643 



(42) A. PAEVIFLOHTJS. (Boxh.) 



Ident. Epxb. 1. c. p. 274. 



Spec. Chab. Culm mnoli braached, filiform, ascending, 1 — 2- 

 feet : leaves numerous, linear, small, slightly obtuse : panicle leafy, 

 thin: spikes axillary, minute, peduncled, solitary, twin, or tern : 

 rhachis jointed, waved : peduncles very slender, geniculate in the 

 middle : common spathes leafy : either flower awned, pedicelled 

 one rudimentary. 



Circar mountains. 



(43) A. MONTANtrs. (Roxh.J 



Eoxb. 1. c. p. 267. 



Spec. Chae. Culm finitescent at the base, creeping, 3 — 4-feet : 

 sheaths bearded at the throat : leaves slender, elongated, hairy ^^at 

 the base : rays of the sub-verticelled conical panicle branched, 

 racemosely spiked : rhachis flexuose, hairy, flowers twin, hermaph- 

 rodite one awned, awn twisted, 2 — 3-times longer than the floret, 

 neuter one muticous. 



Mountainous localities. 



(44) A. aiABEK. (Roxl.j 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 267. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 302. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot perennial : culms sub-erect, much branched, 

 smooth, 3 — 4-feet : leaves glossy, smooth : panicle ovate, verticelled, 

 ramifications simple of 2 — 3-cleft : flowers paired, ' hermaphrodite 

 one sessile and awned, male pedicelled, awnless : glumes smooth, 

 purple : outer valve pitted on the back. 



Deccan, common. Bengal. 



(45) A. FASCICTTLAEIS. fEoxh.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 265. 



Spec. Chab. Culm geniculate, 4 — 5-feet, branched: sheaths 

 hairy at the throat : leaves small, retrorsely scabrous : fascicles of 

 the erect compound panicle remote, alternate, spiked from many 

 racemes, filiform, often branched, secund : joints of the rhachis 

 compressed, woolly : hermaphrodite floret woolly, awned, neuter 

 muticous without a corolla. 



Mountainous locaUties. 



