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CLXxiii. GRAMixE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 235 



62. IKEZZiIUm, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. SpiJcelete loosely panicled, 

 ^ot jointed on their pedicels, ovate, dorsally compressed, 1-fld., rachilla 

 ^ot produced. Glumes 8, I and II subequal, thin, 3-nerved, persistent ; 

 HI oblong or obovoid, dorsally compressed, coriaceous, shining, not awned; 

 ?/ / T^ ^^^^^' broad, naked ; palea 2-nerved. Lodicules2. Stamens 3. 

 o^j/'es short, free. Grain ovoid or oblong, free within the gl. and palea. — 

 fcpeciea 5 or 6, N. temp, regions. 



W, efiusum, Linn. Sp. PI. 61 ; perennial, panicle effuse, spikeletg 



t lin^^^V-^^- ■^«''- *• 114^; Host Gram. Austr. iii. t. 22; Engl. Bot. 

 ■ 1 '^5,' .^f^PP (^ram. Britt. t. 19 ; Kunth Ennm. PI. i. 66, Suppl. 44, 1. 10, 

 I," 1 7 o ^''- ^'^- ^^'■'"" t- 45, vii. t. 73 ; T. JV^ees Gen. Fl Germ. Monoc. i. 

 p,iL Z- ^•^''- ^''^"'- ^^' Ledeb.Fl. Ross. iv. 510; Aitch. Cat. Panjah 

 (nam T "' "w"^^'^ •^'■"**- ^- ^- '^"'^- ^^^ ^- ascendens, Boxh. Hort. Beng. 8 

 159 dubium, Jacquem. niss. Agrostis efEusa, Lamk. Encycl. i. 



Kmilnr^Q!^ Himalaya, alt. 7-11,000 ft., from Kushmir, Jacquemont, &c., to 

 un, ^{rac% i^- WinUrb. —BiSTma. N. Temp, and Arctic regions. 



»cnte n.i ' f 1 ^~* **•' ^■■*^'=*' smooth, shining, leafy. Leaves 6-12 by ^-i in. 



5-lO m 1 y- *''»btiulou8 or smooth above ; lignle oblong, truncate, torn. Panicle 

 iUen^th '^'." ^^^^^i branches capillary, fascicled or subverticillate, naked below, 

 J^"gth spreadn,g or deflexed. Spi/celetsi in., green. 



DOUBTFUL INDIAN SPECIE3. 



M- f niEoiDKs, Sweet, Sort. Brit. Ed. 2, 555. 



63. KSLEOCKXiOA, Host. 



Ri "d 



convofute^^^^^l °^ Perennial erect or prostrate grasses. Leaves flat or 

 fpiciform'T, -^i ^* ■^"^^•' densely imbricate in cylindric spikes or 

 ^^'- Glum T^^' ^^^erally compressed ; rachilla not produced above gl. 

 I'«f«i8tent U , 'J^y^^i^e, I and II subequal or I shorter, keeled, 1-nerved, 

 ^''tnse or y ^A ~^ '^ longer, lanceolate or oblong, 1-nerved ; palea oblong, 

 *'ongate 7,™'. '^■^erved. Lodicules 2 {or 0?). Stamens 2 or 3. Styles 

 C '.^ a ''*'* °^°^^' ^°°^® ^^ ^^'^ gl- a^^i palea.— Species few. Oriental. 



^P'tate spifff"'"' "^'*-' » &'""ss resembling HeL scAocnotdes in habit, but with 

 ^issier (pi o!- ' /^ recorded as Indian by Aitchison (Cat. Fanjab. PI. 157), 

 "/"oonoides ' {] ' ■*"• ^'^^) and other works, but no doubt by mistake for Heleochloa 

 ^■"it from in/;„ '^ ^^^^ "« specimen of Crypsis. which is an Eastern and Siberian 

 J '"d'a, or even from Affghamslan. 



'Sfe88er^.°^'*°*'*®'*' -^08^ Gram.Axistr. i. 23, t. 30; annual, stems 

 ir»g sessile r?*u^^ spreading in a circle from the root, panicle ovoid- 

 V- Orient ^ J^ P'^eatly dilated sheath of the uppermost leaf, hoiss. 

 r^'''^6rasl'7Vu/P''^^''^ Fodd. Grass. N. hid. 48. Crypsis aculoata, 

 r T^-- Illn't f\r^ ^''^- ^^' ^'<^dd. Gra^s. N. lud. 45, t. 62. C. schoenoides, 

 Jf^*- iX n'o,: 'J- ^-'' ^'^ 1 ; ^'"»^A JFnuwa. P^. i. 22, -S//;7i>/. 17, t 5, f. 1 ; 



n?,'^- ^o'- £ tt'^''"''- ^■'- 151 C. nilaica, i^re.e«. cf : , ... 



^^^^83; ^t,^\lf- XIV. (1854) 322. C. vaginiflora, Opiz Natural, vui. 



' ofewrf. f.c. 1.^0 T>u.:i.,,.- „„ ..--n" r^roZ. hi JRatml. Arab. 



rass. N.W. Ind. 



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