Lolmi.] cLxxiiL GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 365 



^mnsof /,. ri^idum which I have examined. The awns are as long ns the gk 



3. Ii.pereniie, Linn. Sp. PI. 83; perennJa], leaves linear complicate 

 n TernahoD, gpikelets oLlong 8-ll-fld., empty gl. 3-5-nbbed, shorter than 

 we rest of the spifeelet, fl. gis. oblong-lanceolate obtuse or sub-acnte 

 o-nerved awned or not. Fl. Dan. t. 747; Host Gram. Austr. i. t.25; 

 Tvi- *• '^^^5 Knapp G-ram. Bntt. t. 180; Reiclih. Ic. Fl. Oerm. t. 8 ; 

 l-k f -iQ ?• ^^- ^^'''"- -^onoe. i. n. 78 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 436, Suppl. 

 Cr ' tTTr}' ^^^"^'^-Fl. 720S.S-. iv. 343 ; 5oJs*. FL Orient, v. 679 ; Dut/iie 

 ^rm. N.W. Ind. 44, Fodd. Grass. jV. Ind. 68. L. vulgare, ^s^ I.e. 



TOafff^nf^^J'^^^' 8'^*^- 15,000 ft., Stolizka {Duthie); Sikkim Himalaya, nit. 

 Prob h ('."f'-o<iicecl).-UiSTHiB. Europe, N. Asia. 



Itonerp'' • i"?*'"^'^''"""* "' I"^'*' t^'0"K'i ''^^^^ *° <''"''"'' '" t^'mpemte regions, 

 t^rennial character and stoloniferous habit sit once distinguish it. 



126. ZiEPTVRUS, Br. 



wbJi T ^'^ grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spihelets \-2-M., 

 artipnl f^^^^^' 3 immersed in hollows of the rachis of a simple terminal 

 fl °'ate or not. straight or incurved spike, with the back of the lowest 

 II L°''^°.v *^ *^® ^^^^^^ '■> i-achilla jointed. Glumes 3 or 4, I minute or ; 

 deflcrf^" TTT^ ^^^ ^^- gls., linear, rigid, acute. 5-nerved, erect or at length 

 LoSn o ^°*^ ^^ o^'ich shorter than 11, hyaline; palea 2-keeled. 

 <il8W n °"'^''^<^« fT lobed. Stamens 1-3. Omry glabrous ; styles short. 



r^i^t. Grai 



Species 6, natives of the 



1 



PednT,?i'j*l®**®'**'' -^^- ^^oc/r. 207; perennial, creeping, spikes shortly 

 Wpr r .T'^' gl. I O.II acuminate or sub-aristate many-nerved much 

 ^»tt« pf'i !'''^^-^l»- Bronqn. in Duperr. Voy. Sot. 57, t. 16; Eunfh 



nO%:„n^-i^^-8uppL374; Steud. Syn. Gram. 357; Trim. Oaf. Ceiil.PL 

 Sat f^ Ar^P- ^"^iral. vii. 668. L. acicuhitus, Steud. I. c. ; Miq. FL Ind. 

 Beauv i' liottboellia repens, ForsL Prodr. 9. Monerraa repens, 



^m Fplr'*'- ^^^- I^oli^™ coelorachis, Forst. in Herb. Pans, Steud. 

 ' -^■'«. 11. n. 64. 



Ceuoji . 



StemZ' "^'*"' Colombo, Trim en. ~~D^sr rib. Malay and Pacific Islds., Anstraluw 

 ^iin »n'!T^''' ^oo^y branched and widely creeping below. Leave* 3-b by 

 Me "in,^, .°S or erect, acuminate, glaucous; sheaths glabrous or mouth cilmtc ; 

 2fl(i . ;" u 'i"^""««- Spikes 2-6 in. strict, erect : rachis glabrous. ^ SpjMeU 



<l"ely truucaie or 2-IoI)cd, ghibrous.' Grain oblong. 



'P'l'es L****?»"»'6'hianuB, ^-/emZ. Si^n. Gram. 3o7 ; _ annual, erect 

 "»«ar-oS^'P^^^'^°l«d very slender inarticulate, gl. ^^^T^.'^'l^^.' }^ 

 A>*i. pp« acute rather shorter th^n the fig. g'^-R^ttboell'^^ b> flora. 

 Shiana f{ '■ 3^7 (non Both.); Kunth Enum. PI. i. i<^l. «•? R"-- 



Ds„ ' ^'^"^^- -^«««- i'. 430. 

 ^t<«,e '''' Peninsula, 5o^?,„r^;i. Eastekk Panjab, dry bills in His.ar, Uerb. 



^''"'' ^^^"t 8 in. high, denaely tufted. Xeac« 3-4 in., filiform or setaceous, 



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