98 OLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



25. LOPHOLEPIS, Decne. 



An annual tufted erect grass. Leaves short, flat. Spikelets minute, 

 1-fld., jointed but persistent on the very short spreading pedicels of an 

 elongate simple spiciform raceme, exactly like a bird's head; pedicels 

 jointed on the rachis. Glumes 3 ; I incumbent, oblong, acute, strongly 

 incurved above the base, produced above into a globose boss with a 

 pectinate crest, and with a pectinate wing on the mesial line beyond it ; 

 II shorter, narrower, with often a dorsal pectinate wing ; III flg. 

 much shorter, hyaline, ovate, acute; palea hyaline. Lodicules quadrate. 

 Stamens 2 ; anthers short, most minute. Styles short ; stigmas feathery. 

 Grain subulate, base gibbously incurved, free within the rigid glumes. 



Zi. ornithocephala, Steud. Syn. Gram. 112 ; Decne in Archiv. Mus. 

 Par. i. (1839) 147 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8881. Holboellia ornithocephala, Wall, in 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 144, t. 76 ; Wight Cat. n. 1741 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 

 171. 



Southern Provinces of the DECCAN PENINSULA, Madura; Tinnevelly, &c., Koenig, 

 &c. CEYLON ; Northern Province, Trimen. 



A rather stiff grass, 6-18 in. high ; roots wiry. Leaves ^~H i n -> ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, margins ciliolate ; lower sheaths short ; ligule 0. Racemes 

 2-4 in., columnar, in. diam. ; rachis slender, strict, and the horizontal rather stout 

 grooved pedicels green and scabridly ciliate. Spikelets ^-^ in. long, red-brown iu 

 age, horizontal or slightly deflexed from the pedicel. One of the most singular 

 Indian grasses. 



26. PEROTIS, Ait. 



A slender grass, with short broad leaves and a crinite spike. Spikelets 

 subsessile, 1-fld., jointed on a slender simple unjointed rachis, very narrow, 

 callus conical. Glumes 3 ; I and II empty, subequal, narrowly linear, 

 1-nerved, tapering into long capillary awns ; III very minute, flg. ; palea 

 hyaline. Lodicules short, hyaline. Stamens 3, anthers very short. Styles 

 very short, united at the base, stigmas very short. Grain much longer 

 than its glumes, narrow. 



P. latifolia. Ait. Hort. Eew, i. 85; Beauv. Agrost'. t. 4, f . 9 ; 6 (laxi- 

 folia), Kuntli Reds. Gram. i. 357, t. 92, Enum. PI. i. 471, Suppl. 380; Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 186 ; Roxb. VI. Ind. i. 239; Wall. Cat. n. 3783 ; Wight Gat. n. 

 1740 ; Gran. Cat. Bomb. PI. 237 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 296 ; Tliw. Enum. 

 PI. ZeyL 369; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 106; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 13; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 418; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 479. P. Burmanni, Steud. 

 Nom. Ed. I. 605. P. cubana, Wright in Sauv. Fl. Cub. 202. P. glabrata, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 186. P. hordeiformis, Nees ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. ii. 

 306; Syn. Gram. I. c. ; Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. tier. VI. vi. II. (1845) 

 267. P. longiflora, Nees in Hook. $ Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 247 ; Steud. St/n. 

 Gram. 186. P. patula, Nees ex Steud. Nom. I c. ; Trin. Fund. Agrost. ii. 

 266 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 186. P. rara, Br. Prodr. 172 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 vii. 509. P. scabra, Willd. ex Trin. Diss. ii. 172. P. spicaeformis, Beauv. 

 ex Steud. Nom. Ed. I. 605. Perostis laxifolia, Beauv. 1. c. 6. Saccharum 

 spicatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 54. S. brevifolium, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. I. c. B. 

 Agrostis spicasformis, Linn.f., Suppl. 108; Willd. Sp. PI- i. 362. Anthox- 

 anthum indicum, Linn. Sp. PL. 28. Xystidium barbatum, Presl Rel. HxnJc. 

 i. 228. X maritimum, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 102, t. 2.Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 xii. t. 02. 



