Dij>]aeJme.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. I). Hooker.) 329 



not jointed at the base; rachilla jointed at the base and beneath each 

 "f-gl-, not produced beyond the uppermost gl. Glumes many, I and 11 

 unequal, obtuse, membranous, 1-nerved, persistent ; flg. gls. rather longer, 

 ooiong 1-3-nerved, tip 2-4-toothed, mucronate or awned ; palea Hnear. 

 iMicule, 2 broad. Stamejis 3, anthers short. Stifles distinct, stigmas 

 pinmose: Grain ovoid-oblong, subtrigonous, free within the gls. and palea. 

 -species about 14, of warm regions. 



h. M-f""^ Indian species lins lately been brought from Chitral, and will shortly 

 ■» published by Dr. Stiipf in the Kew Bulletin as J). Gatacrei. 



8niiri\*H^?*' ^*'^"^- -^groHt. 163; tall, leaves convolute, panicle long, 



W / rl"'- ^'^^'^^" ^-If^-fld- Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 619; Boiss. Fl. 



w. V o61; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Fl. 109. D. indica, Spreng. Syst. i. 351. 



^raiepis tusca, Steud. Syn. Gram. 247 ; ThtcaUes Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 372. 



in.li!'''^T'*''*^"' '^^''^^- f- <-■■ Triodia ambigua, Br. Frodr. 183. Tridens 

 rl?'- m ^" ^^^'^'^ Cat. n. 1794. Leptochloa? fusca, JKunth Fevis. 

 dL\}' -^"''"'- ^'- i- 2^1- Festuca fusca, Linn. Sp. Fl. 109; Del. Fl. 

 ^J-VP^-f, t. XI. f. 1. p. iudica, Rets. Ohs. iv. 21; Kunth Enum. 412. 



Dm^lro!^' ,^'"'"'- ^P- J'^- -£"</• il. 108; Kunth I.e. 410. Eragrostis 

 345 r"^-^-''-'^^^- Poa pr'ocera. J?oa;/!». Fl. Ind. i. 382; Jr««//t I.e. 

 Cat T, ^mT' J2?^ystachios, 7^or,y/w Fl. ^g. Arab. 23. Eragrostis, Wall. 



^"■ovi6.~Fkeede Hart. Malah. xii. t. 45. 

 ^TDr^^ Ga>^getic Plain to Benoal and southward to Ceti.on.— Distrib. 



llmTk^f''' -^*"'='»> «"^1 Australia, 

 flotbed with 1 V ^~^ ^*' ***^°"*' ^''*-'^*' °'" geniculately ascending, often branched, 

 "nootli- l- , '}'"'*^'eiitlis. Leaves long, narrow, flat or convolute, smooth; sheaths 

 "'■his siiK^^H 1 '^^'' "^'-•'"^rauous, lacerate. Panicle 10-18 in., oblong, nodding; 

 •fistant .p j^ "'""'-•hes 2-3 in., erect, filiform, smooth or scaberulous. Spikelets 

 *"'« hairv^ ^"°i"tly pedicelled, pale or dark green ; rachilla smooth or scaberulous ; 

 ^Uloiieer ki '"^^^ 1-ncrved, tips erose, keels nearly smooth ; I lanceolate ; 



''H-toothed° '^ ' ^^"' ^''^' ^'''"'y coriaceous, 3-nerved, lateral aerves subraarginal, 



*^' ' ™"crouate by the percurreut median nerve. 



100. MEZiZCA, Linn. 



"'■ raS?/ ^^ ^^^^^ grasses. Leaves narrow, Spikelets in open or spiciform 

 P«<licel.s i_o^,P^"^°l^s. laterally compressed, jointed or not on their 

 „„-.' -^."^-nd. and wifli amoli ^^n-.T^lnfo nontpr crls. forming a clavate 







i 



«arrow\ i^ "'^ ^^^^'^ '^i^^^ll convolute neuter gls. forming a clavate 

 ■» '•■r more '^^ ^^^inating and jointed on the elongate rachilla. Ohm 

 ^"al or ' °^^°^branous, hyaline or with hyaline tips and margins ; I and 11 

 •^^ciduou, rf'^ ' ^'"Pty,Il-3-nerved; II 5-nerved, persistent or separately 

 '"West 8ti,Vf^" ^^^- solitary, or 2-3 then distant on the rachilla, 6-9-nerved, 

 •0. ,9/,^"''*^' palea 2.keeled. Lodicule.^ 2, connate, often most minute 





Or subcvHrT-** '^" "^'^^^^ ^^ee, 'stigmas plumose. Grain oblong fusiform 

 » p "^-^Species probably 20 or 30, of temp, regions. 



^'"^' peTilff 7"''^'"'»^ "r racemiform; spikelets more or less Jointed on 



- «; lodtcules most minilte or 0. 



1 iVf 



S- fle" .S^^v***' ^^«**- J^'- -SicwL Frodr. Suppl. 17; panicle subspici- 



?'''^"<.v?i.'' ,'*^'"y clothed all over with long silky hairs. Boiss H 



H-^UnuT'-^''^''^''*- J'^l- It>^l- i- 301. M. ciliata, DutUeJh-ass. NW 



•^'5; Ihk-T-^- ^- Jacquemontii, Feme in Jaequem. Toy. Bo . 174, 



"^'''^ I. c. M. Hohenackeri, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I. xiii. 54. M. 



