AnSkopogon^ otxxiii. flB^MiNE^. (J. D. Hookeri) 179 



Androp. 488 ; Ushoa in Town. Somh. Nat. Sist. Soc iv. (1889), vi. (1891) 69. 

 A. alternans, Presl tteliq. Sssnk. i. 342 ; Kunth Ewwm. I. c. 502. A. coeru- 

 lesoens, Ettnth I. e. 504. A. oapilliflorus, Steud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 68. 

 A. parvispica, Steud. I. c. 397. A. serratus, Miq. Prolus. FL Jap. i. 192. 

 Anatherum parviflorum, Sprang. SysU i. 290. . Ohrysopogon violascens, 

 Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 8er. VI. ii. (1893) 319. Sorghum parviflorum, 

 Beauv. eicBoem. ^ Soh. Syst. ii. 840: fehaphis ocerulesoens, Besv. Opuse. 69. 

 R. microstaohya, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 397. Holcus ooeralescens, Gaud, in 

 Freya. Voy. Bot. 411, t. 27. H. parviflorus, Br. Frodr. 199. 



Westeen HiMiiATA, from the Ravi to Kumaon, alt. 4-6000 ft. Khasia 

 HiiLS, alt. 5000 ft., Clarice. The Nilqhiei, Ookcan and Deocan Hills. — 

 DiaxBlB. E. Asia and Malaya, Australia, S. Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill or thicker, terete, nodes more or less 

 bearded. Leaves 6-12 by J-J in., setaceously acuminate, flat, more or less hairy 

 with tubercle-based hairs, surfaces and margins scaberulous, base rounded ; sheaths 

 tight ; ligule short, truncate. Fanicle 2-6 in., oblong or pyramidal j raehis and 

 branches spreading, perfectly smooth, flexuous. Spikes -i-J in., pale yellow violet or 

 red-brown, joints and pedicels slender often ciliate on one margin only. Bpilcelets 

 small, callus stellately bearded j gl. I narrowly truncate, 4-6-nerved, scaberulous in 

 all the specimens I have examined ; margins narrowly inflexed ; II lanceolate, 

 acuminate or mucronate, scaberulous, 1-3-nerved ; III short, obtuse, eciliate, nerve- 

 less ; IV awn J-f in. Fedicelled spikelets male, callus naked j gl. I oblong, 

 7-nerved, margins hardly inflexed ; II oblong, obtuse, 3=-5-nerved j III oblong, 

 hyaline ; IV narrow, awnless. — Spikes often reduced to 3 spikelets, a sessile and 2 

 pedioelled males. — I have not cited Hackel's synonymy and authorities for the non- 

 Indian forms with more spikelets in each spike. It is very difficult to distinguish 

 A. micrantkus from small forms of .A. (Usimitii. I have seen no specimens from 

 Xisboa. 



Var. villosulus, Hack. 1. c. 490 j usually much stouter, sheaths bearded at the 

 nodes and leaves hispidly hairy, gl. I of sessile spikelets often hispidulous. A. 

 villosulus, Stevd. Syn. Oram. 397 ; Lishoa in Bomb. Jov/rn. Nat. Hist. vi. (1891) 69 

 — (villosus). Ohrysopogon villosulus, JTees ex Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind.ii (excl. 

 some Syns.). C. montanus, Duthie Podd. Grass. iV. Ind. 40. Ehaphis villosula, 

 Nees ex Steud. I. c. — Kumaon, Soyle, &c. Eajputana, Mt. Aboo, Duthie. Behar, on 

 Parusnath, J. J). E., &c. Khasia Hills, Griffith. 



30. A. assimills, Steud. in, Zoll. Syst. Verz. 58 ; Syn. Oram. 397 ; 

 snfErutiooae, fastigiately branched from a decumbent base, leafy, leaves 

 linear-lanceolate much narrowed to the base, lower sheaths open, branches 

 of pyramidal panicle capillary at length widely spreading, joints and 

 pedicels shortly ciliate, sessile spikelets ]V"i i'^-" Sl- I oblong or linear- 

 oblong narrowly truncate glabrous or silkily villous below the middle 

 2-5-nerved between the shortly peotinately ciliate keels. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii.489. A. montanus, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 423 (excl. Syn.) ; Sack. Monogr. 

 Androp, 491 (e.vcl. Syn.); Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) 

 203. A. capillaoeus, Wall. mss. A. glauoopsis & sabrepens, Steud. I. c. 

 Ohrysopogon pictus, Manr.e in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 5, v. (1866) 262. 0. 

 glauoopsis, Buthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 22. Ehaphis repens, Nees ex Steud. 

 U.— Ohrysopogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8781, 8786, 8787, 8790. 



Tempieate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim, ascending to 5''00 ft. Tlie 

 Khasia and Munnepoke Hills. Behar ; on Farnsnath, alt. 4000 ft. Bfrma, 

 Wallich. Rajpootana, Duthie, The Decoan and Central India, King, &c. — 

 DiSTEiB. Java, China, Japan. 



Stems 6 to probably 12 ft. or more ; as thick as a goose-quill at the base, hard, 

 shining, sometimes proliferously branched here and there, nodes more or less bearded. 



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