^62 'CXLTII. GEAMINEJ^. 



below the middle into acute glabrous lobes; palea liuear-oblong ; awn 

 :j-g in. long. Pedicellate spikelets rather shorter and narrower than the 

 .sessile, closely appressed to the sessile, with very broad pedicels -Jg- in. 

 long ; lower invol. -glume narrowly oblong, not ridged ; upper invol.- and 

 lower floral glumes as in the sessile spikelets ; upper floral glume 

 narrowly oblong, tip 2-toothed with a minute awn. PI. B. I. v. 7, 

 p. 130 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 213 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 436 ; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1195.— Plowers : Sept.-Nov. 



KoNKAN : Law ! ; Parel (Bombay), Woodrow ; Thana, Lisboa. Deccan : Woodrow ! ; 

 Lanoli, Woodrow ! ; Sattara, Lisboa. Kanaka : Yellapur, Talbot, 738 ! — Distrib. 

 India (Bengal, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



Var. dasyantha, Hack. Monog. Andropog. in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 6 

 (1889) p. 209. Lower invol. -glume appressedly villous at least in the 

 upper spikelets ; joints scabrous with hairy margins and keel. Ischcemum 

 ■conju'/atujn, Eosb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 8; Hook, f. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 131 ; 

 (}rah. Cat. p, 239 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 305 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 T. 13 (1901) p. 436 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1195.— Plowers : Dec. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Woodrow. Kanaka : Divimana, Woodrow. 



8. Ischaemum Lisboae, IIooJc f. Fl B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 133. 

 8tem creeping below, very stout, rooting at the thickened nodes ; 

 branches ascending, 8-14 in. long, glabrous. Leaves on the creeping 

 stem 1-2 by |-| in., oblong, acute, closely imbricating in 2 series, the 

 blades reflexed at right angles to the erect short open sheaths, softly 

 tomentose on both surfaces; lower sheaths ^-1 in. long, villous; ligule 

 short, bearded with very long hairs. Kacemes 2, softly tomentose, 2 in. 

 long ; joints and pedicels about | as long as the spikelets, stout, shortly 

 villous, concavo-convex, truncate. Sessile sj)il-elets -1 in. long ; callus 

 large, glabrous. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume tliickly coriaceous, 

 dorsally convex, 2-fid, ciliate above the middle, margins broadly incurved 

 below the middle, keels with broad auricular ciliate wings ; upper invol.- 

 glume 1 in. long, rather longer than the lower, rigid, the keel winged 

 above the middle, the back of the glume rounded below the wing, shortly 

 awned ; lower floral glume ovate-oblong,' obtuse, \\\t\\ ciliate margins, 

 paleate, male, the palea cliartaceous, obovate, with broad hyaline wings 

 above the middle ; up])er floral glume about j^^ in. long, 3-nerved below 

 the middle, obtusely 2-lobed ; paJea lanceolate ; awn about ^ in. long. 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 436. 



Kanaka : Nortli Kanara, Lisboa^ There is but one sheet in Herb. Kew., tlie 

 fiueciniens on which were collected in Kanara by Dr. Lisboa. I have seen no others. 



9. Ischaemum ciliare, Jietz. Obs. fasc. 6 (1791) p. 36. Stems 

 tufted, up to 2 ft. long, erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent below 

 and rooting at the nodes, slender ; nodes glabrous or bearded. Leaves 

 2-6 by ^-^ in., linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, flat, sessile, 

 glabrous, pubescent or villous, narrowed towards the acute or rounded 

 base, margins scabrid ; sheaths glabrous or hirsute, comjiressed, loose, 

 with ciliate rounded auricles ; ligule short, obtuse, membranous, ciliate. 

 liacemes 2, rather short, 1.^-2 in. long; rhachis fragile; internodes 

 and pedicels of upper spikelets subequal, erect, compressed, trigonous, 

 bearded dorsally and on the angles. Sessile sjnkclets l-l in. long, oblong 



