21. Chloris.] 139. GRAMINEM. 



There is no production of the rhachilla beyond gl. iii and no rudi- 

 mentary glume iv. 



Hazaribagh, Anders. ! Manbhura, Camp. ! Fl. Sept. Annual. ^ 



2. C. delicatula, Clarke. 



A very slender erect grass 4-12" high, stems simple or with 1-2 

 erect branches from near the base. Leaves short spreading, concave 

 or convolute, -3-1" long, none from the root at the time of flowering. 

 Spikes 5-10, very slender, erect, 1 •5-2-5" long, closely spicate at the 

 top of the stem. Rhachis capillary scabrid with light-coloured center. 

 Spikelets -V including the subaristate tip of gl. ii ; i turned towards 

 the rhachis -08" long very slender acuminate, not awned ; iii -06" 

 long, delicately hairy on back, tip 2-lobed, awn ver^^ fine -3" long : 

 palea very narrow, glabrous. Rhachilla produced beyond base of 

 iii to half its length or rather more, and bearing at its tip 2, rarely 3, 

 very fine awns nearly as long as the awn of iii. 



HazarilDagh, Clarke (the type). Manljhum, common on high lands, Camp. ! 

 Fl. Oct. Annual. 



3. C. incompleta, Both. 



A tufted grass 2-4 ft. high. Stems clothed at base with old 

 leaf-sheaths, glabrous. Leaves linear up to 15" long by -45" wide, 

 flat, glaucous scaberulous, often also shortly pilose towards base ; 

 ligule of long hairs. Spikes 4-10 digitate, often widely spreading, 

 4—7-5" long, -06" broad (without the awns). Spikelets 2-seriate 

 minutely pedicelled, the pedicel decurrent on rhachis. Gl. i one-fourth 

 to half ii, very narrow with subaristate tip ; ii -2", including the 

 short awn, sometimes much shorter, notched at the tip ; iii with the 

 rhachilla bearded at its base, equals ii, dorsally flattened, lanceolate, 

 Avith incurved margins, minutely 2-toothed at tip, awn •25--4" long. 

 Rhachilla produced above base of gl. iii and bearing a minute glume 

 and an awn -2" long. 



Karakpur Hills. Monghyr, Karzl Hazarilmgh, Clarke I Damp places in the 

 forest, where it attains its greatest development, Palaman ! Puri, Walsh\ Fl. 

 Oct.-Nov. Perennial. 



Sheaths often very hairy. The spikelets in our specimens are mostly nearly -2", 

 hut Hooker states that they are found as small as •12". The rhachilla is produced 

 to about half the length of gl. iii. 



4. C. virgata, Sw. 



A tufted leafy grass 1-2 ft. high, decumbent and often proliferously 

 branched below. Leaves often reaching top of stem, up to -15" broad, 

 sparsely ciliate ; sheaths rather loose and keeled ; ligule of hairs. 

 Spikes 6-15, erect, crowded at the end of the peduncle, 2-2-5" long, 

 rhachis minutely hairy. Spikelets •1--13" excluding the awns, 3- 

 awned including that of II (2-awned, J. D. H.) . Gl. i slender subulate, 

 about half ii ; ii -1" or with the delicate awn -15 — 17" (always more 

 or less awned) ; iii cymbiform and rather deep, or when unfolded 

 ovate, •1--12" long, base shortly bearded, tip acute or 2-toothed 

 and ciliate with long erect hairs below the tip sometimes extending 

 to the middle and sometimes with a few cilia below, keel produced 

 into an aAvn -4" long ; palea much narrower and rather shorter, often 



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