Anfhutiria.] clxxiii. OBAMiNKiE. (J, D. Hooker.) 213 



major, Thw. I. c. 366. A. ciliata ? Mmro in Herh. Griff. (Kew diatrih. u. 68081 

 .4, australia, Br. Prodr. 200; Eunth I.e.; Sieud. I. c; Anderss. I.e. 13- Wah 

 I. c. 1058. A. argaens, Wight Cat. n. 1709. A. imberbis, Meh. Obs. 'iii 11 •' 

 Kunth I.e. 481 (excl. Syn.). — Anthistiria, Wall. Cat. 8764 A. E P ' 



** Stems 3-5 ft. Leaves 8-16 by -J -J in. Paaiele 16-24 in.,- nodes 5-6: 

 lower branches usually compound. Gl. I of invol. apikelets with often broad 

 scarions margins. 



Var. major, Hack. 1. c. 662 ; proper spathes and inrol. spikelets hirsute with 

 green or white tubercle-based hairs. A. ciliata, thunl. Fl. Jap. 40 ; Wight Cat 

 n. 1708. ?A. puberala, Anderss. I. c. 12 ; Walp. I. e. 1038 (see Var. Boylei). 



*** Annual ? Stem very slender, unbranche4 ; leaves very narrow. 



Var. Boylei, Hook. f. ; spikes few in peduncled axillary fascicles, spathes glabrous 

 outermost 2-3 in. proper rather longer than the spikes, invol. spikelets i in. naked 

 or with a few cilia, bisexual :J— | in. hispid towards the tip, pedicelled longer glabrous, 

 keels not ciliate. PA. puberula, Anderss. I. c. 12 j Walp. I. c. 1058. A. ciliata, $, 

 Nees in, Heri. Boj/le.—N. W. Himalaya, Boyle ; Simla Hills, Thomson. Kumaon, 

 alt. 7500 ft., Strach. & Winterb. (A. ciliata). — A very distinct form, and the only 

 temperate one of A. imberhis. It closely resembles A. HooTteri, the only other temp. 

 Himalayan species, which has superposed pairs of much larger invol. spikelets, 

 solitary spikes and short spathes. The glabrous spikelets and larger sessile spikelets 

 hispid at the top distinguish it from ciliata. 



3. A. laxa, Anderss. in Nov. Act. 8c. Upsal. 8er. III. ii. (1856) 243 ; 

 perennial, stem tall stout leafy proliferously branched, panicles of spikes 

 small of few spikelets in a long lax subsimple leafy panicle shortly 

 peduncled, outer spathes |-1 in., proper spathes nearly glabrous hardly 

 longer than the spikes, involnc. spikelets ^^ in. nearly glabrous gls. 3, 

 bisexual spikelets ^ in. solitary with 2 pedicelled, callus short, pedicelled 

 spikelets glabrous or nearly so, awn 1-1| in. Walp. Ann. vi. 1059. 

 Themeda Forskahlii, var. ? laxa. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 663. — Anthistiria, 

 Wall. Oat. n. 8775. 



Nepal, Wallieh. Bhotan, Griffith. Central Pbovinces ; Ehandwa, Didhie. 



Intermediate between A. imberhis and ciliata, with very stout erect polished 

 stems 2-3 ft. high, as thick as a goose-quill, and very small nearly glabrous heads 

 of spikes. The panicle is leafy and all the leaves are very narrow. There is a 

 specimen in the Kew Herbarium from Roxburgh, but without habitat. It may 

 prove to be a form of A. imberbis, with small spikelets, or of strigosa, with unarmed 

 spathes and spikelets. 



4. A. ciliata, lAnn.f. Nov. Oram. Gen. 35 ; annual, spikes in globose 

 or fan-shaped fascicles, outer spathes 1-3 in. glabrous or sparingly 

 ciliate, proper spathes and spikelets usually copiously clothed with tubercle- 

 based bristles, invol. spikelets ^— J in. gls. 3, bisexual spikelets f-j- in. 

 usually solitary with 1 or 2 pedicelled spikelets scabrid, callus short obtuse, 

 awn 1-li in. Osertn. Carp. ii. 465, t. 175 ; Lamh. Illustr. t. 841, f. 1 ; 

 Seam. Agrost. t. 23, f . 7 ; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 401 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. 

 Ind. 42 ; Baker Fl. Mawrit. 448. A. barbata, Besf. in Journ. Phys. xl. 294, 

 t. 2. A. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 248. A. semiberbis, Nees Fl. Afr. 

 Austr. 125. Themeda ciliata. Sack. Monogr. Androp. 664. Andropogon 

 nutans, Linn. Mant. ii. 303. A. quadrivaJva {err. typog.) Linn, Syst. Veg. 

 M. xiii. 758.— Anthistiria, Wall Cat. n. 8764 B. D.' 



. N.W. Ikdia, Boyle, Kumaon, ascending to 7500 ft., Nepal, Wallieh. Bengal, 

 Roxburgh. Behae, J.D. ff. The Concan, Oekteal Provinces, Malabak and 

 Tbnasseeim.^-Disteib. Mascarene Islds. 



In habit and size A. ciliata often resembles the ordinary states of A. imberbis and it 



