Mmnum.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. B. Hooker.) 133 



Zei/l. 364 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 107 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vli. 520.. I. 

 rabratnm, Fresl Rel. Hsenk. i. 328. I. repens, Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 323 ; 

 vqht Gat. n. 1716. Andropogon muticus, polymorplias, relictus & 

 "pens, Steud. Syn. Cham. 374, 375, 377, 374 



^ The DECCiN PENijrsTTLA, from Canara soutliwd. BuESTA, the Malayan 

 Attstrr '^ *""^ ^ACCADiNE IsLDS. Ceylon, common.— DiSTKiB, China, Malaya, 



^fiootstoci very stout, creeping for several feet in sand; branches 2-10 in., 

 jont, usually leafy up to the spike ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 1-6 in., rarely more, 

 ma v°T*^'le» flat, stiff, base rounded or cordate, brown when dry ; sheath 

 «W K ip'^u °^*'="''«- %'^es 1-1^ in., joints and pedicels stout, 3-gonous, = 

 fkhrn n ^^*^^'® spikelet, truncate, shortly ciliate. Sessile spikelets i-^'in., 



obsoZl'' ^^""^ ''"■^^' smooth; gl. I acute, thickly coriaceous, shining, 



incarv / "t7'°^'^^'"^' ^o^al'y ciliate above the middle, margins below broadly 

 with « ' '^[&er, rigid, glabrous, 5-nerved ; III oblong, obtuse, glabrous, palea 

 oblon/u T ^''^''^^ "^^"S' IV = 11, chartaceous, convolute, 5-nerved; palea 

 tiththp^''^ • ' ^^^^^ ciliate. Pedicelled spikelets laterally compressed; gl. I 

 Wily bSex^'? °" °^^ ^'^^ inflexed and broadly winged, concave, hairy; gl. IV 



Hia^nmn ^1**^?*' ^"''^- f' •' stem creeping below, leaves oblong acute 

 sessilfl s -t 1 ? ^ villously tomentose, spikes 2 softly tomentose, gl. I of 

 II cori« oolong 2-fid convex keels with broad auricular ciliate wings, 



obtuselv 971 ^'^^^"^l^ awned keel winged above the middle, IV oblong, 



/ -i-iobed, awn slender inserted between the rounded lobes. 



NoBTH Canaea, Lishoa. 



^abroua. ^T *'^'^*' ""ooting at the thickened nodes; branches ascending S-14 m., 

 ft. ,, r leaves on tho /.>uor^:«„ „i. i o .•_ .i ' .i.. :.v.v.^;«of;tio- in two series. 



««ghaira o -i* «• «*^eaths i-1 in., villous ; ligule short, bearaea wiin ve.y 

 ^oacavo-convZ f ^ '"•' j°'»*^* and pedicels about half as long as the spikelets, stout, 

 flabroas !i T 'A- rV^ '''"«"^' truncate. Sessile spikelets i in., callus very large, 

 "^dlv ino, ■ l},^ coriaceous, dorsally convex, ciliate above the middle, margms 

 tlie wiL T n '^ ^^°«' tlie middle ; 1 1 rather longer, rigid, dorsally rounded below 

 ''Wate 2 no. '^ *"°^^°"?' obtuse, margins ciliate, paleate, male; palea chartaceous, 

 "»« middle ill IV^^ meeting at the tip with very broad hyaline wings above 

 *^^ spikelef . I r ', ' 3-nerved below the middle, a«vn about twice as long as 

 P'esaed.jl T^" ^^ ^'^^ceolate, nerves ciliate. Pedicelled spikelets laterally com- 

 •^•"it of the o„r"^*^' broadly winged, villous ; IV shortly awned or awnle8a,--Ahe 



. "iJygood specimen T bBv« =a<.ti ;« ^rorv npf-nliRr. 



seen is very peculiar. 



^4 t[S^?l^\^'i'' Obs. vi. 36 ; erect or decnmbent below, leavea 



linear" sniir o*^®» ^e^^. 

 2-lob d ? t 2-3 villous, gl. 



?' awned 111.?!? the ke 



?ate-oblong convex 

 terminal wiugs, II 



.bove 



Monog 



f 520 (7a/p tlf- , ^^ihie Fodd Qriss. N- Ind. 30 ; B^tl.Fl. A^isim*. 



', Hm-l. Earn, e^ Wall Gat. n. 8860 



322. T. scrobioulatnm, Wight & A 



^?ofi cili." '; h^' I- tenne. fferh. H^m. e«> W»tt. Cat. n. 886o. Spodio- 



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625 



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