Oarnotia,] clxxiii. gramin^^. (J. D. Hooker.) 245 



oi^m 1-4 in., compressed and leafy at the base ; branches ending in a slender 

 peuuncle a foot long or less with one or two subulate leaves. Leaves chiefly radical, 

 J-.^ii^-) rather thick in texture, lanceolate, acute, flat, smooth, margins smooth 

 thickened, cauline convolute ; sheath very short, compressed, mouth bearded; ligule 

 truucate. Gl, I and II strongly 3-nerved. — The specimens are insuflScient for a 

 fiatistactorj description. The species is quite unlike any other. 



69. POLYPOOON, Vesf. 



. . Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. SpiMets 1-fld., minute, 

 C 1 ^^^^ persistent) oa their pedicels, laterally compressed, keeled, 

 jwsey crowded on the short branches of a spicilorm or lobed panicle ; 

 fTj^^ot produced beyond gl. III. Glumes 3 ; I and II equal, concave, 

 sin TTT ^*^*°^^"^<^ or entire, with a slender awn below the tip or in the 

 X)J^^'' ,,°^^ch. smaller, hyaline, sessile, truncate, toothed, awned or not; 

 ^ea small, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2, falcate. Stamens 1-3, anthers small. 

 T^ glabrous ; styles free. Grain obovoid, free within the gl. and palea. 

 species few, natives of all warm regions. 



form ^i "^""^sPeliensIs, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 66 ; annual, panicle spici- 



obtu ° ^"^ ^^ cylindric, gl, 1 and II oblong scabernlous ciHolate tip 



use or notched, awn from the sinus or beneath it as long to many times 



f 8 ]ir?7*^^Sl-. Ill 2-toothed shortly awned. Beam. Agrost. 17, t. vi. 



7. % '} ^h ^*-t,*- 76. 77 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 232, Sufpl 181, t. xiii. 



m. Monocot. i. n. 32 ; Eeichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 31 ; 



I'aninh m\.. ^^■l^''- ^'^. 444; Trim. Gat. Ceyl. FL iUS ; ^Mcius. i^cu. 

 ^.Zut'J ^^' -^"^'"^ (^'''"'- ^-W- ^«^- 30, Fodd. Gra.^s. N. Ind. 50. 

 {not wfiu\ ^"''"^ i- c- (error for crinitus). P. maritimus, DiUhie L c. 

 (iram '' i^-. »iepaleusis, Nees ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 378, Syn. 

 DutL i ■ iJ'^'J'' *« ^^em. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. iv. ii. (1845) 2o5; 

 51 p t; • .^- -P- fugax, Nees ex Steud. I. c. ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 »i (l82SfT«',^"''-r.^"9'- ^^'^- * ^P- Nov. 3. P. polysetus, Steud. in Flora, 

 »'opec„rL /• ^eylanicus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 182. Agrostis 

 Panicea fe ^""''^'- -f^^^^'^'*- 812. A. crinita, Mceneh Meth. m.^. 

 A.? ^'Yt^-M PI- i. 128 ; EngL BoL t. 1704; Uoorv, Cat. PL Gej/L 8. 

 ^'•"m S5f t\ ^^'"^ ^« WalL Gat. n. 3777 B. A. triaristata, Anai^p 

 ^'Wi al- *• .23- Cynosurus paniceus, Linn. Sp. PL 73. Phleum cnnitum, 

 S13. p jr- N^^^' *• 20, f. 3 ; Sm.FL Gr^c. i. 4.6, t 22; Boxb. FL Ind. i. 

 ^^t. M,T^fn^'^^^' ^"<'^- ^escr. Oram. 57. Alopecurus aristatus, Gouan 

 ^'- Paniopf ■ f- ' -^"'^«- F^- ^'¥- 28. Al. monspeliensis, Linn. Sp. PL 61. 

 ^"'•^A^xZ- ^- ^- '■ -^'^- "■• yO. Phalaris cristata, Forsk. FL JEg. Arab. 



^isiSffe^'^^Ti^ENTAL India (not seen from Burma and tbe E. PeninsuLi). 

 •fgions. ^' ascending to 9000 ft., and Ceylon.— Distrib. Trop. and Temp. 



7^^ m *8tl?vpH ' ? j"--2ft., Stout or slender, leafy, base geniculate, filiform and 

 ^«at>e,3_g hi 1 ,^ ^"^""^ '^'ibet, with very small spikes and very short awns. 

 . yellowiglf *~* '"•' e^'^^n. lig»le oblong. Panicle i-6 in. long, i-1 m- broad, 

 ^"^M. T",^7e °. Bilky, sometimes lobulate. Spikelets jL-Ij in., very shortly 

 f. ' scabrid ni "°^ ^^ ^^'7 variable in breadth, obovate-obloug, sides scaberulous, 

 ^' '«ngih ;^ "^/"gi^s ciliate, tip entire notched or very shortly 2-fid ; awns from 



*"« gl. to J in. long, excessively delicate; III very small, oblong. 



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