188 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEi. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon.- 



branches long capillary spreading simple or branched and bearing 2-4 

 spikes, sessile sjjikelets i-^ in., gl. I 2-toothed dorsally rounded with 2 

 muricate or mamillate keels or channels, II muoronate or aristalate keel 

 and sides bristly above the middle. £un th Enum. PI. i. 504 ; Sack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 560; Bteud. Syn. Oram. 395; Host Gram. Austr. ii. 1, t. 1; 

 Sibth. Fl. Grsec. i. t. 67; Duthie Grass. JV.W. Ind. 22, Fodd. Grass. N. 

 Ind. 40. A. echinnlatus, glabratus & Eoyleanus, Steud. I.e. 395, 397. 

 A. pallidas, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 165. A. paniculatus. Lam, PI. JV. 

 Fd. 2, iii. 633 ; JU. Gen. 840, f. 1. Chrysopogon Gryllus, Trin. Fund. 

 Agrost. 188 ; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. t. 93 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 

 637; Aitchis. Cat. Panjah. PI. 176. 0. glabratus, Trin. in Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb. 8er. VI. ii. (1833) 318. Ehaphis GvyWas, Besv. Opuse. 69. R. 

 Eoyleana, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 397. E. echinulata, Nees in Boyle Illustr. 

 Bot. Simal. 417. Pollinia Gryllus, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 10 ; JSeichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 54. P. pallida, Soem,. & 8ch. Syst. ii. 829. Aplnda Gryllus, Presl 

 Gyp. & Gram. Sic. 55. Holcus Gryllus & pallidus, Br. Prodr. 199.— 

 Chrysopogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8792 B. C. D. 



Temperate Himalaya j from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 4r-9000 ft. Khasia 

 Hilis, alt. 4^5000 ft. — DiSTEiB. Eastwards to S. Europe and N. Africa, Australia. 



Stems forming dense hard tufts, erect, 6 in. to 5 ft. high, as thick as a goose- 

 quill below J nodes smooth. Leaves 6-18 hy |-s in., linear, acute, glabrous or 

 hirsute, margins serrulate; sheath keeled above, glabrous or pubescent. Panicle 

 3-8 in. ; rachis angular, scabrid, axils bearded ; branches 2-4 in., usually very 

 many in a whorl, tips obliquely truncate densely bearded. Sessile spileelets; callus 

 straight, acute ; gl. I coriaceous, shining, smooth or seaberulons, margins broadly 

 involute ; II cbartaceous, lanceolate, hyiiline, margins ciliate, awn = the spikelet or 

 shorter; III linear-oblong, obtuse, nerveless; IV linear, minutely 2-toathed, awn 

 minute or ^-IJ in. ; palea small, oblong, glabrous. Pedicelled spileelets rather 

 longer than the sessile, terete, lanceolate, acuminate; pedicels glabrous or ciliolate; 

 gl. I acuminate or aristulate, 5-9-nerved, keels ciliate above ; II lanceolate, acuminate, 

 ciliate; III and IT narrower, ciliate; awn of IV = ^ the glume. — Hackel has 5 

 subspecies, of which 3 are Indian. 1. genuinns ; callus about J in. hairs rusty- 

 brown, awn of gl. IT 1-1^ in. stout. 2. echinulatus, callus hairs pale yellow, awu 

 i-f in. slender. 3. glabratus, awn of gl. II minute. 



43. A. aciculatus, Betz. Ohs. v. 22 ; stem creeping and branching 

 below, leaves short, sheaths terete, panicle very narrow, branches strict 

 erect, spikes solitary, sessile apikelets very narrow, callus very long aoicular, 

 gl. I linear acute or minutely 2-CTispidate convex margins broadly inflexed 

 smooth below keels scabrid aculeolate above, II acuminate aristulate, keel 

 ciliate above. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 262 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 238 ; Hack. 

 Monogr. Androp. 662. A. acicularis, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 906 ; Funth Enum. 

 PI. i. 505, Suppl. 417. A. javanicus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 396. A. subulatus, 

 Presl Eel. Ssenk. i. 341. Chrysopogon aciculatus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 

 188 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8780 ; Wight Cat. n. 1674 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 366; 

 Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 108; Duthie Gra.is. N.W. Ind. 22 (acicularis), Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 39 ; Benih. Fl. Songk. 424, Fl. Austral, vii. 538. C. subu. 

 latua, Trin. ex Steud. Nomencl. Ed. II. ii. 360; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 491, 

 0. trivialis, Arn. & Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Our. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 171 

 Ehaphis acicularis, Besv. Opusc. 69. R. javanioa, Nees ex Steud. Syn 

 Gram. 396. E. trivalvis. Lour. Fl. GocMnch. 553 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 8, 9. Centrophorum chinense, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 106, t. 5.— Holcus, 

 Griff. Notul. iii. 12, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 141, f. 1 (aciculatus).— BTieede Sort. 

 Mai. xii. t. 43. 



