Andropogon.'] Clxxiii. geamine*. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 



glabrous ; IV awn ^| in. Pedieelled spikelets male, gl. I strongly nerved ; IV 0. — 

 A very handsome grass. 



Subgeu. IV. Aethrolophis. B'pikes 2-nate digitate or subpaniculate, 

 on a common peduncle arising from a spathiform sheath ; joints few or 

 many, clavate or bucoiniform (slender in A. tristis), tips cupular with 

 toothed margins. Sessile spikelets dorsally compressed ; gl. I not awned, 

 margins inflexed, keeled; 11 dorsally keeled, awned or not; III hyaline ; 

 IV small, 2-fid with an interposed awn, or reduced to a simple awn. 

 Fedicelled spikelets usually unlike the sessile ; gl. I awned or not. — A 

 heterogeneous assemblage. 



* Joints of spikes and pedicels of upper spikelets rather slender; gl. II 

 of sessile spikelet not awned. 



9. A. tristis, Kees ex Hach. Monogr. Androp. 439; spikes 3-6 un- 

 unequal stipitate or subsessile on the peduncle, gl. I oJE sessile spikelet 

 lanceolate deeply depressed between the thickened sides, lY very narrow 

 a-fid. 



Tempbkatb Wbstkbn Hcmalata, alt. 8-1000 ft., from Kashmir to Garwhal. 



Stems 2-3 ft., compressed, tufted on a stout short or creeping rootstock, slender 

 or rather stout, erect or geniculate below, branching above ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 

 6-10 by \—\ in., narrowly linear, soahernlous, rather rigid, hairy at the base ; lower 

 sheaths broad, compressed ; ligule oblong, membranous. Spikes 1-3 in., livid green ; 

 peduncle 2-6 in., spathe very narrow ; joints and pedicels = $ the sessile spikelet, 

 hardly clavate, shortly ciliate. Spikelets loosely imbricate, sessile J in., very narrow ; 

 callus hairs very short; gl. I more or less seaberulous margins broadly inflexed; 

 11 narrowly oblong, apiculate, ciliate, keel subscaberulous ; III lanceolate, 2-nerved, 

 ciliate ; IV awn short or ; palea minute, quadrate. Pedieelled spikelets as long as 

 the sessile, gl. 1 3-7 -nerved; II 1-5-nerved; III hyaline; IV 2-fid and mucronate 

 or 0, paleate or not. 



** Joints of spikes and pedicels of upper spikelets clavate or bucoini- 

 form. 



t Gl, II of sessile spikelets awned. 



10. A, apricuSi Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. VI. iv. (1836) 83 ; 

 tall, slender, leaves very narrow, spikes 2-5 hispidulous, joints and pedicels 

 bucciniform, gl. I of sessile spikelets linear 2-ouBpidate or 2-ari8tulate, TI 

 loDg-awned, IV bifid awned between the ciliate lobes. Sack, in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. II 304. A. apricns var. indicus, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 457. A. 

 ascinodis, Clarke in Journ. Linn. 8oc. xxv. (1889) 87, t. 86. 



Khasia Hiiis, alt. 2-3500 ft., J. D. E. 8; T. T. (Serb. Ind. Or. Androp. n. 4). 

 MuNNKPOEE ; on Jackpho, alt. 7500 ft., Clarke. Pegu ; in the Eng forest, Etim. — 

 DisxKlB. Trop. Africa and America. ' 



Stem 3-5 ft., strict, sparingly branched upwards, quite smooth, nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves 1-3 ft. by ^-i in., erect, coriaceous, glabrous except a few hairs at the base; 

 sheaths very long, narrow, upper spathiform, very slender, tips setaceous, lower 

 open ; ligule oblong, obtuse, chartaceous. Inflorescence subpanicled ; peduncle 

 2-4 in., filiform, puberulous, sheathed almost up to the spikes. Spikes ^1 in., very 

 nnequal in each fascicle, very shortly stipitate, hairs or cilia rigid aetiform brownish, 

 joints and pedicels half as long and as broad as the sessile spikelets, cuneately cam- 

 panulate, base narrow, dorsally rounded, glabrous or seaberulous, sides ciliate with 

 long hairs. Sessile spikelets |-i in. ; callus conical, rigidly bearded ; gl. I deeply 

 channelled dorsally, keels scabrid above the middle, thickened below, nerves 2-uate 

 at the keels ; II 1-nerved, margins ciliate, keel setulose at the top, tip 2-fid, awn iis 

 long as itself; III linear, hyaline, broadly ciliate; IV shorter, oblong, 1-nerved; 



