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Maiabar; on the Bababoodan Hills, Stocks, Eitchie. 



^^o^m tall, stout, simple. Leaves 12-.6bv^in., finely acuminate, softly hairy, 



pS ^**^^*' J^fiargins slightly thickened ciliolate ; sheath terete ; ligule coriaceous. 



rflBide 6-8 in., long-peduucled, suberect ; rachis and branches sparsely ciliate, 



S*^^ ^^^'^^'^^^^ *^^ spikelets) strigose with bright yellow hairs. Spikelets ^ in., 



"^^ded; callus short, bearded; g!. I dark brown, obscurely many-nerved, hirsute, 



, . acing the miuute palea, — V^ery closely ...*. — «- — - 



^lAoirff.. Benth., which differs in its very short ligule, golden yellow spikelets, 

 ^aiijr2-fidgl. IV, and transversely obloug ciliate palea. 





52. GERMAIinA, Balans. &■ 



Rigid perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Pedu)icles erect, bearing 

 ToS ^^"^'^ly oblong naked heads of 4 male spikelets, forming an in- 

 2-fld 1 "^ w°orl round a few long-awned females. Male spikelets sessile, 

 3orj.']j^ """^^ ^ ' ^ li"ear-oblong, very coriaceous, truncate, many-nerved, 

 lancenf r^'^^ ' ^^ '"^ther longer but nincb narrower, membranous, narrowly 

 its DalP9 rV "^^"^ ' ^^^ hyaline, narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved, diandrous, 

 palea Si ^""T^*^ ^^ ^°"S as itself; IV hyaline, lanceolate, diandrous; 

 inserUH ^^" "" ^P^^elets much smaller than the male,cylindric, obliquely 



as ; glumes 3, I charta- 

 II similar, but shorter; 



•We;"f>^^^; tip erose. 



ceous linp ^ F '^^^ ^y ^^ obconical bearded call 



iHthpIn \ • ''^t^' convolute round the others; II similar, dui snorter ; 



short v»,V''^\*'^'^ awn which is slightly dilated at the very base; palea 



■ ^'"^'^'•"'-' ^-•- Lodicuhs 0. Anthers 2, yery long. Sti/les 



o "-^.--.. Grain closely wrapped in the glumes.— 

 ,. ^ ..*',Mian, African and Chinese. 



«^ort Ibp.^^*^*^'**' ^^^^- »» (E^tr. Bot. Ztitsclvr. x\l (1891) 50; leaves 

 *"^ted tin nf+T^^*® ^^^'^« glabrous, male spikelets sessile on the con- 

 " Khasi H P^*^"""^'^' ?>• I entire retuse or notched. 



^^^l\^^\^ \ "^ Nui-tiung and Poorunp, alt. 4-4500 ft., Clarke. 

 f^aacles r' ^ ^°^'^^'^' « foot high, erect, leafy, terminating in long slender 

 ""^ 5earf, i_2 •' V^ ^°-' narrow, acuminate, coriaceous, 1-nerved ; ligule hardly 



BaL 



'oitr nf n^ *'P ciliolate ; awn of III 2 in. long 



'^I^f heads' «L •!'"'' '•"'^ probably only a form of that plant, which has rather 

 fide. and Us gl. j i^^g ^ semicircular retuse tip with a sharp tooth on each 



** ^^« base^f ;P®»» ^^^^-Z- ; leaves very long and narrowly linear sheaths 

 '^"'^ry short ra'J^f' ''^''^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^0°^' "'^^^ spikelets superposed 



;• ^'^^fana in"tKo v''^' ''^""^y material of this curious species, which aiffors from 

 "* *ith snowv t r* '*''"* rootstock with very thick roots, clothed for an mch or 



J wool, and radical leaves a ft. long by ^ in. broad. 



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52.' COEIiARTKRON, Soohf. 



n ■ 



Avery 1 (GenuB not in C/atJis, p. 5.) 



^H^' ^i US'/' '^'■^g^ling. nearly glabrous grass. Leafes small, elliptic^ 

 ^'^ imperfect J' V -V^e/el. 1-fld., binate, a s'essile bisexual and a minuft 



°* Pedicelled. secund and imbricating oh the fragile rachis of 



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