648 



Spec. Chab. Dioecious : culms 4 — 5-feet, smooth : leaves glau- 

 cous, smooth : spikes tenninal, fascicled, 3 — 4 together, white and 

 hairy: sessUe spikelet -with the lower flower male, the upper 

 female, pedicelled floret female, aU bearded with long white hairs, 

 upper valve of the female floret awned : glumes all minutely 

 2-cleft. 



Deccau : common in black soil. 



GENUS LI. ANTHISTIEIA. 



Vrlandria Digfynta. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Panicle slightly sheathed, compound, seldom a 

 simple raceme : spikelets properly seven, compound at the apex of 

 the raylets, 4 sessUe, vertioeUed, neuter or male, encircKng the 

 short-stalked hermaphrodite, to which are attached two, males or 

 neuter, pedicelled : glumes many-nerved : hermaphrodite valve 

 awned : scales truncated, somewhat fleshy : stamens 3, in many 

 abortive : germen oblong : styles 2 : stigmas penicUliform : cary- 

 opsis free, not furrowed, covered by the glumes and valves. 



(1) A. Ctmbakia. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Koxb. 1. c. p. 251. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 304. 



Syn. Andropogon cymbarius, Litm. — Cymbropogon elegans, 

 Spreng. 



Spec. Chab. Caespitose : culms many, erect, 3 — 6-feet, much 

 branched, smooth and BoUd: joints' smooth : leaves lanceolate, 

 elongated, smooth, 1-foot long : panicle thyrsoid, linear, leafy, 

 erect, composed of innumerable bracteated fascicles : bracts boat- 

 shaped, ending in a long subulate point, sometimes coloured, 

 generally fringed with many long rigid hairs : flowers 7 in each 

 fascicle, 4 male surroimding the base of the common pedicel, sessile. 



Coromandel mountains. Peninsula. Concans. 



(2) A. cnjcATA. flAnn.J 

 Ident. Linn. Suppl. 113. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 247. 

 Engram. Cav. Ic. t. 459. — Beauv. Agr. t; 23, fig. 7. 



Spec. Chae. Annual : culms erect, 2-feet, slender, smooth, often 

 coloured : leaves few, ensiform, very narrow, broader at the base, 

 and there more ciliated, particularly the small floral leaves : panicles 

 sometimes drooping : involucres longer than the flowers, smooth, 

 cuspidate : hermaphrodite florets bearded at the base : glumes hard, 

 obtuse, a little hairy, changing to dark brown : accessory florets six, 

 all neuter. 



Concans. 



