CLxxiii. GRAMiNBJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 241 



67^ WOODBOWZA, Stapf. 

 (Genug not in Clavis, p. 7.) 



Atinual. Leaves narrow, flat. Spikelets 2-5, 1-fld., subdigitately 

 pamcled at khe top of a slender peduncle, articulate on a fragile rachis, 

 merally compressed, rachilla not produced beyond the flg. gl. Glumes 3, 



ana 11 strongly laterally compressed, empty, acute, dorsally rounded and 

 Jttere sometimes much thickened, 1-nerved, I ^ longer than II; III = II, 



yaime, 1-nerved, 2-lobed with a slender interposed geniculate awn ; palea 

 r ?^^^^' hyaline. Lodicules 2, cuneate, lobulate. Stamens 2, anthers 



f. ^'"'•.i . -^^^^ ^^*^® and stigmas very slender. Qrain slender, cylindric, 

 free withm the gls, & J 



V- diandra, Stapfin Hook. Ic. PL t. 2447. 



TheDKccAN; Poonah District, Woodrotv. 

 ininatp\- in., slender, branched, nodes hairy. Leates 3-4 by ^\-^ in., acu- 



llffnlp r^^^^^' margins scabrid ; sheaths appressed, glabrous or hairy at the mouth ; 

 distant i^*^'i^^^^°^^*^^- ^P^kes 1-2 in., richis slender, hairy. Spikelets rather 

 Ilden 1 *°* ^^"^> ^^®^n or bluelsh; gl. I dorsally hairy, margins ciliolate; keel of 

 ciliatr Ti?- -*^®' ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 1 i"-> column shorter than the upper part, spirally 

 *^- I ins interesting plant arrived at Kew after the printing of the key, p. 7. 



i: 



68. 6ARNOTZA, Brongn. 

 iwf ' P^^'^^^ial rarely annual grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. 

 mS* IS.^"!^H^' ■^'^^,-' P*°^cled, solitary or^ge^i^i^^' jY°,*ff A^ *Y 



^pikelet 



Wpr II. ' TT^^*^ ^^ empty, subequal, 3-nerved, acuminate, equalling or 

 naiTow t ' ^'^^^^ ^^ ^ot ; Ili bisexual, 1-3-nerved, triandrous, very 



a»n RfL ■ "^f^®' ^iP acuminate or notched, awned, rarely awulesa or 3-awned; 

 anricU F ,J °^ ^^^^ twisted, rarely geniculate or recurved ; sides of palea 

 free ^ ■ ^^^^- Lodicuhs 2. Styles free. Orain linear or oblong, 

 • f'Pecies about 20, Asiatic and Polynesian. ' 



^P an account of the whole genus. 



been 



Btem' ^t"^^ ^iensely tufted, uppermost internode exceeding the rest of the 

 ^^^itkutSt* ' ^^'^' ^""^^^^ ""^^ articulate on the sheath ; basal sheaths 



«Wha t!^^^^^^^'^' complicate (triangular on section) ; margins of lower 

 ^' coolly, at length glabrate. 



^flexed from the ttvisted base* 





^^YLON , 



S'em 2-1 H^\ P^^*s of the island, Thivaitess 



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