649 



(3) A. ciMicrtfA. (Mdgm.) 



Ident. Edgeworth in As. Joum. 1852, p. 182. 



Spec. Chae. Culms erect, surrounded by a pilose ring : sheaths 

 acutely keeled, keel papillose, ligula hairy : leaves longish, acumi- 

 nate, scabrous at the margin, entire towards the base, serrulate 

 towards the apex : sheaths long-ciUated at the edges : panicles 

 branched, leafy, more or less (Cooping, peduncle? extra-axUlary, 

 surrounded with hyaline scales, racemose, papillose : involucre 

 acute, cup-shaped: spikelets" 7, 4 verticeUed male pedicelled invo- 

 lucrate, one central and hermaphrodite pedicelled between two' 

 males, or four outer pedicels surrounded by white hairs: glumes 

 two, acute, elliptic, outer one 5 — 7-nerved, iimer 3-nerved : valves 

 two linear, torn at the apex : outer glume ovate, acuminate, 2- 

 toothed at the apex, lower one acute, inflexed, at the edge, one 

 valve linear prolonged into a long twisted geniculate awn, the other 

 truncated embracing the ovary. 



In moist places in central and northern provinces. 



(4) A. 'WiGHTii. f Wees. J 



Ident. Nees Mss. — Steudel 1. c. p. 400. 



8yn. A. Bladhii, Wight. Heyne. Rottl. Royle. — A. prostrata, 

 Trin. (not And. prostratus, Linn.) — Cymbopogon glahdulosus, 

 Spreng. 



Spec. Chae. Culm compressed, procumbent : leaves linear, 

 short-aciculate, scabrous at the edges, glaucous, floral, sheaths 

 bracteal and with the 6 — 9 male spikelets 5—7 nerved, glandularly 

 tubercled and hirsute : fertile spitelet, slightly acute, 2-toothed, 

 scabrous. 



Peninsula. (?) ^ , ,; 



(5) A. LnsTNEAM-A. (Steud.) 



Ident. Steudell. c. p. 401. 



8yn. Andropogon prostratus, lAnn. — Anthistiria prostrata, Roxb. 

 I. e. p. 250. 



Spec. Chak. Culms many, much branched, geniculate, smooth, 

 prostrate, rooting : flowers alternate, smooth, scabrous at the margin, 

 scarcely longer than their own sheaths : sheaths compressed broader 

 than the leaf: peduncles filiform umbellately 5 -flowered from the 

 ultimate wings of the leaves and tops of the branches, ecalyculate : 

 a short beard instead of a calyx : hermaphrodite floret central, 

 glume bivaived, oblong : awn twisted, longer : male florets t-vyo 

 similar, muticous, seated at the base of the hermaphrodite, pedicelled, 

 lateral ones four muticous, pedicelled. ■ 



Peninsula. 



