or con 



252 CLXxni. qramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) {^Sporoholui. 



The latter from Wallich is a very dwarf form, which is not tin common in the 

 Himalaya. The Brasilian is Kunth's /3. major, is a much larger specimen, and 

 may or may not be specifically the same. S, ciliaHt^s, Presl, to which S, piliferus 

 was referred by Munro, is a Panama plant, and is, I think, from the description 

 different. 



-ft Panicle opeUf effuse, 



12. S. arablCUB, Boiss. Diagn, PL Or. Set. I. xiii. 47; perennial, 

 stems many from a woody stoloniferous base, leaves rigid narrow, panicle 

 pyramidal, spikelets 1^5 in. crowded subsessile at the ends of the branches, 

 gl. I minnte ovate, II ovate-oblong acute as long as III. S. pallidas, 

 Boiss, II Orient, v. 514 (nonLindl) ; Aitch, Gat Panjab PL 165 {excL Syn.) 

 Wuthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 29, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 50. Vilfa pallida, 

 Kees ex Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. YI. Sc. Nat. v. ii. (1840)62; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 155. V. arabica, Steiid. Lc, 241. 



Panjab Plains ; Royle, &c. Wazuristan, ascending to 7000 ft., Stewart- 

 ROHILKUND, Duthie. Scind, Stocks. — Distrib. Arabia, Baluchistan. 



Woody base of the stem sometimes as thick as the middle finger, sending out 

 rigid often geniculate stolons, and stout or slender flowering branches 6-2-4 in. big 

 Xcrtres 1-10 in. by |~^ in., narrowed from the rounded base to the tip, fl^it ^ 

 volute, scaberulous above, finely ciliate-serrulate ; ligule 0. Panicle 2-6 in. long, 

 branches wliorled, capillary, naked below. Spikelets subspicate on the branclue ^» 

 oblong, pale; gl. II and III obtuse. 1-nerved ; palea as long as its gl. Gra»^^^ * 

 globose. — The s^'nonymy of this plant is perplexing, owing to the double nse 01 i 

 specific nnme pallidus, and to the fact of Vilfa being now regarded as a synony^ 

 Sporoholus. This name (pallidus) was applied by Nees in 1840 to the Ara»ift 

 plant described above, under Vilfa ; and by Lindley in 1818 to a very ditlereut 

 Australian one, under S/)oro6o/tt5. Bentham {FL AiistraL vii. 623) assuming ti" 

 Nees had referred his plant to Bporololus, renamed Lindley's S. Lindteyi^ r rjjvi 

 Boissier, when he founded his S, arabicus, was not aware that it was TrinJQss >^ / 

 pallida^ which he erroneously cites in Fl. Orient., under Sporoholns i^^^^*^"'^'.;.^/ 

 In this case the proper course appears to me to be to retain the name Sp' P^^^^ ' 

 Lindl., tor the Australian plant, and Sp. arabicus, Boiss., for the Arabian andlnuia 



13. S. pulchelliis, Pr. Prodr. 170 ; annual, slender, leaves »^"^^^J 

 lanceolate flat spinulosely serrulate, panicle oblong, branches ^^"^.^^ 

 capillary few-fld. towards the tips, spikelets -^ in. shortly pediceilea, 

 gll = i II obtuse, keels of both ciliate, II = III broadly ovate acuaiuiate. 

 Aunth Bevis. Gram, ii 106, t. 123, pyium. PL i. 215, SuppL 171 ; Benth. ^|- 

 -4usf>'a/. vii. 623. S. capillaris, Am. ex Miq. Ann. Bot. I'^d.l^-^^^^.^ 

 Viffa capillaris, Wt. & Arn.). Vilfa pulchella, Trin. Diss. ^' -^^J^' 



Acrrustis pulchella, Both. Nov. 8p. 41. Panicum montanum, Bain.eJ' 

 WalL Cat. n. 8883.— Sporobolus, Wall. L c. 



Behar, Wallich, Thomson. CuoTA Nagporb, Clarke.— DisiniB. Australia. 



Stem 6 in.-2 It., filiform or capillary, strict, erect from the base or ^^^^^^^^ 

 distantly leafy. Leaves 2-5 in., gradually narrowed from the rounded base ^^_^^^ 

 finely acuminate tip, margins with tubercle-based cilia below; ligule 0. , i-,jj. 

 2-6 in,, loose, whorls of many branches at regular intervals. Spikelets ^®. 

 brown ? glumes almost hyaline, obtuse. Grain globose ; pericarp loose, byali . ^ 

 Bentham observes that Kuntb's figure is of an unusually narrow-leaved form 

 the remarkable cilia not represented. 



14. S. coromandellanus, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 68I1 -^^"^g 



PL i. 213; annual, leaves lanceolate flat spinulosely serrulate, P^^^^ 

 pyramidal branches whorled capillary, spikelets aV ^^m g^- ^ ^ 



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