1012 CXLTII. GRAMIKE.i:. 



V. 7, p. 230; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Kat. v. 13 (1901) p. 439.— 

 Flowers : Dec. 



Z^aZ^e^^ without locality in Herb. Kcw. I Gujarat: Dvvarka (Kathiawar), Woolrov). 

 Sind: salt-water creeks, Stocks, 455 !— Distrib. Arabia. 



43. WOODROWIA, Stapf. 



Anuual. Leaves naiTow, flat. Panicle terminal, contracted, pediiii- 

 eulate ; rhachis short ; branches very slender, simple. Spikelets 2-5, 

 girt at the base with short shining hairs, 1-flowered, arranged along the 

 inarticulate branches of the panicle, articulated with the pedicel which 

 is dilated at the apex, laterally compressed, the flower hermaphrodite. 

 Glumes 3; invol.-glumes empty, acute, more or less thickened on the 

 rounded back, obscurely 1-nerved; lower invol. -glume longer and 

 broader than the upper; floral glume about as long as the upper invol. - 

 glume, hyaline, 1-nerved, 2-lobed at the apex, with a slender geniculate 

 awn between the lobes ; palea hyaline. Lodicules 2, cuneate, lobulate. 

 Stamens 2. Styles distinct ; stigmas narrowly plumose, laterally ex- 

 serted. Graiu slender, cyliudric, free within the glumes. — Distbib. W. 

 Peninsula of India ; species 1. 



1. Woodrowia diandra, Stapf, in Hooh. Icon. PI. (1896) t. 2447. 

 An annual grass l|-2 ft. high. Lower leaves 3-4 by y^-^ in., nar- 

 rowly linear, setaceously acuminate ; uppermost loaves reduced or 

 entirely suppressed, hirsute, margins scabrid ; sheaths close, glabrous 

 or hairy at the mouth ; ligulo short, truncate, ciliolate. Panicle about 

 2 in. long; rhachis slender; pedicels very short, -^-^ in. long; branches 

 of panicle about 4. Spikelets | in. long, rather distant, green or tinged 

 with violet. Glumes 3 ; lower invol. -glume more or less doisally hairy, 

 Avith ciliolate margins; upper invol. -glume with a densely ciliate keel; 

 floral glume 2-lobed, with a geniculate awn about ^ in. long from the 

 sinus; column of awn \ in. long, spirally ciliate, brown, the upper part 

 of the awn yellow, longer than the column; })alea obovate-oblong, 

 hyaline, nerveless. Lodicules unequally lobed. Grain yellow, glabrous, 

 J-5 in. long. PL B. I. v. 7, p. 241 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 439.— Plowers : Sept.-Oct. Vebn. Koiir. 



Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow, 24 ! — Distrib. India, W. Peiiinsiila. 



44. GARNOTIA, Brongn. 



Erect, perennial (rarely annual), stout or slender grasses. Leaves 

 flat or convolute. Spikelets paniculate, very small, narrow, terete, 

 1-flowered, solitary or 2-nate, jointed on their pedicels ; rhachilla not 

 produced beyond the floret. Glumes 3; invol.-glumes subeqnal, lanceo- 

 late, acute, acuminate or awned, strongly 3-ncrved, empty ; floral glume 

 as long as the invol.-glumes, lanceolate, acuminate or awned, thinly 

 coriaceous or membranous, quite smootli, faintly 1-nerved, paleale, 

 2-sexual, tip acute or minutely 2-dentate ; awn rarely jointed, some- 

 times geniculate, slender, scaberulous ; palea as long as the glume, 

 linear, the lobes minutely auricled at the base. ]/odicules 2. Stamens 

 3; anthers linear. Styles free; stigmas with simple hairs, hilerally 

 exserted. Grain linear or oblong, dorsally compnsscd, free witbia 



