C'XLVii. ghamine.t:. 909 



1-2 in. loDg, pale green or suffused with violet; rhaehis sparsely hairy ; 

 .joints about | as long as the spikelets. Sessile sjnkelets \ in. long (not 

 including the awn), linear-lanceolate; callus very short, not bearded. 

 Glumes 4; lower invoL-glume | in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, coria- 

 ceous, often purplish with a hyaUne tip, the keels serrately bristly with 

 strong curved teeth, the back convex, glabrous or muriculnte, 5-7-nerved, 

 with incurved margins ; upper invol.-glume similar, lanceolate, acuminate 

 or mucronulate, J^-nerved, with incurved margins ; lower floral glume ^ in. 

 long, acute, glabrous, membranous; upper floral glume hyaline; awn 

 |-| in. long, basal, the column equalling the subulate portion. Anthers 

 more than g in. long. Pedicellate spikelets 4- in, long, linear-lanceolate. 

 Stamens perfect, Fl, B. I. v, 7, p. 143 ; Woodr. in Journ, Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 437 ; Prain, Beng, PL p. 1198.— Plowers : Oct. Veen. 

 Harjala ; Qovinder. 



Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow. Gujarat; Morvi (Kathiawar"), Wovdrow. Sind : 

 Stocks, 642.'— DiSTRiB. More or less throughout India; Abyssinia, Tonkin, Cliina. 



3. Arthraxon Meeboldii, Stapf, MS. Annual ; stems 2-3 from 

 the base, shortly prostrate, ascending, 6-12 in. long, slender, tei'ete, 

 quite glabrous, often tinged with purple ; nodes pubescent. Leaves 

 ^-2 by ^-|- in., ovate lanceolate, finely acuminate, very sparsely hairy 

 with slender bulbous-based hairs, green above, glaucous beneath, ciliate 

 on the margins with bulbous-based hairs, base cordate, amplexicaul ; 

 she;iths of the lower leaves loose, the others close or the upper more 

 or less tumid, at first enclosing the panicles, glabrous or with a few 

 scattered hairs and more or less ciliate margins ; ligule about 17^ in. 

 long, quadrate, hyaline, shortly ciliate at the apex. Inflorescence of 

 paniculate racemes at the apex of the stems; branches 2-4, reaching 

 2 in. long ; joints of the rhaehis about ^ in. long, densely clothed with 

 long silvery hairs ; pedicels i in. long, broad. Sessile spikelets |-| in. 

 long, narrowly linear-lanceolate ; callus minute, bearded. Glumes 4 : 

 lower invol.-glume when young sometimes silky all over with a deciduous 

 tomentum, linear-lanceolate, chartaceous, with a purplish 2-fid acumen 

 with very narrow teeth and with incurved margins, keels serrately 

 muricate from the base up to | of their length, the murications passing 

 into tubercles which, in the upper third of the glume, are ciliate with 

 fine erect silky hairs; upper invol. -glume oblong-lanceolate, setosely 

 acuminate, membranous, equalling the lower one, 3-nerved, with hyaline 

 margins ; 1o\a er floral glume empty, elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, ^ in. 

 long, nerveless; upper floral glume linear-lanceolate, acute, rather more 

 than ^ in. long, hyaline, ari state from near the b;ise, the awn ^ in. long 

 or more. Pedicellate sjril'elets closely appressed to the sessile ones, 

 lanceolate, acute, chartaceous, shorter than the sessile spikelets ; lower 

 invol.-glume with rigidly ciliate keels, otherwise glabrous, 9-nerved ; 

 upper invoL-glume lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved ; lower floral glume 

 empty, ovate-oblong, hyaline, ^ in. long ; upper floral glume ovate, 

 2-dentate, equalling the lower, muc-ronulate between the teeth, hyaline, 

 male. Anthers ^ in. long, bright yellow. — Flowers : Sept. 



The long silky silvery hairs on the racemes are a good distinctive 

 mark of the species. 



Deccan : Khandala, Meebold, 9132; Mahableshwar, Cooke\ — Distrib. ludia (W. 



Peninsula). 



