10 



CLXiiii. QRAMiNBiB. (J, T>. Hooker.) 



Splkelets 2-fld. as in Bendrocalamus ; ovary glabrous at 



the top, fruit large, pericarp flesliy . . . . 

 Splkelets 1-fld., loosely spiked on the branches of the 



panicle, bracteate ; fruit small, depressed-globose ; 



pericarp crustaceous . 



Splkelets 1-fld. as in Fseudostachyum ; fruit elongate 



beaked, pericarp crustaceousi . . . . . 

 Spikelets 1-fld., bracteate, crowded in globose heads ; fruit 



oblong, beaked, pericarp thick, separable . 



139. MelocalamuS. 



140. pseudostachtum. 



141. Teinostachtum. 



142. Cephalostachyum. 



Sabtribe IV. Meloc^nne^. 



Siaviens 6-oo . 



Sj)ikelets 1-fld. Palea or glume-like# 

 Pericarp crustaceous or flesby, seed free. 



Spikelets in clusters on the branches of the panicle, rachilla 

 produced far beyond the fl. gl. ; fruit small, pericarp 



Spikeleti very minute, clustered on the branches of the 



panicle, rachilla not produced ; lodicules 

 Spikelets bracteate, crowded in unilateral spikes, rachilla 



not produced ; fruit very large, fleshy 

 Spikelets large, capitate or subspicate; stamens 6 or more ; 



fruit very large, pericarp fleshy . . • . 



Excluded Genus, 



PhionANThhim, Beav. Opusc. 65 t. 4, is a S. African grass, erroneonsly described 

 as Indian. It was subsequently published by Nees as Prionachne Ecklonii. 



143. SCHIZOSTACHYUM. 



144. DiNOCHLOA. 



146, Melocanka. 



w 



146. OCHLANDEA. 



Tribe I. Panicej;. (See p. 2.) 



1. PASPAIiUIlK, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Spikelets 1-fl.d., Becund in simple spikes 

 OT apikelike branchee of a simple panicle or raceme, articulate on the 

 pedicel but not thickened and callous at the base, never awned. OUimes 3 

 (homologous of II III and IV in Panicum)^ with rarely a very minuted 

 lowest fourth (I of Panicuvi) ; I and II subequal, membranous, both some- 

 times very small or I (at the back of the fl. gl.) absent ; II. epaleate ; III 

 more coriaceous, paleate, bisexual. Stamens 3. Stijles 2, free. Grain free 

 ■within the hardened glume. — Species perhaps about IGO, natives of all 

 warm regions. 



As above defined, Faspalum includes the Digiiarla section of Panicuniy which 

 appears to me to be artificially placed in the latter genus, because of the occasional 

 presence of a very n^inute scale-like glume at the base of what is the 3rd gl, of 

 Piinicuyn (that opposite the flg.). This minute glume which is present or absent 

 even in the same species, is nerveless and never embraces that above it, as the lowest 

 gl. always does in Panicxim proper. One Indian species alone of Fanictf7n (P. 

 suheglunx€) has only 3 glumes, but its decompound panicle and the form of its spikelets 

 and its affinities are witli Panicuwt. 



i 



scrobiculatum, Linn. Mant. i. 29 



* Spikelets orbicular or broadly oblong, ovate-oblong in P. distichum, 



about as broad 

 or hemispheric, 



86 (Paspalus); 



Kunth £num. 



as the flat rachis i\~i in. diam. 2-4-ranked plano-convex 

 gl. I 3-nerved, II 5-nerved. Fluegge Monogr. Gram, 



Trin. Diss, ii. 122, Gram. Panic, 56, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 143; -* 



PL i. 53; Steud. Syn. Gram. 21 ; Boxh. Fl Ind. i. 278; Grah. Cat, Bomb. 

 PL 234 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. PX SuppL 97 ; Thw, Enum. PL ZeyL 357 ; 

 Trim, Cat. PL CeyL 104; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PL 104; Wall. Cat. d.8753; 



Duihie Field and Gard. Crovs. 8 t. 27; 



Wight 

 Grasses 



Cat 



1601 



1 



n. 

 W, Ind. 1 ; Indig. Fodd. Grass, t, 

 Mig. PL Ind. Bat lii. 430; BtntL FL Ilongk. 408, 



1 



Crops , : 

 Fodd. Grass. 



lY. 



Ind. 



Fl. 



