298 CLXXiiL :gramine^. (J. D, Hooker.) [Leptochloa, 



1762. Poa ctinensis, Burm/Fl Ind, 27, t. xi. f. 3 {non^Linn). k^xdf^^ 

 montana, Herb. Rottler. — Leptochloa, WalL Gat. n. 8895. . ' . 



TiNNEVELLY; at Palamcotta, Bottler. Ceylon, dry parts of the island.-; 

 DiSTRiB. — Tiop. Afric. ^ 



Stem 1-2 ft., very slender, geniculately ascending from a creeping base. ; ^'JJ^^* 

 1-3 by ^-J in., elliptic-lanceolate, acute and apiculate, very thin, flaccid, base 

 narrowed; ligule short, hyaline, lacerate. Panicle 6-8 in., very slender; spikei 

 capillary, 2-3 in.^ Spikelets about ,-V ?«• ; serves of gl. Ill and palea ^ ''^og^? ^!^^ 

 long hairs. Grain not seen.— Judging frona Burmanu's figure of the leaf his i _ 

 chinensis is, I think, L. unifiora, 



** Leaves long^ narrow. 



2. t. polystachya, Benth. Fh Austral, vii. 617 (*io» -^""f ' 



panicle elongate contracted, spikes 1-1 J in. crowded erect, spiKeieis 

 1-fld. L. Neesii, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 108 ; Trim, tat- 

 Geyl. PI. 109. Cynodon Neesii, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PI. 371. C. poij- 

 stachyus, Br. ProJr. 187. C. vxrgatxis, Nees ex Wall. Cat. n. 8894; Wm 

 Cat. n. 1751; Sieud. Syn. Gram. 213. Agrostis virgata, Herb. BottL. a 

 Herh. Madr. ex Wall. I. c. ; A. chinensis, Koen. ex Serb. Rottl. 



The Carnatic, Rattier, Wight. Ckylon; Trin;omalce, G/e)uV.— Dif*"" 



Austr»lia. tjul*- 



Stems erect, 2-3 ft., stout or slender, sometimes proliferously branched below , 



lower uodes plnbrous or Ivsrded, Leaves 12-18 in., convolute, rarely fliit. ""^^J 

 acuminate. Panicle 6-10 in., flexuous ; branches filiform. 'SpifceZei* ^V '"•' "^ %j 

 set, pale; gls. I and II unequal, ovatelanceolate, rather longer than ''^'...Pj^ 

 preen; HI broadly ovate, subacute, 3-nervcd, nerves and keels of palea ''' ' ^^ 

 Orain oblong, deeply grooved on one side.— The form of the panicle differs mu; :" • 

 that of the following ; but the spikelets and glumes are very much alike. ■"•/,. 

 .tt^c/jj/o, Kunth, an American plant, is a species of J><j3Zacftn€. 



3. I.. filiformiB, Roem. ^ Sch. Syst. ii. 680 ; spikes 2-3 in., sp'^S 

 "• Kunt/i Enum. PL i. 270, Suppt. 220; Steud. Syn. Gram.^' 



Wiyht Cat. n. 1754; T/>w. Enum. PL ZeyL 271; Tnm. Cat. Ceyl.J'^ 

 109; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 192; Aiichis. Cat Panjab. Pl.l'ol\ m^ 



FL Ind. Bat. in. 389. B. chinensis, Duthie Fodd. Gmss. N. Ind. 59, t- ' ; 

 .''E. tiliformis, Pers.Fyn. i. 87. Ai.a filifonnis, Roxb. Fl. I""^- '• irl! 

 Herb. Ham. ex WalL Cat. n. 3804. Poa malabarica, IClein ex Steud. i>'" • 

 Fd. ii. 3U3, 60. P. chinensis, Serb. Bottler. P. coutracta & Vj^^^^^l^ 

 Hetz. Obs. m. 11. P. virgata. Roth. Nov. Sp. 66; Wight I.e. Jesia 

 tenuis & F. ? Basnia, Serb. Ham. e.c WalL Cat n. 3806 C. D.-LeptocBi" . 





2-3.ad. 



WalL Cat. 3804, 3805. 



Throughout India and Burma in the low country. Ceylon ; Co\om\iO, 



^uson. —DisTKiB. Tiop. Asih, Alrica and Anjerica. ^ ^^^^-^i^ 



Stem 1-2 ft., slender, geuirulately ascending. Leaves 4-10 in., " ', ^ yury 

 finely acuminute; ligule short. Panicle 4-8 in., contracted or diffuse, *^^*"*^ * JII 

 many almost capillnry ; spikelets ^'^ in., gl. I and 11 oblong-lanceolate, "^ -^'i^^be 

 and IV broadly ovate, nerves and puleaciliate. Grain oblong, closely "*^^. ^^s to 

 gl. and paleii,— I havt: followed my predecessors in re'erring this Indian ©^ . j| 

 Leptochloa Jilij or mis, R. & S., though that plant is described «» -^^^^^^f*^' ing of 

 having glabrous flowers ; a charat ter apparently confirmed by J^^quin's arn ^^ 

 its syuouym Eleu&ine jilijormis, Pers. {Jacq. Eilog. Gram. t. iv.) and by R^ ^Irve^of 

 tion of Euell in Mart. FL Bra^. ii III. 93. Ou the other hand, I fi"*l f^ Jacnuiu** 

 gl. Ill to be invariably hairy in American specimens corresponding with •;. . ^^^j^- 

 plate and the description of L. fiUformis, and hence must suspect that y i^^, 

 inconspicuous character (except under a good magnifying power) has beeu over 



