hairy 6-nerved keels scabrid and eiliate, II longer 

 keel eiliate above, IV = III oblong-lanceolate 2-fid, awn short slender 

 inserted between the lanceolate lobes. Duthie Fodd. Gh'ass. N. Ind.%\\ 

 Lisboain Bomb. Journ. Nat. Sist. vi. (1891) 199. Spodiopogon pilosus, 

 Nees ex Steud. Syn. Oram. 373 ; Wight Cat. n. 1692. Andropogon pilifer, 

 Steud. I.e. A. pilosus, Klein ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 920. — Andropogon, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8817. 



Ajmeeb; atNeemuch, JocjaemoTC*. Centbal PEOviifCES, DutMe. The Deccah 

 Peninsula, Heyne, Sfc. 



Seem very stout, extensively creeping; stolons sheathed; branches 2-3 ft., much 

 divided at the base, nodes glabrous. Leaves 6-12 in., flat or convolute, often wiry, 

 coriaceous, glaucous, finely acuminate, glabrous, base and mnuth of sheath bearded ; 

 ligule membranous, rounded. Spikes fascicled, \-\\ in,, yellow or brownish, rachis 

 hairy, joints and pedicels slender, compressed, subelavate, shorter than the sessile 

 spikelets, sparsely eiliate. Sessile spikelets |— ^ in. ; callus minute, bearded with 

 long hairs; gl. I chartaccous, narrowed from the middle upwards, dorsally hairy, 

 nerves anastomosing, margins inflexed from base to tip; II rather longer, chartacfioos, 

 laterally compressed, acuminate, 5-nerved ; III linear-oblong, obtuse, eiliate above, 

 paleate, male, palea glabrous; IV = III, 3-nerved, lobes ciliolate, awn variable in 

 length ; palea narrow or broad, eiliate. Peduncled spikelets smaller but like the 

 sessile, or imperfect, sometimes reduced to a single gl. 



tt Leaves hastate or cordate at the base, often petioled. 



§ Pedicel of upper spikelet not J the length of the lower spikelet. 



9. I. semlsag'ittatuiu, Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 820; annual, slender, 

 prostrate below, leaves oblong- or linear- lanceolate from a broad cordate or 

 sagittate base, spikes 2 villous or glabresoent, joints very short and stont, 

 gL I of sessile spikelet oblong obtuse flat glabrous transversely undulate or 

 ridged or margins nodulose, II lanceolate acuminate villous or pubescent, 

 IV cleft to the middle or higher, awn dorsal below the cleft. Kunth Bnum. 

 PI. i. 513 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 208 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat.Sist. 

 8oc. vi. (1891) 197. I. conjugatum, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 365 ; Trim. Cat. 

 Ceyl. PI. 107 ; Sack. I. e. 206 {non Roxb.). Meoschium semisagittatum, 

 Schult. Mant. ii. 435. Spodiopogon semisagittatus, Voigt Hart. Subu/rb. 

 Cale. 706. Andropogon semisagittatus, Steud. 8yn. Gram.. 376. 



Bengal, Soahurgh. The Deccan, Concan, and Canaba, Stocks, Talbot. 

 Cevlon, Thwaites (U.P. 3263). 



