SpOToholus.] CLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker,) 249 



longer ovate acuminate, grain broadly obliquely obcordate. SporoboluB, 

 Wall Cat n, 2769 A. ^ ^ ^ F . 



Behab; Rajmahal Hills, Wallich. Pegu, Kurz. Ceylon ; between Trinco- 



BQtlee and Kantalla, Ferguson. 



Perennial ? Stem 3-4 ft., as thick as a crow-quill, strict, sparingly leafy. 



I'Tt'q • "^ ^*'* ^^ ^^ ^^■' ^^^^^ smooth ; upper sheaths v*'ry long; lig^ule 0. Panicle 

 --18 m, by 4-5 broad, branches opposite and whorled, branchlets flowering towards 

 J^« tips. Spikelets ipale brown; gls. II and III faintly 1-nerved; palea oblong, 

 truncate, as long as its gl. Stamens 3.— Habit of S. minutijlorus, but spikeleta 

 very different. 



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5. S. looladoSj Kees FL Afr. Austral. 161; leaves sliort, panicle 

 oWong or subpyramidal efPuse, branches capillary, spikelets -jV-tV i°- 

 •attered, gl. I lanceolate = i III, II = f III oblong-lanceolate obtuBe, 

 gram hnear-oblong truncate. Yilfa ioclados, Nees ex Trin. in Mem. 

 ^cad. Petersb. Ser. VI. Sc Nat. v. II. (1840) 65. 



ScWD, S«ocfa.— DisTBiB. S. Africa. 

 tafto<l \ ~^^ ^"•' ^eiisely tufted, rather stout. Leaves 2-3 in., narrow, densely 

 ^K^. sheath short ; ligule obscure. Panicle 3-7 in., branches opposite and 

 Date, spreading. Spikelets oblong, pale. — A very elegant grass. 



Glume I as long as III or nearly so. Panicle contracted. 



8tnd;'<r r i,"'^''™^ ^^^^'^ ^^"^"^ ^ decumbent woody creeping base, leaves 

 Wp}, convolute pungent, panicle elon?;ate narrow interrupted 



oblon "f ^^""^1 ^^°'"^' sp:kelet3 J^-rV in. subsessile crowded, gls. I and II 

 Cm ?,,°^<^^3,te acute, I shorter than II, grain broadly obovoid. Trim. 



533 t'vt- ^^^ '• ^'^"'^ ^^- ^«8^'-«^- vii. 621 ; Grheh. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 

 16 ■ Y vix °^^"^' Kunth 1. 1, c. c. G8, 213. Vilfa barbata, Beauv. Agrost. 

 ^Stl'Ji r' ^^auv. I. c. ; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 162. V. murina, Steh. 

 Finica R • \^^- ^- orientalis, Wight Cat. n. 1745 {in part). V. vir- 

 Bahr' fT"^- ^- "• ' ^'^»- ^i^^- i- 155 ; S^. Gram. lo. t. 48 ; Steud. I. c. 157 ; 

 Lamk nj ,"""^- 449. Agrostis barbata, Fers. Syn. i. 75. A. littorahs, 

 i«'nn' S^ tT; ^^- ^- Piingens, Ptorsh Fl. Am. Sept. 64. A. virginica, 

 ^' ^^^: 63 ; Labill. PI. Nov. Boll. i. 20, t. 23. Podosernum vir- 



Calotheca eabulosa, Steud. in 



DiSTRiB. Westwd. to tropical 



^« xii nsJow;''"- ^'"-*- ^'^•^^- i- 85. C 



^<>nthl7{r^^l}'}^- ^SS- Crypsis maritima, 



C,'f '^"^- ^-8- iii. (1871), Suppl. 7. 



Africa a?ff i "*'"™°° °° *^^^e shores, Heyr^e ? Trimen. 



Perennial cf^ ' *'^'^^'i- *« Australia. 

 *'tl>ebase IV ^^^'^ ^^ thick as a duck's quill, branched, hard and often tortuous 

 ^"^•n- lon^ "*^'^*^ ^^ nscendliig 6-10 in. high. Leaves close-set, erecto-pateut, 

 ^'*> glabronJ^"" "'°''^' "«rrow and almost terete from the involute margins, very 

 ?^^°"e soft K •*" ^^"^erulous abovp, striate; sheaths terete, short or long; ligule 

 ^ '"terniT^f!^''^* o '^^'''''^e 1-4 in., subspiciform, very pale, narrow but more or 

 ToWurelvV u .fP'^^^^efs very shortly pedicelled ; gls. all l-uerved, keefs glabrous 

 •"^ Pericarn T^^'^i"'''"^*^'' t^ic tip ; palea oblong, narrowly truncate. Grain with 

 li'^'CevC '"^•'^ 'f moisteued.—Trinius' figure represents gl. I as shorter than 

 •'*g^88 8hm,lTu """'■'' ""f' "thers that I have examined. It is remarkable that 

 "» a fmo„;-_ "i" '^'Jve no certnin l.nKif^f «n tho sT,nrP9 of continental India. There 



on the 



."'lich sounds more Cingalese than Indian. There is another in 

 "w, where S. orientalis, spicatus, treiuulus and virginicus are all 

 same sheet as No. 1745. S. pungens, Kunth, of the Mediterranean 



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