98 CLxxiii. GRAMiNEiB. (J. D. Hoolcer.) 



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25. ZiOPKOZiEPZS, Decne. 



An annual tufted erect grass. Leaves sbort, flat. SpiMeJs minufe, 

 ., jointed but persistent on the very short spreading pedicels of an 

 elongate simple spiciform raceme, exactly like a bird's head; pediceis 

 jointed on the rachis. Glumes 3; I incumbent, oblong, acute, strongly 

 iTrcurved above the base, produced above into a globcse boss ""'^^^ * 



fectinate crest, and with a pectinate wing on the mesial line beyond it; 

 [ shorter, narrower, with often a dorsal pectinate wing; HI H- 

 much shorter, hyaline, ovate, acute; palea hyaline. Lodirules quadrate. 

 Stamens 2; anthers short, most minute. Styles short; stigmas featherj. 

 Grain subulate, base gibbously incurved, free within the rigid glumes. 



Xi. ornlthocephala, Steud. Syn, Gram. 112 ; Berne in Arcliiv, Mut. 

 Par. i. (1839) 147 ; Wall Gat. n. 8881. Holboellia ornitbocephala, WalU^ 

 Hook.Bot Misc. ii. 144, t. 76; Wight Cat n. 1741; Knnth Enum.Fli^ 

 171. 



Soathem Provinces of the Deccatt Pekinsula, Madura, Tinnevelly, 4c., Koenijt 

 Ac. Ckylow ; Northern Province, Trimen. 



A rather stiff grass, 6-18 in. high ; roots wiry. Leaves i-li in., ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, margins ciliolate ; lower sheaths short ; ligule 0. Eacev\(* 

 2-4 in., columnar, J in. diam. ; rachis slender, strict, and the horizontid rather stoi^ 

 grooved pedicels green and scabridly ciliate. SpilceleU -^^-x\ in- 1<^»&) red-brown lO 

 ■ge, horizontal or slightly deflexed from the pedicel. — One of the most singular 

 ludiau grasses. 



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26. PSaOTXS, Ait. 



A slender grass, with short broad leaves and a crinite spike. Spikelet* 

 subsessile, 1-fld., jointed on a slender simple nnjointed rachip, very narro i 

 callus conical. Glumes 3; I and II empty, enbeqnal, narrowly hnear, 

 1-nerved, tapering into long capillary awns; Til very minute, flg » P*. 

 hyaline. Lodicuies short, hyaline. Stamens 3, anthers very short. "''^ 

 very short, united at the base, stigmas very short. Grain much long?^ 

 than ita glumes, narrow. 



P. latifolia. Ait. Eort. Kew, i. 85; Beauv. Jgrost. t. 4, f . 9 ; 6 (la*J' 

 folia), Kunih Rtcia. Gram. i. 357, t. 92, Enum. PI. i. 471, Suppl 380; SieuC- 

 Syn. Gram. 186 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 239; Wall. Cat. n. 3783 ; Wight Cat- D- 

 17-10; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 237; Dulz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl.296; Thw. Enii»- 

 PI. Zeyl. 369; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 106; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind- l''' 

 Benih. Fl. Umgk 418; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 479. P. Bnrmanni, Stevi- 

 Kom. Ed. I. G05. P. cubauH, Wright in Sauv. Fl. Cub. 202. P. g'abrat;'. 

 Stcud. Syn. Gram. 186. P. hordeiformis, Nees ex Steud. Nom. Ed.n.^^ 

 306; Syn. Gram. I. c. ; Trin. in Mem. Acad. Peterab. Ser. VI. vi. H- i^^' 

 267. P. longiflora, Nees in Hook. 4" Am. Bot. Beech. Voj/. 247 ; Sieud. y^: 

 Gram. 186. P. patula, Nees ex Steud. Nom. I c. ; Trin. Fund. Agrott.^'- 

 266 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 186. P. rara, Br. Prodr. 172 ; Benth. Fl. Austral- 

 vii. 0U9, P. scabra, Willd. ex Trin. Diss. ii. 172. P. spicaeformis, Bea^'^ 

 ex Sleud. Nom. Ed. I. 605. Perostis laxifolia, Beauv. I. c. 6. SaccbaraP 

 Bpicatum, lAnn. Sp. PI. 64. S. brevifolium, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. I «• : 



xii. t. 62. 



