Sporobofat.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 



gl. I minute, II lanceolate acute, grain obliquely oblong. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 v. 512. S. orientalis, Serb. Wight n. 3303, 3304, Gat. n. 1745 (in part}. 

 Yilfa spicata, Beauv. Agrost. 16; Trin. Diss. 1, 152, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 12 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 160. PAgrostis involute, Pair. Encycl. Suppl. i. 252. 

 A. spicata, Vahl Symb. i. 9 ; Dei. Fl. Mgypt. 20, t. 10, f. 1. A. virginica, 

 ForsJc. Fl. JEg. Arab. 20 (ex Kunth). Sporobolus, Wall. Cat. n. 3773. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne; Palamcottah, Wight. DISTRIB. Arabia, Egypt, 

 trop. Africa. 



Stem 6-12 in., from a hard stoloniferous rootstock, stiff, strict above the geniculate 

 base. Leaves 1-2 in., divaricate, pungent, scabrid above ; ligule 0. Panicle spici- 

 form, 2-3 in. by T \j-i in. diam. Spikelets sessile, persistent on the branchlets, pale. 

 Glumes hyaline, I rounded ; II 1-nerved; III ovate -lanceolate; palea as long as the 

 gl. Grain obliquely oblong or orbicular-oblong. Agrostis involuta, Poir., referred 

 here by Spreugel, is a Marocco plant, which may be 8, xirginicus or pungens. 



10. S. orientalis, JKunth JEnum. PL i. 211 ; stoloniferous, leaves 

 pungent, margins serrulate, panicle narrowly oblong, spikelets y 1 ^-^ in., sub- 

 sessile, gl. I = i TIT or shorter tip rounded, II = III or longer obtuse, grain 

 obovoid. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 295. S. humifusus, Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 

 108 (non Kunth). Vilfa diandra, Trin. Diss. i. 154 (excl. Syn. Retz.). V. 

 orientalis, Nees ex Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. Sc. Nat. v. II. 

 (1840), 65; Wight Oat. n. 1745 (in part) ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 156. Agrostis 

 elongata, Roth. Nov. Sp. 41. A. orientalis, 'Nees Agrost. Bras. 393 (excl. 

 Syn. Roxb.). A. pungens, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 3772. A. tena- 

 cissima, Linn.f. Suppl. 107 (excl. Syn. Jacq.). Sporobolus, Wall. I.e. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, Wight. CEYLON, at Calpentyn, Trimen. 



Stem 6-18 in., base stout, hard, branching, branches and flowering stems usually 

 geniculate below. Leave* very variable, 1-6 in., suberect or upreading, more or less 

 pungent, glabrous or hairy above; ligule 0. Panicle 1^-4 in., erect, subspiciform 

 or more open with here and there short horizontally spreading branches that are 

 naked below, usually pale. Spilcelett> closely packed ; gl. I nerveless, II and III 

 1-uerved. The Ceylon and Heyne's specimens are 1218 in. high with long flat 

 leaves and narrow open panicles, Wight's are shorter and stouter with spiciform 

 panicles, and closely resemble states of S. tremulus, from which the short obtuse 

 gl. I at once distinguishes it. Although in Herb. Wight Prop, the four species 

 mentioned in the notes to S. virginicus are all included under Np. 1745, S. orientalis, 

 the latter alone bears that number in Herb. Hook, and Herb. Benth. 



11. S. piliferus, Kunth Enum. PL i. 211 (var. a) ; annual, leaves 

 hairy serrulate, panicle linear branches very short erect, spikelets aV'iV 

 in., gl. I - III lanceolate, II longer than III oblong-lanceolate, III 

 oblong, grain oblong compressed. S. ciliatus, Munro in Herb. Ind. Or. 

 Hf. 8f T. ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 29 (non Vilfa ciliata, Presl). Yilfa 

 pilifera, Trin. Diss. i. 157, ii. 23, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 58. Triachyrum 

 nilagiricum, Steud. in Hohen. PI. Ind. Or. n. 931. Sporobolus, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 3774. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA j from Kashmir to Nepal, alt. 3-8000 ft., Wallich, &c. 

 The KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5000 ft. MYSORE, at Belgaum, Ritchie. NILGHIEI 

 HILLS, Wight, &c. MALACCA, Hervey. 



Stems 3-12 in., densely tufted, erect, roots fibrous. Leaves 1-4 in., chiefly radical, 

 narrowed from the base to the tip, flat or convolute, sparsely hairy above and at 

 the mouth of the sheath, margins serrulate below or nearly to the tip ; ligule 0. 

 Panicle 1-3 in., strict, erect, dense-fld., often interrupted. Spikelfts brown; gl. I 

 nerveless j II and III 1-nerved, callus minute ; pnlea oblong. Stamens 2, anthers 

 very short. Trinius figures this plant from a Brazilian and a Nepalese specimen. 



