196 CLXXiii. GRAMiNEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) lAndvopogon-. 



keeled above and involTite or not below ; II keeled, awnless ; III hyaline ; 

 IV a naked awn, its base rarely narrowly hyaline, or 2-fid and awned in 

 the cleft. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile, but male or neuter, awnless. 



* Glume IV of sessile spihelets a simple awn, acute at the hose. 



56. A. caricosus, lAnn. 8p. PI. Ed. ii. 1480 {exd. 8yn. Rvm/gh.) ; 

 stem erect or decumbent below, leaves narrowly linear, sheaths compressed, 

 spikes 1-4 in. solitary binate or subdigitately panicled, spikelets closely 

 subdistichously imbricate, joints and pedicels f shorter than the sessile 

 spikelets ^-^ in., gl. I of sessile spikelets obovate or oblong tip truncate 

 denticulate dorsally more or less villous, keels with ciliate wiags, II 

 obtuse 3-nerved, III ovate-oblong ciliate. Sack. Monogr. Androp. 756. 



Plains and low hills of India, from Seind to Burma and the Andaman Islde. 

 (not in N.W. India) and southwd. to Cbtlon. — Disteib. Mauritius, China. 



Stem 1—2 ft., erect or ascending from a creeping base, often much branched, 

 stout or slender, even capillary, grooved on one side, leafy ; nodes bearded or not. 

 Leaves 6-8 by -fg-\ in., finely acuminate, glabrous or ciliate, margins scabroas, 

 sheaths smooth ; ligule membranous. Spikes inclined, often flexuous, J-J in. broad, 

 silvery, lower sometimes stipitate ; joints and pedicels = J the spikelet, ciliate ou one 

 margin ; callus short, broad. Sessile spikelets 5-7-nerved, margins g). I. broadly 

 incurved below, narrowly above ; II narrow, 3-nerved, apiculate, margins ciliate, keel 

 scaberulous ; III ovate-oblong, hyaline, nerveless ; IV awn f-1 in., column scabrid. 

 Pedicelled spikelets smaller than the sessile ; gl. I broadly oblong, silkily ciliate ; II 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate.— A very variable grass, of which there are tvfo 

 principal forms. 



Tar. genuinus. Hack.; stem glabrous below the usually solitary spike, gl. I 

 smooth above hairy towards the base. A. caricosus, Linn. ; Trim. Oat. Oeyl. Fl. 

 108. A. binatus & tenellus, Soxh. Fl. Ind. i. 254, 255 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 372, 

 371. A. filiformis, Pers. Syn. i. 103. A. serratus, Retz. Ols. v. 21 ; Trin. S<p. 

 Gram. Lc. t. 329 ; Somh. Fl. Lnd. 253 ; Sieud. I. c. 366. Lepeocercis serrata, Trin. 

 Fundam. Agrost. 203 ; Wight Oat n. 1687, Herh. Prop. n. 1687. Heteropogon 

 coucinnus, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 368. 



Var. mollicomus, Hack. ; stem pubescent below the spikes, gl. I 3-toothed 

 dorsally hairy all over. A. australis, Pair. Encycl. Suppl. i. 585. A. barbatus & 

 pertnsus, fier6. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8809 B. C. A. curvatns, .-fferi. JBitss. ei 

 Wall. Cat. u. 8809 A. A. incurvatus. Keen, ex Trin. in Spreng. Fntdeck. ii. 91. 

 A. Kcenigii, Steud. Syn. Gram. 381. A. mollicomus, Kunih Bevis. Gram. i. 365, 

 Enum. PI. i. 497. Lepeocercis digitatus, Royle III. Bot. Himal. 416. Dicbanthinm 

 nodosum, IXileri /Innal. zviii. (1796) 11. Diplasanthera lanosum, Dene. Opusc. 67i 

 t. 5, f. 1.— Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8809, 8810 F. H. Wight Oat. a. 1687. 



57. A- annulatus, Forsk. Fl. Mg. Arah. 173 ; densely tufted, leaves 

 narrowly linear, sheaths terete, spikes subdigitately fascicled, peduncles 

 glabrous, joints and pedicels slender laxly ciliate, sessile spikelets ^ in., 

 gl. I oblong obtuse or truncate flat or convex 5-9-nerved keels ciliate 

 above not winged glabrous or more or less villous with long spreading 

 hairs, II acute, keel smooth except below. III oblong obtuse glabrous. 

 Del Fl. Egypt, iii. t. 7, f . 2 ; Zunth Enum. PI. i. 498 {excl. iSyn-) < 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 380; Sack. Monogr. Androp. 570; Wight Cat. 

 n. 1697 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 175 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 33, 

 t. 20 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 631 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 463. A. Bladhii, 

 Bets. Ohs. ii. 27 ; Kunth I. c. 498 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 325 ; Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind.i. 259; Wight Cat. n. 1698; Aitchis. I.e.; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 19, A. oomosus, Link Fnwm. Sort. Berol. i. 239. A. garipensis, Ste^i- 

 I. c. 379. A. Ischaemum, Boxb. ex Wi^ht Cat. n. 1697. A. obtusus, Nees 



