Andropoffon.] olxxiii. gbamine*. (J.D.Hooker.) 167 



have seen but one specimen, it is allied to A. impressus, but is a mueh stouter plant, 

 3-4 ft. high. 



5. A. hlrtiflorus, Kunth Bevis. Oram. ii. 569, t. 198, Unwm. PI. i. 

 489; erect, stiff, leaves linear rigid, spathes long-peduncled, spike 2-5 in. 

 glabrous or nearly so, sessile epikelets J-i in. narrowly lanceolate. A. 

 Pseudograyia, Steud. 8yn. Oram. 365 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 370. A, 

 zeylanicus, Am. ex Benih. Fl. Songh. 423; Thw. "Enum. PI. Zeyl.368; 

 Trim. Gat. Oeyl. PI. 107. A. semiberbis, Kunth Enum. I. c. EoUboellia 

 aanguinea, -ffieiz. Obs. iii. 25. PPollinia fulta, Desv. Opusc. 69; Hack. 

 I.e. 392. Tiielepogon sanguineus, Spreng. 8yst. i. 299. Sohizachyriarn 

 zeylanicum, Arn. I. c. S. hirtiflorum and semiberbe, iVees. El. Air. 

 Austr. 334, 336. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. S. ^ T. T., Clarice. Bitbma, Ewra. 

 CEyiBAL Protikces, alt. 3-4000 ft. Cetlon. — Distbib. Tonkin, China, Mada- 

 gascar, Trop. and S. Africa and America. 



Perennial. Stems tufted, 1-4 ft., simple or sparingly, branched upwards, as 

 thick as a crow-quill or less, smooth, shining. Leaves chiefly radical, 2-6 in. by 

 J-i in., obtuse acute or acuminate ; sheath compressed. Spathes 1-2 in. , linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Spike stout, very narrow, subterete ; racliis stout, shining, 

 joints shorter than the sessile spikelets, outer or both margins ciliolate, tip hollowed 

 strongly toothed. Sessile spikelets J in., very narrow, half sunk in the concave 

 faces of the joints; gl. I narrowly lariceolate, bicuspidate, dorsally rounded, faintly 

 5-nerved ; II lanceolate, acuminate, with a gibbons base, and a narrow ciliate dorsal 

 wing above the middle ; III linear-oblong, acute, fimbriate ; IV lobes narrow, 

 acuminate, awn about -J in. Pedicelled spikelets, gl. I flat, subulate, awned, margins 

 inflexed; II short, oblong. — Dr. Stapf has identified the Indian A. Pseudograi/ia 

 with its American and African species cited above, of which I have not given all the 

 synonyms, which will be found in Uackel's Monograph, 



Snbgen. II. DiJiCTOMis, Hack. Spikes solitary ; peduncle in the axil of 

 a spathiform leaf-sheatk, joints and pedicels bncciniform, mouths toothed. 

 Sessile spikelets laterally compressed, callu^i short ; gl. I aocumbent, 

 keeled, II much broader long-awned ; IV 2-toothed, awned in the sinus. 

 Pedicelled spikelet twice as long and broad as the sessile and concealing it. 



6. A. fastigriatus; Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Oco. 26, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 207 ; 

 Hack. Monogr. Androp. 393 ; Oriseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 559. A. diatherus, 

 Soehst. in Sohvmp. PI. Abyss, n. 2013 (non Steud.). A. Hochstetteri, 

 Steud. Syn. Oram. 384. Diectomis fastigiat-i, H. B. Sf K. Nov. Gen & 

 Sp. i. t. 64 {excl. Syn. Beauv.) ; Kunth in Mem. Mus. Par. ii. (1815) 69 ; 

 Nees Agrost. Bras. 340 (non Beauv.) ; Hack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II. 303. 

 PoUinia fastigiata, S'preng. Pugill. ii. 13. Heteropogon Hochstetteri, 

 Anderss. in Schwevrtf. Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. 310. 



Berae.; near Gya and Ohota Nagpore, Clarice, Duthie. Tbnassekim, Heifer. 

 •— DjsTEiB. Tonkin, China, Afr. and Amer. trop. 



Perennial. Stem erect 6 in. to 3 ft., or decumbent below and fastigiately branched 

 upwards, leafy. Leaves 8-12 in., narrowly linear, acuminate, scabrid ; lignle elon- 

 gate, acute. Spathes 2-3 in., linear-lanceolate, often very slender j peduncle variable, 

 tip cupnlar. Spilces solitary, 1-2 in., fragile, joints much shorter than the spikelets, 

 villous with white hairs, tip broad strongly toothed. Sessile spikelet ^-\ in., 

 oblong ; callus hairs = i the spikelets ; gl. I linear-lanceolate, bicuspidate and keeled, 

 margins thickened, ciliate towards the top ; II shorter, cymbiform, 2-fid, awned 

 between the short obtuse lobes, dorsally keeled and ciliate above, awn much longer 

 than the spikelets; III linear-oblong, margins ciliate; IV cymbifoi-m, 2-toothed, 

 with a stout dorsal awn from below the tip ; palea minute, hyaline. Pedicelled 



