w 



Perotis.} olxxiii. gramine^. (J. D, Hooker.) 99 



l^r^ Himalaya, ascending to 5000 ft., from Kunawur to Sikkim. Piains of 

 iTOA from the Panjab to Burma and the Malay Peninsula and southwards to 

 ClYtoir.^DiSTEiB. Aftghan., Trop. Asia, and Africa. 



arm^ stout and branching at the base, then ascending, 3-10 in., leafy. Leaves 

 n b!' ^9*^7^'^ lanceolate, base cordate; sheath short; ligule ciliate. Spikes 

 9t%hmU ojMfcelefs y^^-i in., contracted into a callus above the joint. Glumes 



wi^us; awn very variable in length.— Bentham is, I think, right in his 

 tl\^^ J^i^' '^'^'^''* ^'"•» i» »ot different from P. latifolia, and that there is but 



27. ZOirSZA. Willd 



small 



Dnni»»n+ d w'^'^^ branched, rigid, glabrous grass. Leaves subulate, 

 «n3 ann ^^rf'^^' ^mall, ovoid, 1-fld., spicate, subimbricate, jointed on 

 wlJed of o* "^^^ notched unjointed rachia, sessile or shortly pedi- 

 lerTeiesa '"**• ' ^ ^™P^y» coriaceous, laterally compressed, shining, 

 Kn-arobi "'*'^^°® connate below, hyaline; II much smaller, membranous, 

 -^J^'cwip, n ^' c/ "^®' complicate; palea short, nerveless, hyaline or 0. 

 ^Jottgatl gyr'^^^^ 3, anthers long. Styles very long, distinct, stigmas 



*?8 ; ffooi 7^4 ^l? ' ^^"*^- <^«^- C^V^- PI- 106 ; il/i?. i^^- Ind. Bat. m. 

 ^^^ N 7- i'r^'*" ^"'^- ^- 312 ; -Bew^A. Fl. Austral, vii. 506; 5Mc/ia»flM 

 ^riffithiana i ;■ .^^ "^-5 ^"^^^ Fl- Maurit. 442. Z. aristata, Brownii, 

 Z-J»poDi^'^'^l^'"^««' ^- ^^ell. in Bot. Zeit. xiii. (1855) 272, 273, 274. 

 ^*9) 168 *-r ^* -S^^eut^. ?. c. 414. Z. sinica, J?a«ce w Joum. Bot. vii. 

 ^'••. rrf II -^ i?^^'^• ^'"«- 'S'oc. xiii. (1873) 134. Z. setacea, Nees ex Steud. 

 ^' 8c. Kal' r !oo ^- teiiaifolia, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Peter.b. Ser. VI. 

 Criaum-ura;' » ^^^^^ ^^- Matrella iuncea, Pers. ^j/n. i. 78. Pamcum 

 x*^ I e n V- ^"^ ^^^^- -^o"*- I- c. 255. Milium maritimnm, Koen. e% 

 ^**'^lla,i:i«.P?i'^'""^^.«'"ectu8, Herh. Wight, ex Wall. I 'cB. Agrostis 

 ^^ • ^"». ^iant. u. 185 ; Eo^i. Fl Ind. i. 317. 



^ifsQrit. ^'^ °^ ■^^^*' Malacca, and Cetxon.— Distrib. Trop. Asia, Austral., 



?^ *-10 b^t T''"^ ' branches interlaced and rooting, sending up short leafy 

 "^«1 ; »heatk .ri^ : -^*'*^'*» ^-^ in-, coriaceous, usually spreading, margius 



«W short, mouth ciliate. 8i>ihes l-lj in. ^tfc^^^ts H i"- 



I 

 _\ I 



Tribe IV. Andropogone^. (See p. 3.) 



A taU ^^- ^JO^E^C, Linn. 



k**«iU8, a*nw °'^ perennial grass. Leaves long, broad. 5pi^e^ 

 W*? *t lenjrth K ^ J terminal ; lower spikelets solitary, fern., enclosed 

 Zk* *^ P^dicplK^^^^ polished iint-like bract, through the apex of 

 ^J'^i ofthe ii i. -"^^^^ portion protrudes. Male spikelets 2-3-nate at 

 C*?** I aad 1\ v *^°® ^®^s'^e and one or two pedicelled, lanceolate ; 

 K *'*e'i ir,aro5w ^ TT^.^^^' «™P*y. rigid, or herbaceous; I keeled along 

 'P»ieie<,ovS<? ' . ^^^ 1"^ hyaline, paleate, triandrous or empty. 



^' acuminate ; glumes 4, 1 chartaceous ; II-I V successively 



h- 



H 2 



