74. Hypogynium.] 139. GRAMINEM. 



^\. ii as lon^- as i, acute, 8-iierved ; iii much shorter glabrous; iv with awn 'b-'l" 

 long-, the Khime reduced to a faint marg-in at tlie base. Ped. spkt. with 2 ghimes, 

 i sometimes pitted, 5-nerved ; ii 3-nerved. 



75. DIECTOMIS, Hack. 



Perennial grasses Avith linear leaves and solitary spikes. Peduncle 

 in the axil of a spathiform leaf sheath. Limbs and pedicels buccini- 

 form, the mouths Avith large teeth. Sessile spikelets laterally com- 

 pressed with short callus. Gl. i applied to the edges and only as broad 

 as the opening of gl. ii, keels marginal, margin very narrowly inflexed ; 

 ii cymbiform, much broader, long-awned ; iii narrow^ hyaline shorter ; 

 iv 2-toothed with a long stout awn from the sinus. Pedicelled spike- 

 let Avith a very large gl. i, Avhich, Avith its flattened villous pedicel, 

 conceals the inner sessile spkt. ; ii and iii successively smaller, neuter. 



]. D. fastigiata, i7. B. S^- K. 



An erect much fastigiately branched grass 1-2 ft. high, sometimes 

 decumbent at base. Leaves 3-12", narroAvl}' linear, acuminate, 

 scabrid Avith elongate acute ligule. Spathes 2-3", linear. Peduncle 

 short or long. 8pike 1-2", limbs compressed, densely bearded on the 

 margins, shorter than the spkts., tips Av'ith 2 large teeth. Sessile spkt. 

 •18" long; gl. i linear acuminate (sometimes appearing 2-cuspidate 

 from the very thin hyaline centre betAveen the keels), dorsally villous 

 above ; ii -16" long, -04" broad (Avithout unfolding), tapering towards 

 base, membranous, 2 -fid Avith A^ery .slender awn, keel villous above ; 

 iii with ciliate margins; iv cj'mbiform, 2-toothed wdth aAvn 1-5", 

 stout. Pedicelled spkt. Avith gl. i -3" long, 2 strong nerves on the 

 margins ending in cusps and about 11 -nerved betAs-een, oblong acu- 

 minate Avith slender terminal aAvn ; ii half as long and iii half ii, oblong 

 hyaline. 



G-yn,Mokim\ Ranclii, Clarle\ Hazaribagh, ClaA-el Maiibhum, Camp.l Fl., 

 Fr. Sept.-Dec. Perennial. 



76. SCHIZACHYRIUM, Benth. 

 Stout or (in our area) very slender, annual or perennial grasses 

 with linear leaves. Spikes solitary on the peduncle Avhich is partially 

 enclosed by a narrow spathiform leaf-sheath and is articulate at base 

 of spathe. Limbs and pedicels of spikes clavate or bucciniform Avitli 

 cupular irregularly toothed or ec^ually 2-lobed or -toothed mouths, 

 rhachis articulate fragile. Spikelets sessile, and neuter imperfect 

 pedicelled. Sessile spkt. dorsally compressed, callus short. Gl. i 

 keeled ; ii not or minutely aAvned ; iii hyahne empty epaleate ; 

 iv hyaline 2-fid, aAAned in the cleft. 



Divaricately branched. Spikes glabrous or spai-selj- hairy . . \. hrevifolium. 

 Fastigiately branched. Spikes pubescent and villous . . .2. cvile. 



\. S. brevifolium, Nees. Syn. Andropogon brevifolius, Sw. (1788); 

 A. parvitiorus, Boxb. 

 A delicate much-branched straggling and ascending leafy grass 

 8-18" high. Branches filiform. Leaves •7-2-5" suberect or divari- 

 cate linear or broadly linear obtuse or subacute. Spikes few to each 



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