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the panicle racemose, Btraight: peduncles twin, shorter than the 

 bract : rhaohia and pedicels -white-hirsute : spikelets oblong-lanceo- 

 late, lower glume of the fertile one 4 — 6-nerved, marginate towards 

 the apex : bristle flexuose, twice longer than the spikelet, segments 

 of the valve linear. 



SUhet. 



(36) A. IwAEANCirsA. (Roxh.j 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. 275. 



Spec. Chab. Root perennial, the fibres aromatic : culms erect, 

 generally simple, 2 — 6-feet, smooth : leaves elongated, Hnear, mar- 

 gius hispid : panicle linear, intercepted, composed of numerous 

 fasicles of slender, pedicelled, thin, 5-joiated spikes, each fascicle 

 furnished with its own proper boat-shaped spathe and many chaflfy 

 bracts. 



Kurrachee. Ahmedabad. ^urdwar. 



(37) A. Mariini. (Roxh.j 



Ident. Roxb. 1. c. p. 277. 



Spec. Chae. Root long, fibrous : culm erect, branched, 5 — 6- 

 feet, glabrous : leaves elongated, very delicate, soft, glabrous, 

 acuminate : ligula membranaceous : panicles linear, sub-secund : 

 spikelets twin : rhachis jointed, woolly : coroUa of the hermaphro- 

 dite floret 1-valved, awned, male muticousi 



Central India, as far as Delhi. Between the Godavery and Nag- 

 pore. 



(38) A. NAEDOIDBS. (Ncei..) 



Ident. Nees flor. Afr. Austr. 116. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 302. 



Syn. A. calamus aromaticus, Boyle. — ^A. pachnodes, lyin. 



Spec. Chae. Cuhn, erect, simple, tall, 6-feet, very smooth, 

 filled with pith: ligula large, ovate: leaves from a broad amplexicanl 

 base broadly linear, 1-foot, margins rough, sheaths smooth : spikes 

 twin, few-flowered, between fasciculate and panicled, reflexed, form- 

 ing a supra-decompound narrow elongated panicle : rhachis and 

 pedicels sUvery-strigose : spikelets smo(kh. 



Khandeish. 



(38) A. HETEEOCLiTTTs. (Nets.) 



Ident. Nees 1. c. p. 115. 



Syn. Anthistiria hetroclita, BaixI. I. c. p. 249. 



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