972 cxLTii. ghamin'e,!:, 



ri(lg(!s, traiishiceut ; upper invol. -glume slightly longer than the lower, 

 broadly lanceolate, chartaceous, with a long acumen, the back flat or 

 subconvex, with 5-7 short transverse ridges ; lower floral glume i in. 

 long, lanceolate, hyaline, 2-nerved, glabrous, the palea narrow, acute, 

 nerveless ; upper floral glume i in. long, ovate-lanceolate, hyaline, cleft 

 to the middle, glabrous, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves running into the 

 acute lanceolate lobes ; awu inserted at the sinus, |-1 in. long, the 

 column brown, twisted, equalling the yellow subulate portion ; palea 

 equalling the glume, oblong, ncuminate. Pedicel of the obsolete upper 

 spikelet longer than the sessile spikelet, linear, obtuse, curved, Hat, 

 ciliate on one margin. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 148 ; AV^oodr, in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 13 (1901) p. 437.— Flowers : Sept. 



KoNKAN : Siocls !, Law ! Deccan : Poona. WooJrc.w ; Hewra, Dal-ell I ; near Nasik, 

 KfU/eworthl S. M. Country: Eelgaum, liUchie,S\.'l\—Di^-viua. India (Centrallndiu, 

 \V Peninsula) ; Tropical Africa. 



30. ELIONURUS, Ilumb. & Bonpl. 



Aromatic csespitose grasses, usually perennial. Raceme solitary, 

 subsimple, clothed with silky hairs ; rhachis fragile, jointed, flattened. 

 Spikelets 2-nate (one sessile, the other pedicellate). Sessile spilcelets 

 dorsally compressed, 1-flowered, Glumes 4; lower invol. -glume sub- 

 coriaceous, often 2-toothed or 2-fid, dorsally flattened, 2-keeled, usually 

 with fine filiform transparent oil-glands close to the ciliate keels ; upper 

 invol. -glume membranous, lanceolate, acute, not awned ; lower floral 

 glume hyaline, empty, paleate or not; upper floral glume small, hyaline, 

 awnless, paleate or not. Lodicules 2, cuneate. iStamens 3. Stignuis 

 laterally exserted. Grain dorsally compressed, oblong. — DiSTiim. 

 Species about lo, in the tropical aud subtropical regions of both hemi- 

 spheres. 



Anntial; lower invol. -glume of sessile spikelet witli penicillate 



tubercles on the margin, the floral glumes not paleate 1. E. Eoyleanus. 



Perennial ; margins of lower invol. -glume of sessile spikelet not 



tuberculate, tbe floral glumes paleate 2. E. hirsuius. 



1. Elionurus Royleanus, Xees, ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abi/ss. v. 2 

 (1851) p. 471. Annual ; stems 3-12 in. high, slender, leafy, geniculate ; 

 nodes pubescent. Leaves 1 1-4 by ^ in,, linear-lanceolate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, rigid, suberect, at first green then together with the whole jilant 

 turning red, glabrous or sparsely hairy, fimbriate at the b;ise : lower sheaths 

 terete, much shorter than the internodes, the upper sjjathiform ; ligide 

 very short, menihranous. Racemes 1-2 in. long, erevt, yellowish-green 

 or often variegated with purple, each encloH^J in a long narrow flattened 

 shejith ; joints densely bearded at the apex with long white silky hairs, 

 obli(]uely disarticulating, shorter than the sessile spikelcts. Sessile 

 spikelels nearly | in. long (including the beak); callus about ^'^^ in. 

 long, densely bearded. Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume coriaceous, 

 nearly ^ in. long (including beak), running out into a usually violet- 

 colored, 2-fid beak about \ in. long, the lobes ciliate, linear, slightly 

 divergent, the margins of the glume below the beak with a row of large 

 AJolet-colort'd tubercles each carrying a pencil of whitish glistening hairs ; 

 njiper invol.-glume as long as the body of the lower, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, finely mucronate, membranous, l-ner\ed; lower fiural glume 



