248 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sporobolus. 



in. long, gl. I and II obtuse hyaline 1 -nerved, III opaque, grain broadly 

 obovoid. Link Sort. Eeq. Berol. i. 87 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 211 ; Thw. 

 Enum. PI Zeyl. 370; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 108; Duthie Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 49 ; Benin. Ft. Hongb. 426, Fl. Austral, vii. 622 ; Griseb. Fl. 

 Brit. W. Ind. 533. S. angustus, Buckl. in Proc. Acad. So. Philad. (1862) 

 88. S. elongatus, Br. Prodr. 170; Hook. Sandb.N. Zeal. Fl. 327; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 376 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 29. S. Lamarckii, Desv. in 

 Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. 4. S. minor, Kunth Enum. Pi. i. 212. S. 

 tenacissimus, Beauv. Agrost. 26; Kunth I. c. 212, Suppl. 167; T. Nees Gen. 

 Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. n. 28 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 49. Yilfa capensis 

 Aelongata, Beauv. Agrost. 16; Trin. Gram.Diss.i. 154; Steud. Syn. Gram. 



159. V. exilis, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. Sc. Nat. v. II. (1840) 

 89 ; Steud. 1. c. 159. Y. indica, Trin. ex Stand-. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 767, Syn. 

 Gram. 162 ; Baker Fl. Maurit. 449. Y. tenacissima, H. B. fy K. Nov. Gen. 

 & Sp. i. 138 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 393 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 60 ; Stand. I. c. 



160. P. rupestris, Trin. Diss. ii. 22 ; Steud. 1. c. 161. Agrostis elongata, 

 Lamk. Illustr. i. 142. A. fertilif, Steud. I. c. 170. A. indica, Linn. Sp. PL 

 63. A. tenacissima, Jacq. Collect, i. 85, Ic. Ear. 3, t. 16 (excl. Syn.}. 

 A. tenuissima, Spreng. Syst. i. 258. Sporobolus, Wall. Cat. n. 3766. B, 

 3767. 



Throughout INDIA, ascending the Himalaya to 5000 ft., BURMA and CEYLON. 

 DISTEIB. All warm countries. 



Stem 2-3 ft., sometimes as thick as a small goose-quill at the base. Leaves 8-24 

 in., convolute or flat, rarely \ in. diam., margins smooth ; ligule a few hairs. Panicle 

 6-18 in., often interrupted; racliis stout, erect, or curved ; branches erect, \ in. or 

 longer, often whorled, densely clothed usually to or to near the base with green 

 spikelets, which are erect and imbricate. Spikelets larger than in S. diander. Gl. 

 I = about ^ III ; II not twice as long; III acute. Pericarp adherent. It is not 

 always easy to distinguish this from S. diander, which is much the most common in 

 India. In its normal state indicus is a far more robust plant, with a stout rachis 

 and branches of the panicle, larger and mo,pe> herbaceous more crowded spikelets, 

 and a broader grain ; but both vary greatly in the panicle. 



3. S. minutiflorus, Link Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 88; tall, slender, 

 leaves long, panicle very large effuse supra-decompound, branches capil- 

 lary, spikelets -^ in., gl. I minute subquadrate, II = ^ III orbicular- 

 ovate obtuse, grain broadly obovoid. Kunth Enum. PL i. 214. Yilfa 

 capillaris, Wight & Arn. ex Wight Cat. n. 2036 (non Miq}. Y. minnti- 

 nora, Trin. Diss. i. 158; Steud. Syn. Gram. 158. Y. mangalorica, Hoclist. 

 ex Miq. Analect. Bot. ii. 24 ; Steud. I. c. 159. Y. tenuissima ; Schult Mant. ii. 

 479. Panicum tenuiflorum, Hort. Monac. ex Link. I. c. P. tenuissimnm, 

 Mart, ex Schrank in Denkschr: Bot. Ges. E/egenslt. ii. (1822) 26. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Wight. CANABA, Hohenacker. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves narrow, flat, finely acuminate, margins quite smooth ; 

 ligule of minute hairs. Panicle 12-18 in., erect; rachis quite smooth, very 

 slender; branches innumerable, 1-2 in., spreading, and branchlets excessively slender, 

 flowering at the tips. Spikelets ellipsoid, dark colrd. ; gl. I truncate ; II broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, nerveless ; III ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless ; palea shorter, broad, 

 truncate. Stamens 2. 



4. S' Wallichii, Munro mss. ; very tall, erect, leaves long, panicle 

 tall oblong or subpyramidal decompound branches capillary, branchlets 

 divaricate few-fld., spikelets 3 ~ in., gl. I minute truncate, II = -3 III or 



