328 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [_Mijnostadiya. 



patent, flowering to the baso. Spihelets i-^ in., 4~8-flcl., compressed, quite smootl) ;^ 

 pedict'ls short ; gls. I and II unequal, keels scaberulous, awn ^ in. or more stifl' 

 stout. — In miiny respects Mi/riostachya is allied to Eragrostis cynosuroideSj having 

 :i very similar inflorescence,* and spikelels jointed on the branchlots of the panicle; 

 but differs in the spikelets being pedicelled, in the long awned gls. i and II, and in 

 its great size. 



Var. longisj)icula ; spikelets longer, up to I in. and 8-20-fld.— Penaug, dirUi^. 

 Ceylon; at Kottiyar, Trimen. 



lOG. KAXiOPVAUBI, Stapf. 



A tall stout perennial glabrous grass, with a branching creeping sheathed 

 rootfctock. Leaves narrow, rigid, convolute. Spikelets large, many-fld., 

 sessile or shortly pedicelled on the short alternate branches of an elongate 

 panicle, ovate, strongly laterally compressed, not jointed on their pedicels, 

 nor are the pedicels on the branches ; rachilla jointed at the base and between 

 the fig. glumes, silkily hairy. Glumes ra^ny , closely distichously imbricate, 

 dorsally rounded, coriaceous, keeled, I and II subequal, empty, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate or apicnlate; I 3-nerved, II 5-nerved; fig. gls. o-IO, 

 rather shorter than the empty, mucronulate, 3-nerved; palea as long as 

 the gl., subacute, 2-keeled, Lodicules 2, obcordate. Stamens 3. Styles 

 short, free, stigmas elongate. Grain ellipsoid, compressed, deeply hollowed 

 anticouslv, free. 



H. mucronatum, Stapf hi Hook. Ic. PL t. 2448. Brizopyram 

 mucronatum, Xees in Wall. Cat. n. 8898 ; WitjU Cat. n. 2386. _ DeBmazerm 

 nnioloides, Dcfl, Voij. Yemen, 220. Eragrostis mucrouata, Tn'm. Cat. C'T- 

 PL 109 (non Roenu 4' Sc/i,). ? Uniola mucronata, /Ann. Sp^ Fl- 1*'*^ 

 Kunth Enum. PL i. 425; Steud. Syn. Gram. 281, Triticum repens, 

 Thvmites Enum, PL ZeyL 870.— iEluropus, Aifcln\ Cat. PanjahPL 10^- 

 Eragrostis sp. Sect. Sclerostachya, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 1187. 



Coasts of India from Sind to Cape Cmnorin and Tinnevelly. CeyloK, Gardner, 

 Ac. — DiSTRiB. Westward to Arabia and E. trop. Africa. . .^ 



Stem below creeping, as thick as u crow-quill, hard, smooth, woody, with stnc 

 verniifonn roots, sending np rigid slender flowering stems 12-18 in. high, and shor ei 

 leafing ones. Leaves 8-12 in., flat or couvohite, very narrow, wiry, crlaucous, tae} 

 acuminate, glabrous, sheath terete, uppressed, striate, hard, mouth villous; ^'?"^^ 

 \Qw hairs. Panicle 12-16 in., erect or inclined ; branches short with tew SF^^'^^, 

 and rachis quite smooth. Spikelets i in. long, sessile or shortly P^di*^*^'* ; 

 smooth, white or pale yellowish ; racluUa very short, hairs half as long as the g -^ 

 gl. I hardly longer than the lowest flg. gl., ovate-lanceolate, apicnlate, ^"^^^^^j.^^^-'^^^ 

 the centre; II i longer, strongly 5-nerved.— There being no specimen of t^"' 

 mucronata in Linnaeus's Herbariuui its citation here is doubtful. 



107. COEZiACHYRUM, Nee.^-.' (See p. 8.) 



DZPXiACHNX: 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute, narrow. Sp^.V 

 many.fld., spicate on the slender simple branches of a tall simple pauK^ » 



^ This genus was erroneously supposed to be Indian when the Key was drafl 

 up. 



