90 CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [CencJm^ 



angular, smooth ; involucels loosely imbricate, spines sometimes liookecl at the tip» 

 inner ^-^ in. long, as long as the sessile spikelets. 



2. C. cathartlcus, Delile Gat Hort. Monsp. 1838, in Linnsea xili. 

 (1839) Litterb. 103 ; base of involucels turbinate or truncate, inner spines 

 squarrosely spreading subulate dorsally deeply grooved, margins ciHate or 

 Bcaberulous, outer spreading or reflexed. Steud, Syn, Gram, 130 ; ?Ditthie 

 Grass, N,W. Ind. 9, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. xi., Fodd. Grass, N, Ind, 15; 

 Boiss, Fl. Orient v. 448. C. annularis, Anderss. in Peters. Seise Mossamb. 

 Bot, 653. C. echinatus, A. Rich. Tent FL Abyss, ii. 389 ; Wall Cat n. 

 86:;4, A.D. Aiichis, Cat Panjah, PL 163; ? Bnthie Grass, N.W. Ind.y 

 {non Linn,). C. Lapeta, Herh, Sam, ex WalL Lc. D. C. niloticus, F^g- 

 ^ Notar, in Mem. Accad, Torin, (1854), 380. Elymus Caput Medusa, 

 Forsk, FL Mg. Arab, 25 (non Linn,), 



The Panjab and Upper Gangetic Plain, Samilton, Eoyle, <tc.— Distbib. 

 Arabia, Afric. trop. 



Quite glabrous. Stem geniculately ascending, branched from the base, w«v* 



Leaves 1-3 in,, lanceolate, finely acuminate, scaberulous ; sheath inflated. Sj?««^^ 

 1-6 in., usually more or less enclosed in the uppermost leaf-sheath ; rachis flexuoas, 

 nnooth; involucels J— J in. across the spreading spines. Spikelets ^ in., 1-2-nd.; 

 gl. I membranous ; II and III hyaline, ovate, acuminate, 5-nerved ; IV ovate- 

 lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate. — Resembles Pennisetum cenchroides, but at onc« 

 recognized by the rigid involucel spines. Duthie*8 fii^ures under the names ol 

 catharticus and morUanus are not recognizable. The widely distributed ^* 

 «cAi»afu5, Linn., is very closely allied, but should be recognized by the broader 

 spines of the involuceU I doubt its being distinct* 



STENOTAPBaUM 



Coarse grasses. Stem flattened. Leaves disticbous. SpiJcelets apicaWf 

 partially sunk in one face of a broad flat herbaceous racbis, usually Insc* 

 riate, ovate, acuminate, 1-fld., dorsally flattened, sometimes on short fl* 

 appressed branches of the rachis; racbis simple or jointed, tip acute. 

 Glumes 4; I short, broad, rarely ; II convex, empty ; III as long as 1|' 

 flat, paleate, empty or triandrous ; IV equalling III, coriaceous, bisexn^f* 

 palea large, ovate, acute, coriaceous. Anthers linear. Styles free. ^^^\ 

 broad, flattened, free within the hardened glume and pale. — Species 2 or 



tropical. 



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1. S. grlabrum, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 176, Gram. Panic. 60; g^^ 

 very short truncate membranoua nerreless. Nees Aarost. Bras. 92 ; J)^^ 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II. 301, t. 39. 

 Hort. Motiac. 98, t. 98, in Flora, vii. (1824) Beih. 27, 28; Kunth iJn'J^ 

 PI. i. 138 ; Benth. Fl Austral, vii. 501 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. ^^\ 

 S. complanatum, Schrank in Flora I. c. 26 ; Kunih Enum. I. c- }~'.'. 

 Neea I.e. 93; Thwaites Enum. PL Zeyl. 361; Trim. Gat. Ceyl. Pl-\lt\ 

 Baker Fl. Maurit. 440. S. dimidiatum, Brong. Bot. Voy. Coq. l/^' 

 Wight Cat.n. 1606. S. glabrum, Trin. I.e. 175: Nees I.e. S. Koenig'^ 



Schranh I.e. S. madaffaafiarifin.se. 



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Enum. PI. 1. 524-, Suppl. 99; Steud. I.e. 118. S. sarmentoaum, ivef»' 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. U. 93 ; Fl. Afr. Atistr. 63. S. Swartzianum. Nees Fl- -W 

 Attstr. 62. Kottboellia complanata, Sw. in Ges. Fr. Naturf. Bcrl. -^/fli/- '. 

 (1810) 89, t. 5 ; Schrank I. c. R. compressa. Beauv. Aarost. 109, t. 21, t- 



