216 cixxiii. GRAMiWEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) {Antlmliria. 



wholly and pedicelled partially covered with tubercle-based hairs, and fi. glabreecms, 

 more glaucous, leaves pruinose, invol. spikelets dorsally glabrous or scabrous above, 

 pedicelled glabrous. 



§§ Callus of hisexual spikelets acute. 



10. A. Kookerl, Cfriseb. in Goetting. Nachr. (1868) 91 ; stem slender 

 simple or sparingly branched above, spikes (with their proper sheath) 

 axillary solitary long-peduncled glabrous, invol. spikelets j-f in. sessile 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate gls. 3, bisexual spikelets 1 or 2 scabrid above 

 the middle dorsally rounded, awn f-1 in. A. gigantea sulsp. candata, in 

 part. Sack. Monogr. Androp. 676. Androsoepia glabrata, Aniens, in 

 Serb. Kew. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; interior ranges, alt. 6300-9000 ft., J. D. H., Gammie. 



Stem 1-2 ft., shortly creeping at the base, erect or geniculately ascending, as 

 thick as a crow-quill or less. Leaves very narrow, rarely i in. broad, quite smooth, 

 subglaucous beneath, tips filiform ; sheath smooth ; ligule short ciliolate. Spikes 

 axils in the long erect very slender leaves, rarely geminate in one short outer spathe, 

 I in. long, laterally compressed (without an outer spathe exceeding the proper), 

 peduncle 1—2 in., filiform, enclosed sometimes up to the spike in a very slender spathe 

 with a subulate tip ; proper spathe linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Itachis of spike 

 usually exceeding the invol. spikelets and proper spathe, nearly glabrous. Invol. 

 spikelets quite glabrous, keels smooth, very narrowly winged. Bisexual spikelets 

 like those of A. imberbis in form and colour of gl. I, and in the conic acute callus 

 densely villous with rusty-red hairs ; gl. II scabrid towards the tip ; awn geniculate, 

 narrowed below to a capillary base ; lodicules membranous. Pedicelled spikelets 

 much longer than the bisexual, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, keels hardly 

 soaberulous j pedicels slender, glabrous except at the base. — Though nearest allied to 

 A. gigantea, which is a thoroughly tropical grass, this species most resembles 

 A. imberbis, and especially its var. Boylei, from which it is at once distinguished 

 by wanting the long outer spathe, and by the superposed invol. spikelets. 



11. A. g'igrantea, Gav. Ic. t. 36 ; tall, usually stout, spikes few in 

 narrow pedicelled fascicles termiuating the branches of a compound or 

 decompound inclined or nodding rarely subsimple panicle, proper spathes 

 rather longer than the spikes, involuor. spikelets linear-lanceolate, one of 

 each pair deciduous, bisexual spikelets 1-3 rafously hirsute dorsally chan- 

 nelled. Themeda gigantea, Sack. Monogr. Androp. 672. 



Lower Himalaya ; from Kumaon eastwards, to Assam, Behar and the Khasia 

 Hills, ascending to 41)00 ft. — Distbib. China, Malaya, Australia, N. Caledon. 



Stem 8-16 ft., often nearly 1 in. diam. below, erect, solid, terete, glabrous, 

 simple below, branching above, leafy. Leaves 4-8 ft. by ^-1 in., linear, setaceously 

 acuminate, scaberulous above, glaucous beneath, margins scabridly serrulate, base 

 narrowed, midrib broad, lower bifarious ; lower sheaths compressed ; ligule sbort, 

 membranous, ciliolate. Panicle 1-3 ft., oblong, rarely simple, inclined, branchlets 

 fluxuous ; spikes often pendulous; spathes narrowly cymbiform, keel and nerves 

 scabrid. Spikes us long as the proper spathes or shorter; peduncle much shorter 

 than the spathe, filiform, erect or divaricate. Invol. spikelets 4— f in. ; gl. I linear- 

 lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, glabrous or hirsute with fnlvous hairs, keels 

 scabrid ; II shorter, acuminate, ciliate ; III and IV still shorter, linear-oblong or 

 lanceolate, ciliate. Bisexual spihelets i— J in., linear-lanceolate ; callus i-^ iu- 

 villous with long brown hairs; gl. I coriaceous, acute or acuminate, dorsally 1-3- 

 channelled, more or less villously hirsute all over or below the middle with brown 

 hairs ; II acute in the awnless spikelets, obtuse in the awned ; III oblong-lanceolate, 

 1-nerved ; IV = III, linear-lanceolate in the awnless spikelets, acute, 1-nerved in 



