250 OLXXIII. GRAMINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sporolvlua. 



region, from Spain to Egypt and Arabia, is a slight variety with a stouter dense 

 panicle, which Dr. Stapf and I have independently sought in vain to distinguish by 

 any .other character, and this is of the slightest. 



7. S- glaucifolius, Hochst. in Flora, xxv. (1842) I. Eieb. 123; 

 slender, glaucous, leaves short strict narrow flat or undulate glaucous 

 not pungent, panicle elongate contracted white, branches very short 

 rect, spikeiets -^ in. subsessile crowded, gls. I and II subequal ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate as long as III or rather longer. Vilfa glaucifolia, 

 $3 tend. Syu. Crratn. 154. Y. scabrifolia, Hochst. ex Edgew. in Journ. Linn. 

 8oc. vi. (1862) 196; AitcUs. Gat. Panjab PI. 165. Agrostis barbata, 0, 

 senegalensis, Pers. Syn. i. 76. A. littoralis |8, Lamk. Illustr. 161; Pair. 

 EncycL SuppL L 251. 



The PANJAB. Dehra Ismael Khan, Duthie j Multan, Edgeworth. SCIND, Stocks. 

 DISTOIB, Atr, trop. 



Perennial j steins 12-18 in., densely tufted. Leaves 2-5 by ^-1 in., uai'rowed 

 from the cordate base to the finely acuminate tip, margins smooth, somewhat hairy 

 "towards the base; ligule a ridge of minute hairs. Panicle 35 in., interrupted, very 

 pale yellowish, Spikeiets very shortly pedicelled ; gls. all 1-nerved ; 1 and II 

 "hyaline, pancticulate ; I rather shorter and narrower than II. Of the synonymy 

 cited above that of F. littoralis (3, and the two sp. of Agrostis are taken from J. 

 Gay's iss. on a Senegal specimen in Herb. Kew. Of V. scabrifolia I know nothing, 

 nor where Edgeworth gets the name (which is not in the " Kew Index," but from 

 his citing Stock's number (667) as the same plant, there is no doubt that S. 

 'glaiicifolms is that meant. Edgeworth (I.e. 182) mentions this amongst other 

 plants of which the seeds are swept up for food by the poorer classes of the desert. 



*** Glume I shorter than II and III. 



f Panicle contracted. Perennials, except S. piliferus. 



8. S. tremulus, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 67, Enum. PI. i. 210, Suppl. 

 166 ; stoloniferous, leaves short subulate or filiform flat or convolute 

 pungent margins smooth, spikeiets y\ in., gl. I shorter than III lanceolate, 

 II as long as III or longer, grain oblong. S. geniculatus, Nees ex 

 AMis. Gat. Panjab PL 165. S. orientals, Trim. Cat. Ccyl. PL 108 (non 

 Kill*}. Vilfa geuiculata, Nees ex Steud. Syu. Grant. 156; Herb. Wight n. 

 3307. Y. ' orientalis, Wight Cat. n. 1745 (in part). V. tremula, Trin. Dlss. 

 i. 155; Steud. L c. 160. Agrostis juucea, Lamk. Encyd. i. 60, Illustr. t. 

 41, f. 2. A. Phuldubbha, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Gat. u. 3770. A. tenacis- 

 fiima, Roxb. FL Ind, i. 316 (excl. Syn.}. A. tremula, Willd. Sp. PL i. 372 

 i(excl. Syn }. Zoysia ? tremula, Beauv. Agrost. 148. Sporobolus, Wall. 

 Vat. n. 3770, 3771. 



Plains of INDIA, from the Panjab to Bengal and southwd. PEGU, Kurz. 

 '.CEYLON, Trimen. DISTRIB. Tonkin, Cambodia. 



Stems 2-6 in., many from a hard knotted stoloniferous stock, erect or prostrate, 

 wiry ; stolons 6-18 in., stout or slender, leafy, flexuous. Leaves %-2 in., rigid, 

 narrowed from the usually hairy base to the tip ; ligule a few hairs. Panicle 1-4 in., 

 subspiciform, sometimes longer flexuous and interrupted, branches short rarely a 

 few spreading ; pedicels short. Spikeiets crowded, subpersistent on the very short 

 pedicels, very pale ; glumes all 1-nerved j palea as long as its gl. Stamens 3. A 

 very common and variable pasture grass. Vilfa geniculata is a large state from 

 Madras, with almost woody stems 12-18 in. long and flat leaves. 



9. S. spicatus, Kunth flevis. Gram, i, 67, Enum. PL i. 210; 

 stoloniferous, leaves short rigid, panicle slender cylindric, spikeiets T T g in., 



