64 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ3. (J. D. Hooker.) [Asrnnopus. 



oblong or ovate, coriaceous, narrowed into a straight subulate awn ; palea 

 obloYig, coriaceous, 2-nerved. Lodicules cuneate. Stamens 3, anthers long. 

 Styles distinct. Grain small, suburbicular, free within the glumes. 



A natural genus, remarkable for the sma 1 ! cleft palea of gl. III. It was 

 established by Beauvois on Panlcum cimicinum, Retz, to which other grasses having 

 no affinity with it were added. Kunth erred in taking up Beauvois Urochloa (which 

 is Panicum javanicum, Poir) and placing A. cimicinum in it. 



1. A. cimicinus, Beauv. Agrost. 12 ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 spikes subverticillate. Panicum cimicinum, Retz. Obs. iii. 9 ; RottL in 

 Neue Srhrift. Ges. Naturf. Freund. iv. (1803) 191, 194; Roxb. Ft. Ind. i. 

 295; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 358; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104. P. conjugatum, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 291. Urochloa cimicina, Kunth Revis. Gram, i. 

 31, ii. 56, t. 103, Enum. PL i. 74, Suppl 56 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 289. 

 Coridochloa cimicina, Nees in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. xv. (1833) 381. 

 C. fimbrista, Nees ex ^ Wight Gat. 1656; Wall. Gat. n. 8749; Aitchis. Cat. 

 Panjab PL 158. Milium cimicinum, Linn. Mant. 184. 



Throughout INDIA, in the plains and lower hills, BURMA, PBNANG and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Malaya, China. 



Stem 1-2 ft., tufted, stout or slender, erect, or decumbent and geniculate at the 

 base, and leaves hirsute with long spreading white hairs, rarely glabrescent. 

 Leaves 1-3 by ^-1 in., acute or obtuse, flat, green, striate, ciliate, base deeply cor- 

 date, ligule obsolete. Spikes 3-8 in a whorl, 1-6 in. long ; rachis filiform, simple or 

 divided, scaberulous ; flowerless below. Spikelets | ^ in. long, solitary or clustered, 

 very shortly pedicelled, dorsally compressed, pale, rather shining \ gl. I acuminate ; 

 II mucronate or shortly awned; III acute; IV with a setiform awn. 



2. A. semi-alatus, Hook. f. leaves long linear, spikes few sub- 

 digitate. Panicnm semi-alatum, Br. Prodr. i. 192; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 

 472; Thw. Enum. PL. Zet/l. 358; Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PL 104. P. viaticum, 

 Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 145, f. 2. Blutfia Eckloniana, Nees in Lindl. Introd. 

 Nat. Syst. Ed. II 447. Coridochloa serni-alata, Nees in Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ. xv. (1833) 381. Urochloa semi-alata, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 311, 

 Enum. PI. i. 74. Oplismenus semi-alatus, Desv. Opusc. 81. Arundinella 

 iSchultzii, Benth. I. c. 545. Aira viatica, Griff. Notul. iii. 54. Holosetum 

 philippinense, Steud. 1. c. Coridochloa, Wall. Cat. n. 8758. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6500 ft., from Kumaon to Sikkim. The 

 KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft.; MUNNEPORE; BURMA, Collet; BEIIAR on 

 Parusnath 3-5000 ft. CEYLON up to 5000 ft. DISTRIB. Mauritius, S. Africa, 

 China, Philippines, Australia. 



Stems 1-3 ft., densely tufted, bas^s thickly clothed with the woolly remains of 

 old leaf-sheaths. Leaves 8-12 by -| 3- in., glabrous or pubescent, finely acuminate; 

 ligule obscure. Spikes 2-5, 3-6 in. long ; rachis slender subflexuous, smooth or 

 hairy. Spikelets % in., pale or brown, solitary or in distant pairs, sessile or 

 pedicelled. 



10. TRICHOXiJENA, Schrad. 



Erect, tufted, annual or perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets 

 1-2 fld., articulate on their pedicels, panicled, laterally compressed, clothed 

 with long silky hairs, callus stipitiform. Glumes 3 or 4, I if present very 

 small, often inserted much below III ; II and 111 subequal, membranous, 

 broadly ovate, mucronate or awned, dorsally rounded; III paleate, trian- 

 drous ; IV very thin, shining, fern, or bisexual. Lodicules 2, minute, dolabri- 

 form. Grain loose within the gls. Species many, chiefly S. African. 



