Cynodon.] cLxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 



^m ex Steud. Syn Gram. 213. Chlorls Cynodon, Trin. Gram. Unifl. 229. 

 thJor. mantima, Trin. I. c. 226. Fibicbia urohellata, Koel. Gram. Gall. & 

 ^Mm. Dactylon officinale, Vill. Hist. PI Daiiph. ii. 69. Digitaria 

 {Jactjion. Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. U. i. 52. D. littoralis, Saliab. Frodr. iQ. 

 7,- °'^"**!?a & radiata, Spreng. I. c. 272. D. stolonifera, Schmd. Fl. 

 t"l' \r^' t- 3, f. 9. Panicum dactylon, Limi. Sp. PI. 58; Wjxt Gram, 

 pttr. 11 1.5, t. 18 ; Sibt/,. Fl. Grsec 46, t. 60 ; Engl. Bot. t. 840; Kruipv 

 J-^am. Bntt t. 13; Grah. Gut. Bomb. PI. 236; Boxb. Fl. Jnd. i. 289. 

 y linear;-, Burm. Fl. Ind. 25, t. 10, f. 2. Paspalum dactylon, DC. Fl. 

 ^/•anc. 111. 16. Pasp. prsecox, Walt. Fl. Carol. 75. Pasp. umbellatnm, 

 J^am must. 1. 177. Aerrostis bermudiana, Tus>ac ex Kunth I. c. 25P. 

 A. miformis, Koen. ex Kunth I. c. 261. A. linearis, Betz. Oba. iv. 19. 

 ■ '^'^'^'t^. Waid. Sp. PL i. 376.—R/,eede Sort. Mai. xii, t. 47. 



-~t3J!°°^^'°"* India, Buema and Ceylon, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya. 

 ^DiSTKiB. AH warm countries. ' ° 



m hi-*'" P'""*^'"^**' °'te" widely creeping and forming matted tufts with short ascend- 

 radi.tin -'^^^''o^ short, subulate, glaucous; Hgule hairy. Spikes 2-5. 1-2 ia.. 



ri I «nH 'ti^"^^^" °^ purplish ; rachis very slender. Spikelets about Jj-^V in- ; 

 •nd ln»^ • *P'"^'**^'"&' o^'ate, "cute, keels icabrid; III much larger cymbiform, keel 

 '''allidi Jc ^^^ ""'• ^'■''"^ laterally compressed.— This plant is absent in Herb. 



CKZiORXS 



Kfld ^^2 '^'^^^^ ^^'^^^ «^nual grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 

 Winar"^^' unilateral on solitary geminate fnscicled digitate or whorled 

 tttbeb ^^^^* ^^ \adiating spikes, not jointed at the base; rachilla jointed 

 ^^Ptv a]^* ^^^^etimes produced beyond gl. Ill and bearing one or more 

 l-oerved &mwe* 3 (with 1 or more upper neuter), I and II unequal, 

 *^^teobt ^^^''^^'.^^*®l*^d, acute mucronate or II awned; 111 l-S-nerved, 

 plicate /^,^^2-fid, usually awned; paJea rather shorter, 2-ner7ed, com- 

 SpeciPR .t: .^}^ 2. Antltr.^ small. Styles free. Grain narrow, free.-- 



^WnVch'^* '* wanting in the Walliehirtn Herbarium at the Linnean Society.— 

 ^^OTis. ^^^^®^ 1>7 which Schcenefeldia, Kunth, can be separated generieully from 



• 



Spikelet 



S^ttenei ^^^ "^'^^* ^^^^^ ^^ rudiment of another. Rachis of spike 



1 C. 



broad, 



Soc. 



Hist 



**nverv Inn ' ^'^^^■/■l annual, very slender, spikes 1-3 i- 



^^. xiinor^^i^^^^^^y' SchcEnefeldia pallida, Edg-to. in Joum -.. ~--. 

 ^'^•^. jS ^-^0 I ^^1' 'S=^5 ^iif^^i^- Cat Punjab PI. 166; Duthie Grass, 

 ^rant. i. ooo "^Z f"^"^- Grass. N. Ind. 52, t. 64. S. gracilis, £unth Btvi». 

 ^*^- ^ii. (1893) "365' -^"""* -P^.i. 258; Lisboa in Journ 



. SUm idifio''."' ^fgetoorth. Central India, Kinff 



Z"!^^' tips onn-n* ""'Pleor branched, almost filiform. . 



^^^ flatten H^'^ ' ^'g"le a few hairs. Spike 3-5 in., golden-yellow, erect 

 Tf>^''^ 8uE;.f "ff ''^''^'^* ^Pi'kel'^ts tV in., subsessile, gl. I and II ovate- 

 . '''W lonr lu ''^y acuminate, l-ne, ved, keels ciliate ; I i shorter than II ; 

 K"^! awu 4 1 • " ^' ^^**'^''' «v'*te, 1 -nerved, hairy, hase hearded, tip minutely 

 '■''^ Gi-ni '"• ^°'^S' capillary, curved ; palea narrow, keels cdiate, tip 2- 



Leaves 6-8 in., very narrow, 



^OL viL ^^^^ slender, acute, pericarp loose.— I have seen no authentic 



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