366 CLXXiiL GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lepium. 



flexuous, flattened, margins ciliate M-ith long strict hairs ; sheath very short; ligule 

 minute, 2-auricled. Spikes 2-3 in., as lonjr as the filiform pedicels and hardly 

 stouter, strict, erect, SpikeleU ^^^^| in. 2-ad., both fl. bisexual (always?); gl I 

 sunk in the hollow of the rachis, obliquely ovate, 1-nerved, hyaline ; 11 liuear-obloDK, 

 acute, coriaceoa-^, dorsally smooth, convex with a broad undefined midrib ; III 

 hyaline, distinctly 3-nerved, oblong, truncate, callus penicillate ; palea byaune, 

 keels smooth ; IV narrower than III ; rachilla slender, penicillate. Lodicufes minute. 

 Anthers very short; filaments long. Ovary short; styles short, bases remote, 

 divergent.— There is in Roxburgh's unedited Icones an excellent drawina: of a small 

 state of this plant, of which I have no specimen but Mr. Duthie's; it is no doubt 

 overlooked from its small size and habit. 



127. OROPSTZUM, Trin. 



A very small densely tufted erect annual. Leaves filiform. SpikeleU 

 very minute, 1-fld., halt* immersed in the alternating distichous cavities ot 

 the rachis of a simple slender carved inarticulate spike ; rachilla bearded. 

 Glumes I and II empty, persistent, I very minute, hyaline; II linear- 

 lanceolate, rigid, recurved in fruit, tip obtuse or emarginate; III shorter, 

 broader, hyaline, obtuse or truncate, 1-nerveJ; palea narrow, keels smootn. 

 Lodiniles 0? Stamens ;j. Styles short. Grain oblong, terete, free. 



Nardus strida, Linn., is, according to Stewart, " Punjab Plants," p. 257, a native 

 of the Trans- Indus district, and at a considerable elevation in the Jht^lum basin. 

 This is no doubt an error. Boissier gives as its Eastern limit, the Caucasus. 



O. Tbomaeum, Trin. Fund, Agrost, 98, t. 3 ; Kuntli Enu^n.Tl'^'^ 

 ARA .c»«^/ Qrn. ^iq ],y Ind, Bat. iii. 403; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl^<>^^ 



Trim. Cat, CeyL PI. HO; Wall. Cat, n. 8869; Wight Cat, n. 17^ . 

 Ihithie Graxs^ ^ Ifr t^j ak jr,,jj a^r.^^ AT hiA. 69. Bottboeuia 



Ind. 69. 



Thomsea, Koenig in Nat 

 PL Gorom. ii. 17, t. 133 

 R. pilosa, Willd. L c. 46^ 

 Trans. Linn, Soc, L 116. 



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Plains OF LvorA; from the Panjah to Bengal, Burma, and southward m t e 

 Westkrx Peninsula. Ceitlox, Gardner. i Tin, 



Whole plant 2-3 in. high, forming hard tufts, stems compressed. Leaves t- ^^^ 

 erect, margins filiate with long strict hairs; sheath short, open; ligule ^*^^*^''' V^^^t 

 auricled. Spikes l-l'^ in., about ^U in. diam., solitary or fascicled on ^^^-^ ^^^.^.^g 

 brunches, curved ; rachis undulating, green, tetragonous, with a hro.id ^^"*'|'"1. ^ ^f 

 on the fliit face^. Si)i^e/e/!s ^'^ in., closely appressed to the rachis in t*l*^ \. L^e*! 

 which the minute gl. I is sunk; gl. II slightly convex with a broad ^"l*;^ . i- 

 centrp? Tfl apmw.iw.iW..,. ;« r^.*.^fli^ ^^^.,„ .:„^k- «,«.^k^..«^«« l-t^A most minut; 



TRITICUBI 



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Annnal or biennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelefs f^w-flJ-, ti^^l^' 

 sessile, diatichously epical e, solitary, with their sides opposite ca^ »^'°-^^^^^^ 

 the articulate or inarticulate rachis ; upper H. male or neuter, tr _ 

 ngid, often unequal-sided, I and II empty, obtuse or shortly awne.,j 

 nerved, per6i>tent ; flg.gls. oblong or ventricose. dorsally rounded or h^.^^^ 

 above, awnlesa or 1-3-awned, 5-9-nerved, lateral nerves not conaivmg ^ ^ 

 the central ; keela of palea ciliate. LodicuJes entire, ciliate. '^^"JLreot 

 btyles very short Grain grooved veatrally, often hairy, free or aan 

 to the palea.— Species about 10, Oriental and Eastern Asiatic. 



