30G ci.xxiii. guamxe^. (J. D. liuoker.) 



98. riNGERKlTTHIA, Lthn, 



Erect, rigid, annual or perennial grasses, with the habit of Vlihmy" 

 Leaves narrow. Spil-ehts crowded in a spiciform panicle, l-3-Hd., lowest 

 in the panicle reduced to subulate glumes, laterally compressed, .]Ointed 

 on the very short pedicels; lower fl. bisexual or male, upper if present male, 

 uppermost an empty gL Ghimes I and II subequal, rigidly membranou?, 

 keeled, 1-nerved, awned ; III as long as II, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 5nerved, mucronate or dorsallr shortly awoed ; palea rigid, 2-Keelea. 

 Lodicules 2, ohcordate. Anthers 3, linear-oblong. Stijles long, free, stigma.s 

 plumose. Gniin elliptic or oblong, free.— Species 2, a S. African, and the 



lollowing. 



A genus of doubtful affinity, with certain characters of Alopecurua, aud of 

 Melica in the spikelets jointed on their pedicels ; the iuipeifect basal spikelels form a 

 sort of iuvolnove to the spiciibnn panicles as in SeAtria. 



r. aflfg-hanica, Bohs, FL Orient v. 569 ; epikelets 3-fld., lowest t 

 n., intermediate male, upper neuter, rIs. I and II shortly ^^^'^^^^j^fii'j 

 d margins ciliate. F. Africana, Aitchis. in Journ, Linn, Soc. xix. [ioo^) 



193 (fiOn Jjelim.), 



WESTERN Panjab; PesLawur, nit. 3500 ft., iS^cK-ari.— DisTRiB. Affghaii. 

 Stem 12-18 in., tufted, slender, leafy. Leaves very })arrow, flat, glaucous 

 pli.brou^ smooth ; sheath glabiou«, mouth bearded ; ligule a ridge of sott mur^. 



fern 

 an 



Spike ^-1 in., oblong, obUisCj long. pcduncled, pale green, Spiheltts \ in.,clOH'.^ 



poor one. 



99.. ELTTAOPHOZIVS, Beaitv> 

 ^An annual erect grass. Leaves narrow, tlat. Spil'tlcfs very nnuu.e. 



3-^-tld., in globose sessile cl 

 rachis forming a long cyliu 



usiers that are densely packed along a simp 

 udric often lobed or interrupted spike; eaci 

 cluster consists of very many densely crowded sessile compressed ^P^^^^. j, 

 with awned e:iumes subtended by many empty glumes, nut jointed at t 

 base; rachilla smooth, jointed at the base and between the ng. ?' 

 Glumes (of perfect spikelets), I and II subequal, empty, membranous: 

 mucronate, keeled, 1-nerved, persioteut : flg. gls. rather h'lrger, narrow 

 into short awns, 3-nerved,u])permost empty; palea complicate, one or 

 keels winged. Lodicules 2, obliquely oblong. Antlers 1-3, nnuuir 

 Sf^les free, stigmas long liairy. Grain obliquely oblong, beaked, free. 



3825 ; But hie Grass. K. IF. Ind. 36, Fodcl Grass. N. Ind. 61, t. 72 ; Lx^^ 

 xn Journ. Bomb. Kat. Hist. Soc. vii. (18^3)379; Miquel FL Ind. ii(^^-'^ 

 400; Bentk. FL Austral, vii. (538. Echinalysium articulatnm & stnctui - 

 Tnn. Fund. Ac/rost. 142. Dactylis spicata, Willd. in Ges. -^''v!!'^' j^^ 

 Sc/ni/t. iii. (1801) 416. Sesleria spicata, Sjyyen-j. FugilL ii. 21. ■t-i'^"^' 

 calycina, Herb. Ham. ex Wall Lc. 



