634 



reduced to glumes, truncated at the apex : middle floret sessile,, 

 perfect : lower valve quite glabrous, involving tte upper one : awn 

 twisted, geniculate. 



Keilglierries. 



(8) A. MoxAiTDEiJs. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. o. p. 260. 



Spec. Chak. Culm erect, fiUform, branched : leaves narrow, 

 hairy at the base : sheaths hairy at the mouth : spikes solitary, 

 terminal and axillary, long-peduncled : rhachis jointed, flexuose, 

 hairy : flowers hermaphrodite and female, latter pedicelled : outer 

 glumes and outer valves of the corolla in both florets awned, 

 hermaphrodite monandrous. 



Mountainous districts. 



(9) A. TENiixTTs. (Roxb.) 



s 



lAmt. Eoxb. 1. 0. p. 254. — Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culm 2 — 3-feet, decumbent, branched, very thin 

 and delicate : nodes villous ; leaves slender, slightly hairy at the 

 base : spikes paired, erect, short-pedicelled, outside imbricated with 

 two rows of sessile awned hermaphrodite flowers, inside with rows 

 of pedicelled neuter awnless ones : rhachis jointed and hairy: outer 

 glume oblong, striated, hairy, 3-toothed. 



Near Surat. Bengal in hedges. 



(10) A. Bru-ATTTS. (Ret%.j 



Ident. Eetz. obs. v. 21. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 255. 



Spec. Chae. Culms filiform : peduncles 1 — 3, terminal and 

 lateral, filiform: spikes twin, woolly: joints of the rhachis beset 

 with yellow fascicled down : glumes striated, one larger acumi- 

 nate, one smaller truncated, 2-toothed: outer valve awned, inner 

 muticous. 



Bengal. 



(11) A. pniPOEMis. f Roxb. J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 256. 



Syn. A. Eoxburghianus, SchuU. — Psilostachys filiformis, Dah. 

 I. c. ^. 305. 



Spec. Chae. Culms caespitose, filiform, erect : leaves small, 

 slender, glabrous : spikes 2-conjugate, terminal, filiform : all flowers 



