1040 CXLVII. GRAMINK-.'E. 



throughout ; nodes ghibrous. Leaves 3-8 by ^-^ in., linear, finely 

 acuminate, flaccid, glabrous or sparsely hairy, contracted at the inser- 

 tion ; sheaths thin, loose, glabrous ; ligule a narrow lacerate membrane. 

 Spikes i-1.^ in. long, racemosely arranged along the axis of an inflores- 

 cence 4-12 in. long, alternate, single or in fascicles of 2-3 together; 

 rhachis dorsally flattened, ventrally trigonous. Spikelets ^ in. long 

 (including the awns), alternate, sessile. Invol.-glumes lanceolate, 

 liyaline, keeled, with slightly recurved minutely scaberulous awns, the 

 lower invol.-glume shorter than the upper ; floral glumes reaching ^^ in. 

 long, ovate-oblong, subacute, white. Anthers ^^-g- in. long. Grain 

 ellipsoid-oblong, trigonous, ^ in. long, pale brown. Fl. B. I. v. 7, 

 p. 297; Trim. F\. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 280; Uuthie, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 p. 55; Lisboa, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 7 (1893) p. 372; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 440; Brain, Beug. PI. p. 1230; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 115. Lc/itochha cahjcina, Kunth, 

 Bevis. Gram. v. 1 (1829) p. 91 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 29(j.— Flowers : Aug. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Stocks ! Deccan : Poona, Woodrotn. Gujarat : banks of the 

 Tapti above Surat, Balzell ^ Gibson ; Surat, Woodrow ; Morvi (Katliiawar), Woodrow. 

 — UisTiuB. India (W. Peninsula); Ceylon, Afghanistan, and westward to Senegal. 



61. ENNEAPOGON, Desv. 

 Perennial grasses. Leaves narrow, often convolute; ligules reduced 

 to a line of hairs. Spikelets 3-flowered, in contracted or spike-like 

 panicles ; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes ; lowest floret 

 hermaphrodite, the intermediate male or barren, the uppermost rudi- 

 mentary. Invol.-glumes persistent, membranous, acute, obtuse or 

 minutely truncate, 3-9-nerved. IIekmapiiroditb floret: glume very 

 broad, much shorter (excluding the awns) than the invol.-glume.s, 

 9-nerved, 9-awned, the awns subulate, equal or subequal, phunose, 

 ciliate, or scaberulous ; callus minute, shoi't ; palea ovate-oblong, 

 2-keeled. Lodicuhss 2, minute, cuneale, fleshy. Stamens 3. Ovary 

 glabrous ; styles distinct, short ; stigmas laterally exserted, plumose. 

 Grain oblong. Inteiimediate floret like the lower, but the floral 

 glume shorter, glabrous, the ovary rudimentary or suppressed. Upper- 

 most E-LORET rudimentary or reduced to a tuft of hairs. — Distimij. 

 Species about G, in the dry warm r(;gions of the Old World and in 

 Australia ; 1 species in Western N. America. 



1. Enneapogon elegans, T. CooJce. Stem 3-18 in. high, slender, 

 wiry, erect or ast'cnding IVoni a subwoody often thickened base; nodes 

 often tomentose. Leaves .^-5 in. long, usually convolute, pungently 

 pointed, more or less softly pubescent; sheaths puberulous ; ligule a 

 line of hairs. Pani(;le 1-3 in. long; branches very short; rhachis 

 villous. Spikelets with their awns up to .] in. long or more, sessile and 

 pedicellate, softly tomentose, nearly white. Tiower invol.-glume ,\ in. 

 long, lanceolate, acute, .5-7-nerved ; upper invol.-glume J, in. long, 

 lanceolate, acute, 7-nerved ; glume of lu'rmaphroditci flon't orbicular 

 below, cleft above into 9 subulate awn-like lobes which are plumose iji 

 tlie lower half; palea ovate, 2-keeled, the keels pubescent. I'appo- 

 jihorum e7<'yaH.s, Nees, in Wight, Oat. n. 1771 (1833); Fl. B, L v. 7, 

 ]). 301 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bond). Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 440. 



Sind; KnrMclii district, }]'i»;/rnii\ Distiimi. India (Pesliawnr, TiirniM. \V. Peninsula). 



