IJriochloa.} clxxiu. QEAMiNBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 21 



Roxh 



Ft. 



Griff. Nof 



. i. 15, Ic. PI. Asiai. t. 139, f. 60. Piptatherum 

 pun Jatum, Beauv. Agrost. 18, t. 5. f. 1. P. confine. SchuU. Mant. ii. 184 

 [ex Kunth). P. annulatnm, Baddi Agroat. Bras. 30. Agrostia puactata, 

 Lank. Encycl i. 68. CEdipachne punctata, Unk Enum. Sort. Berol. i. 



Pi-AiNs OF India; from the Punjab to Bengal. Burma, Central India, and 

 southward to Malacca and Cetlon.— Disteib. All hot countries. 



iitem 1-5 ft., ascending from a creeping base. Leaves 3-10 by ^-J in., glabrous or 



'OS ^i?ule very short. SpiA:e5 forming a narrow secuul compoutid panicle 2-6 in. 



^g; racnis trigonous and branches pubescent villous or nearly glabrous. SpikdeU 



Biiortly pedicelled ; gl. I and II usuully siltcy, sometimes villous. Ill much shortest, 



P'liictalate, very shortly awned. 



ZSACKNE 



rerennial grasses. Spikelets small or minute^ loosely panicled, not or 

 Gl I ^^^^^^late ^ith the pedicel, subglobose or obovoid, 1-2- fll. 

 mes 4, often all separately deciduoas from a minute ra^hilla ; I and II 

 con ^ coQver, herbaceous, empty ; III and IV paleite, equal and both 

 late^*^^'(1^^ larger flatter thinner; III male, rarely 2-sexiial; IV articu- 

 biae ^1 ^^^^^ stipitate on the rachilla, hemispheric, coriaceous, fem. or 

 witv"^+V ^^^^^«^^« very minute. Stamens 3. rarely 4-6. Grain free 

 tropical hardened gl. and pale. — Species about 25, tropical and sab- 



enipt^ ?"^*^- ^P^'^'t^lets °^^ articulate on the pedicel, with us'mlly subequal convex 

 i*a7ifctf t"^ ^^' ^^ ^^'"? articulate on the rachilla, distinguish 7.va<;7ine from 

 pedicel "^'m -d"^ f?^eat varieties in the persistence of the empty illume on the 

 fn J ' . !": R^ndle informs me that he has seen traces of & fifth glume and palea 

 ^e has sh ^^**^h favours the claim of the genus to be referred to Poacea ; and 



Ua at the base of the 

 pecies so run into their allies, 



P^Iea of ffTr v"-^ ^ "^^**^ Jninute prolongation of the rachi 



that I re ii 'H *^^ ^^"^® species. Many of the species i 



^^idor h' fi following limitation of most as open to question. The smooth 



pubescent fl^f empty gls. affords no specific character, nor does the glabrous or 



* Spikelets -/^V in long. 



4. Pi 



ames I and II longer than IV, cuspidate or acuminate. 



^^- ^eyi *^S?**^**"*» ^if^'i ^ ^rn. in Wight Cat. n. 1659 ; Thw. Entim. 

 cblon/^. • ,' n*®°^ ^~^^ ^"- "lo^'e or less hairy, leaves ovate or ovate- 

 ''~9-nerviT^ ?^. ^2 in., brandies few, d. I and II subacute or aubcuspidate 

 ^ixpar TTo' j. ^S' ^^' I^<^- Bat. in. 460 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104. I. 



^^nthiana ir- ^* ^^^"'^- %«• Oram. 96. Panicnm cuspidiglume, Steiid. 



£?/ ^'^\^ * ^^«- * Metzii," Eochst 



^oritz. ex Mia. I r. fit.,.^ I \. t> V 



Wall 





\ '' ^^^ asopni^ • ^n elevated districts.— DiSTRiB. Java, Borneo. 

 V^^th or c.:. '""F' geniculate, branched. Leaves *-2i in.. 



8000 ft.. JTeyn^, &c. Singapore, 



lairs, 

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