1034 CXLAII. GKAMIXK.E. 



Herb. Kew. Vl. B. I. v. 7, p. 2\)0 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 296 ; Lisboa, 

 iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 7 (1893) p. 3G8 ; Woodr. in Journ. J.oinb. Nat. 

 V. 13(1901) p. 440. 



Deccax: Bijiipur, Woodrow. Gujakat: Surat on tlie citv walls, Dahell\ Sind : 

 Jemadar ka Lauda near Karachi, Sioc/csl — JMstkib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Arabia, 

 Abyssinia. 



2. Chloris villosa, Pers. Syn. v. 1 (1805) p. 87. Perennial, 

 stout ; stems 6-10 in. long from a densely tufted stout woody base, 

 clothed with equitant leaf-sheaths. Leaves 1-3 by jVtV ^^•' lii'^^^'"? 

 acute, flat, convolute or twisted, rigid ; ligule obscure. Spikes 1-3, 

 erect, pale yellow, lg-2| by |— | iu. ISpikelets ^ in. long, obconic, 

 with 4 unequal awns. Glumes 5 ; lower iuvol.-glume § in. long 

 (including a short awn), obloug-lanceolate, hyaline; upper invol.- 

 glume ^ in. long, oblong, hyaline, 2-toothed at the tip and shortly 

 awned ; glume- of the hermaphrodite floret ^ in. long, broadly ovate 

 or suborbicular, concave, with an awn | in. long or more, and broad 

 hyaline margins bounded by the lateral nerves, hirsute all over with 

 long silky hairs which are much longer than the glume, the palt-a 

 elliptic-obovate with ciliate margins, hyaline; the next glume (4th) 

 bairen, about | as long, also hirsute, the next (5th) small, cuneate, the 

 6th reduced to an awn. Fl. B. 1, v. 7, p. 291 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 440, Chloris ietrapo<ion, Beauv. Agrosf. 

 (1812) p. ]58. Tttrupocjon vlllosus, Desf. Fl. Atlant. v. 2 (1798) 

 p. 389, t. 255. 



Sind: Stoc/ii>, 6441 — DiSTiiiB. India (Paiijab, Ilajputana); westwai-d to tlie 

 Canaries. 



3. Chloris incompleta, Roth, iVuy. PI. Sji. (1821) p. 60. Peren- 

 nial ; stems procumbent, or erect when growing amongst bushes, 

 reaching a height of 5 ft., ending in a very long naked peduncle. 

 Leaves 6-12 by ^-| in., narrowed into a flue point, flat, glabrous or 

 slightly hairy ; sbeaths long, smooth, the mouth hairy ; ligule of long 

 hairs. Spikes 4-6, in terminal whorls, 4-9 in. long ; rhachis filiform, 

 scabrid. Spikelets I in. long (excluding the awns), narrow)}^ fusiform, 

 imbricating, erect, closely appressed ; rhachilla slender, bearing jL in. 

 from its base a tuft of hairs, a little above which is a barren glume 

 t-erminated by a long awn reaching ^ in. long. Glumes 4 ; lower 

 invol.-gliime y^^ in. long, lanceolate, acute ; upper invol. -glume i iu. 

 lung (excluding awn), narrowly lanceolate, membranous, 2-toothed at 

 the apex, with a strong midnerve which is produced into an awn ^V ^'^• 

 long ; floral glume of fertile floret as long as the upper invol. -glume, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2-toothed at the apex, with an awn g in. long ; 

 palea as long as the glume, acuminate ; callus beai'ded ; fourth glume 

 small, rudimentary. Sir J. Hooker (Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 275) describes 

 the barren 4th ghnne as a swelling of the rhachilla which it much 

 resembles. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 290; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 275; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 440 ;" Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1227. Chloris diijitata, Steud. Syn. Gram. (1855) p. 207 ; Lisboa, 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 7 (189.'5) p. 369. McJiai (lir/itafu, lioxb. Fl. 

 Jnd. V. 1 (hs32) p. 326; Grab. Cat. p. 236.— Flowers : Feb. 



KoNK.v.N: Tiii'iiiR, Ijis-hoa. Deccan: Nasik, Lishon. Kanaka: (N. Kaiiara), Woodrow. 

 — Uisrinii. Tlirougiioiil tlie plains of India ; CVjion, Afglianistmi, China. 



