156 CLXXTII. GRAMiNEjE. (J. P. Hooker.) \_RottlioelUa. 



spikelets as long as the sessile; gl. I very unequally winged, dorsally smooth, awn as 

 in the sessile; pedicel wholly adnate to the joint of the rachis. 



10. R. Clarkei, Hack, in (Estr. Sot. Zeitschr. xli. (1891) 8 ; annual, 

 leaves lanceolate base cordate, spikes solitary short, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 orbicular-oblong dorsally gibbous and scabrid below the middle winged 

 above it, tip notched, pedicel of upper spikelet quite free. E. gibbosa, 

 Hack, ex Lisboa in Bomb. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. (1891) 195. E. Talboti, 

 Lisboa mss. I. c. 



BEHAR, on Parusnath ; and Hazaribagh, in CHOTA NAGPORE, alt. 2000 ft., Clarke. 

 BOMBAY ; N. Kundra District, Talbot, Lisboa. 



Stem 6-8 in., branched, erect, compressed. Leaves 3-5 by i-g- in., acuminate, 

 glabrous or hairy ; sheath ciliate ; ligule of hairs. Spikes ^1 in., erect, rachis 

 fragile, joints clavate shorter than the spikelets, tips ciliolate, side not hollowed. 

 Spikelets -ny I in., closely imbricating. Gl. I of sessile spikelet with a coriaceous 

 3-5-nerved disk and ciliate hyaline wings ; II much smaller, ovate, 1-nerved ; III 

 ovate, obtuse, hyaline, nerveless; IV much smaller, broadly oblong, obtuse, nerveless, 

 sides incurved, palea like the gl. nerveless. Pedicelled spikelet like the sessile, but 

 smaller and less gibbous ; pedicel pyriformly clavate, truncate, top scaberulous. 



** Gl. I of sessile spikelet winged at the tip only or narroivly on the 

 margins. 



11. X&. exaltata, Linn. f. Suppl. 114 ; annual, leaf-base narrow 

 rounded tip setaceous, gl. I of sessile spikelet very coriaceous about as 

 long as the joint obtuse hardly margined or winged dorsally flat smooth, 

 pedicels of upper spikelet shorter than the joints. Junth ~Enum. PI. i. 

 466 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 294 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 361 ; Roxb. Corom. 

 PL ii. 30, 1. 157, FL Ind. i. 354 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 233 ; Thw. Emtrn. 

 PI. Zeyl. 364 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 107 ; Aitchis. Cat. Punjab. PI. 172 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 17; Lisboa in Bomb. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. (1891) 

 196 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 406 ; Br. Prodr. 206 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 

 513 ; Baker Fl Maurit. 457; Wall. Gat. n. 8875 ; Wight Cat. n. 1724, Herb. 

 n. 3286. E. arundinacea, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FL Abyss, ii. 444 ; Sieud-. 

 I. c. 362. E. denudata, Steud. ; Miq. I. c. 408. E. gymnorhiza, Herb. Ham. 

 ex Wall. Cat. n. 8b75. E. hispida, Herb. Roxb. E. setosa, Presl Rel.H&nJc. 

 i. 329. Ophiurus appendiculatus, Steud. 1. c. 359. Stegoasia cochin- 

 chioensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 51. 



Plains and lower hills of INDIA, from the N.W. Provinces to ASSAM and BUKMA 

 (ascending the HIMALAYA in Uarwhal to 7000 ft.), and southward to Travancore 

 and CEYLON. ANDAMAN ISLDS., Prain. DISTEIB. China, Malaya, Australia, 

 Africa. 



Stems 6-10 ft., stout, erect, spongy within, as thick as the little finger below and 

 hispid. Leaves 6-^4 by 3! in., linear-lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, scabrid or 

 hispid above, margins scabrid; sheath hispid with tubercle- based hairs or glabrate. 

 Spikes 36 in., stout, cylindric below, much narrowed with imperfect spikelets above ; 

 joints smooth, scaberulous. Sessile spikelets - in.; gl. I ovate-oblong, 2-fld., 

 keels scaberulous narrowly winged, entire or emarginate ; II broadly ovate, charta- 

 ceous, convex, 9-11-nerved, keel scabrid ; III elliptic, 3-nerved, male, margins 

 indexed ; IV shorter, convex, ovate, acute or mucrouate. Pedicelled spikelets 

 with the pedicel usually adnate by one margin to the joint, 1-2-fld. or neuter. 



Var. robusta ; leaf-base more cordately confluent with the sheath, spikes stouter 

 below, slender above the middle, spikelets' in upper half distichously imbricate longer 

 than the joints, fertile nearly to the tip, palea of gl. IV auricled at the base. 

 Malabar and at Palamcotta, Wight Herb. n. 3286 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8875 E. Poona, 

 Woodrow. 



