158 XXVIII, GRAMINE. [Cymbopogon 
at the lower nodes ; nodes ferruginously hairy ; sheaths glabrous ; 
ligule broad, obtusely rounded or truncate, glabrous, continued 
laterally down the sheath forming membranous veined wings; 
lamina linear, or narrowly linear-lanceolate, constricted at the 
base and tapering above to a setaceous apex ; panicle large, diffuse, 
lax, in the larger specimens axillai 7 as well as terminal; ultimate 
spathes rufescent, lanceolate, generally very narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous, exceeding in length the common peduncle 
which is ferruginously hairy above and epinastic; racemes sub- 
sessile, with 1 and 2 fertile spikelets respectively ; appendices 
short, blunt, reddish; spikelets oblanceolate to narrowly suboval, 
callus densely shortly hairy, hairs white, outer glume incompletely 
9-nerved, green with a shortly produced, truncate, scarious, rufes- 
cent, nerved apex, margins recurved embracing gl. IT. which slightly 
exceeds gl. I., and is scaphoid, 3-nerved, with scabridulous keel 
and mucronate apex; gl. III. hyaline, 2-nerved, with inflexed 
margins ciliate above; fertile glume shorter with an awn 2 to 
23 in. long springing from between the shortly bifid apex; awn 
with a stout kneed ferruginously hirsutulous column and glabrous 
subula ; pedicelled spikelets reddish, lanceolate, acute, outer glume 
with a weak slender awn equal or shorter than itself, inconspicu- 
ously 7- to 9-nerved, sparsely hispidulous or glabrescent; gl. IT. 
subequal, conspicuously 3-nerved, hyaline between the nerves; 
gl. III. shorter, delicate, hyaline, enerved, enveloping a ¢ flower, 
which is sometimes aborted. 
Leaf-sheaths stramineous reaching 6 in. in length, ligule 2 to 
2 lines, blade to 22 in. long by 7 lines broad, the largest plicate 
at the strong midrib with 5 well-marked nerves on either side, 
surface and margin scabridulous. Panicles 10 to 18 in. or more 
long; ultimate spathes 2 to 21 in. long; racemes 8 to 10 lines 
long ; appendage below lowest § spikelet 1 line long, a few stiff 
reddish hairs near its base nearly equalling the sessile spikelet ; 
margins of joints and pedicels white-hairy; § spikelet 3 to 3} 
lines long including the callus (? to 1 line); back of outer glume 
more or less pilosulose ; gl. ITT. 2 lines long ; gl. IV. linear, scarcely 
3 line, awn 2 to 2¢ in. Pedicel of ¢ (or neuter) spikelet 13 lines, 
spikelet 3} to 43 lines, awn 2 to 5 lines long; outer glume with 
subcarinate hispidulous margins and incurved hyaline edges in- 
folded over gl. II., which is subequal linear-oblong, acute, with 
incurved edges round the oval-oblong gl. III. (12 line long) ; anthers 
1 line long or less. 
Near C. conjinis (Andropogon confinis Hochst.), but dis- 
tinguished by having 2 & flowers in the large raceme, by its 
smaller spikelets, the more membranous inconspicuously veined 
outer glume of the ¥ spikelet, and the narrower less membranous 
pedicelled spikelet with its inconspicuously nerved reddish outer 
glume. 
GoLunco ALTo.—Native name Musoque. A very elegant annual 
or biennial grass 2 to 6 sometimes 7 ft. high, with erect culm, and 
reflexed or horizontally spreading leaves. Plentiful by thickets and 
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