631 



Engrm. Eoxb. Cor. II. t. 118.— Beauv. flor. 1. 1. 14. 



Spec. Chab. Eoot fibrous : cnlm branched, erect, 6-inches to 

 1-foot, nodes bairy : sheatbs somewbat inflated, papillose and bairy : 

 leaves lanceolate, sub-cordate at tbe base, ciliated on, tbe margin : 

 spikes from the sheaths solitary or several together, unequally 

 peduncled : glume of the fertile flower very hard, wrinkled and 

 tubercled. 



Very common on barren lands in the Peninsula. 



(2) M. MTcrETTS. (lAnn.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 351. 



8yn. Peltophorus myurus, Bea/wo. 



Engrwo. Eoxb. Cor. II. t. 117. — Beauv. Agrost. t. xx. fig. 11. 



Spec. Chae. Culm branched from the base, 1-foot and upwards : 

 nodes hairy : sheaths -and leaves hairy or glabrous, the latter linear- 

 lanceolate : spikes scarcely exserted from the sheath, solitary : 

 lower glume of the fertUe spikelet oblong, flat, membranaceous at 

 the margin. 



Coromandel. 



SECTIOir XII. AUTDROPOOOJirE}^. 



Spikelets 2-flowered : lower flower always incomplete : valves 

 more tender than the glumes, usually hyaline. 



GENUS L. ANDEOPOGON. 



Trlandrla Di^ynia. Sex: SysU 



Derm. Prom Aner And/ros a man, and Pogon a beard, alluding 

 to the tufts of hairs on the flowers. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes solitary or joined together, or digitate or 

 arranged in a simple or compound panicle : spikelets lanceolate or 

 obovate, twin, one pediceUed male or female or neuter or withering, 

 the other sessUe, 2-flowered, both florets or only one 2-valved : 

 lower floret neuter or male, upper hermaphrodite or female : glumes 

 2, coriaceous, muticous, seldom awned : lower valves hyaline, lower 

 muticous or awned : ovary glabrous : styles terminal, stigmas 

 plumose : scales 2, truncated : caryopsis glabrous, wrapped round 

 by the valves and glumes. 



