134 CLXXiii. GKAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) {^LsduBmum. 



JEnum. PL Zeyl. 36£ ; Wight Cat. n. 1693; Wall. Oat. n. 8588; Dufhie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 16; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 426. S. scrobicnlatus, Nees in 

 Wight Cat. n. 1694, & zeylanicus, Nees ex. Steud. I. c. 373, 377. S. villo- 

 Bus, Nees in Sooh. S( Arn. Bot. Beech. Yoy. 242. Andropogon bifldus, 

 incertus, Macrsei, simillimus, patenti-villosus, & Eetzii, Steud. I. c. 373- 

 377. A. Maorffii, Steud. I. c. 377. A. malacophyllu?, Sochst. ex Steud. I. c. 

 372.— Spodiopogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8859, 8860, 8862. 



Bengal and the Lowee Himalata, frotn Nepal to Assam, Siihet and Buema, 

 and sonthwd. to Tkatajjcoee, the Laccadine Islds , Alcock, and Gi. Cocos 

 IsLD., Prain. Ceylon. — Distkib. China, Malaya, Australia. 



Stem 6 in. 2 ft., stout or slender, tufted, leafy, sometimes creeping; nodes 

 glabrous or bearded. Leaves 2-6 in., glabrous pubescent or villous ; sheath 

 glabrous or hirsute; ligule short, ciliate. Spikes 1^-2 in., rather stout; joints and 

 pedicels = about i the spikelets, straight or incurved, ciliate, truncate. Spihdets 

 |— lin. ; gl. I polished, glabrous or villous, sometimes pitted, upper part scrobiculate 

 nr not, terminal wings erose or ciliolate, scaberulous, margins broadly inflexed 

 below ; II glabrous, or dorsally ciliate, aristulnte ; III oblong, 1-3-nerved, ciliate, 

 paleate, male; palea with a chartaceous lanceolate centre, and broad hyaline winp:s; 

 IV glabrous or ciliolate, awn very slender, about twice as long as the spikelet. 

 Pedicelled spikelets rather smaller than the sessile, gl. I acute. — A very common 

 and variable plant, of which Hackel has 3 varieties and 4 Indian subvarieties as 

 follows : — 



Var. a. genuinum. Hack. ; joints and pedicels diverging at the base, Epike- 

 lets continuous with the callus, gl. IV of pedicelled spikelets usually awned. — 

 1, prorepens, stem creeping, branches erect, gl. I not scrobiculate ; 2, seroiiculalum, 

 habit of a, spikelets smaller, gl. I scrobiculate. —3, malacophyllum, tall, gl. I 

 broadly winged at the tip, keel of II ciliate. — 4, villosum; leaves and sheaths 

 villous. 



Var. /3. Wallichii, Hack. ; tall, joints and pedicels not divergent at the base, 

 sessile spikelet suddenly constricted at the long bearded callus, gl. IV of pedicelled 

 spikelet imperfectly awned. 



Var. y. longipilum, Hack. ; joint and pedicels as in ;8. Spikelets glabrous with 

 a long bearded callus, pedicelled spikelet long-awned. 



17. !• heterotrichum, Sack. Monogr. Androp. 220 ; stem prostrate 

 then ascending, leaves linear-lanceolate from a rounded base, spikes 2 

 stout erect, gl. 1 of sessile spikelet rhomHc-lanceolate upper part triangular 

 acute dorsally smooth glabrous 4-nerved tip membranons 2-toothed keels 

 broadly winged, II subcoriaoeous keel winged above, III ovate 3-nerved, 

 IV shorter broadly oblong shortly 2-toothed awned in the notch. PAndro- 

 pogon comorensis, Steud. Syn. Oram. 431. 



NicoBAE Islds., Jelinek. — Distejb. Madagascar, Seychelles. 



Stem about 20 in. high, slender, compressed, quite glabrous. Xeaves 2-6 by 

 i-li in., glabrous or base fimbriate, margins undulate, scabrid, base contracted at 

 the junction with the compressed loose keeled sheath ; lignle very short, truncate, 

 ciliate. Spikes 2-2^ in., erect, compressed, joints and pedicels half as long as the 

 spikelet, bearded. Sessile spikelet ^ in. ; callus bearded at the base ; gl. I tip mem- 

 branous 2-toothed, 4-nerved above, margins involute below the middle; II mucro- 

 nulate, margins ciliolate ; III shorter, chartaceous, ovate, acuminate, 3-nerved 

 ciliate, paleate; IV short, ciliolate, awn more or less imperfect confluent with the 

 gl. Pedioelled spikelets \ in., gl. I winged from below the middle upwards, 

 7-nerved glabrous. — Descript. from Hackel. In a Seycbelle Isld. specimen which I 

 have examined the keel of gl. 11 is not dorsally winged, and gl. IV is hyaline 

 5-nerved with lanceolate acuminate ciliate lobes. 



