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M(smum.] cLxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 135 



tt Keel of gl, IL not winged {or toinged in I. murinum). 



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18. Z. murinum, Forsf. FL Ins. Ausfr. Prodr, 73 ; slender, erect or 

 prostrate below, mucli branched, leaves narrowly linear, spikes 2-3 slender 

 nllons, gl. I of sessile spikelets oblong acuminate 2-cuspidate or 2-mucro- 

 nnte faintly 5-7-nerved, keels rounded not winged, II long-beaked awned, 

 Iv cleft to tke middle, awn long stout inserted between the large eciliate 

 lobes. Kunth Fnum. PI L 571, Suppl, 419 ; Ilach, Monogr. Androp. 223. 

 Andropogoa mnrinus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 377.— Spodiopogon, sp. 9, Serb. 



• ^YSORE or the Caenatic, G, T/iomson.— Distrb. Tanna Isld. (New Caledonia). 



mm& 1-2 ft., very slender, erect or prostrate and geniculate at the base, branch- 



^g upwards; nodes bearded. Leaves 2-4 by ^-i in., sessile, flaccid, setaceously 



acuminate, narrowed to the rounded base, midrib vanishing upwards; sheath 



waoemous; hgnle ohlong, membranous. Spikes l-lj in., often sheathed by the 



pper leaves, drying red-brown ; joints and pedicels = ^ spikelet, rather slender, 

 cawT' ^"^■^^^^^^®' ^^P^ 3-toothed concave. Sessile spikelets |in., red-brown, 

 cillat .?' ^*^*^^^ unilaterally stiffly bearded; gl. I dorsally polished, sparsely 

 the mxlu TT°f ^^^^ ^*^"*^ ^^^^® ^^^ middle, margins ventricosely incurved below 

 3-nervpH I' /i*^"S^^ t^an I, inserted below it on the callus, dorsally convex, faintly 

 winded ^^^^-^^^^^'^^^ ^^'^^^^ ^ ^^"^ ^^ ®^^^^ ^'^^^^ slender awn. keel above shortly 

 »s W 2^ ^^^'}^^ "^^^®» oblong-lanceolate, acute, l-nerved, margins incurved ; palea 

 IV- IT T i' ^^^^^^ convergent in the tip scaberulous with broad hyaline wings, 

 palea flR 1 ^^ ' ^^^^^^^^' ^^^'^ dilating at its insertion into a semilunar ridge; 

 W rT; ^^ *f ^^® ^^-^ *^vate, lanceolate, 2.nerved at the base. Styles very 

 containpf"^*^^ *^- ^^^^^^led spikelets nearly as the sessile.— This species is 



late ^,vn ^^ ?^ extensive Herbarium formed by G. Thomson, Esq. (brother of the 

 8pikeSl'"^?^f''* ""^ ^^^ Calcutta Botanical Gardens}. The flowers in each 

 i;^eiet are stnctly unisexual. 



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lone 'fi^il liirtum, ffacJe. Monogr. Androp. 228 ; stout, suberect, leaves 

 2-cu8ni^pT^ an ""^ °^^^y' Sl- I of sessile spikelet lanceolate acuminate or 

 ronndprTTf "r;^^''^^'^ ^i^^o^s above or glabrate, II aristulate dorsally 

 flaci Z ;. Q l*^"^ ^^'I'ely 2-lobed ciliate awned in the cleft. ^ ^:-.i- 

 • -c- bpodiopogon rivalis, Thw. mss. 



Rff.vni-r T\. 



I. rivale, 



"OfJ Cent«at^?°'^^ ^""^ *^'« Khasia Hilis, alt. 4-6000 ft, Chota Nagpoee 

 ^^clett. "" ^^^lA. NiLGHiEi Hills, alt. 5000 ft. Ceylon; Mateke East, 



Stem O n ^. - 



^^ 



A 



the el. """^ deeply deft, and the awn is not produced downwards in the body of 



^•'''rtuwa'ndw "j"^ °*^' ^"'^""^ ^ow widely spread and variable a species it is, keeps 

 '1 Wh Burfalr .f ^^stinct species, thus distinguished :— X hirtnm, leaves hirsute 

 **'' ?-9 Percnr ^^1 ^~^' &^- 1 of sessile spikelet entirely chartaceo-herbaceous 



i-urrent nerres, densely hirsute in the upper half.— Khasia Hdls. /. 



