292 OLXXIII. GRIMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Chloris. 



RAJPOOTANA, and UPPER and LOWER GANGETIC PLAINS, and southward to 

 BEHAR, and CENTRAL and SOUTHERN INDIA. WESTERN TIBET, Thomson. BURMA, 

 Wallich. DISTRIB. Westward to Algeria ; China, Mongolia, Trop. and S. Africa and 

 America. 



Stem rather stout, flattened, 8-12 in. high, usually leafy, decumbent and much 

 proliferouslv branched below. Leaves rather broad, flat, acute ; upper sheaths more 

 or less inflated. Australian specimen of this in Herb. Kew from Mueller, are 

 ticketed C. barbata, Muell., var. with one empty gl. The Western Tibet habitat is 

 remarkable; there are two specimens collected by Thomson, dated by himself 

 at a time he was in Ladak, at an elevation not less than 12,000 ft. 



8. C- barbata, Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 200 ; spikes 4-20, rachis scaberu- 

 lous, spikelets 3-awned. Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 10, t. 8 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 

 264, Suppl. 209 ; Durand de Chlorid. 13. 22 ; Trin. Diss. i. 232, Sp. Gram. 

 Ic. t. 306 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 421 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 204 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 331 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 234-; Wight Cat.n. 1764; Aitch. Cat. Panjab 

 PI. 167 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 371 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109 ; Duthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 33, Fodd Grass. N. Ind. 53, t. 34; Lisboa in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 367 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 39 ; Benfh. 

 Fl. HongJc. 429, Fl. Austral, vii. 613 (excl. Syn. decora) ; Doell in Mart. 

 FL Bras. ii. III. 67. Androposron barbatus, Linn. PL Jam. Pugill. 30, 

 Mant. ii. 302. Chloris, Wail. Cat. n, 3812. Eheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 51. 



Throughout the plains of INDIA, BURMA, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tropics 

 generally. 



Stem 1-3 ft., stout, erect from a geniculate or from a creeping proliferously 

 branched base, simple or branching above, nodes with often large tufts of leaves 

 having compressed oquitant sheaths. Leaves 6-18 long, flat ; mouth of sheaths 

 cilinte ; ligule obscure. Spikes -4 in., suberect, strict or flexnous. SpiJcelets 

 i^-i in., green or red-purple; gls. I and II acuminate, II much the longest; III 

 ovate, more or less densely benrded above the middle and dorsally, tip acute or 

 notched; awn 5 in. j III cuneiform, at length globose, ciliate; IV much smaller, 

 globose, awned. Extremely variable in size and habit. 



9. C. polystachya, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 330 ; spikes many, rachis 

 glabroue, spikelrts very minute 3-awned. Kunth Enum. PL i. 265 ; Spreng. 

 Neue EntdecJc. iii. 127 ; Grak. Cat Bomb. PL 235 ; Wight Cat. n. 1763 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 33, C. Koxburghiana, Schult. Mant. ii. 239; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 206. Chloris, Wall. Cat. n. 3811 (ex Wight L c.). 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Roxburgh, Wight. 



Stem 1-2 ft., ascending from a procumbent base. Spikes about 16,2-3 in. long; 

 gls. I and II lanceolate, acuminate; II much the longest; III ovate, acute, margins 

 ciliate above or nearly glabrous; awn flexoous, IV like III but very much smaller, 

 glabrois; V a minute-avvned gl. Wight's is the only specimen I have seen, it is 

 very much smaller than in Roxburgh's drawing. 



10. C. montana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 329 ; spikes 2-6, rachis glabrous, 

 spikelets 4-awned. Kunth Enum. PL i. 265; Spreng. Neue EntdecJc. iii. 

 127; Steud. Syn. Gram. 204; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. 

 (1893) 369. C. decora, Thw. Enum. 371 (excl. syn.). C. barbata, var. 

 decora, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109. Tetrapo^on tetrastachys, HacJc. in Herb. 

 Duthie (in part] n. 7759. Andropogon tetra-aristatus, Roxb. Ic. ined. n. 

 882. Chloris, Wall. Cat. n. 3810. 



Mountain districts of COROMANDEL, Roxburgh. UPPER and LOWER GANGETIC 

 PLAINS, and southward to CEYLON. 



Stem erect or geniculately ascending from a creeping base, 4 in. to 2^ ft., simple 



