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OLXxiii. GRAMixE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 103 



30. DZnXEaZA, ^r. 



Slender annual or perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikeiets 1-il, 

 J!!' 11 J °^ * single terminal spike or several racemed spikes, sessile or 

 KpTT rrf ^^^ ^^'^I'ticalate. Glumes 4, I linear, rigid ; II broader com- 

 £obS ' 11 Z'"*^^®^' byaline, empty ; IV hyaline, bisexual, entire or 

 -'-nill , . ' 1-nerved, usually awned ; awn terminal or in the sinus, 

 2 fi , *'"?*®<i at or below the middle. Lodicales minute or 0. Stamens 

 hi««V r. n *■ ■' a^tliers small. Styles distinct, stigmas short. Grain 

 kS^^ u"^^"^^^^^^' free.— Species 12 or 14, tropical Asiatic and 



an ; all want revision with more copious material. 



the wnf'^^ ?*^JW ; spikelets conniving ; gl. I erect, II not appressed to 

 '"i^nis or the spike. 



ihis vp '*'*?*"^*' '^^*^' ^^^'^- -P^- Ztyl. 369 ; stem filiform, leaves short, 

 Nicelled ^1 TT "" *^°"iP^essed-trigonou3, spikelets ^-\ in. long sessile or 

 %L Pi 107 ^^'^°^^'^**® awned. Rack. Monogr. Androp. 78 ; Trim. Gat. 



v!r?w*M ^f l'''^^^^ ««d Ceylon {CP. 957.) 



^l"' most diatTnnf T '"• ^'g^-— Amongst the many forms the following appear 

 •D. Vusilln ''""Qot satisfactorily identify them with Hackel's descriptious. 



•wooth or sciUi ^r^**" ' ^^^"" ^-^ •»• filiform, rachis of spike filiform trigoaoui 

 ^■'"M UDWHr^"^*^ n * °" ^'^"^ *"Sl«8. spikelets pedicelled, pedicel usually nnked below 

 Uotodua A„- ?^''"*' '^'^"'- ^•«- P^'ic^- Monog. Androp. 78. Ceylon; at 



^ThwaiW'f ^^^- ^^^ in part).— This and the following I have described 

 V„p'^*ype specimens. 



I'" 'owm on tv.' ^^^'; '"^*- 5 ^^^™ as ''° ^- P«st"« proper, spikelets all sessile, or 

 ■• ^--Ceylon afS 'P''^^ Pedicelled, awn of-gl. I shorter. ?£>. Thwaitesii, Hack. 



'"oadajthesho.'n . "••^^""t'"'. somewhat branched, spike lonsjer, rachis as 

 *">otel I «m. / P^^'<;«iled spikelets keeled down the centre margins scaberuloiis, 

 % 8 . i Bometimea as long as the gl.-CEYLON ; at Triucomalee ; QUnie (CP. 



f^ "spikeku *' '*^" ^^"•■'^ ^«afy. spike inclined, rachis broader tlian the sessile 

 W,on. ^'' «^'"-g'"s ciliate, glume II shortly awned.— Malabar ; VVynaad, 



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ftan'the's^^H^Tf"'.,^^?"! 10-18 in. erect, rachis of spike rather broader 

 5 less ciliate ^P^^*^^®'^ strongly ciliate, gl. II acute not awned, more 



r "'^ "pikes arp," *"y *""•■'" o^" ^- P««««. ^1"^=^ the spike closely resembles ; 

 i** 'n<:iined 1 ,- ^^'"■> ""^ '"• ' «piWelet3 ^\ in. long.-The spikes are some- 

 Jl'PikM mav '^''"'■^•^J «« in the species v>^th several on the peduncle, l.euce 

 J^K*"^' solitarLr • '• . ^''"''' specunens are very slender, 12-18 in. long ; 

 •pike. y one ,» la a very joung state, with broader leaves sheathing the 



^NualfjcfA^; erect spreading or involute ; gl. I erect or spreading; 



+ nolll ^. '^PP^^essed to the^achis. 

 ^^'"'^ <'(^pillary, 



^^ 35,^;^^®«ackerl, Hochst. ex Miq. in Verh. Ned. Inst. III. ir. 

 jfT«t8 distant «''^'^^''''^' ^P^kes very slender, rachis fiUtorm trigonous, 

 ^'''3. 4«d,^V9^.'^7- pedicelled, S^ " acuminate doraally ciliat^^ f"^.^' 



■^- 'y , LisOoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Mist. Soc. vi. _a891J, 18^. 







