594 



Spec. Chab. Culm erect, simple, glabrous, more or less hairy 

 towards tke top, Hgula very short, or in its place the margin hairy : 

 sheaths elongated, hairy : leaves lanceolate, many-striated, hairyish 

 or at length glabrate, acuminate : panicle erect, straight : rhachis 

 and rhaoheoles angular, hairy: rays half verticeUed, erect, flori- 

 ferous from the base, pedicels stiffish, shorter than the purplish 

 spiielet: lower gl\ime shorter, ovate-lanceolate, keeled, strongly 

 l-nerved on both sides, upper one keeled, ovate-oblong, 2-nerved 

 towards the margin on both sides : awn twisted, geniculate, a little 

 exceeding the glumes, fugacious. 



Neilgherries. 



(9) A. piLOSA. fHochst.J 



Bent. Hochst 1. c. No. 647. Steudel 1. c. p. 116. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot fibrous, somewhat csespitiferous : culms erect, 

 simple, terete, furrowed, sparingly hairy, the sheaths densely so from 

 glands : leaves lanceolate, shorter than the culm, similarly hairy : 

 panicles green, rays alternately fasciculately half-verticelled, some- 

 what paniculately compound : glumes very acuminate, 5-nerved, 

 exceeding the florets : either floret sessile, one hermaphrodite awned, 

 the other larger, muticous. 



Mercara in Coorg. 



(10) A. TEifELLA. (Nees.) 



Ideni. Nees Ms. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 292. — Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culms several from the same root : sheaths cUiate 

 along the margins : leaves few, a little narrowed at the base, tender, 

 acuminated at the apex, sparingly hairy on both sides : panicle very 

 slender: pedicels long, capillary, solitary or more frequently twin 

 on the branches of the panicle : spikelets 2-flowered, lower flower 

 barren, upper fertile : glumes lanceolate-acuminate, unequal, upper 

 one larger, long-acuminated, minutely 2-cleft at the apex, with 

 3 — 5 green veins clothed with hairs rising from glands: palese of the 

 lower flower membranous, and, like the glumes of the upper flower, 

 much smaller, dark brown, scabrous .at the apex, with two tufts of 

 bristly hairs at the base : lower pales 2-cleft at the apex, furnished 

 with a long bent awn. 



Mahableshwur, common under shrubs and trees, 



(11) A. STEICTA. (Nees.) 



Jdent. Dalz. 1. o. p. 293.— Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. II. 102. 



Spec. Chab. Culms 1 — 3-feet, rigid,^ wiry, smooth, round : 

 nodes elongated : sheaths smooth, woolly at the apex : leaves few, 

 finely' pointed, shortly pubescent on the upper side, striated: 



