Mthoellia.] CLXXiii. geamine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 153 



3 A. compressa, Linn f. Suppl. 114; rachis of spike coherent, 

 «89ile spikelets J^-i in., callus distinct, gl. I of sessile spitelets coriaceous 

 Obtuse ^or acute 7-9-nerved, gl. II of pedicelled acuminate or ahortly 



awaea /-g-nerved. 



ThroDgLout the hotter parts of India, generally in wet places, Burma and 

 jjj™'^--^iSTElB. Westwards to Spain and the Canaries, and in most warm 



Meet or decumbent below, usually branched throughout, leafy ; nodes glabrous 



« pubescent, 

 larfi 



2i-6 in. 



gl. I of pedicelled spikelets subulate or 



ii;n>^ J lanceolate, tip scabrid. — A polymorphous grass, whose Indian varieties are 

 <»>«P^sed of as follows by Hackel:— 



5-20 ft^ 1 "" ^Z""^*''*' ^^^^- '•«'•; stems creeping below, then erect, scandent, 

 broad nf^i*'^' ^P'^*^^ slender solitary or 2-3-nate, spikelets M in., gl. I 

 PI Jnrf • Qifo"^^®'"*^^ oUuse not constricted below the tip. K. glabra, Roxb. 

 ^all V' r' ^""- ^^^' "• 8871 A. R. anceps & quarterna, Eerb. Ham. ex 

 GruL r *""» , ^* Hemarthria compressa. Kunth Enum. i. 465 (in part) ; 

 AMi, n,n^-^^- ^^3;Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 364; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 107 ; 

 M ^ n ■^"'y'**- ^l- 172 ; Duihie Grass. N. W. Ind, 18, Fodd. Grass. iT. 

 aot'uotL R ?°™aiaudelina, Steud. Si/n. 358.— Common in India.— Hackel doe» 

 length ^^''^"•gn's description of this grass as scandent, and attaining 20 ft. in 



^."- (J./(W 



^fniarthriR . ■^^' "• 'l- Lepturus fasciculatus, THn. Fund. Agrost. ha. 

 '•"diculatl ITT^' ^'■*«- i^ ^em. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. ii. (1833) 248. H. 

 *^i Berd ^^-d-"- ^^y- H. taseiculata, Kunth Eevis. Gram. i. 153, Enum. u 



^H^marthria w;/"'^' ^^' ^'"^<^- »'•««*• -^- ^'^^^ 30. H. laxa, Steud. I. c. 3o8. 

 f^'s often rl"' u- • ^*^*- "• 8871 {i,i »ar«).— Common especially on the borders of 

 , V « I"^ • ^ amongst bushes. 



'^^'^'cled stout "*?',^'*'^^-'-«=- 288; leaves with setaceous tips, upper spikes sub- 

 ^f '^-'^l-^nl'J^ c ^~^ '"•' g^- I sessile hardly constricted below the snbobt.ise 

 ^*'" that •< \v ,v Pfdicelled lanceolate not subulate.-Hacke) says of this Japan 

 ■^''•^'sHerb • p "■ ^^^ ^ '« exceedingly like it." But that number of 



• 18 RatzelurgUa :pulcherrima, and there is no B under it. 



*^''e 8niS*f °^*' -f^«c*- Monogr. Androp. 289; rachis of spike firm, 

 "'• ^I of dS ?, '?• ^^nceolate, callus obscure, gl. I subacute many-nerved, 

 :3-nerved p'^"^ spikelet lanceolate narrowed into a long slender awu 



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^«^.S?n n '■^P^"s, i?oa-&. viss. ex Wall Cat. Hemarthna proten^a, 

 "^"^^O.ifler"'':?- .^^9. PH.vaginata, Buhse Pl JnngJi. m. 354 {ex 



A,s8A5c ^'^^"^' ^«^^- C-a^ o. 8872, 8910. 



' ^*ccA?iVj^j^^«AL. SiLHET, Cachab and the Khasia Him-s, in marshes. 



S!^- -teates q ?f u^'"*" ^ decumbent base, stout, leafy, flowering from nil the 



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