192 CLXxiii. aRAMiN'EJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogdn. 



SoUTHEEN BuEMA ; on the coast at Kobok, Kurz. 



A perennial, apparently of bushy habit several feet high, branches rigid terete 

 glabrous. Leaves 4-6 by jL-J in., striate, complicate, subpungent, margins smooth, 

 ciliate towards the base ; sheath appressed, smooth. Panicle 5-6 in. ; peduncle 

 12 in, ; rachis slender, smooth ; branches strict, in distant fascicles rather than 

 whorls, tips very oblique with erect beards ; lower 1 in. long, rarely with 2 distant 

 spikes. Sessile spihelets very narrow ; callus | in. ; gl. I 4-nerved ; II narrow, com- 

 plicate, 3-uerved, tip 2-lobed, awn as long as itself; III linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 ciliate ; IV the very narrow hyaline 3-nerved base of the awn. Pedicelled spikeleU 

 Dearly i in. ; pedicels i shorter than the sessile spikelet, tip retuse, margins ciliate ; 

 gl. II 3-nerved, ciliate, shortly awned; III as in the sessile spikelet; IV 0. — I have 

 seen but one specimen of this very distinct-looking plant. 



§§§ Glume I of pedicelled spikelets not awned, II not or very shortly 

 awned. 



50. A. zeylanicus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Oram. 397 ; leaves very 

 long and narrow, panicle ovate-oblong, branches in few whorls spreading 

 with 1-3 terminal spikes, rachis scaberulous, sessile spikelets \ in., 

 callus long naked in front, gl. I not laterally compressed above, dorsally 

 with 2 rows of cilia or spinnles above the middle tip truncate, awn of gl. 

 IV |-li in., pedicelled spikelets much longer than the sessile lanceolate 

 6-nerved glabrous keels eciliate. A. nodnlibarbis, Hochst. ex Steud Sya. 

 Gram. 396 ; HacTc. Monogr. And/rop. 553. A. peninsulse, Steud. I. c. 

 Ohrysopogon Aruottianus, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 396. 0. Wightianus, Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 366 (O.P. 3248) {exl. var. 0) ; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 108 

 (non Nees). 0. zeylanious, Thw. I.e. (O.P. 996) {nan Steud.). Ehaphia 

 zeylanica, Nees ex Steud. I. c. — Chr3'Sopogon, Wall. Cat. u. 8785 A. B. 



NiLGHiEi Hills, alt. 7-8O0O ft., Wight, &a. Cetlon, ascending to 6000 ft.. 

 Walker, <fee. 



Stems 1-3 ft., tufted, stout or slender. Leaves many from the base of the 

 stem, 12-16 by ag-^ in., flexnous, rather coriaceous, margins more or less laxly 

 ciliate with rather long hairs ; lower sheaths short, flattened, keeled ; ligule of short 

 hairs. Panicle 5-8 in., contracted or effuse, with long naked unequal lower branches. 

 Spikes green or blueish. Sessile spikelets, callus J^ in., hairs yellow or rusty 

 brown; gl. I coriaceous, tip ciliate, often 2-toothed; nerves 2 pairs, obscure; II 

 3-nerved, tip 2-lobed, keel spinulosely ciliate above the middle ; III oblong, obtuse, 

 2-nerved, retrorsely ciliate ; IV the very narrow snb-2-lobed, 3-nerved, eciliate 

 dilatation of the base of the awn. Pedicelled spikelets f in. ; pedicels truncate, 

 margins shortly densely or laxly ciliate on one or both margins ; gl. I narrowly 

 lanceolate, keels minutely ciliate, nerves subequidistant or the lateral pairs sub- 

 marginal ; II acuminate, 3-nerved, retrorsely ciliate ; III oblong, obtuse, 2-nerved, 

 retrorsely ciliate; IV smaller, ovate-lanceolate, 1-3-nerved, ciliate. 



** Pedicel of upper spikelets not half as long as the sessile spikelets. 



51. A. monticola, Schult. Mait. iii. 665 ; stem erect or ascending 

 usually very slender, leaves very narrow glabrous, lower sheaths com- 

 pressed, panicles rather short of several whorls of few or many capillary 

 flexuous very unequal branches bearing solitary spikes, sessile spikelets 

 pale, callus short, gl. I compressed glabrous or keel ciliate above 



the middle, II dorsally more or less ciliate with short or long rigid 

 bristles, awn of IV i-1 in. capillary, pedicelled spikelets lanceolate awned 

 not 7-nerved, pedicels = J-g the sessile spikelet margins more or less 

 [Ions. 

 Wbsiben Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal, ascending to 6000 ft. Hilly 



