506 CXLIV. GRAMINER. 
14. ZOYSIA, Willd. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, not awned, nearly sessile in a close spike, not 
distichous, the rhachis continuous. ape 2, the outer one bro 
complicate, keeled, the inner fi h smaller, thin and 
hyaline. Palea still smaller. Styles Sekine. Grain free, enclosed in 
the somewhat hardened outer glume 
Besides the Australian species, which is common in maritime sands of tropical and 
mn Asia and New Zealand, there appear to be one or two natives of Japan or 
Spike terminal, 1 to 14 in. lon ce erect, act appressed in 
the notches of the rhachis, 12 to 2 lines long. Outer glume rather 
acute, broad, smooth and shining, the sides views ili Flowering 
pai completely enclosed, usually much smaller thin and hyaline, but 
metimes more than half the outer one and rather more rigid.—h. 
Br. Prod. 208 ; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 116; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 418, 
with the synonyms adduced ; Sieb. Agrostoth. n. 52. 
Queensland. Port €— T Moreton — ug 
N. S. Wales. Port Jac ; bes near + Redbank, Woolls. 
se re . Sandy coasts of Raster Gipps’ land! T. M r 
E rtainly the same as dd a vu ant I had referred to Z. nd 
the Z. ww Hance in Seem, Journ. Bot. 1 1869, jen also from Hong Kong, Ln n 
to be a distinct species and should S eread include the Japanese Z. macrostachy% 
Franch, and Sabat. Enum, Pl. Jap. ii, 187. 
15. LAPPAGO, Schreb. 
(Tragus, Desf.) 
ith short 
enclosed palea thin and hyaline. Styles distinct, slender 
Beide the Australian species which is a common weed in most tropical a AT 
te regions in the New and the Old World, there are one or two others very 609 
Allied toit. The systematic position of the genus may require further der 
but its affinities appear to be ra: rather with Andropogone than with any other tri 
1. L. racemosa, Willd.; Kunth, Enum. i. 170, Revis. Gram. y 
