168 CLXxiii. GEAMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon- 



spikelets neuter ; gl. I ovate-lanceolate, twisted, acuminate, 2 cuspidate and awned, 

 cDiate, green, many-nerved; II much smaller, thin, acuminate, awned. III still 

 smaller, oblong, hyaline. — I have examined spikelets of the type of Somceatherum 

 chinense, Nees in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 239, which is certainly not 

 Androp. cypricus, as supposed by Hackel, but very close to A. fastigiatus, if not the 

 same. 



Subgen. III. Htpogtnitjm, Sack. Spikes solitary, pednncled in the 

 axil of a spathiform leaf-sheath ; joints and pedicels slender, tops 

 obliquely truncate. Sessile spikelets dorsally compressed; gl. I with 

 indexed or involute keeled margins ; TI kei led, awnlesa ; III hyaline or 

 0; IV a simple awn (in the Indian species). PediceUed spikelets like 

 the sessile. 



Hackel's section PsevdantMstiria forms one of the most distinct genera of Andrn- 

 pngonecB, with characters of inflorescence and spikelets totally at variance with bis 

 cliaracters of Hypogyniwin, He however observes its affinity with Anthistiria, near 

 to whiuh genus I place it. 



7. A. foveolatus, Bel. Fl. Hgypf. 16a,, t. 8, f. 2 ; densely tufted, basal 

 sheaths silkily villous, spikes 3-6 elongate erect, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 sraooth -with usually a deep dorsal pit. Kunih Enum. PIA. 490; Hack. 

 Monogr. Androp. 402; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 20, Fodd. Grass. N. 

 Ind. 34, t. 21 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 176. A. strictus, Roxb. Fl. Ltd. 

 i. 260. A.OithoB, Schult. Ma/it.ii. 455. A. monostachyns, Sprem^. Pugill. 

 ii. 9. A. ramosus, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8802. — Andropogon, Wall. Cat. 

 8802. 



Drier parts of India, from the Panjnb and Sind to Bengal, Choia Naspobe, 

 Centrat. Peovihoes, CiECABS and Coeomandel. — DisTBiB. Westwards to the 

 C:ipe de Tevd Islds. 



Stem 1-2 ft., simple or subfastigiately branched above, as thick as a sparrow's 

 quili ; nodes sparingly bearded. Leaves very narrow, sometimes almost filiform, 

 rigid, scaberulous beneath, sheaths shorter than the internodes, scabrous or 

 glabrous ; ligule short, truncate, hyaline, ciliolate. Spikes 1-lJ in. ; peduncles 

 capillary, erect, usually far exserted beyond the very slender spKthe ; joints and 

 pedicels slender, villous. Sessile and pedicelled spikelets subequal |-i in., linear- 

 oblong, subacute, purplish, glabrous except the shortly villous callus, shining; gl. I 

 flat, 4-7 -nerved, keels scabrid; II as long, 3-nerved, acute; III much shorter, 

 glabrous, nerveless ; IV awn J-f in. long, very faintly margined towards the base. 

 Pedicelled spikelet rufous or purplish, neuter ; gls. 2, I subacute, dorsally pitted or 

 not, keels scabrid, 5-nerved, glabrous ; II linear-lanceolate, acute, S-nerved. 



8. A. tuberculatus, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 404 ; tall, stout, basal 

 sheaths glabrous, spikes solitary long-peduncled erect, gl. I of sessile 

 spikelet lanceolate keels and nerves tubercled not pitted. 



Centeal Peotinoes; in the Khandua an,d Betul districts, DutJne; Asinsgarh,. 

 Kuatee. 



Stem 4-6 ft., stont, stiff, pale yellow, shining, paniculately branched, nodes 

 glabrous. Leates^ 1-2 ft. by i in., rather rigid, glaucous, strongly closely nerved, 

 setaceously acuminate, base narrowed, scabrid, midiib very broad; sheath quite 

 smooth; ligule large, membranous, auricled. Spikes 1-lJ in. Panicle leafy; 

 spathes very narrow, scabrid with tubercle-based bairs ; peduncle 2-4 in., strict, 

 scabrid ; joints and pedicels very slender, ciliate with long hairs. Sessile spikelets 

 \ in., linear-lanceolate, callus shortly bearded; gl. I lanceolate, tip narrowly 

 Irnncate, dorsally flat, 3-7-nerved, margins narrowly inflexed, keels and nerves 

 tuberculate ; II membranous, lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, ciliate ; III linear, acute, 



