186 CLXXiii. QRAMiNBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon. 



few or many in a whorl flexuons, spikes snbsolitary, joints pedicels and 

 callus villous with long white or red brown hairs, sessile spikelets j in. 

 oblong-ovate, gl. I 5-7-nerved villous all over tip acute, II 2-fid, awn long 

 stout. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 524 Sorghum purpureo-sericeum, Asch, 

 & Sehweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 310. S. Ritchiei. Munro mss. 



The Deccan ; Belgaum, Ritchie. N. Canara, TToocl/rou). Centeal Peovinoss, 

 Diithie. — DiSTEiB. Abyssinia. 



Stem 3-4 ft., erect; stout or slender. Leaves 8-10 by J-J in., linear, finely 

 acuminate, sparsely hairy, margins hardly scabridj sheath, ribbed, glabrous or 

 margin fimbriate, mouth villously silky ; ligule very short, ciliate. Panicle 4-10 

 in., erect j rachis glabrous ; branches |— 1 in., capillary. Spikes l-I^ in., rarely of 

 3 joints, sometimes of one sessile and 2 pedicelled spikelets, joints about i the 

 sessile spikelet. SpiTcelets erect or spreading or pendulous, d orsally flattened ; gl. I 

 coriaceous, margins involute from base to apex, keels rounded, villi red-brown or 

 snow-white ; II as long as I, acuminate or aristulate, dorsally rounded, coriaceous ; 

 III hyaline, epaleate, 2-nerved, ciliate ; IV very fragile, 3-nerved, below the middle 

 ciliate with long hairs; awn l-lj in., column stout red-brown twisted glabrous; 

 palea minute, ciliate. Fedicelled spikelets usually shorter paler and narrower than 

 the sessile; gl. I thinner, 7-nerved, shortly silky ; II and III as in the sessile; 17 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved, ciliate, male. — The Indian differs from the African 

 plant in having rather smaller spikelets, in gls. I and II of the sessile not or less 

 Ecariose .it the tip. The pubescence of the spikelet is more copious and pure white 

 in a Deccan specimen from Woodrow, and in a Panjab ? one from Stewart. Hackel 

 has named Duthie's specimens A. pv/rpureo-sericeus var, variegatus. 



Snbgen. VI. Veiiveuia, Sack. Spikes panicled, branches of panicle 

 many, whorled; joints 3 or more and pedicels linear filiform dorsally 

 convex not channelled, tip truncate. Sessile spikelets laterally or dorsally 

 compressed, awned or not; gl. I coriaceous, narrow, margins inflexed or 

 involute, keels muricate ; II awned or not ; III hyaline ; IV entire or 

 2-fid, awned. Lodicules glabrous. 



But distinguished from Chrysopogon by the absence of a beard of rigid hairs on 

 the tip of the branchlets, seen after the fall of the spike. ^. venustus is removed to 

 .limpkilopMs. 



40. A. squarrosus, Linn. f. Suppl. 433; stem stout, leaves long 

 rigid, sheaths strongly compressed, panicle narrow, branches simple strict, 

 spikes many-jointed joints and pedicels glabrous, sessile spikelets linear- 

 oblong glabrous, gl. I coriaceous acute dorsally flat, margins broadly 

 inflexed muricate, IV linear-oblong mucronate or shortly awned. VaU 

 Symh. iii. 9 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 542 ; Lishoa in Bomb. Joum. Nat. 

 Hist. vi. (1891) 67. A. muricatus, Betz. Obs. iii. 43, v. 21 ; Kunth Untm, 

 Fl. i. 506, Suppl. 4<16 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 265 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8759; Orah. 

 Oat. Bomb. Fl. 238 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 84, Ic. Fl. Asiat. t. 139, f. 57, t. 155, 

 f. 1 ; Thw. Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 368 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Fl. 108 ; Balz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 302 ; Buthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 90, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 36, t. 

 24. A. festucoides, Presl Bel. Hsenk. i. 340. A. nigritanus, Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. 573; Steud. I. c. 394. Anatherum muricatum, Beauv. 

 Agrostog. 150, t. 22, f. 10 ; Spreng. Pugill. ii. 15. Vetiveria odorata, Virey 

 in Joum. Fharmac. Soc. I. xiii. 499. V. arundinacea & muricata, Grisel. 

 Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 559, 560. Mandelorna insignis, Steud. I. c. 359. Agrostis 

 verticillata, Lar(i. Bid. 59, III. Gen. n. 162, Suppl. i. 255. Phalaris 

 zizanioides, Linn. Mant. ii. 183. Holcus PViranae, Rerh. Ham. ex Wall. 

 I. c. — Tirana, Jones in As. Research, iv. 306. 



