D40 cxLVii. gkamine^t:. 



El. B. I. V. 7, p. 104 ; Woodr. iu Journ. P,omb. Nat. v. 13 (] 901) p. 436.— 

 riowers : Oct. 



KoNKAN : Ratnagiri, Woodrowl; Marmagao, Talhot, 2557! — Distrib. ludia 

 (W. Peninsula). 



3. Simeria gracilis, I^ecs, ex Steud. Syn. Gram. (1855) p. 413. 

 rerennial ; stems densely tufted, 1-3 ft. high, leafy, stout or slender, 

 rarely branched. Leaves 6-10 by g— 1- in., erect, rigid, narrowly linear, 

 finely acuminate, glabrous or pilose, base narrowed into the sheath ; 

 sheaths terete, not auricled at the mouth ; ligule short, broad, mem- 

 branous, ciliolate. Racemes 3-10, very slender, 3-5 in. long, pale 

 brown, lax-flowered, flexuous ; rhachis filiform, obtusely trigonous or 

 subterete, glabrous. Spikelets \-\ in. long ; pedicels long or short ; 

 c:illus very short; densely bearded. Glumes 4; lower invol. -glume 

 Jr in. lon'j', linear, acute, plicate, more or less scaberulous ; upper invol. - 

 glume i in. long, linear, acute, aristate, with hyaline ciliolate margins; 

 lower floral glume obovate-oblong, ciliolate above the middle ; upper 

 floral glume -^ in. long, linear-oblong, acutely 2-fid ; awn | in. long (or 

 more), the lower third brown, the upper two-thirds white ; palea minute, 

 narrow, ciliate. Lodicules large, broadly cuneate. Fl. B. 1. v. 7, 

 p. 105 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 5, p.' 19« ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 436.-^riowers : Dec. 



KoNKAN : Law\, Stocksl Deccan: Woodrow, 172!; Lanoli, Woodrow. — DiSTRrB. 

 India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



15. IMPERATA, Cyrill. 



Erect perennial grasses ; stem leafy ; internodes solid. Leaves 

 narrow. Spikelets 1-flowered, in spike-like subcylindric silvery-silky 

 panicles, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rhachises, all 

 alike and 2-sexual, naiTow, terete, hidden among very long hairs arising 

 from a small callus and from outer glumes, 2-uate, a sessile and a pedi- 

 cellate one, articulate at the base, fugacious. Glumes 4; invol. - 

 glumes subequal, membranous, dorsally rounded or the upper obscurely 

 keeled, 3-5-nerved at the base ; lower invol.-glume ovate-lanceolate 

 with a hyaline obtuse tip; upper invol.-glume acuminate; floral 

 glumes short, often erose ; palea minute, hyaline. Lodicules 0. 

 Stamens 1 or 2. Styles connate below ; stigmas very long, narrow, 

 exserted at the top of the spikelets. Grain small, oblong. — Distrib. 

 Species 5, tropical, chiefly American ; 2 Asiatic, one also European. 



1. Imperata arundinacea, CyriU, PI. Ear. Neap. fasc. 2 (1792) 

 p. 26, t. 11. Rootstock stoloniferous, often creeping; stem 1-3 ft. 

 high, stout or slender ; nodes naked or bearded. Leaves 6-18 by y'g— 

 ^ in., linear, flat, tapering from the middle to a finely acuminate point, 

 smooth above, scaberulous beneath and on tiie margins ; sheaths loose, 

 glabrous ; ligule of long soft hairs. Panicle 3-8 in. long, narrow, spike- 

 like, subcylindric, silvery-white ; branches short, cro\^■ded, appressed. 

 Spikelets -g. in. long, lanceolate ; pedicels -5'^— 1- in. long; hairs of callus 

 twice as lojfig as the spikelet. Glumes 4; invol. -glumes ovate-lanceolate, 

 subequal in length, obtuse or subobtuse, with ciliate tips, 3-7-nerved ; 

 lower floral glume less than 4 as long as the invol. -glumes, oblong, 

 obtuse, denticulate, ciliate, nerveless ; upper floral glume ovate, glabrous, 

 nerveless or with 1 faint nerve. Anthers j\, in. long, orange. Stigmas 



