Cynodon.] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 



Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 213. Chloris Cynodon, Trin. Gram. Unif. 229. 

 Chlor. maritima, Trin. I.e. 226. Fibichia umbellata, Koel. Gram. Gall. $ 

 Germ. 308. Dactylon officinale, Vill. Hist. PL Danpli. ii. 69. Digitaria 

 Dactylon, Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. II. i. 52. D. littoralis, Salisb. Prodr. 19. 

 D. maritima & radiata, Spreng. I. c. 272. D. stolonifera, Schr<'d. Fl. 

 Germ. i. 165, t. 3, f. 9. Panicum dactylon, Linn. Sp. PI. 58; Host Gram. 

 Austr. ii. 15, t. 18 ; Sibth. Fl. Grsec 45, t. 60 ; Engl. Bot. t. 840 ; Knapp 

 Gram. Britt. t, 13; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 236; Roxb. Fl. Jnd. i. 289. 

 P. lineare, Burm. Fl. Ind. 25, t. 10, f. 2. Paspalum dactylon, DC. Fl. 

 Franc, iii. 16. Pasp. praacox, Walt. Fl. Carol. 75. Pasp. umbellatum, 

 Lam. Illust. i. 177. Agrostis bermudiana, Tus<ac ex Kunth I. c. 259. 

 A. filiformis, Koen. ex Kunth I. c. 261. A. lineans, Retz. Obs. iv. 19. 

 A. stellata, Willd. Sp. PL i. 376. Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 47. 



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

 DISTKIB. All warm countries. 



Stem prostrate, often widely creeping and forming matted tufts with short ascend- 

 ing branches. Leaves short, subulate, glaucous; ligule hairy. Spikes 25, 12 in., 

 radiating, green or purplish ; rachis very slender. Spikelets about -j^ y^ in. ; 

 gl. I and II spreading, ovate, acute, keels scabrid; III much larger cymbiform, keel 

 and margin scabrid. Grain laterally compressed. This plant is absent in Herb. 

 Wallich. (Cat. n. 3803). 



89. CHLORIS, 8w. 



Perennial rarely annual grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 

 1-fld., 2-seriate, unilateral on solitary geminate fascicled digitate or whorled 

 terminal erect or radiating spikes, not jointed at the base ; racbilla jointed 

 at the base, sometimes produced beyond gl. Ill and bearing one or more 

 empty gls. Glumes 3 (with 1 or more upper neuter), 1 and II unequal, 

 1-nerved, narrow, keeled, acute mucronate or II awned ; III 1-3-nerved, 

 acute obtuse or 2-fid, usually awned ; palea rather shor.ter, 2-nerved, com- 

 plicate. Lodicules 2. Anther* small. Styles free. Grain narrow, free. 

 Species about 40, warm regions. 



This genus is wanting in the Wallichiun Herbarium at the Linnean Society. 

 I find no character by which Schcenefeldia, Kunth, can be separated generically from 

 Chloris. 



* Spikelets 1-fld. with no rudiment of another. Kachis of spike 

 flattened. 



1. C. pallida, Hook.f. ; annual, very slender, spikes 1-3 in. broad, 

 awn very long capillary. Schoenefeldia pallida, Edgw. in Journ As. Soc. 

 Beng. xxi. (1852) 161, 183; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PL 166; Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 32, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 52, t. 64. S. gracilis, Kunth Rtvis. 

 Grtam. i. 283, t. 53 ; Enum PI. i. 258; Liaboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. vii. (1893) 365. 



BUNDEF.KUND, Edgeworth. CENTRAL INDIA, King. 



Stem 10-18 in., simple or branched, almost filiform. Leaves 6-8 in., very narrow, 

 flaccid, tips capillary; ligule a few hairs. Spike 3-5 in., golden -yellow, erect; 

 rachis flattened, serrulate. Spikelets -^ in., subsessile, gl. I and II ovate- 

 lanceolate, subaristitely acuminate, 1-nerved, keels ciliate ; I shorter than II ; 

 III rather longer than I, sessile, ovate, 1-nerved, hairy, base bearded, tip minutely 

 notched; awn -|-1 in. long, capillary, curved; palea narrow, keels ciliate, tip 2- 

 tooth.'d. Grain very slender, acute, pericarp loose. I have seen no authentic 

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