64 CLXXiiT. GRAMiNE^. (J, D. Hookei.) \_Axonopui. 



oblong or ovate, coriaceous, narrowed into a straight subulate awn ; palea 

 oblotig, coriaceous, 2-nerved. Lodicales ciineate. Stamens 3, anthers long. 

 Styles distinct. Grain small, suborbicnlar, free within the glumes. 



A natural geuns, remarkable for the small cleft palea of gl. III. It was 

 established by Beauvois on Pamcnm ciniicinumy Rete, to which other gras-^es having 

 no affinity with it were added, Kunth erred in taking np Beauvois Urochloa (which 

 is Panicum javanicum, Poir) and placing A* cimicinum in it. 



1. A. cimiclnus^ Beauv. Agrost 12; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 



spikes subverticillate. Panicum cimicinum, Retz. Oh$, iii, 9 ; BottL m 

 Neue Sohrift. Ges. Natnrf. Freund. iv. (1803) 191, 194; Boxb. FL Ind. i. 

 295; Thw. Ettum. PL Z^yL 358; Trim, Cat. Cetjl. PI 104. P. conjugatum, 

 Dalz. & Gibs, Bomb. FL 291. Urochloa cimicina, Knnth Revis. Gram. i. 

 31. ii. 56, t. 103, Enwm. PL i. 74, Sn-ppl, 56 ; Bah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 289- 

 Cnridor.hloa cimicina. Nees in Edinb. N. PhiL Journ. xv. fl833) 381. 



Punjab PL 158. 



Wight Gat. 1656; WalL 

 am cimicinum. Linn. Ma 



Throughout India, in the plains and lower hills, BuaaiA, Penang and CetloX. 

 DiSTRlB. Malaya, China. 



Stem 1-2 ft., tufted, stout or slender, erect, or decumbent and geniculate at the 

 base, and leaves hirsute with long spreading white hairs, rarely glabrescent. 

 Leaves 1-3 by J-1 in., acute or obtuse, flat, green, striate, ciliate, base deeply cor- 

 date, ligule obsolete- Spikes 3-8 in a whorl, 1-6 in. long ; ruchis filiform, simple or 

 divided, scaberulous ; floweriess below. Spikelets J-^ in. long, solitary or clustered, 

 very shortly pedicelled, dorsally compressed, pale, rather shining; gl. I acuminate; 

 II niucrouHte or shortly awned ; III acute ; IV with a setiform awn, 



2. ILm sexni-alatUB, Hook. f. ; leaves long linear, spikes few suh- 



digitate- Panicum aemi-alatum, Br. Prodr. i. 192; Benth, FL AttsfraL vii- 

 472; Tkw. Fnurn. PL Zej/l 3b8; Tnm. GaL CeyL PL 104. P. viaticum, 

 Griff. Ic, PL Asiat. t. 145, f. 2. Bluffia Eckloniana, Nees in LindL Introl 

 Nat. Syst. Ed. II 447. Ccridochloa semi-alata, Nees in Edinb. New Phii* 

 Journ. XV. (1833) 381. Urochloa semi-alata, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 311f 

 Euuni. PL i. 74. Oplismenua semi-alatus, Desv. Opusc. 81. Arundinell* 

 Schultzii, BentL L c. 545. Aira viatica. Griff. Notul. iii. 54. Holosetum 

 philippinense, Steud. L c. — Coridochloa, WalL Cat. n. 8758. 



Subtropical Himalaya, alt. 4-6500 ft., from Kumaon to Sikkini. The 

 Kbasia Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft.; Munnkpoke; Burma, Collet i BkiiaR on 

 Parusnath 3-5000 ft. CfiYLON up to 5000 ft.— Distrib. Mauritius, S. Africa, 

 China, Philippines, Australia. 



Stems 1-3 ft., densely tufted, bases thickly clothed with the woolly remains of 

 old leaf-sheaths. Leaves 8-12 by ^-^ in., glabrous or pubescent, finely acuminate; 

 ligule obscure. S/>iitf5 2-5, 3-6 in, long; rachis slender subflexuous, smooth or 

 hairy. Spikelets i in., pale or brown, solitary or in distant pairs, sessile <^^ 

 pedicelled. 



10. TaZCKOXiSNA^ Schrad. 



Erect, tufted, annual or perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. SpiJ^^^^^^ 

 1-2 fld., articulate on their pedicels, panicled, laterally compresded, clothed 

 with long silky hairs, callus stipitiform. Glumes 3 or 4, I if present very 

 small, often inserted much below III ; II and 111 subequal, membranouSr 

 broadly ovate, mncronate or awned, dorsally rounded ; III paleate, triaii' 

 drous ; IV very thin, shining, fern, or bisexual. Lodicules 2, minute, dolabrx* 

 form. Grain loose within the gla. — Species many, chiefly S. African. 



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