300 cLxxiii. GRAMINE.K. (J. D. Hoolcer.) [LeptochJoa. 



Spreng. Syst Veg. I 288; spike solitary, Rpikelets 3-fld.— Probably not a Lep- 

 tochloa. 



93. DZCKHSTARZA 



A tall slender perennial grass. Leaves long, narrow, flat. Spjkehts 

 1-fld. with the very long filiform gl. of a 2nd, sessile or shortly pedicelied, 

 distantly scattered along a very long filiform rachis, very narrow, terete, 

 not jointed at the base; rachilla not produced beyond gl. HI, .iointed at 

 the base. Ghmes 4, I and It unequal, enipty, separately deciduou?, 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate or dorsally rounded, subaristate, entire 

 or minutely 2-toothed below the tip, 3-nerved; III linear, terete, coria- 

 ceous, 3-nerved, tapering into a very long rigid recurved awn ^i 

 twoerect set^ at its base ; IV, a filiform, awn-like, recurved g]ume,minutei7 

 2-aristate above the middle; palea very narrow, 2-cuspidate, kee^* 

 scabernlous. Lodicules large, obliquely cuneiform, fleshy. Anthers ^. 

 very slender. Siyles distinct, stigmas slender. Grain narrow. 



D. Wierhtil, Nee!i ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 145. Gymnopogon rigidos. 

 Thw. Enum, PL ZeyL 372, 4U;'Trim, Cat Ceyl. PL 109. Aristida 

 linearifolia, Eottl, mss. — Herb, Wight n, 1035. 



SouTHEKX India; Tmnqnehar, Rotfler ; probably Travancore, Hero. TTt^ 

 Ceyi-on, in dry parts of the island, Thwaites, , j^ 



Stems, erect, 2-3 ft., tufted on a creeping woody rootstock. Leaves as '^"s.^^^ 

 the ftem, J-J in. broad, quite glabrous, margrins smooth ; ligule of ^***l'^', . -itb 

 12-18 in., rachiB and few short I ranches filiform, quite smooth. '^^. f ^-a^d 

 the awns Ij in. long, creen ; gl. 1 shorter than 11, which is ^'^^"^ ^ '"V i!^ pjed. 

 about I as long as III below the short lateral bristles ; rachilla below lU oba ^^^ 

 —I think Steudel was right in separating th-s grass from Gymnopog^^i ni\n 

 species of which are American, and from which it differs totally in habit, a 

 the form of the gpikelets, gl. Ill of which greatly exceeds I and II. 



Tribe JX. Festucace^. (See p. 7.) 

 94. POMMEREUXiZiA, Linn.f. 



A short stout perennial creeping grass. Leaves short, strap-s P^^^ 

 Spikelets 2-3-fid., distichously racenaed, narrowly turbinate, ^^^^^"^[^jj^i^ 

 jointed on their pedicels ; rachilla stipitiform, narrowly obconic (reseffl ^ 

 a callu*), villous, jointed at the acute base, crowned by empty "®^^^, .^ ]. 

 gls. GZumes 5-7, I and II narrow, persi.stent, empty; I ^^^P^^^Y^acing 

 nerved; II longer, oblong-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved; lil and Iv ^^yjigg. 

 V and VI, en)pty, flabellirorni, 4-lobed, dorsally shortly awned ; y V^j^^ 

 cnneate-obovate. 3-lobed ; palea ovate, acute, nerves 2, pubescent, i^o -^ 

 2, mtmbrauous. Stamens 2-3, anthers small, iytj/les distmct. 



oblong, compressed, free. 



ni 



Gram. 31, & SuppJ; I^^'-mJ. 

 3,f.6; Roxb^ i'^'^VTVl 



xxiii. (1831) t. 7, Enum, PL i. 321 ; Steiid. _ , . ,^,. 



Ce7/l PL 109; WalL Cat n. 8904; Wight Cat n. 1769. ?• *^^X, 

 Wi,hi 4- Am. in Wight Gat, n. 1770. Pennisetum CornncopiJB, ^^^ 

 WalL L r. 



