142 CLXxiii. GEAMiNEJ). (J. D. Hooker.) [PogonatJierum. 



Throughout India, extending to the Malay Peninsula, usually at lower elevations 

 and in hotter places than P. saccharoideum. — Distkib. Affghan, China, Malaya, N. 

 Hebrides. 



A different looking plant from the common form of F. saccharoideum, with paler 

 more flexuous squarrose awns, much smaller spikelets, and the hairs of the callus 

 longer than the callus, but intermediates occur, and I could have followed Hackel in 

 uniting them had he included the following. 



3. P. rufo-barbatum, Ch^ff. Notul. iii. 81, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 145, 

 f. 11 ; spikelets ^ in., gl. I broadly 2-lol5ed. Ill villous above the middle, 

 IV and its palea ciliate, stamens 2. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 193. P. majus, 

 Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 92. 



Khabia Hills ; by streams, alt. 3-5000 ft., Gri'ffith, &c. 



iStf m 10-24 in. ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., sometimes J in. broad. Spihes 

 1-2^ in.; hairs of callus shorter than the spikelet; gl. I, 2-lobed but hardly 2- 

 auricled (as described by Hackel). — Only, I think, a large form of saccharoideum 

 glowing in wet places. 



40. AFOCOPZS, Nees. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves short. Spikelets 2-fld. (lower 

 fl. bisexual, upper fem.) solitary or the upper reduced to a pedicel, dis- 

 tichously imbricate on solitary or digitate articulate spikes, dorsally com- 

 pressed. Glumes 4, I broad, cuneiform, coriaceous, many-nerved, tip 

 rounded ciliate ; II thinner, truncate, 2-keeled ; III narrow, hyaline, 

 paleate; IV hyaline, entire or 2fld, awned or reduced to an awn dilated 

 at the base ; palea very short, convolute, truncate, tip ciliate, or 0. Lodi- 

 cities 0. Stamens 2-3. Styles very short, stigmas long. Grain terete, 

 free. — Species 3-4, Eastern Asiatic. 



1. A. Royleanus, Nees in Proe. Linn. Soc. i. (1894), ei in Ann. 4" 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. (1841) 220 ; perennial, gl. IV oblong 2-fid, awn short 

 or 0. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 257 ; Buthie Grass. N. W Ind. 16. Ischse- 

 mum paleaceum, Trin.in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6, ii. (1833) 293; Sp. 

 Gram. lo. t. 333. Andropogon paleaceus & himalayensis, Steud. Syn. 

 Oram. i. 376, 377. Ischsemum denticnlatum, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 

 8857.— TFoZ;. Cat. n. 8843. 



SuBTKOPicAL Himalaya ; alt. 3-4000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan. Khasu 

 Hills, alt. 4000 ft. Muniibpoee, alt. 4-5000 ft., PTott.— Distbib. Borneo. 



Stem erect, 10-24 in., usually simple. Leaves 2-4 in., narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, and sheaths glabrous or softly hairy. Peduncle long, slender j spikes 

 1-2, rarely 3, erect, 1-lJ in. ; rachis rusty-villous, brittle. Spikelets about -f in., 

 much longer than the joints ; gl. I truucate, dark red-brown with a broad yellow 

 tip ; IV awn very slender, included or if exserted not twice the length of the 

 spikelet. 



2. A. "Wigrlitll, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 377 ; annual, gl. IV 

 linear entire or 2-dentate, awn long. Wight Cat. n. 2352 ; Hack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 258 ; Thwaites Enum. PL Zeyl. 365 ; A. Wrightii, Munro in Proc. 

 Am. Acad. iv. 363, et in Benth. Fl. Hongk. 421. A. Beokettii, Thw. ex 

 Trim. Gat. Zeyl. PI. 107. Amblyachyrum mangalorense, Hochst. ex 

 Hohenack. PI. Ind. Or. u. 231 & in Flora, xxxix. (1856) 26, 



Behak, Centbal India, throughout the Dbccan Peninsula, Burma, and 

 ■Ceitlon. 



