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Sphcerocartjum.'] clxxiii. gramine^e. (J. D, Hooker.) 247 



^ SiLHET and the Khasia Hills, in marshes, Wallich, &c. Meegui, Griffith. 

 SiNGAPOEK. Ridley, Ceilon, Macrae, &c. — DisxRiB. Cbinn. 



Stem 6-12 in., as thick as a sparrow's quill, prostrate and rooting below, then 

 •wet, rarely branciied, nodes bearded. Learns all alike in size and form, \-\ in, 

 long, acute or acuminate, ciliate-serrulate, subcoriaceous, ecostate, nerves very close- 

 st ; sheaths much shorter than the internodes, ghibrous or hirsute j ligule of close- 

 ttt white hairs. Panicle 1-1 J^ in., solitary and terminal, with very rarely 1-2 

 lower OD the stem ; peduncle very short ; concealed in the Jeaf-sheath ; rachis rather 

 stoat; branches very many, opposite and alternate, capillary, spreading. Spikelets 

 •^io in.— This is undoubtedly Roth*s Isachne pulchella. The habit is chat' of 

 ^mcum ovali folium, Poir, with the leaf-nervation of an Isachne. It differs from 

 ■Agrostis iu habit, and in the spikelets jointed on the pedicels (as in Panicece) ; and 

 irom S^oroholu$ in habit, foliage, and the adnate pericarp of the grain. 



71. SPOaOBOXiUS, Br. 



lef J^^^^^> rarely annual grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. SjJiJce- 



1 smaJl or minute, 1-rarely 2-fld., in effuse or close or spiciform pani- 



*^, jointed on their pedicels, awnless : rachilla very short, jointed at 



^e base, not produced beyond the flg. gl. Glumes 3, nerveless or 1-3- 



ervea, membranous i I and II unequal, persistent or sin^Tly caducous ; 



hetw °^^^ ^f shorter than I or 11, 1-nerved; palea often splitting 



"> '^ V ^ ^^^y ^^^^^ nerves. Lodicules very minute or 0. Stamens 



Pale^^ '^^ short. Styles short, free. Grain loose within the gl. and 



aKn^!' J)f^^^^^P ^^ ^*^ epidermis loose, deciduous, rarely adherent.— Species 



•^oont bO, chiefly tropical. 



* Glumes I and II both much shorter than III. 

 canim^" *^*^'**®*''-®^^"^-^y^0'^^. 25; panicle narrowlypyraniidaI,branches 



truS '"^ "^^^t^^^ed fascicles, spikelets .V^V i"- g^- ^ ^^^ ^^ hy^^^^uQ 

 t 28 r- ?^iy^l^8«> grain oblong or obovoid-oblong. Jaai. Echg. Gravi. 

 Cnf^H^l^^^^^n.m -'^ '^^•^' ^^^-^' 



^/ oL^'*'^- ^^^^'^^- iii- 4ti, Ic,rL AsiaL t. 139, f. a^, ..-- 



^itckh n .i^ ^^^'^- ^^^^^^' Pi' ^eyl 370; Trim. Cat Cef/L PL 10b; 

 -AT. lid ;,f'-P«^>i PL 165; Ihiaie Grass. N.W. Ind,2%Fodd. Grass. 

 622 Yur}-^^'' Miguel PL Ind. Bat. iii. 375; Benth. PL Austral viu 



Aitcli 



i. 213; Wall 



Bah. & Oihs. 



yuaaiandra, W\ 



V. erosa, Trin. in 



V. Ret;,^ o.^^^^''*^- S^*-- vi. 5'c. Nat. v. II. (1840) 86; Steud.l.c. lo9. 

 t^acta S X r'^'^- -^'""- ^'^- n. ii. 768. ^-yn. Gram. 162. Agrostis con- 

 10 . d' .^'■°- -"e?/Ke ej- Tr«7,/ Hnf « S7P.ri A A . diandra. Bctz. Obs. v. 



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