■ ^ 



V 



Sporolohs.'] CLxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 253 



oblong or lanceolate, II = III both ovate-lanceolate acuminate. Dah. & 

 (^ibs. Bomb. Fl. 296 ; Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 208 ; Wall. Gat. n. 3764. S. 

 commntatus, Kunth Enum. i. 214; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 376 {excl. Syn. 

 pulcAelhs) ■ Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 613 ; Aitch. Cat. Panjab PI. 165 ; Duthie 

 ^rois. N.W. Ind. 29. S. discosporus, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 158. Vilfa 

 commutata, Trin. Diss. i. 156 ; Wight Gat. n. 1743. V. coromandeliana, 

 pauv.Agrost. 15 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 11 {gl. I omitted) ; Steud. Syn. 

 r^lfiin \ ^' ^^^^o^Pora, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Se7\ VI. So. JVat. 

 tf ' "^^^^^^ V- Boxburghii, Nees ex Trin. I. c. V. Eoxburghiana, 

 ■««« ex Wight Oat. n. 1742 ; Stetod. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 59. Triachyrum corr 

 Qotanam, Eochst. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 176. T. discosporum, Steud. I. c. 

 j!j-^J^^^^^'^^^^^^^3.,Iietz. Obs. iv. 19; Vahl Sgmb.llO; Boxh. Fl. 



-DtIt"^ "V'*'"'*' ^™'" *^® Punjab eastward to Burma, and southward to Ceylon, 

 isiBiB. Affghan. N. and S. Africa. (Texas and Mexico, introd. ?). 



n«rrowpH%"*"^'i ^^^ '"•' spreading from the root, leafy. Leaves 1-3 by H '"-. 

 «Tw->;„ii /°'" ^^ subcordate base to the finely acuminate tip, spinulosely toothed 



Panicle very large for the 



site of til 1 "tiac , iiiuuLU oi Biieuiu viiious. nmii^ie vcij '"'gc '"' ""^ 



braneMof 5 ' ^~^ ^^ ^~* '°'' branches 4-6 in subsecund whorls, f-2 in. loug, 



I nervel of"^ ^"^"^'^" ^P'^^^^^ts subglobose; glumes hyaline, all 1 -nerved or 



Nees Fl *Af , "*^"* 2, anthers very short. Grain obliquely oblong or subglobose.— 



^ IVini- »"**^'^' ^^^^^^ ^arostis pulc/iella, Roth., to Sp. commuiatus, as var. 

 times «l!"r\u- ^*^ ^^^^ G'um- Ind. Or. iued., with panicle ovate aud gl. I 5-6 



•cross the 1 V P"^'"^^^ narrowly pyramidal or conical 2-3 in. long by 1-li in. 



—Shan 



_. , DOUBTFUTi SPECIES. 



«• Indil"S-^'?'^' ^"'^- '■" ^^'^"^- ^c«^- Petersb. Ser. vi. <Sc.iV^<^*. v. II. (f840) 80. 

 W. which -f' . '""^'•s---Kescribed by Triuius as having spikelets 2 (French) hues 



IS twice as long as any Indian species known to uie. 



72. AOaOSTZS, Linn. 



^■fl<3 ^ri^^' ^^'®^^ annual grasses. Leaves usually flat. Spikelets small, 

 i°inted or. f'vf ^- °^ ^^o^itracted panicles with capillary whorled branches, not 

 '' I and TT " H^icels ; rachilla not produced beyond gl. HI- Glumes 

 iaiely 3 n ^V^^'- ^^ unequal (sub-awned in A. subaristaia], keeled, 1- 

 Jorsal or n i/ ^^^ membranous, 5-nerveJ, truncate, glabrous, awn 

 ^*"i8a8itf, 1^^ ^^ glabrous or with few minute hairs; palea nearly as 

 ^' anthers r" "'" ^^^^ter or 0, 2-nerved or nerveless. Lodicules 2. Stamens 

 «^efly in >T^'^^ ""^ short. Grain free within the gl.— Species about 100, 

 ^^ in W. temp, regions. 



*ParatedTr^ ,'^F°^^^' Calamagrostis, and Ueyeuxia are, as all authors agree, 

 r^mes a m, /• ''"^ characters aud are not well limited by these. It therefore 

 ''''^'ertonX •u",'*^ expediency how to limit them, and the addition of many 

 w'''0f8 makp f r^ Himalayan species has not tended to aid this operation. Many 

 ^' confines r\ ■"^^^"'•'a a section of Calamagrosfis. Bentham keeps them distmct, 

 ''"'^y. I connl i'"'!?'^"*"^*'' t° species with gl. I and II longer than III. After much 

 "*nfine ^<,roi- ! ^^^^ ^^r taxonomic purposes, the most practical arrangement is to 

 p'"^ callus 'f^'P^^'^'es '"'^^ no elongation of the rachilla, and a naked or almost 

 ''^»^ai|rosU,\^^ III (a character appreciated by most authors); to refer to 



"* those with a villous callus but with no elongation of the racjnll*. 



