330 Graminez. [ Hemarthria. 
30. HEMARTHRIA R. Br. 
Perennial grasses; ligules small, membranous; spikes com- 
pressed; rachis almost muriculate; gls. 4; gl. I 2-keeled, 
7-g-veined, coriaceous; gl. II membranaceous, 3-veined, 
about the same length as gl. I; gl. Ill _hyalne> aie 
hyaline, veins 0; grain oblong, compressed.—Sp. 8; warmer 
parts of the Old World. 
For Rottbellia compressa Linn. f. read: 
Hemarthria compressa R. Br. Prodr. p. 207 (1810). Rott- 
bellia compressa Linn. f. Suppl. p. 114 (1781). ?Hemarthria glabra 
Blatt. & McCann, in Journ. Bomb. N. H. S. XXXII) p. 27 (age) 
Page 210.— 
Mnesithea levis Kunth. 
Add synonyms: 
Roitbellia levis Retz. Obs. III, p. 11 (1783). Mnesithea perforata 
Haines Bot. Bih. and Or. p. 1060 (1924). 
Page 211.—For Ischemum Linn. read: 
Spikes 2 or more : : , ; ; : . 33. IscHa:MUM. 
Spikes solitary . ; ; : : ; : . 33a. SEHIMA. 
33a. SEHIMA Forsk. 
Annual or perennial grasses; ligule of stiff hairs; infl. a 
solitary, terminal, spiciform raceme; gl. I grooved, 2- 
toothed, 2-keeled, winged, margins inflexed; gl. II keeled, 
awned; gl. III hyaline; gl. IV, 2-toothed, awned; els. I & Il 
of pedicelled spikelet not grooved; gls. III & IV not awned. 
—Sp. about:'5§;, India, Tropical Africa, and N -Amieaiee 
For [schemum laxum Br. read: 
Sehima nervosum Stapf in Fl. Trop. Afr. IX, p. 36 (1917). 
Andropogon nervosum Rottl. ex Willd. in Verh. Naturf. Berl. IV, 
p- 218 (1803). Ischemum laxum R. Br. Prodr. p. 205 (1810). 
Page 221.— 
Eremochloa zeylanica Hack. 
Kurunegala. 
Page 222.—For Pogonatherum crinitum read: 
P. paniceum Hack. in Allg. Bot. Zeitschr. XII, p. 178 (1906). 
Saccharum paniceum Lamk. Encycl. I, p. 595 (1783). Andropogon 
crinitum Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 40 t. 7 (1784). Pogonantherum crinitum 
Kunth Enum. p. 478 (1833). 
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