Mamum.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 137 



^ Rajpootana and the Central Protinces, Duthie. The Deccak, Eeyne, &c- 

 flrRMA, Wallicht &c. Ceylon, Thwaites. — Distrib. eastwd. to Australia, and 

 westffd. to the Cape Verd Isids, 



« Stem 2-3 ft., tufted on a short stout creeping rootstoclc, stout or slender, nodes 

 g^Iabrous. Leaves 6-10 in., glaucous, tips filiforni, nerves strong; sheath ribbed 

 Pabrous or hairy; ligule of silky hairs. Spikes 2-5 in., erect, pale, joints rather 

 wherent; pedicels rather slender, compressed, 2.angled, ciliate, about half as long as 

 1°^ ^^»le spikelet. Sessile spikelets |-i in., callus shortly bearded ; gl. I narrow, 

 wly flat, nerves very strong especially upwards, those between the lateral irregular 

 Lt^}!^^° ^^^ length, often anastomosing, margins narrowly incurved ; II elliptic, 

 ^wothed, keel narrowly winged below the slender awn; III linear-oblong or 



U^^^^'-i^^"^^* ciliate, palea as long glabrous 2.nerved ; IV = ^ III, oblong, 



nerved, cihate ; awn 1^-2 in., column stout; palea = the gl., linear-lanceolate^ 



i^v. u ^^1^*^®* Pec?{cdiZe(^ spikelets ; gl. I ovate-lanceolate, 2-cuspidate, green or, 



dw f ik °^^^^^'Jy margined, nerves 5-7 very strong scaberulous, lateral pairs 



e to the margin ; 11 lanceolate, 3-nerved, acuminate; IV awnless. 



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brafi,^' ?^'*'**'*"» ^"''^- ^onogr. Androp. 248; stem simple or 

 ronn/? 1 ^^" ^^^^' ^^^"^es linear or lanceolate scaberiJons, base 

 iflaE % ^'^^cordate, gl. I of sessile spikelet narrowly linear-lanceolate 

 tiedift ?^ ^°?"^^^*^ 3-cugpidate dorsally convex with a narrow deep 

 2S,1af *!„ i^T^?^^^ incurved, nerves obscure, II linear-lanceolate 



TTx ^ fid awned between the lobes. 



eels 

 kelets 

 ed 



d fn» A "'^"lucu ; gl. i scaDerulous, tip setitorm, Keei uaw""v .uc..g,.-.~- 

 -'urrow n V ^^® *'P °" o°e «'<le, or simply scaberulous, nerves 2 on each side 

 "Pillary. I'lT '^rT^^ceous, keel scabrid and margins ciliate above the middle, awn 



*H, 3.nervrH* ' '"i'"''"^' '»cute, paleate, ciliate, palea as long "'" ' ^^ ''"'^'"^■ 



^'^icelled tr,n r',^"^^ ^"^i '"•» column stout, brown; palei 



_..£, truncate ; IV linear- 

 palea = the gl. 2-nerved. 



^veiled »»iV7 ? \. *• -« '"•> v;uiuiiiu siouc. Drown, umcti — 5 . , . 



J'^aspidateTi '^'/"^^^^^^ *^an the sessile, neuter, awnless; gl. I lanceolate, 

 ^''iotawn^TT7^'''.''''^^^^^^^^led, margins incurved, keels margined or wmged ; 

 Wtf..^ '.-^^A as in the sessile snikplpf. - TV onnfp nnt awned.— Varies greatly m 



Varies greatly in 

 branched one with 



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••". not 2.fi(i ^ i°fi,fjj*?^'''"^«s gl. IV of the sessile spikelet as narrowed into the 



23 T 

 ^Bivelv'n^?"*?^^*^^"*' ^«c;t. Monoar. Androp. 249; stem erect 

 5^- 1 of eesSlf "''•f *?^y branched, spikes short in leafy panicles glabrescent, 

 *^% chaSi T^^}^^ linear-oblong very obtuse emarginate 8-10-nerved 

 '?^4tel? l^r'^ H'''^^ the "median nerves margins involute not keeled 

 S?^e with »i^**«. above. II obtuse mucronulate 5-nervei keel scabrid 



' II narroir?-^ of hairs, III linear obtuse 3-nerved cihate paleate, 



rowiy linear l-nerved glabrous narrowed into a stout awn. 



margins scabrid; 



compressed. 



^t:T' i Suegel. 



^1 



f^^ed; iv^'^eolate ; gl. i flat acuminffce many-nerved j II linear, obtuse, 

 ^"o* nothbg"? tiS~lIn^ two lowest pair of spikelets are imperfect and awuless. 



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