RotthoelUa.] CLXxrii. graminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 159 



1 



' TBNAS3ERIM; Mergui, Griffith, Heifer. 



broad 



leaves which attain an inch in breadth with the tip finely acuminate, base rather 

 Mnpowed, margins ciliate below the middle or towards the b^se only, both surfaces 

 glabrous; sheath with glabrous or ciliate margins. Spikes 2-3 in., loner peduncled ; 

 top of peduncle slightly clavate; joints i in., about as long as the spikelets, clavate, 

 qaite smooth. Sessile spikelets ovate-oblong, winged at the top, quite smooth or 

 »ith « few linear impressed pits, margins naked or obscurely ciliate. 



18. a. ffemlnata, Each, in CEstr. Bot. Zeit xli. (1891) 48 ; gl. I of 

 sessile spikelets hirsute below with tubercle-based hairs. 



JJaiat Pexinsttla ; Pahang, Bidley. 

 ^feww upwards of 2 ft. high, sparingly branched and flowering above; nodes 

 warded with reflexed hairs. Leaves 12 by |-i in., linear, acuminate, rigidalous ; 

 ^eaths apprised, mouths bearded ; ligule short, membranous. Spikes about 2^ by 

 !.~;'f ^^°' ^''agiie; joints about i in,, shorter and as broad as the spikelets, clavate, 

 ^rm\j convex, venfcrally and the tops deeply hollowed, Spikelets } in., separated 

 J iDe narrow pedicel of the withering upper spikelets, dimidiate-orate, glabrous, 

 ^■mas annular: cr) T nr..;^ — „„_^^.i/ „_.^.-...i„ Li^^^a „f iha fnn on P«ch 



•ciiJiln f ' ^"'^^^^te-acuminate, keeled, chartaceous; HI shorter, hyaJme, ovate, 

 hXi Ti.^'^P^^' "^"®^ ^i I^ 1-nerved; palea like its gl.— Description from 

 ^"c«ei; I have not seen it. 



irNDETKRMINiBtE SPECIES. 



^mJrT?f^' ^''^'^' JFncycL vi. 313 ; is, according to Hackel {Monogt. Androp 

 '»). probably an Isch<Bmum or Andropogon. 





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Annual 



BIAUXSURXS 



Leaves cordate at the base, 

 peduncles often confluent in 



Spikes A ^^^^^' ^"^^^ branched grasses. 



» leaf, o ^^•'.^''^'^^^y' axillary and terminal, peduncles often connuenT; in 

 tips wltK ."^ panicle; rachis fragile; joints abort, deeply excavate, 

 tessile K; ^\^^' ^Pi^elets 1-2-fld., in dissimilar pairs, one globose, 

 Jo'ntof tK ° ,'.*^^ o^^l^^'' o^ate, pedicelled, neuter, pedicel adnate to the 

 »uhai,l, '■^*=^^8- 'S'miZe SjpileUt; glumes 4, I hard, globose, foveolate. 

 *6 cavit? ?? °P®°'"? c.ppo3ite the rachis; II chartaceous, immersed in 

 Wlea Er ^ ^?<i filling the opening; III hyaline, emptjr ; IV and its 

 kstS \ I^o^i'^nles 2, broadly cuneate. Anthers minute Stjles 

 ■^Specifs 2 V""!^^' ^^^^^^^^ from the opening in gl. I. Grain subglobose. 



i-m. 



'^8 2, tropical. 



/. iVc 



i68 



nerved, 



, Fruct. 



9rah. n"*J:; ^^- 1- 4«9; Hack. Munoar. Androp. 314 ; bieud 



409 



W. Ind. 557 : Doell. in Mart. 



t..^; Wall n . • -°'^"- f^- J^nd. 657; Voell. in luarv. -i -. ^.^. — --■ 



£• O"'"*- i p ''*• .°- 8879 ; Wight Gat. n. 1726. M. polystachva J5ea««. 

 ^fichr^- * f «■ V 24, t. 14. M. hirta, Herb. Suss, ex Walt. Cat. I c 



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