Plate 2448. 



HALOPYETJM MUCBONATUM, Stap/. 



Gramine>e. Tribe Festuce.e. 



Halcpyrum, Stap/ {gen. nov.), Spiculm multifloroe, paniculata^, 



rhachilla inter flores articulata, articulis cito solvendis, sericeo-pilosa, 

 floribus benuaphroditis. Glumce 2 infeiiores vacuoe, subaequales^ 

 florentibus breviores, carinatse, inferior 3-, superior 5-nervis ; flo- 

 rentes rigid?e, carinatse, 3-nerves, mucronatge ; palea glumse aequi- 

 louga, 2-carinata. Stamina 3. Styli distincti, breves, stigniatibus 

 plumosis, Cari/ojysis aJtnbitu rotundato-elliptica, antice late sulcata, 

 gliima paleaque laxe inclusa, libera. — Gramen perenne, eJatum. Fi 



cula strietaj contrncta, ramis racemosis. Spiculse pedicellatat vel im<ip 

 ramorii'm suhsessilesy \0-\h~Jlor(Vy ohlongrf^^ a latere compressai^ planoi^ 

 f/lumis eximie distichis. 



H, mucronatum, Siapf (sp, tmica) ; rhizomate repente cataphyllis 

 ovatis acuminatis duris obtecto fibriJlas crassas emittente, culmjs 

 fasciculatis simplicibus vel ramosis duris, foliorum vaginis arctis 

 striatis, laminis longis convolutis setaceo-acuminatis tenacibus glabris, 

 ligulis ad lineam pilorum redactis. — Uniola niucronata, X. Sp. PlauL 

 ed, i, 104 {ex descr.) } Triticum repens, ThwaiL Emim. PL ZeyL 376, 

 non X. ; Desmazeria unioloidos, Defl. Voy. Yeryien, 2'20 ; Brizopyrum 

 nmcronatum, Fees in Wall Cat Herb. Ind. n, 8898 ; Eragrostis 

 (§ Sclerostacbya), sp. Benth, et IIooL Gen, Plant, iii. 1187. 



IIab. Coast of Western India from Sind to Ceylon : Sind, Stochs 

 (Ko. 567) ; Guzerat, Purbonder, Dr. Lisboa's coJUctor ; Cape Comorin, 

 I>r. Thurston ; Tinnevelly, Tuticorin, Wight (No. 1094 in lib. prop.) 



Mem. Forsk. No. 112. Coast of East Africa, from the Rovuiua to tlie 

 Zambesi : Moutb of Rovuma River, Quiilimane and 3IoutIi of Luabo, 

 Kirk ; * Raza Island/ Forbes. 



The systematic position of this grass, %vliich seems to have been 

 known since the days of Linnaeus, has hitherto been very unsettled, as 

 ^vill be seen from the synonyms quoted above. Its proper place is 



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