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cLXxni. GR^MiNE^. (J, D. Hooker.) 



77. 



Trin. 



Tall, perennial, long-leaved grasses. Spikelets small, panicled, 2-fld. 

 (both fl. perfect), not jointed on their pedicels; rachiUa jointed at m 

 hairy base, not produced beyond gl. IV. Glumes 4, I and II empty, 8Ul>- 

 equal or unequal, 1 -nerved, keeled, acute, persistent; III ^^\ ,^? l' 

 obtuse or acuminate, many-nerved; palea as long as its gl., broad, Keei^^ 

 strongly ciliate or hirsute. Lodicnles 2, ovate, denticulate. Stamens 6. 

 Styles short, distinct. Grain unknown. — Species the following. 



1. Z. elegans, Trin. in Linn^a, xl (1837) 150, t. 3; le^^^^^^^^^ 



narrow, panicle thyrsiforro, branches erect, gl- I and II unequal. 111 an 

 IV acuminate much longer than II. Trim. Cat, CeyL PI 108. ^^^P.J^ 

 donax Heynii, Nees in Wight Gat n. 1747 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 97 ; ^^J^"^^ 

 Enum. PL Zeyl. 370. A. tenella, Wight ^ Am. ex Steud. I c— I'appo- 



phorum? Wall Ca^ n. 8903. 



Southern Deccan Peninsula, Heyne, &c, Burma, Kurz. Ceylon, TAiua*^"* 

 &c. ,» 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill, rigid, base woody. Leaves as long as^i 

 stem or longer, strict, coriaceous, convolute, rarely flat, glabrous or sparsely a ^^ 

 sheaths coriaceous; li^ule rounded. Panicle 6-8 in.; radiis flexuous; 7*.. 

 filiform, smooth. Spikelets -^^-1 in., pedicelled, white; gl. I and II ovate, bjai^^^^ 

 1-nerved ; I shortest, midrib very strong, excurrent; III and IV '"^^^^^^^^'.JE w 

 villoua, 7-9-nerved; IV longest and most acuminate; callus bearded witn 

 straight hairs ; palea as broad as the gls., hirsute. Anthers long, narrow. 



2. Z. obtUBiflora, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 93; leaj^^ 

 broadly linear-lanceolate narrowed at both ends, panicle l^raw ^^; 

 branches widely spreading, gl. I and II unequal or subequal, lU ^? „^ 

 obtuse not longer than 11. Trim. Gat. Gey I. PL 108. Amphidon^ 

 obtusiflora, Thwaites Enum. PI, Zeyl. 370. 



Cexlok ; at Eatnapoora, Thwaites. 

 Stems 3-5 ft., glabrous. 



coriaceous; ligule very short, «^*io«..j xi«.ij, ^ «,«i,uto w-^ *«. t ^^^ 



solitary or 2.nate ; pedicels longer than the spikelets, with a glandular *^***^*^ ^^^ 

 base. Spikelets -^^-^ in., si^ broad as long ; gl. I and II ovate, apiculateO)^^^^ 



excurrent nerve, glabrous; III and IV rather longer, sides and callus 



Thwaites. • hmjO, 



Leaves 2 ft. by f-1 in., acuminate, pungent, g'"°;""^ 

 ;, densely hairy. Panicle 6-S in.; branches capmj^ 



strouor 



palea as in Z, elegans. 



78. COEZiACKNE, Br. 



A small leafy very variable marsh grass, ieare^. short, flat ^ ^^ 

 volute. Spikelets 2-fld. (both fl. perfect or upper imperfect) m ^P^^^. 

 contracted or spiciform panicles, not jointed on the pedicels, not a ^^^ 

 rachilla jointed at the base, produced between gl. Ill and IV ^ . j 

 beyond IV. Glumes I and 11 broad, concave, obtuse, persistent, ^^^^1,6 

 the largest ; III much longer, subsessile, coriaceous, glabrous, ^^^.^^ ^^d 

 shortly bearded callus; palea as long, coriaceous; IV much ^°^ ^.^oir. 

 palea more or less hairy. Lodicules Or Stamens 3 ; anthers long, " 

 Ovary ovoid, stigmas free. Grain free within the gl. and palea. 



C. pulchella, Br. Prodr. 187. , \ 



Nepal, Wal\ic\ Khasia and Mtjnnepoee Hills, alt. ^'^^9 .^^'\^^ix%^^ 



Central and Southebn Inuta, and Ceylon. — Distrib. Trop. A9ia> 

 and Madagascar. 



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