15(5 CLxxiii. okaminh;b. (J. D. Hooker.) [RotthoeUia. 



^pikelets as long as the sessile; gl. I very unequally winged, dorsnlly smooth, awn as 

 in the sesaile ; pedicel wholly aduate to the joint of the rachis. 



10. R. Clarkel, Hack, in (Estr. BoL Zeitschr. xli. (1891) 8 ; annnal. 

 leaves lanceolate base cordate, spikes solitary short, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 orbicular-oblong dorsally ^bbous and scabrid below the middle winged 

 above it, tip notched, pedicel of upper spikelet quite free. R. gibbo>a, 

 Each, ex Lishoa in Bomb. Journ. Nat Hist. vi. (1891) 195. R. TalboU. 

 Lishoa mss. I. c. 



Behak, on Parusnath ; and Hazaribagh, in Chota Nagpore, alt. 2000 ft., darh. 

 Bombay ; N. Kuudra District, Talbot, Lishoa. 



Stem 6-8 in., branched, erect, compressed. Leaves 3-5 by i-| in., acmninate, 

 glabrous or hairy; sheath ciliate ; ligule of hairs. Spikes J-l in., erect, racbiJ 

 fragile, joints clavate shorter than the spikelets, tips ciliolate, side not hollowed. 

 Spikelets i^-i in., closely imbiicating. Gl. I of sessile spikelet \\nth ^ covi^cem 

 3-5-nerved disk and ciliate hyaline wings; II much smaller, ovate, 1-ncrved ; H 

 ovate, obtuse, hyaline, nerveless; IV much smaller, broadly oblonpr, obtuse, nerveless, 

 sides incurved, palea like the gl. nervtless. Fedicelled spikelet like the sessile, bQ 

 smaller and less gibbous ; pedicel pyriformly clavate, truncate, top scaberulous. 



f 



the 



margins. 



11. a. exaltata, Linn. f. SuppL 114 ; annual, leaf-base narrow 



rounded tip setaceous, gl. I of sessile spikelet very coriaceous about as 



long as the joint obtuse hardly margined or winged dorsally flat smot't » 



pedicels of upper spikelet shorter than the joints. Knnth Enum-l^-'^' 



466; Hack. Monoqr. Androp. 294; Steud. Syn. Gram. 361 ; Hoxk Coro«i- 



PZ. ii. 30,t.l67, A Inc/. i.354; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Fl. 233; Thw. Enum- 

 T>1 ^^w7 QftA. rr^:^^ nr»4 n^^^n t>7 inT. j;/.*/,^'^ n^i 'Pn^ninh. PL l'^» 



n, 3286. R. arundinacea, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 444 ; bi^^' 

 L c. 362. R. denudata, Steud. ; Miq, I. c. 408. R. gymnorhiza, Herb.nat^^ 

 €X Wall Cat n. 8675. R. hispida. Herb. Boxb. R. setosa, Presl Rel.Ei^nK. 

 i. 329. Ophiurus appendiculatus, Steud. l. c. 359. Stegoasia cocbm- 

 chinensis. Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 51. 



Plains and lower hills of India, from the N.W. Provinces to Assam and BChM* 



(ascending the Himalaya in (Jarwhul to 7tOO ft.), and southward to Travunco 



and Ceylon. Andaman Islds., Prain. — Distbib. China, Malaya, Austra im 



Africa. 1 



Stems 6-10 ft., stout, erect, sponey within, as thick as the little finger belo^'.^ 

 hispid. Lea--^-'^--' 1 :„ ^,:„^,^„_ i.„„„li.. 1 ;.«^..«..abndor 



hispid above 

 Spikes 3-6 



than the joints, fertile nearly to the tip, palea of gl. IV auricled at the '?*^' 



Mahibar and at PalamcoUa,. Wight Herb. n. 3286 j Wall. Cat. n. 8875 E. f^ 



Woodrow. 





