Chloris.] CLXxiii. graminbj:. (J. D. Hooker.) 293 



or branched. Leaves 3-8 in., narrow, finely acuminate; mouth of sheath ciliate; 

 ^?a^e very short. Spikes 1-3 in., erect, very pale. Spikelets i-^ in.; gl. I and II 

 Doth finely acuoiinate, or II which is much the largest obtuse and shortly awned; 

 111 ovoid, acute, upper margins more or less thickly bearded ; IV and V cuneiform, 

 glabroug or ciliate ; VI minute, awned.— Very variable in the length of the spikes 

 »nd size of the spikelets. 



11. C.WIg^htiana,iV"ees^«T^^>7^^f aaf.n.l766; Steud, Syn. Gram,206; 

 spikes 3-5, racbis villous, spikelets 4-awned.— Chloris, Wall Cat n. 3809. 



Southern India, Wight, 



Stem 4-6 in., stout, much branched, decumbent and leafy below, sometimes 

 keeping. Zeaves 2-4, by -J-i in., flat, linear, acuminate and sheaths pubescent; 

 "gole of hairs. Spikes red-browny stout. Spikelets, gl. I and II ovate-lanceolate ; 

 . *^"™'"»te; II i longer, tip notched mucronate; III as long as II, obliquely 

 roadly ovate in profile, suddenly narrowed into the terminal awn, lateral nerves 

 marginal above and keel villously bearded ; palea very broad, keels ciliate ; IV like 

 i>at amaller ; V subglobose, glabrous, VI very minute. 



DOUBTFUL AND REJECTED SPECIES. 



C. MONOSTACHVA, PoiT. Uncycl. Suppl. ii. 238. -C. distachya (Kunth Eev. 

 m^'^\\^^'^' t. 57. Eleusine monostachya, Spreng. Syst. i. 249. Leptochloa ? 

 ii 2n\ • ^T?' ^^^^' ^ 'S'cA. Si/st. ii. 580. Cynosurus monostachyas, Vahl Symh, 

 ' -«J) IS a Mauritinn e:rass, not found hitherto in India. 



^. miciLLATA, Pers. Syn. i. 87 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 268; Steud. Syn. Gram 



3o0'-.V M.*'"""^ I>enicill.itu8, VoM Symh. ii. 21. Eleusine peaicillata, Spreng. Syst. i 

 • Vahl s descriptiou does not enable me to identify this. 



90. SXiSVSZNS, Gaertn. 



ffl ^^v °^ perennial grasses. Leaves long or short. Spihelets 3-I2-fld. 

 ^?/\'»^t terminal perfect) sessile, 2-3-seriate and secund, forming digitate 

 wE ^^ ^liorled spikes, laterally cumpreseed, not jointed at the base; 

 S .T*"?°*^°"0U8 between the fl. glumes. Glumes tew or many keeled, 



lanrfiT i. °"°"^ between the fl. glumes. Wumes lew or mauj^, -coxv^., 

 late Ti 1"^°'^®'" *^an the flg., subequal or unequal, persistent ; I lanceo- 

 with i r ^^'''^^^' ac'ite or acuminlte. or very broad.y ovate, or didjmoas 

 comnlll ,^ «*o» recurved awn; flg. gls. like the empty 3-nerved ; palea 

 Sfe'^f'^^«*''«°g- ^orficu/.. 2. clineate. Anthers Z, ^\^ort. blyl^ 

 .^IV ^'8tinct. Grain%^^ r.o.;.nrr. hUline. loose. ^-ceirugose.-Species 



•''^'1 warm countries. 

 Linn?an w"?'"' of this genus are absent from the Wallichian Herbarium in the 



*>c»etj'8 rooms; tUe tickets alone existing there. 



Gl.n^I:^''''''^ Proper- Spikelets densely imbricate, pointing forward, 

 obtuse acute or acuminate. 





— «^w ui ttuuminate. 



digital?'.!"'***'*' ^^^i^- FrucL i. 8 ; annual, erect, leaves flat, spikes 

 C&^""S'\^''- g'»«^e-^ subacute glabrous. Lamk.lU. '■ '^f'Kfr 

 J?J^"«5- PI. i. 273. Suvr>l. 224. t. 16. f. 4; Sleud. Syn Gra.nJU, 



J^'H A-T" '• 2-*^; G?^«'t- Cat Bomb. FL 235; G^ 

 T-^Wft c5 V^?' ^- 156 & t. 150, f. 1 ; nw, Em. 

 ^•^. Irui^A ^^i*^- -P^- 109 ; Aitchis, Cat. Panjah PA 168 



^' Sonat l^f^i' ^'9ht Cat. n. 1758 ; Boiss. FL Orient 



^mrit *29, Fl Antral vii. 615; Ne.s AgrosL Bra. 



• ''*»i ; Gn,eb. FL Brit W. Ind. 640. E. distachya, 



Fl Aft 

 ex Sttud 



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