Arthraxon.] olxxiii. obamineji. (J. D. Hooker.) 145 



7-nerved, nerves more or less murioulatei II acute teel oiliate, IV with 

 a very short inoladed basal awn or 0. A. oiliaris, Subsp. 6, submutious, 

 Each. Monogr. Androp. 356. Batratheram submutioum, Nees ex Steud. 

 fi^n. Oram. 382 ; Duthie Grass. iV. W. Ind. 17. Andropogoa submutious. 

 Sieud. I. c— Arthraxon, Wall. Gat. n. 8835 B {in part) & 8836. 



■Western Himaiata ; from Garwhal to Central Nepal, alt. 2-6000 ft., WalUch, 

 &c. Tatot, Gomee. — Disteib. China, Loochoo Islds. 



Annual. Stems 6 in.-3 ft., slender, much-branched and rooting below, as thick 

 as a sparrow's quill. Leaves J-l^ in., broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, and 

 sheaths gflabrous or hairy, margins strongly ciliate. Peduncle filiform, usaally long 

 aud naked. Spikes 3-5, i-1 in. long, very slender j rachis quite glabrous, flexuous. 

 Spikelets i in, , pale, all sessile (male?). Stamens as long as gl. IV. — A puzzling 

 plant, and possibly the male of an unrecognized form of ciliaris from which species 

 it differs in the 3 stamens as long as gl. lY, as well as in the minute flowers, and 

 usually the want of an awn, though a very short one is sometimes present. One very 

 long specimen (Herb. J. S. Lace) has besides the terminal naked peduncle, very 

 short sheathed lateral ones, 



5. A> spathaceus, Hook. f. ; slender, panicles (always ?) in long 

 spathiform narrow sheaths, spikes few, spikelets oblong-lanoeolate, gl. I of 

 sessile spikelet oblong-lanoeolate 5-7-nerved, nerves covered throughout 

 their length with a row of acute tubercles, awn of gl. IV dorsal. — 

 Batratherum, Serh. Wight n. 3257. 



Decoan Peninsuia i Gunde Cottah Hill fort, Cuddapah, Wight Serb. 357. 



Stems 1-2 ft., not thicker than a sparrow's quill, branched. Leaves 1-2 in., 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, flaccid, ciliate and sheaths sparsely hairy j floral 

 sheaths terminal, erect, lJ-2 in. by ^-J broad, membranous, green, usually over- 

 topping the panicle. Spikes i—^ in., very pale; pedicels and joints sparsely hairy. 

 Upper spikelets male j gl. I quite smooth, striate ; II hyaline ; IV awnless. Stamens 

 more than half as long as gl. IV., linear. — A well-marked species by the spathe and 

 tubercles of gl. I. A specimen from Belgaum (Ritchie, n. 796 in Herb. Munro) closely 

 resembles this in the tubercled gl. I ; it has only 2 very small imperfect anthers 

 and no pedicelled spikelets. 



6. A. inermls, Sook. f. ; spikelets solitary (pedicelled 0) oblong- 

 lanoeolate, gl. I dorsally convex obtuse strongly 7-9-nerved unarmed 

 margins (not incurved) and nerves scabrid. 



The CoNCAN, Woodrow. 



Stems very slender, much geniculately branched. Leaves 1-2 in., ovate, broadly 

 amplexicaul, caudate-acuminate, tips setaceous, glabrous or puberulous above, 

 ciliate with long hairs beneath, margins smooth ; sheath hairy. Spikes few, short, 

 green, irregularly sparingly divided; peduncle slender, naked, branches i in., very 

 slender, ciliolate. Spikelets Jjy in., all sessile, rather distant; gls. thin, I strongly 

 nerved; II as long as I, obovate-oblong when spread out, obtuse, emarginate, 

 apioulate, 3-nerved, hardly keeled, nearly smooth ; III (or palea of IV) shorter 

 than II, lanceolate ; awn basal, twice as long as the spikelet ; palea oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous. Anthers very latge. 



** Stamens 2 or 3; a/nthers not half the length ofgl. IV. 



7. A. ciliaris, Beauv. Agrost. 3, t. li. f. b; peduncles glabrous 

 below the spikes, spikes many ^3 in. subflexuous, joints = f the 

 spikelets in length or longer glabrous or shortly ciliate, gl. I entire at the 

 tip, nerves scabrid or echinate above the middle, II acute or acuminate. 

 Hack. Monogr. And/rap. 354; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 524 (excl. si/n.). 



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