154 CLXXiiL GRAMmEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rotthoellia. 



narrowed from the middle upwards; II more or less usually wholly adnata to the 



joint, IV very short or 0. Pedicelled spikelets, gl. I 7-nerved ; II \-\ jn-i krtl 



excentric— Very nearly allied to R. compressa. " The only Androp. gru^a in which 



fruiting spikelets are not detached, hence there can be no dissemination except uom 



the whole spike," Hackel. The Laccadive Islds. specimens are very slender witn 



narrow leaves and quite erect strict lanceolate finely acuminate spikelets, rather 



longer than the joints. . p 



Var. Hamiltonianai callus of sessile spikelets bearded with short hairs, r K. 



Hamiltoni, Trin. mss. ex Sleud, Nom. Ed. II. ii.474. E, compres.?a, TFalL Cai.n^ 



8870 A. C. R- compressa txzr. Hamiltoniaiia, Hach. Monogr, Androp. 288. Hemar- 



thria Hamiltoniana, Steud, Syn, Gram. 358. Lodicularia Hi»miitoniana. Nees f» 



Steud.Lc. 359.- Lower Gangetic Plain; Nathpur, HarniWon.— Referred to com- 



^ressa by Hackel^ but I think nearer to protensa, 



6, a. longriflora, JTook.f, ; spikes short, rachis firm, sessile spitelets 

 l-\ in, lanceolate narrowed into a long point, callus obscure, gh li rather 

 longer subaristate, pedicelled spikelets like the sessile. 



Tbnasskrim; at Mergui, Griffith, Assam, Herb. Munro. ■ 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect, leafy, stout, spongy ; nodes glabrous or pubescent. ^^^^^^ 

 8-6 by i-i in., linear-lanceolate from a rounded base, flaccid, smooth, glabrou?, 

 marprins smooth; sheath inflated; ligule short, membranous. Spikes 4-o i^'-* 

 sheathed below, stout, nearly ^ in. across the spikelets; rachis subtetragooou 

 Spikelets twice as long: as the joints, the pedicelled rather longtir and longer awu 

 than the sessile ; gl. II adnate to the joint; III of sessile spikelet oblong, obtuse, 

 nerveless; IV like III, palea small. Lodicules quadrate, broader tlian lo'* 

 membranous. Gl. IV of pedicelled spilcelet narrower than the sessile, paleate, wi 

 imperfect stamens and pistil. — Eesembles a very large state of R, pfotensa. 



Peltophoras, Desv. (Gen.). 



6. H. DKyuriis 



ial, 



6. a. Ittyurus, Benth. in Joum. Linn, Soc. xix. (1881) 68 ; perennid^i 

 gl. I of sessile spikelet panduriform dilated above the middle into a 



orbicular win 



verse ridg^e. Mack. Monogr 



ii. 300; Desv. ex Beaiiv, Agrost. U, t. I ; RottL in Neue Schnft ^^Y\^ 

 Berl iv. (1803) 191 ; Roxh. Coram. PL ii. 10, 1. 117, J^L Ind. I 361 ; Sch'-e^^^ 

 Beschr. Graese, t. 43; Kunth Enum, PL i. 470; Gri[f. NotuL ^^' ^l^J 

 Miq^ FL Ind. Bat. iii. 410. Peltophorus Myurus, Desv. in Nouv. BulL^^' 

 Philom. 'xl (1810) 188, Joum. Bat. i. (1813) 73; Beauv, Agrost 119> ^- ^'' 

 f. 11; WalL Ca^n. 5880; WiaU Cat n. 1725, Herb. n. 3071. Ischaemuffl' 



rurus & -ffigilops sangniuea. Herb. Li 



The Deccau Peninsula, Heym, Wight, Ac, in dry places. 

 8t 



Leaves 2-6 



^eccau renmsuia, ueym, yvigUt, &c., in dry places. . , .j,^ 



creeping and rooting, with ascending compressed branches 6-28 in. **'?^ 

 -6 in., spreading, linear, acute, flat, glabrous; sheath compressed, »nf^V 



;r*i,l« -U«-4- „:i:-i.^ o^-7.-_ 1 o r_ -_».- . . 1 _ J _-:it..,.m- nhorW) 



cilittte; ligule short, ciliate. Spikes 1-2 in., solitary, terminal and axillary, snoriJ 

 exserted ; joints scabernlous, shorter than the spikelets, excavate on each side le**!^* 

 n pore between the spikelet and joint. Sessile spikelets ^ in., brown, callus n"*""^ ' 

 gl. I ficaberulous, 5-ncrved, wing scarious ; 11 ovate, acute, 3-nerved ; HI o^^*l ^^ 

 obtuse, empty ; IV lanceolate, nerveless ; palea obsolete. Pedicelled spikelets; P- 

 oblong, obtuse, 5-nerved, winged on one side; II navicular, S-nerved; III S-nerreu, 

 paleate ; IV oblong, obtuse, male; pedicel free or adnate to the joint. 



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