640 



(32) A. coNFEKTiFioinJs. (Steud.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 385. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, firm, quite glabrous together with the 

 nodes and sheaths : ligula ovate, exserted, torn and cleft at the 

 apex : leaves narrow-lanceolate, long acuminate, denticulate-scabrous 

 at the edges : panicle very long, branches leafy, divided : bracts 

 lanceolate, spike-bearing : spikes binate, again bracteate : peduncles 

 enclosed, short, glabrous : joints and pedicels densely hairy : glumes 

 nerveless : awn thin, geniculate, the length of the florets. 



ITeilgherries. 



(33) A. poLTNEXTEOs. (Steud.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, straight, glabrous : ligula ovate, ex- 

 serted, torn and cleft : leaves ■ lanceolate, acuminately bristly, 

 smooth at the edges, sub-glaucescent : panicle sometimes simple, 

 sometimes more compound, many-flowered : primary bracts usually 

 leafy-appendiculate at the ap^x, secondary ones mucronulate : 

 peduncles enclosed : spikes 4 — 8-flowered : glumes oblong-ovate, 

 many-nerved, nerves in the younger ones scarcely conspicuous: 

 awn geniculate, thin, exserted portion the length of the florets. 



Neilgherries. 



(34) A. ScHLENANTHirs. fRoxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 274. 



Syn. Cymbopogon Schsenanthus, Spreng. 



Engrm. Kheede Mai. xii. t. 72. — "Wall. pi. As. rar. III. t. 280. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, 5 — 7-feet, simple, glabrous : leaves 

 many, bifarious near the base, above few, soft, slightly scabrous at 

 the margins : spikes of the leafy fascicular panicle many, axillary 

 and terminal : spathe boat-shaped : spikelets twin on a common 

 peduncle : rhachis jointed, waved, hairy : florets all mutioous : 

 male coroUa 1-valved. 



Malabar. Travancore. The well knovra Lemon-grass. 



(35) A. HAMXTLATirs. (Nees.J 



Ident. Nees Mss. — Steudel 1. c. p. 385. 



Spec. Chae. Culm branched, filled with pith, and with the 

 nodes smooth : leaves linear, filiform, acuminate, scabrous at the 

 margin, and with the sheaths glabrous : Ugttla round : spikes twin, 

 short, few-flowered, fasoioulately panicled, reflexed : branches of 



