172 CLXXiii. GBAMiNBfi. (J. H. Hooker.) [Andropogm. 



Lehm. Ind. Sem. Sort. Hamh. 1828 ; NeesFl. Afr. Austr. 106. A. villosns, 

 a, Lamk. Fl. Fr. iii. 364. 



KoRTH West India, from Kashmir and West Tibet to Kunawur, ascending 

 to 12,000 ft.— DisTBiB. Westward to S. Europe, and tropics generaJly or sporadi- 

 cally. , . , 



Stems 2-3 ft., erect or geniculately ascending, subsimple, naked above ; nodes 

 naked or shortly bearded. Leaves 1-2 ft. by Jj-i in., glabrous or hairy above, 

 especially towards the base, glaucous, scaberulous above, base rounded ; sheatli loose j 

 ligule very short. Spiies unequal, 1^-3 in., shortly stipitate, usually purplish. 

 Sessile spikelets, gl. I dorsally flat; II lanceolate, mucronulate, keels scabrid abovej 

 III oblong-lanceolate, acute, eiliate ; IV awn 4-| in. Pedicelled spikelets usually 

 darker than the sessile, male; gl. I lanceolate, 9-nerved, glabrous, keels eiliate 

 above; Illinear-lanceolate, 5-7-nerTed ; III linear-oblong, obtuse, eiliate j IVvery 

 narrow. 



15. A. Fseudischsemum, ^Sfees ex Stevd. Syn. Gram. 380; tall, 

 nodes bearded, leaves narrow pruinose beneath, sheaths terete, spites 4-6 

 stipitate slender fleraous, rachis smooth, joints and pedicels a little shorter 

 than the spikelets silky, sessile spikelets J-J in. lanceolate, callns hairs 

 very short, gl. I imperforate sparsely silkily villons below the middle 

 7-9-nerved, keels eiliate. Hack. Monog^. Androp. 477. A. annulatns & 

 quinqueflorns, Heyne in Herb. Bottl. A. IschaBmum, Soxh. Fl. Ind. i. 264. 

 A. oryzetorum, Hack. I. c. A. peutastachyus & undnlatus, Heyne ex Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8815 A. A. scandens, Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 368 {non Boxh.) ; Trim. 

 Cat. Oeyl. PL 107. 



The Decoan Pehinsttia, Seyne, &c. Coromandel, Soxhwrgh. Ceylon, 

 Thwaites. 



Stem 2-3 ft., terete glabrous. Leaves 6-10 by J-i in., glabrous or fimbriate 

 with long hairs towards the base, upper surface and margins scabrid, lower glaucously 

 pruinose, lateral nerves prominent; npper margins of the sheath membranous; 

 ligule very short, ovate, membranous. Spites flexuous or erect, 2-4 in. long, dall 

 green, subraeemose, common rachis smooth, axils bearded, special peduncles i-J in. ; 

 joints and pedicels slender. Sessile spilcelets ^— |- in. ; gl. I minutely truncate, tip 

 hyaline, keels closely ciliolate and with a few long marginal hairs ; II eiliate, 3- 

 nerved ; III hyaline, oblong, eiliate, 2-nerved or nerveless ; IV awn J-§ in., base 

 obscurely dilated, palea 0. Pedicelled spikelets longer than the sessile, lanceolate, 

 gl. I 9-nerved, glabrous dorsally, keels scaberulous and eiliate ; II 5-7-nerved ; III 

 ovate-oblong; IV minute or 0. — The spikelets vary a good deal in size. The 

 pruinose undersurface of the leaves is a very marked character. Roxburgh's fignre 

 of his A. Ischcemum has awns an inch long, but allowance must be made for native 

 artists' work. I have seen only a single specimen of A. oryzetorum, the spikes are 

 very long and flexuous. Hackel distinguishes it from Psevdischtermim by the leaves 

 being scabrous on both surfaces, which they are not in the specimen I have examined. 



16. A. compressus, Hook. f. ; stem tall robust compressed, nodes 

 glabrous, leaves long broad flat, sheaths compressed keeled, spikes very 

 many densely subcorymbosely panicled pale flexnons silky, jbints and 

 pedicels very slender, sessile spikelets ^ in. ovate-lanceolate, callus hairs = 

 |-| the spikelet, gl. I imperforate 5-7-nerved villons below the middle, 

 keels minutely scabrid. 



The Decoan, Lishoa (No. 8. ^4. odoratus), Woodrow. 



Stem 3-4 ft., as thick as a goose-quill at the base, erect, sparingly branched, 

 leafy. Leaves 1-lJ ft. by J— J in., finely acuminate, slightly scaberulous on the 

 margins and both surfaces, a little hairy towards the base ; sheaths strongly com- 

 pressed and acutely keeled, uppermost forining a lanceolate spathe 4-6 in. long to 

 the base of the panicle ; ligule a eiliate membrane. Fascicles of spikes 4^5 in. long, 



