646 



j)t the fertile sp^elet smooth at the side, ciliated above : bristle 

 four times longer than its own spikelet, beard and cilise of the 

 pedicels short, tawny. 



Peninsula. 



(53) A. NODTTirBAEBis. (Sochst.) 



Ident. Hochst. in Herb. Hohenhack. No. 934. — Steudel 1. c. p. 

 396. 



Spec. Chab. Culm almost entirely sheathed, 2-feet, glabrous : 

 sheaths striated, mouth and margin hairy : leaves lanceolate-linear, 

 striated, sparingly hairy at the margin and surfaces, upper ones 

 much smaller : rays of the lax panicle sub-verticelled, filiform, 

 simple or 2-cleft at the apex : flowers tern at the apex of the ray- 

 lets, lateral ones twin, sterUe, lanceolate, acuminate, 3 — 5-nerved, 

 ciliated, pedicels and base of the fertile florets golden -hairy: 

 glumes of the fertile floret nearly equal, mutieous, back and margin 

 bristly ciliated : awn twisted belo* the middle, tawny-hairy, 

 geniculate above the middle, more than twice exceeding its own 

 spikelet. 



Neilgherries. 



(54) A. BEEViAEisiATTTs. ^Steud.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 396. 



A. aristulatus, Hochst, I. c. No. 1285. 



Spec. Chab. Culm erect, sheathed, leafy, 1 — 2-feet : sheaths 

 striated, glabrous : ligula densely pilose : leaves linear, keeled, flat 

 or plaited, hairy: panicle rather lax, contracted, rays sub-verti- 

 celled, unequal, raylets capillary, 3-flowered at the apex lateral 

 ones twin, sterile, pedicelled, pedicels and base of the three florets 

 golden-hairy, triandrous : outer glume of all florets slightly awned, 

 awn of the fertile floret hairy, strong, somewhat twisted as far as 

 the knee, bristly above. 



NeUgherries. 



(55) A. riTLVTrs. fSpr&i^.J 



Ident. Spreng. pug. II. p. 8. — Steudel 1. c. p. 398. 



Spec. Chak. Culm 3-feet, glabrous : nodes woolly bearded : 

 leaves pilose hirsute : Kgula bearded : branches of the panicle 

 capiUary, naked, 3-flowered at the apex : pedicels and glumes 

 villous: male florets twin, mutieous, hermaplu'odite one very long 

 awned, awn twisted, hirsute. 



Bengal. 



