CXLIV, GRAMINEX. 515 
23. CHIONACHNE, R. Br. 
pe 
duncles bearing a sheathing bract under the spike. ale spikelets in 
airs. Outer glume the largest; membranous and many-nerved, 
g 
` Smooth outer glume but free from it, the rhachis of the spike at length 
articulate between each female spikelet.. 
. Asmall genus, extending over tropical Asia. Of the two Australian species one 
18acommon Indian one, the other apparently endemic though closely allied to one 
from the Indian Peninsula. 
Peduncles several in the upper leaf-sheaths. Bracts 
spreading under the spike. Spike 1 in. or rather 
longer, with only 1 female spikelet . . . - - - +- l C barbata. 
Peduncles solitary in the leaf-sheaths, the bract closely 
embracing the base of the spike. Spike 3 to 4 in. long, 
to 6 female spikelets . . . - +++ ++ 2G cyathopoda. 
L C. barbata, R. Br. in Benn. Pi. Jav. Rar. 18. — An erect - 
stout branching grass, attaining several feet, but said to be annual. 
Leaves flat, broad or narrow, very scabrous, the sheaths usually 
Sprinkled with rigid spreading hairs. Nodes glabrous or bearded. 
EI 
[e] 
about 1 ‘in. long, at first close and sheathing but at length opening 
out, Spike scarcely exceeding the braet. Fe 
n the base, ovoid-oblong, nearly 4 lines | 
ja to 5 lines long, narrow, rather acute. I 
te above and below the female spikelets, the peduncle dilated 
I cup-shaped under it.—Coiz barbata, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 66 and 
l. Ind. iii. 569. 
aed. Burdekin River, Bowman ; Cardwell District, Bailey (Herb. F- 
». 
widely Spread over East India and originally described as Coir arundinacea, 
nl. Spec. , Pl. iv. 203, but that specific name having been preoccupied by 
k, wn and Bennett in sferring it to Chionachne took up Rox s 
wes € 0f barbata entered into the Hortus Benghalensis (1814) as we 
baria, though described only in the Flora Indica. T 
