■^. 



Spmhotus.] CLxxiii. OR AMINES. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 



^^■m<?^^°S*^' ^^ lanceolate acute, grain ol.liqnely oblong. Soiss. Fl. Orient. 

 ^bU. S. orientalis, Iferb. Wight n. 3303, 3304, Gat. n. 1745 {in 'part), 

 l^^^ spica.i&, Beauv. Agrost. 16; Trin. Diss. 1, 152, Sp. Oram. Ic. t. 12; 

 bteud. byn. Qram. 160. PAgrostis involuta, Fair. Encycl Suppl. i. 252. 

 A; spicata, Vahl b'yml. i. 9 ; Del. Fl. JEgypt. 20, t. 10. f. 1. A. virginica, 

 JforsLFl. Mg. Arab. 20 {ex iT^m/A).— Sporobolus, Wall. Cat. n. 3773. . 



tro "^ Af?^''^^^ Peninsula, Heyne; Palamcottah, TFtV^A^.— Distrib. Arabia, Egypt, 



base^** 7 ^^^ ^^'' ^1^°™ * ^^''^ stoloniferous rootstock, stiff, strict above the geniculate 

 ftrm' 2-^"-'** ''""^ "^■' ^•'^""<^'*t6, pungent, scabrid above ; ligule 0. Panicle spici- 

 Oh ' t 'v' ^^ ^~" '°* *^^*™- Spikelets sessile, persistent on the branchlets, pale, 

 WM hyaline, I rounded ; II l-nerved ; III ovate-lanceolate; palea as long as the 

 here b T °°^"5"<;ly oblong or orbicular-oblong.— ^(/rosfis inrohita, Poir., referred 

 J opreugel, is a Marocco plant, which may be S. tirginicus or pungens. 



BnT,!?" ?■ **'*®»*alis, Kuntli Enum. PL i. 211; stoloniferous, leaves 

 sesSr 1 tT^® serrulate, panicle narrowly oblong, spikelets ■^-^~^in.,&xx\>- 

 ohAu -'j i^— ^ HI or shorter tip rounded, II — III or longer obtuse, gram 

 lOR/ 5''^~- * ^^**- Bomh. Fl. 295. S. humifusus, Trim. Cat. Geyl. PL 

 oripJtT .."^^*)- ^'ifa diandra, Trm. i?m. i. 154 {excl Syn. Betz.). T. 

 [S^K ^^* '"^ ^'™^- ''■» ^'^"i- -icacZ. Peifer^i. &r. vi. 8c. Nat. v. II. 

 elZlV D y*^ ^''^- ^- 1745 {in part) ; 6'^eM(Z. Sy;i. G^m«r. 156. Agrosti.s 

 Svn Vxi^^^- ^^'"- ^P- 41. A. orientalis, Nees Agrost. Bras. 393 {excL 

 J -rnxb.}. A. T)unf7ftns Tfp^-i, JT«„«^ ^* TF-//// r7«,/! n. 3772. A. tena- 



Sporobolus, Wall. I. c 



Sfm^ia*-^ Pbninspla, ^e;/«e, ir»>Ai!. Ceyiox, at Cnlpentyn, Trt»ic?i. 

 eeniculatTK 1 '"'' ^''*® **'^"^' ^'"'<^' branching, branches and flowering stems usually 

 pungent i u * ^^°'^^'' ■^'ery variable, 1-6 in., buberect or upreading, more or less 

 "^ more' nl °"\'^'' ^"''"y a'^'ove; lisulc 0. PamV/e 1^-4 in., erect, subspiciform 

 naked bpl ^' ^^^^'^ ^^^ ^'"''■''' ^''^'^ horizontally spreading branches that are 

 l-nerved Ti "o""^' J^"'*'- ^P'^^-e^et:, closely packed; gl. I nerveless, II and III 

 leaves and ^^''°" '^"'^ Heyue's specimens are l:i-18 in. high with long flat 



panicle, « 7",°"' °P^'" panicles, Wight's are shorter and stouter with spicitorm 

 8'- I at'n? 1?'^'->' '"esemble stafes of S. tremulus, from which the short obtuse 

 »'entionpd7\, ^^'"^"'^^es it. Although in Herb. Wight Prop, the four species 

 ^•"e latter,! I "°^*'^ ^° ^- ^i'-ff'»icus are all included under No. 1745, S. onentahs, 



aione bears that number in Herb. Hook, and Herb. Benth. 



I'sirj sen ?*f *^®'"*' ^V^^^' -^''"'"- -P^- ^- 2n (var. a); annual, leaves 



2T~1 



•^^lonV t^r^ , ? lanceolate, II longer than III oblong-lanceolate. 111 

 ^/. A n ."^^^ong compressed. S. ciliatus, Munro in ^^rb. Ind Or. 

 Pilifera V • '^^''«**- ^^^•^- i"^- 29 («ou Vilfa ciliata, Presl). Vilta 

 '^lagirlut'' Q, ^r.- '■ 157. ii. 23, Sp. Gram. Ic t. 58. Tnachyrum 

 n. 3774 "'' '^^'"'^- ^'^ ^ohcn. PL Ind. Or. n. 931.-Sporobolus, Wall, tat 



I^^^Sfu 5"'^''^^^ •' f^o°^ I^ashmir to Nepal, alt. 3-8000 ft Wallkh, &c 

 HiLig, S, ^'^^«' alt- 5000 ft. Mysore, at Belgaum, Ritchie. Nilghibi 



cal, 

 t 



f»frowed frn.: '"•' '^f'lsely tufted, erect, roots fibrous. Leaves 1-4 m., chiefly rad.ca 

 l"^ ""outh ' ; i '-' ^^°to the tip, flat or convolute, sparsely ha. ry above and a. 

 ^"licZe 1-Q • ^^^ «^eath, margins serrulate below or nearly to the tip ; ligule 0. 

 '"'fveless . „'°-' sti-'ct, ^i-ect, dense-fld., often interrupted. Spil-elets brown; gl. l 

 "^isborliV^ ^^^ l-nerved, callus minute ; palea oblong. Siamens2, anther-, 



• -Irmius figures this plant from a Brazilian and a Nepalese specinicu. 



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