Andropogon.'] olxxiii. GRAMiNiiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 199 



^ 62. A. nitidulus, Hook. f. ; annual, very slender, branched, leafy, 

 leaves long narrow flaccid scaberulous base oontraoted, spikes very few 

 yery unequal on a long capillary peduncle white, raohia tenacious, sessile 

 ^pikelets ovate-oblong 9-nerved dorsally flat glabrous or soabrid towards 

 the hyaline truncate tip, keels ciliate towards the tip, II 5-7-nerved 

 aouminate, IV short broadly 2-lobed, awn very slender. 



■ N.W. Himalaya; on the Sewalik Hills j and Chanda in the Cbnteal Pbo- 

 TiNOES, Dvihie. 



Stems 3-4 ft., loosely tufted, very slender from the naked base upwards, nodes 

 glabrous. Leaves 8-12 by i-J in., acuminate, thin, margins scaberulous ciliate 

 towards the base, midrib slender smooth, nerves very slender ; sheath smooth ; 

 ligule oblong/membranous, ciliate. Splices quite white, the terminal on the peduncle 

 1-lJ in., lower rather distant, sessile, much shorter; peduncle 4-8 in. ; joints and 

 pedicels = about } the sessile spikelet, very slender, ciliate with long white silky 

 hairs, tips truncate, joints terete, pedicels flattened (almost as in Sect. Amphiliiphis). 

 Bpikelets few, in rather distant pairs, homogamous pairs one or two. Sessile spike- 

 hts \ in., callus very short, stellately bearded with white hairs ; gl. I thin, greenish, 

 dovsally polished, margins narrowly incurved; II chartaceous lanceolate, 5-7-nerved, 

 margins broadly incurved, ciliate; lit smaller, lanceolate, 2-nerved, ciliate; lobes 

 of IV ovate, acute, divergent, ciliate ; awn about J in., slender, column quite smooth. 

 Anthers short. Pedicelled spikelets rather longer than the sessile, narrowly 

 lanceolate, green, neuter ; gl. I membranous, 9-nerved, glabrous, margins incarved, 

 ciliate towards the tip only ; II 7-nerved ; III rudimentary or 0. 



Subgen. X. Hetekopogon, Hack. Spikes solitary, joints many and 

 pedicels not channelled ; lowest pairs or 2-8 pairs of spikelets closely im- 

 bricate, male or neuter. Sessile spikelets suboylindric, gl. I suboylindrio 

 or oblong, II obtusely keeled, not awned; III hyaline; IV a long awn 

 with a stout column and often a hyaline base. Pedicelled spikelets very 

 bnlike the sessile and concealing them. 



* Ligule membranous ; column of awn hirsute ; callus of sessile fem^ 

 spikelets pungent. 



63. A, contortus, Linn. 8p. PI. 1045 ; leaves soabrid above, ligule 

 truncate ciliolate, spikes 1^3 in., sessile fem. spikelets J in., callus long 

 rnfons-bearded, gl. I dorsally flat, margins smooth involute, awn 3-5 in., 

 pedicelled spikelets ^-| in., gl. I obliquely lanceolate obtuse. Lamk. JEncyc. 

 t. 840; All. Fl. Pedem. 260, t. 91 ; KiMith Enum. PI. i. 486 ; Steud: Syn. 

 Gram. 367; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 585 (excl. A. polystachyns, Roxb.); 

 Smb. Fl. Ind. i. 253 ; Grah. Oat. Bomb. PI. 238 ; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 300; Wall. Cat. n. 8800; Wight Gat. n. 1688, 2321, in part; Baker Fl. 

 Mamsnt. 444. A. AUionii, DO. Fl. Franc, iii. 97. A. messanensis, Biv.Pl. 

 ined. 5. A. Bellardi, Bub. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. (v. 1873) 317. A. 

 besukiensis, Steud. I. c. 307. Heteropogon AlUonii, Boem. ^ Sch. St/st. ii. 

 835 ; T. Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. 94 ; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 53. 

 H. contortus, Beauv. ex Boem. & Sch. I. c. 836 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 517 ; 

 Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 176 ; Duthie G^ass. iV. W. Ind. 19, Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 32, 1. 19. H. firmns, Presl. Bel. Esenk. i. 334. H. glaber, Pers. 

 Syn. ii. 533 ; Beauv. Agrost. 24, t. 23, f . 8. H. hirtns, Pers. I. c. ; Thw. 

 Emm. PI. Zeyl. 368 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 107 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 424. 

 H. hirsutus, Beauv. Agrost. 134. H. hispidissimus, Steud. Syn. Grain. 

 867. H. Hohenackeri, Hochst. ex Miq. Anal. Bot. Ind. Hi. 24. H. messa- 

 nenais, Guss. Fl. Sic. Syn. i. 164. H. polystachyns, Nees Agrost. Bras, 



