Dinehra.] clxxiit. gramikb^e. (J. D. Hooker.) 297 



collected jn narrow pyramidal racemes, not jointed at the base ; rachilla 

 Blender, jointed sit the base, produced beyond the fl. gls. and bearing an 

 imperfect gl. Glumes 4-5, I and 11 empty, persistent, much longer than 

 ^^^a^d IT, lanceolate, awned, l-nerved, keeled; 11 J longer than I ; III 

 and IV very small, broadly ovate, subacute, hyaline, 1-nerved; palea 

 ^jabne. Lodieules 2. Anthers 3, small- Stales free. Grain ovoid, 

 »ngonou8, wrinkled, free. 



t .-)'*/'r?'*^**'*' *^"^S'- Fragment. 77, t. 121, f. 1 ; Beauv. Agrost. 98, t. 16, 

 '•^(Dineha); 2rim. Cat.'Ceyl. PL 109; Dutkie Grass. JV.W. Jnd. 3J-, 

 todd. Grass. iV. Ind. 55 ; lAsb'oa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.Vii. (1893) 

 iit. D. fflgyptiaca, Del. Fl. Mgypt. 25, t. xi. f. 3 (Dinaeba). D. retro- 

 nexa i^aaz. in Denksch. Acad. Muench. iv. (1813) t. 12; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 » 7 „|^^Pt"cbloa arabica, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 91; Enum. PI. i. 271, 

 W- 221 ; Wiffht Cat. a. 1756 ; Aitch. Gat. Panjab PI. 167. L. calycina. 

 *«»'A 1.1. c.c. 91, 272; Steud. I.e. 210; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 297. 

 A^corotnandeliana, Steud. I. c. 209. Eleusine calycina, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 ^- tynosuras coromandelianus. Serb. Rottl. 0. paniculatus, Eerh. 



Willd 



F«, £ '■^troflexus, Vahl Symh. ii. 20. Dactylis paspaloides", 

 ^mn. Mori. Berol. HI. D. cynosuroides, Eoen. mss. in Herb. Mus. Briit. 

 • '^^'^'•aspatensis, Herb. i2o^-5.-Dinebra, Wall. Cat. n. 3814. 



Ttimfl^^^ P«NiN8ri,A, from Khnndeish and the Carnatic southward. Cetlon , 



5/1 1^*0°'?""'^^ •~^'^'^^"'' Aftkhan. and westward to Senegal, 

 leafy tl * i *'"' *'"*'^^^' branching from the base, erect or geniculately ascending, 

 1iwle»r°°^ * ■^<'«^''s fl'it, 3-8 in., flaccid, finely acuminate, sparsely hHiry; 

 opDOKit^ u" ^'^■*'"'e* 4r-12 in., erect ; rachis strict, stout, smooth. Spikes\-2\ in.. 



*<mA 



■A^ntiual grasses. 



92. ZiEPTOCXZiOA, Beauv. 



minute, 



^bose oblong obovoid or S-gonous, closely 

 J ^■^""*"~"^Pecies about 12, tropical and subtropical. 



"^ "liicwi"'^ ^'■''**^ difficulty in disposing of the synonymy of this genus, the species 

 •"'j. some of fk '°''° condition, and I regard the result here attained as tentative 

 '^s't* of »,. I ^y^^nyms adopted being little better than guesses, though the 

 "'•' '''•"'«an Set*"*^^' '^^^ ^^""' " '''^°* '" ^^'^ Wallichian Herbanum of 



^ ^ac« sUrt, broad, membranous. 



^■K \ ^^flo'a, SochH. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 409 ; spikelets 

 ^'J^- PZ ino*"*^ ^^ linear-lanceolate. III ovate acuminate. Trim. tat. 

 Jracilig A'l"^- ^- gracilis, H^m/if ea; Steud. Sun. Oram. 213. Cvnodon 



' -^c^s e« S^^trf. 7 -. , rh.n T'.y,.«.t,.. PI. Cevl. 371 : ITig/d Cat. n. 



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