.24.. Leptochloa.] 139. GRAMINE.E. 



and usually 1 near each margin ; palea shorter 2-nervecl. Lod. cuneate. 

 Anth. 3, short. Styles free. Grain oblong obovoid subglobose or 

 3-gonous, invested by the glume and palea. 



Spikes "S-.S", rarely 4". Spikeiets 2-3-fld., under "1'' .... 1. filiformig. 

 Spikes 2-1", Spk'fcs. 4-6-fld., •!" long 2. chinensis. 



1. L. filiformis, Roem. d- Sch. 



Very slender 1-2-5 ft. high, tufted and geniculately ascending. 

 Leaves fiat, flaccid, 4—10" long, about -15 — 27" or less broad, some- 

 times sparsely hairy on the nerves and on the sheaths, ligule •02--03" 

 long, erose or setosely lacerate. Spikes -5-3" or up to 4 or even 5" 

 but exceedingly filiform with 2 -nerved rhachis and spikelets only 

 •06- -08" long, distant nearly their own length on the rhachis on 

 piedicels •01--03" long. Gl. i -03- -04" linear-lanceolate ; ii -05- 

 •06" ; fig. glumes 2-3 rather shorter than ii, with median nerve and 

 sub-marginal nerves microscopically hairy ; palea rather shorter, 

 reduplicate. Grain ^02" fusiform-oblong, pericarp adherent but 

 slightly produced each end. 



Apparently throughout the province. Shahaljad, Lecinqe ! Gj'a, Clarice, Molchn ! 

 'Mongh.yv, Mohim\ Santal Parg., X((i-r ! Rauchi, Pmi?« ! 'Bwri, Walsh \ Fl., Fr. 

 July-Nov. 



2. L. chinensis, Nees. 



Stouter than L. filiformis, 2-4 ft. high with leaves 6-18", flat or 

 convolute, scaberulous, ligule short lacerate. Spikes 2-4" or more. 

 Spkts. •!" long with 4-6 flowering glumes. Gl. ill obtuse and apicu- 

 late. Grain loose obtusely trigonous, subrugose. 



Said to be throughout India in moist places. Hot springs, ilonghyr, J.D. H. ! 

 Gya, Clarke ! 

 Tufted. L. •2-'3" broad, niimerous. erect or spreading. Panicle 6-9" long. 

 The two species are scarcely more than varieties. 



25. AGROSTIS, L. 



Perennial, rarely annual grasses with usually flat leaves and small 

 or very small spikelets in effuse or contracted panicles with capillary 

 whorled branches, not jointed on their pedicels ; rhachilla not jDro- 

 duced beyond gl. iii. Glumes 3 only, i and ii equal or unequal, 

 keeled, 1- rarely 3-nerved, empty ; iii flg., membranous, 5-nerved, 

 truncate, glabrous, with awn dorsal or 0, callus glabrous or with 

 minute hairs ; palea nearly as long as its glume or shorter or 0, 2- 

 nerved or nerveless. Lod. 2. Stamens 3. Grain free within the 

 glume. 



1. A. brachiata, Munro. 



A very slender graceful gi-ass 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 4-5" by -2- 

 •25", broadly linear, sheaths glabrous, ligule membranous •06-- 1" 

 long. Panicle very effuse 6-12" long with brachiate flexuous branches 

 up to 3-4". Spkts. •04--06" long on capillary clavate, subec|ual 

 divaricate pedicels, fertile gl. about equal to the empty obtuse cymbi- 

 form ones, 5-nerved, with median awn, callus glabrous. Palea 

 minute. Grain oblong as long as the glume. 



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