Andmpoffon.] olxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 189 



Plains and lower hills of India, from Kumaon to Sikkim in the Himalaya, the 

 Kliasia Hills and southward to the Nioobar Islds. and Oexlon. — Disteib. Trop. 

 Asia-, Australia, and Polynesia. 



Btem woody leafy and extensively creeping below, then erect, 1-2 ft., slender. 

 Leaves densely tufted, 1-5 by |-^ in., flat, obtuse or acute, often undulate, glaucous, 

 glabrous, margins spinulose ; sheath terete j lignle a very narrow ciliate membrane. 

 Fanich 1-3 in., pale or purplish ; branches capillary, scaherulous or villous below 

 the spikelets, tips obliquely truncate. Sessile spikelets ^ in. j callus nearly as long 

 as the glumes, aoicular, shortly bearded ; gl. I ohartaceous, obscurely 2-3-nerved or 

 nerveless ; II lanceolate, acuminate or aristulate, l-nerved ; III linear-oblong, 2- 

 nerved ; IV linear, acuminate ; awn ^i in., scabrid ; palea small, linear, obtuse, 

 glabrous, nerveless. Pedicelled spikelets purple, much longer and narrower than 

 the sessile; pedicels slender, scaherulous ; gl. I subulate-lanceolate, aristulate, 3-nerved, 

 ciliate ; III and IV shorter, ciliate ; palea minute, cuspidate. 



tt Pedicels of upper spikelets villous with rusty rarely pale hairs. 



§ Glume I of pedicelled spikelets long-ammed, II not or very shortly 



44. A. vertlclllatus, Roxl. Fl. Ind. i. 263 ; tall, stout, leafy, leaves 

 long very hairy, panicle broad of many whorls of many long simple smooth 

 spreading arching branches terminated by solitary drooping spikelets, 

 sessile spikelets J in., callus rather long glabrous in front, gl. I setulose 

 beneath the tip only strongly compressed above, II glabrous keel ciliate 

 beneath the long awn, awn of IV Ij- in., pedicelled spikelets j in. narrowly 

 lanceolate glabrous 5-nerved keels ciliate at the tip only. Kunth Enum. 

 PZ. i. 506 ; Hacli. Monogr. Androp. 555. Chrysopogon verticUlatus, Trin. 

 ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 360. 



Mountainous Uegions (of the N. Ciroars probably), Roxburgh. 



Soot woody, perennial. Stem 4-6 ft., terete, solid towards the base, smooth, as 

 thick as a small goose-quill. Leaves approximate, 18 by J in., particularly hairy on 

 the inside towards the base, margins spinulose. Panicle conical, lax, 8-10 in. ; 

 branches 2-3 in. Spikes narrow, pale. Sessile spikelets about twice as long as the 

 pedicels ; callus Jy in. long ; gl. I 4.-nerved, tip hyaline, acute ; II narrow, tip 2-fid, 

 awn as long as itself; III oblong, obtuse, margins retrosely ciliate; IV the very 

 narrow 3-ncrved hyaline base of the awn, tip obscurely 2-lobed. Pedicelled spike- 

 lets pale, shining, pedicels abruptly truncate rather laxly ciliate on the margins and 

 dorsally; gl. I with the 2 lateral nerves nearer the margin, awn longer than itself; 

 II lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, 3-nerved; III very narrow, ciliate, 2-nerved; IV 

 linear, l-nerved, 2-fid' — I have seen only a single very slender leafless specimen of 

 what I take to be Roxburgh's plant, bearing the name in Arnott's handwriting on a 

 ticket with Roxburgh's name in that botanist's writing in the corner. The de- 

 scription of the habit, leaves, &e., is taken from Roxburgh. Hackel, who does 

 the same, describes the spikelets from a specimen also named by Aruott, and sent 

 to him from Nees' Herbarium. 



45. A. asper, Seyne in Serb. Settler (asperum) ; leaves broadly 

 linear acute base cordate midrib beneath spinulose, sheaths broad 

 compressed laxly hirsute, panicle narrow of many whorls of short simple 

 smooth erect branches bearing solitary rarely 2 erect spikes, sessile 

 spikelets J in., callus long villous all round, gl. I hjspid beneath the tip 

 strongly compressed above, II keel and sides more or less hispid above the 

 middle, awn of IV 14-2 in., pedicelled spikelets i in. narroyvly lanceolate 



. 7-nerved keels ciliate. — Chrysopogon asper, Seyne ex Wall. Gat. 

 n. 8784. 



Madras ; Pulicat Hills, Eeyne. 



