Andropogon.} clxxiii. GRAMiNBai. (J. D. Hooker.) 209 



§§ Leaf-sheaiKs compressed, keeled. 



76. A. Kookerl, Munro ex Hack. Monogr. Androp. 614; tall, slender, 

 leaves long linear, panicle linear interrupted, branches subereot nearly 

 simple, proper spathes f-lj in., joints and pedicels of spikes stout olavate, 

 Bessile spikelets i in. dull violet doraally deeply concave puberulous keels 

 Bcabrid. 



Bhotan ? Qriffith {Kew Dutnh. n. 6767 ex BacTc.). 



heaves 12-16 by ■j'j— ^ in., rather rigid, emooth, margin scnbvid, midrib broad 

 keeled below ; ligule obtuse, membranous, glabrous. Fanicle 12-16 in. ; primary 

 branches of 1-2 nodes giving off solitary secondary. Spikes subequal, joints and 

 pedicels dorsuUy glabrous, margins sparsely villous, tips 2-3-lobed. Sessile spikelfts, 

 gl. 1 coriaceo-cbartaceous, acute, minutely 2-toothed, keels not margined or winged 

 obscurely 2-nerved ; II lanceolate, acute, keel scabrid, margin eciliate ; IV 2-cleft, 

 lobes slender eciliate ; awa about J in. Pedicelled spikelets equalling the sessile, 

 linear-lanceolate, glabrous. — I have not recognized the above amongst GriBBth's 

 plants in the Kew Herbarium. Tne Bhotan plant bearing the number 6767 in that 

 Herbarium and named by Munro A. Sookeri, is not a Gymbopogon, but probably a 

 Schixadiyrium, in too imperfect a state for determination. Munro has also attached 

 the name A. Sookeri to my A. microtheca, which was appropriate for a plant first 

 found by myself. 



** Peduncle of spikes longer than the proper spathe. 



77. A. Ilvldus; Thwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. 367 ; erect, leaves narrow 

 rigid, spikes long-peduncled, pedicels and joints clavate, sessile spikelets 

 i in., gl. I lanceolate obscurely 2-toothed keels with narrow scaberuloas 

 wings, II shortly awned with a dorsal serrulate wing above the middle, 

 IV, deeply 2-fid segments villously ciliate. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 615 ; 

 Trim. Oat. Ceyl. PI. 107. 



NiioHiBi Hills, Schmid. Cetloit ; Mountains, alt. 7000 ft., Thwaites, (G.P. 

 953). 



Stems 1-2 ft., tufted, strict, smooth, rigid. Leaves 4-6 in., strict, erect, acu- 

 minate, strongly nerved, nearly smooth ; lower sheaths short ; ligule oblong. 

 Peduncles 1-4, terminal and axillary; spikes 1-2 in., erect, dull reddisli-brovvn ; 

 joints and pedicels about half as long as the sessile spikelet, margins ciliate with 

 silky hairs, tips cupped and toothed. Sessile spikelet, callus very short j gl. I flat, 

 glabrous, margins broadly incurved below, nerves obscure ; II narrow, ciiiate, dorsally 

 rounded J III oblong, ciliate, 2-nerved; IV as long as IIIj awn very slender, about 

 twice as long as the spikelet ; palea 0. Pedicelled spikelets as long as the sessile, 

 linear-oblong, subacute, dorsally convex, glabrous, many-nerved, keels scaberulous, 

 margins broadly incurved J II ovate-oblong, acuminate, sub 3 -nerved, ciliate ; III as 

 in the sessile; IV as long, hyaline.— Schmid's Nilghiri specimen was distributed 

 by Dr. Stahl mixed with A. pertusvis, which it strongly resembles. 



B. Column of awn hirsute. 



78. A. fillpendulus, Hockst. in Flora, xxix. (1846) 115 ; Steud. Syn. 

 ffram. 389 Cfilipendnlinus). Hack. Monogr. Androp. 634; Trim. Cat. PI. 

 Geylon, 107. A. finitimus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 465^ 

 Steud. I. c. ; Hack. I. c. 637 ; Baher Fl. Maurit. 446. A. ariffithii, Munro 

 in Cat. PL Griffith, Falconer, &c. 58 (ined.). A. lachnatherua, Benth. FL 

 Austral, vii. 4'34. A. procerus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 124 (non Br.). 

 Hyparrhenia finitima, Anderss. in Schweivf. Beitr. Fl. JSthiop. 310, 

 Anthistiria fascioulata, Thw. Enum PI. Zeyl. 366. 



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