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62. BXXXiXUnX, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets loosely panicled, 

 not jointed on their pedicels, ovate, dorsally compressed, 1-fld., rachilla 

 not produced. Glumes 3, I and II subequal, thin, 3-nerved, persistent ; 

 III oblong or obovoid, dorsally compressed, coriaceous, shining, not awned ; 

 callns very short, broad, naked ; palea 2-nerved. Lodicules 2. fctamtns 3. 

 Styles short, free. Grain ovoid or oblong, free within the gl. and palea. 

 Species 5 or 6, N. temp, regions. 



M. effusum, Linn. Sp. PL 61 ; perennial, panicle effuse, spikelets 

 glabrous. Fl. Dan. t. 1143; Host Gram. Austr. iii. t. 22; Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1106 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 19 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 66, Suppl. 44, 1. 10, 

 f. 1 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 45, vii. t. 73 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. 

 n. 17; Steud. Syn. Gram. 34; Lecleb. Fl. Ross. iv. 510; Aitch. Cat. Panjab 

 PL 158 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 28. M. ascendens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 8 

 (name}. M. dubium, Jacquem. mss. Agrostis effusa, Lamk. Encycl. i. 

 159. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 7-11,000 ft., from Kashmir, Jacquemont, &o., to 

 Kumaon, Strachey ty Winterb. DISTBIB. N. Temp, and Arctic regions. 



Perennial. Stem 2-4 ft., erect, smooth, shining, leafy. Leaves 6-12 by -J in. 

 acute, minutely, scaberulous or smooth above ; ligule oblong, truncate, torn. Panicle 

 5-10 in., close or effuse; branches capillary, fascicled or subverticillate, naked below, 

 at length spreading or deflexed. Spikelets in., green. 



DOUBTFUL INDIAN SPECIES. 



M. PHLEOIDES, Sweet, Sort. Brit. Ed. 2, 555. 



63. HELECCKLOA, Host. 



Kigid annual or perennial erect or prostrate grasses. Leaves flat or 

 convolute. Spikelets 1-fld., densely imbricate in cylindric spikes or 

 spicit'orm panicles, laterally compressed ; rachilla not produced above gl. 

 111. Glumes 3, hyaline, I and II subequal or I shorter, keeled, 1-nerved, 

 persistent ; III = II or longer, lanceolate or oblong, 1-nerved ; palea oblong, 

 obtuse or 2-fid, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2 (or Op). Stamens 2 or 3. Styles 

 elongate. Grain ovoid, loose in the gl. and palea. Species few, Oriental. 



Crypsis aculeata, Ait., a grass resembling Eel. schoenoides in habit, but with 

 capitate spikelets, is recorded as Indian by Aitchison (Cat. Panjab. PI. 157), 

 Boissier (FL Orient, v. 475) and other works, but no doubt by mistake for Heleochloa 

 schoenoides. I have seen no specimen of Crypsis, which is an Eastern and Siberian, 

 plant from India, or even from Afghanistan. 



1. K. schoenoides, Host Gram. Austr. i. 23, t. 30; annual, stems 

 compressed prostrate spreading in a circle from the root, panicle ovoid- 

 oblong sessile on the greatly dilated sheath of the uppermost leaf. Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 476; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 48. Crypsis aculeata, 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 25, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 45, t. 62. C. schoenoides, 

 Lamk. Illust. i. 166, t. 42, f . 1 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 22, Suppl. 17, t. 5, f . 1 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 459 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. U2 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 

 25. C. compacta, Steud. I.e. 151. C. nilaica, Fresen. Sf Notar. in Mem. 

 Acad. Tor. Ser. II. xiv. (1854) 322. C. vaginiflora, Opiz Natural, viii. 

 (1824) 83 ; Steud: I. c. 152. Phalaris vaginiflora, Forsk. Fl. JEgypt. Arab. 



