Andropogon , ] 
graminej:. 
445 
and fascicularis, Roxb. ; Kunth , Enum. i. 506. A. fasciculatus, Steud. 
Oram. 382 ? A. galloinsulanus, Steud. Gram. 371 ? 
Mauritius, common in dry soil at all elevations. Spread through the tropics of 
the Old World. 
5. A. aristatus, Poir. ; Kunth , Enum. i. 498. Perennial. Stems 
firm, glabrous, erect, 2-3 feet long. Sheaths glabrous ; upper 3-5 in. 
long; blade 6-9 in. long, glabrous, narrow linear, acuminate. Spikes 
2-4, crowded in an almost digitate panicle, 2-3 in. long, flexuose, on 
short densely pilose peduncles ; spikelets imbricated all round the 
slender rachis and completely biding it ; rachis and pedicel of the im- 
perfect spikelet shortly pilose. Outer empty glume of the hermaphrodite 
flower £ in. long, oblong, obtuse, finely pubescent on the back and 
edge, marked with very numerous distinct ribs. Awn purple, in. 
long. A. mollicomus, Kunth , Gram. i. 365, t. 96 ; Enum. i. 497. 
Lepeocercis mollissimus, Nees. 
Mauritius, frequent in dry soil at all elevations, Sieber , ii. 48 ! etc. Also Tropical 
Asia. 
6. A. acicularis, Betz. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 505. Perennial Stems 
tufted, glabrous, decumbent at the base, then erect, a foot or more 
high. Leaves many, crowded near the base of the stem, the rest few, 
distant ; blade linear, acute, 2-3 in. long, glabrous, like the sheath. 
Panic-le dense, rhomboid, 2-A in. long, with numerous very slender 
ascending branches with the spikelets at the end in threes, two pedicel- 
late and imperfect, one sessile and containing a hermaphrodite flower ; 
branches scabrous, like the spikelets, quite glabrous ; spikelets glossy, 
lanceolate, acute, | in. long. Awn variable in length, sometimes shorter 
than its glume, sometimes twice as long. Chrysopogon aciculatus, Trin . 
Ehaphis trivalvis, Lour. ; Trin . Ic. t. 8-9. Andropogon aciculatus, -Roxb. 
Mauritius, on the heights of Flacq, Quartier Militaire, etc., Sieber , ii. 49 ! etc. 
Spread through the tropics of the Old World. 
7. A. verticillatus, Roxb. ; Kunth , Enum. i. 506. A robust erect 
glabrous perennial, several feet high. Leaves linear, the lower ones 
reaching a length of lf-2 feet, f in. broad, scabrous on the edges 
and keel. Panicle dense, rhomboid, 4-8 in. long, the spikelets laxly 
placed in threes on the slender glabrous ascending branches, two of 
the three usually fertile, immersed in a short tuft of brown hairs, % in. 
long, awnless or shortly awned, the barren glumes scabrous on the 
keel, the third spikelet pedicellate and rudimentary. 
Mauritius, on the banks of the Moka River, Bojer ! Also East Indies. 
* A. muricatus, Eetz. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 505 (Anatherum muricatum 
Beauv. ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 373), a native of Tropical Asia, is now 
established copiously in Mauritius and Eodriguez. It is a perennial, 
4-6 feet bigh, with an aromatic rootstock, firm terete culm, long linear 
