CXLVri. GTIAMINE^, 1029 



p. 441 ; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1221 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 258. 

 Pi)a cynosuroides, Eetz. Obs. fasc. 4 (1786) p. 20 ; Grab. Cat. p. 236. — 

 Flowers: Dec. V'ern. Darhha; Kusha. 



Deccan : Nasik, Lisboa. Gtujarat : Liaboa ; Mandvi (Katliiawar), Wondrovi. 

 SiND : Hyderabad, Woodrow. — Distrib. Throughout India in hot and dry places ; 

 Nubia, Egypt, Syria. 



15. Eragrostis bifaria, Wight, ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, pai't 1 (1840) 

 p. 562. Perennial ; stems 1-3 ft. high, densely tufted, erect, simple, sub- 

 compressed, glabrous, clothed at the base with the soft fibres of old 

 sheaths. Leaves 2-4 in. long, narrow, linear, acute, rigid, smooth ; 

 sheaths glabrous, keeled ; ligule a pubescent line. Spikelets secund,. 

 distichously spreading in a long simple terminal spike 10-12 in. loug. 

 Spikelets ovoid to oblong, 15-20-flowered, |-l in. long (rarely linear, 

 reaching | in. long and up to 40-flowered), laterally compressed, 

 olive-grey or -green. Invol. -glumes strongly 1-nerved and keeled ; 

 lower invol.-glume \ in. long, acutely acuminate, with scaberulous 

 keel ; upper invol.-glume j^ in. long, with stout rounded keel ; floral 

 glumes broadly ovate, subacute, § in, long ; palea slightly shorter than 

 its glume, with winged keels, the wings y^ in. wide, ciliolate. Stamens 

 3 ; anthers Jg- in. long. PL B. I. v. 7, p. 325 ; Lisboa, in Joui'n. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 7 (1893) p. 387; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901)- 

 p. 441. — Plowers : Aug. 



Decc'An : Khandala, JVbodrow. S. M. Country: Belguuni, RitcJtk. — Disntiu. 

 India (W. Peninsula); Tropical Africa. 



52. HALOPYRUM, Stapf. 



A tall stout perennial glabrous grass with a branching creeping 

 sheathed rootstock. Leaves narrow, rigid, convolute. Spikelets large, 

 many-flowered, sessile or shortly pedicellate on the short alternate 

 branches of an elongate panicle, ovoid, strongly laterally compressed, 

 not jointed on their pedicels, nor are the pedicels jointed on the 

 branches; rhachilla articulate at the base and between the ilowering 

 glumes, silkily hairy. Grlumes many, closely distichously imbricate, 

 dorsally rounded, coriaceous, keeled; invol.-glumes subequal, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate or apiculate ; lower invol.-glume 1-3-nerved ; 

 upper invol.-glume 5-nerved ; floral glumes 6-10, rather shorter than 

 the involucral, mucronulate, 3-nerved ; palea as long as the glume, 

 subacute, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, obcordate. Stamens 3. Styles short, 

 free; stigmas elongate. Grain ellipsoid, compressed, deeply hollowed 

 anticously, free. — Distrib. Coasts of India and Ceylon, Arabia, Tropical 

 Africa ; species 1. 



1. Halopyrum mucronatum, Stapf, in Hook. Icon. PL v. 25, 

 t. 2448 (1896). Eootstock sending up hard woody stems 12-18 in. 

 high and as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, shining, with strict vermiform 

 roots, the branches often fascicled and clothed at the base with pal© 

 coriaceous shining mucronate sheaths. Leaves 8-12 by ■§■- ^ in., con- 

 volute (rarely flat), very narrow, glaucous, coriaceous, striate, quite 

 smooth ; sheaths terete, appressed, striate, hard, \\ ith villous mouth ; 

 ligule a few hairs. Panicle 12-16 in. long, erect or nodding; rhachis 

 and branches quite smooth, angular, \Airy. Spikelets |-| in. long, flat,. 



