626 CXLIV. GRAMINES. [ Calachne. 
Styles short, distinct, with short s rad P Ne glumes and paleas 
scarcely ha rde ned, not elosed over the 
A small genus, spread over tropical Asia, "hg ime € I Sponte extending to 
the S SERA Peninsula and closely allied to a common Indian 
C. pulchella, R. Br. Prod. 187—A weak slender decumbent 
du grass, rarely ascending to 6 in. Leaves flat, lanceolate or 
ose, l 
branches filiform. Spikelets mostly pedicellate, scarcely 4 line long. 
Outer empty glumes almost orbicular, faintly 3-nerved, the 3rd or 
lowest floweri lume twice as long as the outer ones, and close 
ones Endeavour River, Benks and Solander, A. Cunningham. 
Also in Tavoy, Griffith, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. n. 8909 (partly). 'The common 
Indian plant bna to this species in the Fl. Hongk. andin Thwaites Enum. Pl. 
Zeyl. diffe almost spikelike panicle, the spikelets peg A longer, 
almost widow on the short erect branches, and is distinguished by Munro as 
Celachne brachiata, Munro (Isachne cene .et Arn. Panicum Jrachygiume 
and P, supinum, ig Steud. Syn, Glum.i. 95, 96.) 
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Spikelets 2-flowered, usuall t very numerous, in a loose or dense 
panicle, the flowers both emisse and similar, the rhachis of the 
©- spikelet articulate above the outer glumes and hairy round the flowering 
b ones. mpty glumes 2, persistent, acute or ering i oint Ms 
short awn, many (usu 9- to ll-) nerved. Flowering glumes wit 
fewer nerves, with long spreading hairs on the back or margins, d 
~ less or tapering into a fine straight or c awn not twiste Pa al 
2 TE flat, often hairy on the back, with 2 prominent almost mars gue 
~>. nerves. Styles distinct, short. Grain more or less attona enclos 
ej in the glume and palea, free from them. h 
EM Besides the Australian an species, which are mostly endemic, there are several in poe 
3 Africa, na two or three in n iiec Asia, of which one or perhaps two appear to 
the same ian on 
$ Awns ii longer aa the a Snes. Panicle dense. 
S Spikelets sessile or nearly 
.  Palea redii: into 2 fine ie ESSEN 
y— Outer ding ws vete cup pnr 4 "e long. Awn 
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L — Od rud 2 
d = glumes tutos to 2} lines long. E 2. E. Armitiii: 
4 Palea-point bin. entire or or minutely notched 
* Nodes densely bearded. Outer glumes hairy, nearly 
i 4 vp dis Awn about n 3, E. squerroet, 
: Nodes glabrous. Outer glumes hairy, about 2 lines 
T long. Awnunderiin . .. . . 4. E. glauca. 
1. E. stipacea. 
few pedic spikelets. Leaves narrow, hispid 
