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27. APOCOPIS, Nees. 



Annual or perennial grasses ; stems slender. Leaves narrow, flat, 

 Kacemes solitary or 2-3-nate, compressed ; rhachis firm, not readily 

 disarticulating ; iuternodes very short, slender, villous. Spikelets secund, 

 closely imbricating in 2 series, solitary, sessile, 1-2-flowered, the lowesc 

 2-4 in each raceme imperfect, neuter; callus very short, acute, bearing 

 t he long capillary ciliate pedicel of an obsolete upper spikelet. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol.-glume very large, cuneately obovate or obcordate, chartaceous 

 below, membranous above, more or less villous with pale brown or yellow 

 hairs, 7-9-nerved below the apex, margins incurved at the base only ; 

 upper invol.-glume as long as the lower, much narrower, membranous, 

 oblong-ovate, truncate, 3-nerved, the sides broadly incurved ; lower 

 floral glume and its hyaline palea oblong, the tips broadly truncate and 

 ciliolate, male or empty; upper floral glume 2-sexual, linear, 2-dentate, 

 1 -nerved, hyaline, paleate, awned ; palea half as long as the glume, 

 quadrately oblong, nerveless, truncate with ciliolate tip ; awn short, 

 very slender, twisted. Lodicules 0. Stamens 2 or 3 ; anthers linear. 

 Ovary narrow ; stigmas slender, exserted at the top of the spikelet. 

 Grain small, narrowly oblong. — Distrib. Eastern Asia ; species 3 or 4. 



1. Apocopis vaginatiis, Had-, in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. v. 41 (1891) 

 p. 8. A low decumbent annual ; stems much branched from the base, 

 3-8 in. long. Leaves f-lf by yV—g- m., linear, acute, shorter upwards, 

 hairy from tubercular bases; sheaths lax, longer than the intemodes, 

 hairy at the mouth ; ligule a small membrane, llaceines 2-nate, ^-^in. 

 long, closely appressed together, partly or almost entirely enclosed 

 during flowering in the sheaths of the upper leaves, supported by a 

 short common peduncle,, more or less hairy with yellowish-brown hairs; 

 joints much shorter than the spikelets, ciliate. Spikelets oblong, 4- in., 

 long, brown, nearly uniform in color ; callus very short, hairy with long 

 brown hairs. Glumes 4; lower invol.-glume ^ in. long, membranous, 

 obovate, truncate or emarginate at the ciliate hyaline apex, densely 

 brown hairy in the lower half, 7-9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing 

 below the apex ; upper invol.-glume as long as the lower, quadrate- 

 oblong, truncate at the hyaline margin, hairy in the lower half, 3-nerved, 

 fliiely ciliolate at the apex; lower floral glume ^ in. long, hyaline, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, ciliolate at the apex, nerveless; upper floral glume i in. 

 long, conspicuously exceeding the other glumes, linear, membranous, 

 truncate and shortly 2-dentate at the apex, awned ; awn perfect, g-l^ in. 

 long. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437. A. WightH 

 var. vagiaata, Hook, f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 143. 



KoNKAN : Kalyan, Woodrow. Kanaea : N. Kauara, Talbot ex Woodrow. — Distuib. 

 Imlia (H;izaribcigli (Bengal), C. B. Clarke). 



I have not seen any speciniens from tiie Bombay Presidency. 



28. ARTHRAXON, Beauv, 



Annual or perennial slender grasses ; stems decumbent, creeping and 

 branching below. Leaves shorD, broad, cordate at the base; sheaths 

 shorter than the internodes. Kacemes 2-nate, digitate or fasciculate; 

 rhachis very slender, articulate, fragile. Spikelets 1-flowered, secund, 

 ses.-5ile, solitary or with an imperfect pedicyllate spikelet, laterally com- 



