CXLVII. GRAMINEiE, 1015 



clliate margins, closely striate ; lowest sheaths short, broad, pale, the 

 intermediate ones more or less herbaceous, the uppermost tumid, usually 

 embracing the base of tlie panicle; ligule a slender ciliate rim. Inflores- 

 cence a cylindric spike-like panicle |-3 in. long ; rhachis slender, straight 

 or slightly undulate, pubescent. ISpikelets ^ in. long, acute, usually 2 

 facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet M'ith 2 equal 

 ecliinate glumes ; pedicels stout, about ^o ^^- ^o^^g- Griumes 3 or 2 ; 

 lower invoL -glume very minute, about ^ in. long, hyaline, often sup- 

 pressed ; upper invol.-ghime -g- in. long, slightly curved, involute, 

 enveloping the floral glume, strongly 5-ribbed, with rows of stout hooked 

 spines along the ribs, thin between the ribs ; floral glume solitary, 

 -jItj in. long, oblong-lanceolate, shortly apiculate. !F1. B. 1. v. 7, p. 97; 

 All. n. Pedem. v. 2 (1785) p. 241; Trim. Fl. Cevl v. 5, p. 187; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 435 ; "Prain, Beng. PL 

 p. 118G. Lappacjo hijlora, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 281 ; Grah. 

 Cat. p. 234. Lajtpago aliena, Spreug. Neue Entdeck. v. 3 (1822) p. 15 ; 

 Dalz. & Gi-ibs. p. 295. — Flowers : Sept. •- 



KoNKAN : Salsette, Graham. Deccan : Bijapiir, Cooke], Woodrow \ ; Poona, 

 Jacquemont, 386 ! S. M. Countuy : Badami, Woodrow ! Gujarat : Doma8, uear 

 Surat, Law ex Graham; Rajkot (Kathiawar), Woodroiv. Sind : S(ocks\ Dalzell tf 

 Gibson. — Distrib. More or less throughout the di-y plains of India ; Ceylou, all warm 

 countries, Southern Europe. 



47. LATIPES, Kunth. 



A perennial rather rigid grass. Leaves subulate, convolute. Spikelets 

 1-flowered, in simple spike-like racemes, 2-seriate (1 usually imperfect), 

 persistent on the flattened truncate spreading articulate pedicels ; 

 rhachis flexuous. Glumes 3 ; in vol. -glumes thickly coriaceous; lower 

 invol. -glume usually the longest, narrow, recurved, 3-nei'ved, with 

 pectinate margins, dorsally smooth ; upper invol.-ghime lanceolate, 

 spinulously tuberculate, embracing the floral glume ; floral glume solitary, 

 shorter than the upper invol. -glume, oblong, acute, hyaline ; palea 

 minute, linear-oblong. Lodicules 2, hyaline. Stamens 3 ; anthers 

 oblong. Styles free. Grain free, obliquely ovoid-lanceolate. — Disirib. 

 India, Beluchistan, Arabia, Abyssinia, Senegal ; species 1. 



1. Latipes senegalensis, Kunth, Revis. Oram. v. 1 (1829) p. 261, 

 t. 42. Stems 3-12 in. long, wiry, creeping, with many erect or spreading 

 branches, leafy. Leaves 1-3 in. long, subulate, convolute ; sheaths 

 glabrous, the mouth hairy ; ligule 0. liacemes 2-6 in. long; rhachis 

 glabrous ; pedicels distant, -^jj in. long, cuneate, flattened, with winged 

 and ciliate margins, bearing at the broad apex 2 purplish-brown spikelets 

 one perfect, the other not. Glumes 3 ; lower invol.-glume rather more 

 than i in. long, lanceolate, narrow, recurved, 3-nerved, with pectinate 

 margins, purplish-brown ; upper invol.-glume rather more than -Jg- in. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, purplish-brown, tuberculate on the back ; floral 

 glume solitary, Jy in. long, ovate-oblong, acute, hyaline. Fl. B. I. v. 7, 

 p. 97 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 435.— Flowers : 

 Sept. 



Sind: Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, Sfocki^, IISG!; 20 miles N. of Karachi, 

 Woodrow. 



