444 GRAMINE^. 



Carcx lindlcyana Nees ; F.B.L vi 721, XXVIU 63. 

 Rhizome long, woolly, creeping, sheathed by the fibrous 

 remains of the leaf-bases. Leaves flat, ^ inch, finely 

 acute, the lowest 10 to 12 inches : upper, on the stems, 

 shorter. Stems I to 2^ feet slender. ' Flowers ' in dense 

 spikes or spike-like panicles in the axils of the upper 

 (short) leaves. Utricle Ye inch, oblong ellipsoid, many- 

 nerved, with linear deeply bifid beak, its bract often 

 scabrid on the keel and short awn ; as also are the stalks 

 of the spikes. Stylar branches three. 



Pulneys : by the Kcdaikanal lake. Bourfie 3103. Nilgiris, 

 6 to 8,000 feet. Wight ' frequent. ' 



* var major ; a robuster plant with larger spikes but other- 

 wise apparently the same, near Berberis shola, Kodaikanal. 

 Bourne 1461. 



GRAMINEit. 



Grass, Batnboo. 

 Annual or perennial herbs with round hollow stems 

 and swollen nodes, at which they are often bent 

 abruptly and root near the ground ; often tufted at the 

 base but not usually branching much above ground. 

 Leaves in two opposite rows, clasping the stem by a 

 lower split sheath, and with a narrow free blade, which 

 has many parallel nerves, and at the junction between 

 sheath and blade a small flap of thin tissue, often 

 reduced to mere hairs, termed the ligule. Flowers small 

 and consisting only of three stamens with long anthers 

 lightly attached by the middle to slender filaments, a 

 one-celled ovary with two feathery styles, and in addition 

 two small white bodies, of obscure origin, termed 

 lodicules : these all enclosed between a firm, more or less 

 boat-shaped and ribbed glume below, and a thin papery 

 two-nerved palea, above. One or more such flowers, 

 arranged close above each other in two opposite rows, 



