633 



Engrm. Schrank. Handb. t. 342, fig. 2. 



Spec. Chab. Culm erect, branched, 1 — 2-feet between, round 

 and 2-edged : sbeatbs and nodes smooth. : leaves flat, setaceous, 

 acuminated, rough : spike solitary, terminal, cylindric, drooping : 

 rhachis smooth below, where it is occupied by male and neuter 

 flowers, above covered with short brown hairs: awns twisted 

 together. 



Peninsula. Western coast. Common. 



(5) A. POLTSTACHTtrs. (Roxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 265. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 301. 



Byn. Anthoxanthum avenaceum, Roaib. — Heteropogon poly- 

 stachyum, Schult. Mant. II. 460. 



Spec. Chab. Culms 4 — 5-feet, straight, branched : leaves ensi- 

 form, straight, acute, ciliated at the base : spikes simple, many 

 together from the axils of the leaves, each elevated on a long- 

 jointed sheathiug peduncle, 1 — 2-inches long : lower part of the 

 spike perfectly smooth, upper part of the rhachis clothed with stiff 

 dark brown hair : awns twisted together. 



Western sides of the Mahableshwur hills. Eather a rare grass. 



(6) A. HOHENHACKEBI. fSochst.J 



Ident. Hochst. in Herb. Hohenhack. No. 301. — Steudel 1. c. p. 

 368. 



Spec. Ckae. Culm erect, simple or branched, somewhat com- 

 pressed, glabrous: sheaths hairy at the mouth: leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, hairy above : ligula short, cUiated : spike solitary, terminal, 

 rhachis hairy : pedicel of the male floret glabrous : glumes hairy : 

 awns very long, geniculated in the middle, hirsute. 



Mangalore. Neilgherries. 



(7) A. oLiaAjsTTHTJS. fSochst.J 



Bent. Hochst. 1. c. IS.. 1288.— Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culms prostrate at the base, branched, rooting, 

 ascending, leafy, glabrous, blackish at the nodes and there occasion- 

 ally pubescent : leaves lanceolate, acute, keeled, and with the 

 sheaths hairy : spikes long-pedicelled from the sheaths, solitary or 

 twin, short, few or many-flowered: flowers tern from the silky 

 hairy joints of the rhachis, outer ones on a short hairy pedicel 



