250 CLXXiir. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hookex.) [Sporolohs, 



region, from Spain to Egypt and Arabia, is a slight variety with a stouter dense 

 panicle, which Dr. Stapf and I have independently sought in vain to distinguish bj 

 any other character, and this is of the slightest. 



7. S. g-laucifolius, Ilochst. in Flora, xiv. (1842) I. Bieb. 123; 

 slender, glaucous, leaves short strict narrow flat or undulate glaucous 

 not pungent, panicle elongate contracted white, branches very short 

 erect, spikelets tV^^- subsessile crowded, gls. I and II subequal ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate as long as III or rather longer. Vilfa glaucifona, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 154. V. scabrifolia, Ilochst. ex Edgew. in Journ. Lmn. 

 Sac. vi. (1862) 196; AitcUs. Cat, Panjab PL 165. Agrostis barbata, 3» 

 senegalensis, Pers. SynA. 76. A. littoralis ^, Lamk. Illustr. 161; Foil 

 EncyrL Suppl, i. 251. 



The Pakjab. Dehra Ismael Khan, Dutliie ; Multan, Edgexvorth. Sci^td, Stoch. 

 ■ — DiSTRiB. Afr, trop. , 



Perennial ; stems 12-18 in., densely tufted. Leaves 2-5 by ^Vi i'^'' narrowed 

 from the cordate base to the finely acuminate tip, margins smooth, somewhat aany 

 towards the base; lignle a ridge of minute hairs. Panicle 3-5 in., interrupted, very 

 pale yellowish. Spikelets very shortly pedicelled; gls. all 1-nerved ; 1 a»^ 

 hyaline, puncticulate; I rather shorter and narrower than II. — Of the synonymy 

 cited above that of V. littoralis ^, and the two sp. of Agrostis are taken from J. 

 Guy's mss. on a Senegal specimen in Herb. Kew. Of F. scabrifolia I know nothing^ 

 nor where Edgeworth gets the name (which is not in the " Kew Index," but tro 

 his citing Stock's number (667) as the same plant, there is no doubt tbat ^• 

 glaucifolius is that meant. Edgeworth (I.e. 182) mentions this amongst otner 

 plants of which the seeds are swept up for food by the poorer classes of the desert. 



*** Glume I shorter than II and III. 



t Panicle contracted. Perennials^ except S. jpiliferxis, 



8. S. tremulus, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 67, Enum, PL I 210, SupPJ- 

 166; stoloniferous, leaves short subulate or filiform flat or convoiute 

 pungent margins soiooth, spikelets jV in., gl. I shorter than III lanceola^ 

 II as long as III or longer, grain oblong. S. geniculatus, JV^^* 

 Aitchis. CaL Panjah PL 165. S. orientalis, Trim, Cut CeijL PL 108 [non 

 £(h.). Vilfa geniculata, Nees ex Steud. Sun. Grant. 156; Herb. Wign^,^' 

 3307. V. orientalis, Wight Cat n. 1745 {in part). V. tremula, Tnn. i^*^J' 

 i. 155; Steud. /.r. 160. Agrostis juncea, Lamk. Encycl. i. GO,Itt^^^^\' 

 41, f. 2. A. Phuldubbha, Herb. Ham. ex WalL Gat n. 3770. A. ^.^n^^" 

 sima, Rozb. FL Ind. i. 316 {excl. Syn.). A. tremula, Willd. Sp^ PI- i/Jf 

 {excl Syn). Zoysia? tremula, Beauv. Agrost 148.— Sporobolus, »V 



Cat n. 3770, 3771. 



Plains of India, from the Panjab to Bengal and southwd. FeQ^s 

 Ceylon, Trtmew.— Distrib. Tonkin, Cambodia. ^^j^tc, 



Stems 2-6 in., many from a hard knotted stoloniferous stock, erect or pro ^ ^^ 

 wiry; stolons 6-18 in., stout or slender, leafy, flexuous. Leaves i"^ ^"v^in., 

 narrowed from the usually hairy base to the tip ; liguIe a few hairs. Panicle l ^ 

 subspiciform, sometimes longer flexuous and interrupted, branches short ^^^^^^^ 

 few spreading; pedicels short. Spikelets crowded, subpersistent on the vcr)^^^^ 

 pedicels, very pale; glumes all 1-nerved ; palea as long as its gl. '^^ ^ ''*!'' Ig frofli 

 very common and variable pasture grass. Vilfa geniculata is a large state 

 Madras, with almost woody stems 12-18 in. long and flat leaves. 



9. S. spicatus, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 67, Fmtnu^ -^h^'i^iul 

 stoloniferous, leaves short rigid, panicle slender cyliudric, spikelets ra 



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