246 CLxxiii. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker,) [Polypogon* 



glabrous, 2-fid, awned or not ; palea oblong, tip notched. Anthers very minute, 

 short. Ovary ovoid. — The starved Tibetan specimens are the P. fttgax, Nees, tnoy 

 pass insensibly into the larger form. I have not found F. maritimus from any part 

 of India. It may be distinguished by the deeply cleft gl. I tmd II. 



2. P- littoralis, Sm. Gompend. Fl Brit. 13, Engl Bot t 1251.; 

 annual or perennial, panicle lobed, gl. I and II subentire or notched, awn 

 twice as long as the gl. or leas, III awned or not. Kunth Ennm, PLi- 

 233 ; Reichb, Ic. FL Germ. t. 31, vii. t. 75 ; Steud, Syn. Gram. 184 ; Bentli. 

 Fl B:ongh.^27\ Boiss. FL Orient, v. 521; Duthie Grass. N. fT. Ind. Si). 

 P. elongatum, Lagasc. Gen. ^ Sp. Nov. 3 {non Kunth). P. Lagascs, 

 Boem. ^ Sell. Syst. n. 226; Trin. Diss. 1, 170. P. demissus, StendLc. 

 Agrostis littoralis, Knapp. Gram. BritL t. 22. A. lutosa, Potr. F^^f^ 

 SuppL I 249 ; Boem. & Sch. L c, i. 358. Santia elongata, Tarlat. in Webb. 

 Phyt. Canar. Sect, iii, 393. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 4-10,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan and 

 Muunepore. Western Tibet ; Iskardo, Thomson. — Disteib. Temp, and subtrop. 

 regions. , , 



Except by the uniformly shorter awns of the spikeh^ts and usually broader lobea 

 panicle, I find it very difficult to distinguish the annual form of this species from tne 

 common one of P. m^onspeliensis. In India P. littoralis does not descend to 

 plains, nor does it in the hills assume the filiform starved state of P. monspelteri^i -^ 

 In Europe it is always described as perennial, and as usually a littoral plant wi 

 creeping root. The following forms occur in India, 



P. littoralis proper; perennial, stem decumbent creeping and rooting below. 



Var. Higegaweri ; annual, stems tutted ascending. P. Higegaweri, Steud. S 

 Gram, 422; Griseb in Goett. Nadir. (1868) 82. . jjj 



Var, mutlcus ; perennial, stems creeping and rooting, gls. I and II apiculate, 

 awnless. — Kunawur, Thomson* 



70. SPKXZROCARirUM, Nees. 



A dwarf annual. Stem creeping and ascending, leafy througnou. 

 Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, amplesicanl. Spikelets 1-fld., very nui^^^ ^^^ 

 ovoid, pedicelled on the close-set capillary branches of a pyramidal P^^\^ 

 which is sessile in the axil of the uppermost leaf, jointed on the pedice ^ 

 rachilla jointed at the base, not produced beyond gl. III. Glumes ^^ 



cymbiform; I and II glabrous, hyaline; I nerveless ; II lo^g^^*' -^"^^^Zlu 

 III hirsute, 1-nerved; palea as long as the gl., oblong, obtuse, ' 

 distant. Lodirules 2, very minute. Stamens 3, anthers linear. ^^ ^^ 

 narrowly ellipsoid ; styles short, free. Grain ovoid, free, pericarp adne 



to the seed. 



S. elegrans, Nees ex Steud. Nam. Ed. II. ii. 620. Spb^rocarpuji 

 elegans, Nees ex Steud. I.e. 256. Grayia elegans, Nees in W^^S^^^ ^Vn 

 2033; Steud. Syn. Gram. 119. G. zeylanica, Am. ex Steud. -^^'^* . {36; 

 i. 705. Isachne pulchella, Roth. Nov. Sp. 58 ; Kunth Hmtm. PL }- j! 

 Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 362 ; Trim. Cat. GeyL PL 104 ; Benth. FL ^^ y[ 

 414. Panicnm elegans, Wight iSf Am. ex Steud. Nam. Ed. II. "* ^i j c* 

 malaccense, Trin. Gram. Panic. 204; NeeaAgrost. Bras. 212; K^^^^: noo 

 113; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 457. P. pnlchellum, Spreng. Syst ^-^^J^^ 

 Agrostis malaocensis, Koen. ex ITeyne in Herb. BottL Audr^P h 

 Grayia, Steud. Nom. L c. i. 91.— Punicum, WalL Cat. n. 8736. 



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