162 CLXxiiT. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [EUomrus. 



Upper Gaugetic Plain, Eoyle ; Agra and Ettawah, DutJiie; Delhi, OlarJce.— 

 Dl?THiB. Arabia, Ab}ssitiia, Cape Verd Isld-s. 



Stems 4-12 in., slender, leafy, geniculate. Leaves 4-10 in., narrow, flat or 

 convolute, glabrous or sparsely hairy, base fimbriate; lower sheaths terete, upper 

 spathifonn; ligule very short. Spikes 1-2 in., erect, clustered towards the top of 

 the stem, stout, green or purple, each enclosed in a long narrow flattened acute 

 eheath; joints bearded bi-low the tip. Sessile sjpiktlets \ in., erect; callus denselj 

 bearded ; gl. I deeply 2-tid at the top, lobes linear ciliate divergent, sides with a roff 

 of large tubercles each carrying a pent il of long hairs; 11 membranous, Imear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved ; III shorter^ oblong, acute, nerveless, glabrous, 

 epaleate ; IV much shorter, oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved or nerveless. FeAkell^ 

 9j)ikeMs \ in., narrowed almost from the base into a long subulate ciliate blade; 

 cymbiform, glabrous, narrowed into a scabrid awn ; IH and IV 0, pedicel with on 

 margin shortly ciliate. 



2. E. hirsutus, Munro ex Benilu in Journ. Linn. Soc. xis. (1881) 6o; 



perennial, spikes peduncled naked, gl. I of sessile spikelet narrowed into 

 long narrow flat 2-fid beak margins villous, gl. Ill and IV paleate. ^o^' 

 FL Orient. V, 466; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 17, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind.f 

 t. 17. Rottboellia hirsnta, Valil Symh. i. 11; Del, Fl Mgy^t. t. 14,t.li 

 Kxintli Fnum. PI. L 467 ; Ilach. Monogr. Androp. 311. Ischsemam hirsutui^ 

 Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 361. 1. mastucatum, Trin. in Mem. Acad^ 

 Fete^'sb. Ser. VI. li. (1833), 298. Coelorachis hiranta, Brongn. in D^^f^ 

 Voy. Bot. 68. Lasiurus hiisutus, Boiss. Diagn. FL Or. II. iv. (1859) i-*^; 

 Saccharum hirsutum, Forsh. FL ^gypt. Arab. 16. 



NoRTHERK Panjab ; Jelalpoor on the Jhelum, Jacquemont; Peshawar, a 

 8500 ft., S^emart Rajpootana; Multan, Edgeworth; Sind, Sioc^^s.— PJSTBI»- 

 Westward to N. Africa, ^ , 



RooUtock woody, branched. Stems \~2\ ft., ascending from a branching oavJ 

 Btoat, smooth, rigid. Leaves narrow, coriaceous, sheaths white. Feduncle 6^1 '' 

 slender. Spike solitary, stout, 2-4 in., silvery silky all over. S pike let simhriOim*^ 

 appressed to the rachia ; gl. I of lateral spikelet divergent, narrowly 1*^^*^^.^*^^ 

 coriaceous, 7-9-nerved; II ^ shorter, chartaceous, 5-nerved, aristateiy acuOJ'"*^^j 

 awn scabrid; III hyaline, oblong, obtuse, faintly nerved, neuter, palea ^^^^.^^^j^^t 

 nerves scuberulous ; IV oblong, obtuse, faintly 5-nerved, palea as of gl- ^ !» w 

 smaller. Pedictlled spikelet smaller, erect ; gls, shorter, flowerless. — ^^^^^^^^ 

 Hackell as an anomalous Rotthotllia, and nearer to IsclKemuyn than to EUo^^^ ' 

 but neither in habit nor characters does it approach the RotthoelUea ; and is J^^^^^^Zj 

 I think, an Elionurm, from other species of which it only diflfers in the paleate g* 

 III and IV. "^ 



51. CZiEZSTACKNi: 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves long, narrow, flat. SpiJcelets ^oW^^ 



1-fld.. in an oblong contracted much branched panicle, linear-oblong, ter ^^ 

 hirsute, jointed on the branchlets of the panicle. Glumes 4, I ^J^ r[l 

 narrow, rigidly coriaceoas, obtuse, completely enveloping III and H | j^ 

 much smaller, narrow, hyaline, 2-nerved, margins indexed *^^^^^ .*^te 

 very short, hyaline, with a terminal stout twisted awn ; palea ^^^ ^f. 

 hyaline, ciliate. Lodicules cuneate, ciliate. Anthers 3, large, ^^^ 

 Styles free, stigmas short. Grain obovate-oblong, compressed, l^ee* 

 Species 3, the following and 2 African. 



The aflonities of this genns and of Germainia are with Anthistiria. 



C. Stocksii, Sook.f.; ligule oblong, spikelets dark brown, margi^ 

 of gl IV entire, palea ovate obtuse. „ . . " 



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