Andropogon.] Clxxiii. gtsamine^; (J. D. Hooker.) 177 



minute, gl. I not pitted sparsely hairy. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 506. ? A. 

 sacoharoides, Roxb. 1. it. 263 {non 8w.). 



NoBTHXBN CiBCABS, Uoxlurgh. 



Stem S-4 ft., as thick as a large crow-quill, creeping and nodose below. Leaves 

 remarkably long, a little hairy on the upper side near the base only; mouth of 

 sheath bearded. Faniclg 4-8 in., pale green. — There are two excellent drawings of 

 this plant in Roxburgh's collection (Nos. 90 and 889) both marked A. montanus, in 

 which the lower branches of the panicle are 3-nate, the rest alternate, all bearing 

 several spikes of about an inch long. Two other of Roxburgh's drawings, n. 890 

 and 2017, of which the latter bears the name of sacoharoides, represent a plant 

 differing apparently from montanum only in the panicle being composed of simple 

 shortly pedioelled much longer spikes. The difference between the two forms is 

 aualogoas to what occurs in A. intermedins, from which A. montanus differs in the 

 much more slender pale green panicle, and spikes with minute spikelets, and in the 

 capillary joints and pedicels not being represented as compressed and as being laxly 

 covered with distant long spreading hairs. As to this latter character, which is 

 uniform in all four drawings, allowance must be made for native artists' work. I 

 have seen no plant resembling this species, which is a native of a region botanically 

 unexplored since Roxburgh's day. It has obviously no affinity with that which 

 Hackel, following Bentham, has described as montauus, Roxb., and which plant 

 Roxburgh probably never saw. 



26. A. odoratus« Dna. Lishoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Stst. Soc. iv. 

 (1889) 123, cum Ic. & vi. (1891) • 68, 203 ; aromatic, stem stout, 

 nodes villous, leaves long broad, sheaths compressed, spikes few or 

 many densely fascicled stipitate silky purplish, raehis and branches 

 glabrous, sessile spikelets |— y in., callus densely silky, gl. I oblong- 

 lanceolate truncate 7-nerved rarely pitted villous belov? the middle keels 

 scaberulous. 



TheDECCANj Khandeish, Poena, &c., Lishoa. 



Stem 3-4 ft., as thick as a swan's quill at the base, sparingly branched, leafy. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft., by \-'^ in., fiat, acuminate, scaberulous on both surfaces and on the 

 margins, bright green, nerves strong; sheath long, glabrous, smooth, upper sheathing 

 the base of the inflorescence ; ligule membranous, truncate. Panicle 2-4 in. ; 

 branches filiform and spikes 1-2 in. suberect, slender, flexuous ; spikes rather tena- 

 cious, joints and pedicels flattened with a translucent centre, tips truncate. Sessile 

 spikelets, callus-hairs half as long as the gls. ; gl. I thin, rarely pitted, nerves slender, 

 tip truncate, hyaline, nerveless ; II keeled, thin, obtuse or truncate, ciliate ; III 

 shorter than II, ovate-lanceolate, eciliate, nerveless ; awn about f in., faintly dilated 

 towards the base. Fedicelled spiJselets as long as the sessile or rather longer; gl. I 

 narrow, many-nerved, dorsally glabrous ; II 3-nerved, ciliate ; III shorter, oblong, 

 obtuse, nerveless, ciliate. — The compressed sheaths, panicled spikes, villous gl. I of 

 the sessile spikelets, and aroma, seem to distinguish this from A. Kuntzeanus, which 

 it strongly resembles in a dry state. 



** Pedicels of upper spikelets and joints of raehis subterete, not or 

 obscurely channelled, with no translucent centre. (See also 20. con- 

 canensis.) 



27. A. fasclcularis, Romb. Fl. Ind. i. 265 ; annual, slender, leaves 

 linear, sheaths hardly compressed, panicle oblong, branches subsolitary 

 flowering almost to the base sparingly divided, spikes slender sub- 

 sessile, joints and pedicels linear subterete or compressed not channelled 

 shortly rigidly ciliate, sessile spikelets ^-\ in., gl. I ovate-lanceolate flat 

 smooth scabrous or shining 7-9-nerved keels shortly ciliate towards thp 



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