cxLVii. cajAMiNK.i:. 1U4-5 



glume much larger, 5-7-nerved from below the hyaline tip; floral 

 glumes oblong, apiculate, 7-9-uerve(I ; paleavery large, broadly cuueate, 

 y-loberl, the lobes erose, flaps broad, keels nearly smooth or ciliolate.' 

 Lodicules obliquely truncate. Stamens 3 : anthers minute. Styles 

 short, free; stigmas short, plumose. Grain oblong or obovoid, free 

 within the glumes. — Distkib. From the Mediterranean and Caspian 

 regions to the Panjab, Sind, and S. India ; species few. 



1. .ffiluropus villosus, Trin. ex L. Mey. Verz. PJlanz. Catic. (1831) 

 p. 18. Perennial, rigid, tufted ; stems 3-8 in. long, crowded on a 

 woody rootstock with stout root-tibres, as thick as a crow-quill, simple 

 or branched, smooth and polished ; branches sometimes elongate, 

 divaricate, G-10 in. long, resembling stolons, giving off branchlets at 

 the nodes but not rooting; nodes glabrous; internodes short or long. 

 Leaves ^-1 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, flat or convolute 

 and subulate, erect or spreading, glabrous or sparsely ciliate ; sheaths 

 short, terete or inflated, glabrous or ciliate ; ligule a shortly hairy 

 ridge. Heads of spikelets shortly pedunculate, subglobose or oblong. 

 Spikelets reaching -1- iu. long, 4-8-flowered, crowded, sessile, villous 

 with soft hairs, pale green or white. Lower invol.-glume j^ in. long, 

 ovate-oblong, subacute, hairy and with ciliate margins ; upper invol.- 

 glume ■!■ long, similar; floral glumes -i in. long, ovate, subobtuse, 

 apiculate, niany-nerved, hairy and ciliate, the lower 2-4 sometimes 

 neuter ; palea broad, 3-lobed. Anthers -^ iu. long, oblong. Grain 

 ^ in. long, obovoid-oblong, dorsally compressed. Fl. B. I. v. 7, 

 p. 334; Trim. FL Ceyl. v. 5, p. 304 ; Woodr, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 441. ^luropus 1 acjojwdi o i des, Trin. ex Thw. Enum. (1864) 

 p. 374; Lisboa, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 7 (1893) p. 389. DactijUs 

 lagopoides, Linn. Mantiss. 1 (1767) p. 33; Grab. Cat. p. 236; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 298 {Jagopodioides). — Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



Konkan: StocJisl, Law I; on the salt ground near the sea, Graham, Lishoa; 

 Salsette, Wight, 531 Sind: Balzelll; near salt creeks in Sind, Stoclcs, 50G ! ; 

 Karachi, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Panjab, W. Peninsula, in salt ground) ; Cejlou, 

 Mediterranean region, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, Caspian regions. 



68. OROPETIUM, Trin. 



Dwarf densely-tufted erect perennial or annual grasses. Leaves 

 short, filiform. Florets 1-3, hermaphrodite or the upper rudimentary, 

 shorter than the upper invol.-glume. Spikelets minute, half immersed 

 in the alternating distichous cavities of a simple slender curved inarti- 

 culate spike, sessile, not articulate on the rhachis ; rhachilla bearded, 

 articulate at the base, not produced beyond the flowering glume. Lower 

 invol.-glume minute, hyaline, persistent; upper invol.-glume linear- 

 lanceolate, rigid, recurved in fruit, tip subobtuse or emarginate ; floral 

 glumes concealed by the upper invol.-glume M'hieh closes the cavity in 

 which the floral glume is hidden, sessile, ovate or elliptic, hyaline, 

 1-nerved ; callus very shox't, bearded with silky hairs ; palea as long as 

 the glume ; keels smooth. Lodicules very minute, obliquely cuneiform. 

 Stamens 3 ; anthers oblong. Styles short; stigmas plumose, laterally 

 exserted. Grain oblong, smooth, brown, free in the glume. — Dirtkib. 

 Species 6, in India, Algeria, and S. Africa. 



