332 CLxxiii. GKAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Centotheca* 



not jointed on the very short pedicels ; rachilla jointed at the base and 

 between the flg. gla. Glumes 6, I and II oblong^-ovate, keeled, 3-5-nerved, 

 empty, persistent; flg. gls. oblong, acute, dorsally rounded, 7-nerved, 

 naked or the upper bearing soft erect at length deflexed tubercle-based 

 spines above the middle; palea shorter than the gl., keels ciliolate. 

 Lodicides 0. Stamens 2-3, anthers short. Styles free. Grain ovoid, acute, 

 terete, free. — Species I or 3?, Trop. Asia, Africa, Austi'alia. 



C. lappacea^ Desv. in Nouv, Bull. Soc, Philom. ii. (1810) 189, &in 



Journ, Bot, i. (1813) 70; Beanv. Agrost. 69, t. 14, f. 7 ; Xunth Sevis, Gram. 

 i. 317, t. 70, IJnuni, PI. i. 366, Suppl. 302; Steud, Si/n. Gram, 116; Tho:- 

 Etmm.Bl. Zeyl. 374; TAm. Cat, Geyl. PI. 109; Wall Cat. n. 3826; Griff, 

 XotuL iii. 62, Ic, PL Asiat. t. 152, f. I ; Miq, FL Ind, Bat, iii. 398; Benth. 

 PL Austral, vii. 640; Hochst, in BoL Zeit. (1857) 33; Lishoa in Journ. 

 Bomb, Nat, Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 388. C. latifolia, Trin. Fund. Agrost, 

 141. C. parviflora, Anderss, in Peters. Reise Mosamh. Bat. 559. Hierochloa.^ 

 latifolia, AuuiA Revis, Gram. i. 21. Holcus latifolius, OshecJc, Iter. 2-^7; 

 Linn. Syst, Ed. x. 1305. Oplismenus ? niagellanicus, Roem, Sf Sch. Sysf.T^^* 

 485. Melica lappacea, Rasp, in Ann, Sc, Nat. Ser. 1. v. (1825) 413. M. 

 diaudra & refracta, Roxb. FL hid. i. 327. Poa latifolia, i^^or^^f./ P^-o^ir. 8; 

 Vahl Symh.'\\,\^. P. nialabarica, Linn, Sp. PL 69; Burm. PL Ind. 27. 

 t. 11, 1". 2, P. nemoralis, Hef/ne ex Wall Cat, n. 3826 A. Torresia.^ 

 latifolia, Beauv. l. c. 165. T. biflora, Roem. 4" ScL Syst ii. 515. Uniola 

 lappacea, Trin. in Act Petrop, YI. i. (1831) 358, Sp. Gram. Ic. t.29H, 

 Cenchrus lappaceus, Linn, Sp. PL Ed, II. 1488. Festuca latifolia, Roth. 

 Nov. PL Sp. 75. F. blepharophora, lioem, & Sch, Syst. ii. 728. F. ciliaris, 

 Jlcyne ex Roem. 4' Sch. L c. F. ciliata, Hb. Heyneex Wall Cat. n. 382b A. 

 F. virgata, Heyne ex Steud. Nam. Ed, II. i, 633. Panicum festuciforme, 

 HochsL PL Ind. Or, Hohenack, n. 363.— Panicum, Wall Cat. n. 8708. 



Tkopical SiKKiM Himalaya, the Khasia Hills, Munnipoke, Bubma, Centkai 

 India, and southward to Malacca, the Andamax Islds., and Ceylon.— Distbib. 



Malaya, China, Polyuesia, Africa trop. 



Stem 1-3 tt., stout, erect from a branched woody rootstock, with stout roo - 

 fibres. Leaves 4-10 by 1-1^ in., many-nerved, ghi'brous or sparsely *'"^0^ ''^^ 

 narrow obtuse or subcordate, nudrib oblique; sheath glabrous or hairy; .p^, 

 j-hort, lacerate. Panicle 8-10 in. long and broad, branches smooth. ^P^^ 1^ 

 «~4 »"•, green; rachilla scaberulous ; palea often decurrent on the rachilla ^*^*^)) , ^^ 

 gl.— The number of flg. gls. varies, l>ut 6 is, I think, a normal ; I and H are rati 

 distant at the base. In one spikelet I find 6 gls., of which III was ei"P^{ ", ^^^ 

 and epaleate, IV naked and pah^ate, V and YI with stout reversed ^"*'^'^'!: ', '^^(j 

 spines; not unfi ecjuently the fern, spikelet has only a single strongly -^1'^*^" ^*- * 

 a produced rachilla. Kunth (1. c. Snppl. 302) describes gl. Ill and IV as cotnpie 

 and bisexual, V minute and imperfect. I suspect that this grass is polygamous. 



112. STREPTOGVNA, Beauv. 



A tall erect perennial grass. Leaves potioled, Hat; serves tessel- 

 Spikelets l-l-fld., narrow, terete, subsessile, not jointed on the ^*^JJ^'d ^i/ 

 strict, unilateral spike; rachilla elongate and jointed betweea the n^g^ ; 

 Glumes 3-6, very narrow, I and II empty, persistent ; I small, '^*^*^' ■ j^' 

 II longer, convolute, acute, awnless, many-nerved; III ^^^f^'^iyl 

 tightly convolute, many-nerved, acuminate and awned; ^^'^^i^Lens 

 palea embraced by the gl., narrow, 2-fid. Lodicules 3, subulate. ^^^ 



