334 CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [JEluropm 



villosus. Trill, ex G. A. Mey. Verz. Ffi. Cauc. 18 ; spikelets m 



short heads. Aifc/iis. Cat. Panjah. PL 169. M. arabicus, Steud. Nom. 



i. 30. M. brevifolius, Wall. Gat. n. 8897 ; Wight Cat. n. 1792 

 {non Herb. Wight & excl. Syn. Uactylis brcvifolia, iinn.) ; Duthic G/vrsj. 

 N.W.Lid.SO. M. conciuims & ^miacns. Fig. et Nofar. in Mem. Acad. 



Ed. II. i 



^. mucroDatus, ^5c/t^rs. iw Sckvjcinf, Bcitr. FL ^thiop, 297; Boiss. I c. 



b9o. JR. niliacus, Stead. Nom. Ed. II. i. 30. M. niloticus, Edgeic.tn 

 Journ. Unn. Sor, vi. (18r.2) 196. ^.pubescens, Trin, ex Steud.Lc ^^P^^y 

 ^. ^ungens, C Koch, in Linnsea, xxi. (1848) 408. M. repens, Farl. tL ItaL 

 i. 462 ; Edgetv. I c. Dactylis lagoj^odioides, D<dz. & Gihs. Bomb, -tf- ^^y« 

 {excL Syn.). D. lagopoidea, Linn. Mant 33; Burm.Fl. Ind. 28, t. 12, t. - 

 {the right hand portion), Roxh. FL Ind. i. 340; Gr^/i. Gat Bomb. Fi.^^^ 

 {excl. Syn ). D. tnassaviensis, Steud. Syn. Gram, 298. D. repens,^ Vcsj- 

 Fl. Atlant. i. 79, t. 15. Poa lagopoaioides, Kunth Revis. Gram.i- lU, 

 Fnum. i. 325. P. massavensis, Fresen. in Mas. Senkenh. ii. (18o7) i^o. 

 P. repens, Bieb. Fl. Taur. Gauc. iii. 69. P. tunetana, Spreng. J^f^^^'!^ 

 20. Calotheca arabica, niliaca & repens, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 1^47, «>•*?• 

 Duthie I.e. {err. typ. miiiacea). Koeleria lagopodioides, ^^^^' *^ 

 Benkschr. Acad. Maench. K. brevifolia, Herb. Wight ex Walt. tai. 

 n. 8897 C. Sesleria lagopodioides, Spreng. Ptujill ii. 22. Festuca mucro- 

 nata, Forsk. FL Mgypt. Arab. 22. ¥. pnngena, Vahl Symb. 1. 10, t. - 

 Uralepis ? pungens, Kanth Revis. Gram, i, 108, Fnum. i. 319. 



Sandy shores of tbe Dkccan Peninsula and Ckylon. Salt plains of thePANJAB 

 and SciND. — Disteib. Reg. Meditt'rr., Arabia, Persia, A%ban., Reg. Casp. 



A rigid perennial herb, with long wiry roots. Stems 6-12 in.,^ densely tuttea^ 

 branched, hard, smooth, erect, or prostrate with long often creeping ®^°'*^"!\^ ^j 

 slightly swollen, clothed with rigid glabrous or hairy sheathing scales, above clot 



base rounded, glabrous or sparsely hairy, midrib obscure, margins smoo 

 scaherulous; sheatlis short, terete, inflated or dilated, glabrous or ^^'^.^.^^ 

 lig:ule a ridire of short hairs. Heads 4—% in. diam., elobose ovoid or oblong. ^P 



empty, many-nerved, lower 2-i sometimes neuter; palea broadly truncate or - J> * 

 teels villous. Ovary obovoid. Grain ^\j in., obovate-ohlong, compressed dorsal j^^ 

 A very variable grass in habit, foliage and size of the heads and fP^ . ^^^' ^^^e 

 garded by Cosson and others as a form ot .'E. lUtoralis, in which the panicle is elo fe- 



Ilk DACTYI.IS, LiniK 



Stifl' erect tufted perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spd/cl(^^^ "^ ,^^^^ 

 compTessed, Bubdiriticliously crowded in short unilateral spikes **\^'°^^ons, 

 terminal unilateral panicle, not jointed at the base; rachilla contin -^ 

 glabrous. Glamcs I and II unequal, scarions, lanceolate, ^^^"^^^^ gig. 

 raucronate, keeled, empty, persistent ; I 1-nerved, II 1"*^'^®^^^^ % f jl^eei^ 

 rather longer, rigid, 5-nerved, subaristate, keel scabrid; palea '^'^ \i\.]^s 

 ciliolate. Lodicules 2, 2-lobed, fleshy. Stamens 3, anthers ^^^^^^ ,^gfiiy 

 free, terminal; stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, acute, trigonous, 



