. Pommereulla.'] CLXXIII. GIUMIXE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 301 



MYSORE and the CABNATIC, Heyne, Wight. CEYLON; Northern Province, 

 Trimen. 



Stem as thick as a crow-qnill, rootine: at the nodes ; branches erect, stout, leafy, 

 flattened. Leaves 1-3 in., distichous, flat, exactly linear, coriaceous, tip rounded, 

 margins sparsely ciliate ; sheath long or short, broad, flattened ; ligule a ciliate 

 ridge. Raceme -2 in., usually half sunk in the uppermost sheath, rarely with an 

 exserted naked peduncle and sometimes 2 erect branches. Spikelets T \j- in., shortly 

 pedicelled, white, tomentose, awns shortly exserted ; gls. I and II much shorter 

 than thespikelet, keels nearly smooth, bWes narrowed; II inserted much above I, 

 its base tightly embracing the rachilla ; III and I V narrowed into a tomentose stipes, 

 embracing V and VI, 4-lobed with a short dorsal awn, disk coriaceous, margins and 

 lobes hyaline ; V-VII cuneately obovate, 3-lobed. A very curious grass. The 

 turbinate spikeiets resemble clusters of those of Gracilea, but are not jointed at the 

 base, and their structure is totally different. The above characters are drawn from 

 many analyses, but they will no doubt be found to vary in a more extended suite of 

 specimens. 



95. PAPPOPHORU1K, Nees. 



Perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets 1-3-fld., in contracted or 

 spiciform panicles, not jointed at the base ; rachilla jointed at the base. 

 Gl. I and II membranous, keeled, 3- many-nerved, persistent ; III and IV 

 much shorter (except the awns), coriaceous, orbicular, concave, obscurely 

 many-nerved, cleft into 9 or more equal or alternately longer long-ciliate 

 erect awns; IV and V usually imperfect ; palea small, broad, 2-keeled. 

 Lodicules 2, dolabriform. Stamens 3. Styes short, distinct ; stigmas 

 plumose. Grain ovoid or oblong, free. Species about 20, in warm 

 regions. 



The synonymy of the species of this genus is in a most unsatisfactory condition ; I 

 am doubtful of the nomenclature of some here described, and the Indian materials 

 of others, not here alluded to, are insufficient for reliable determination or de- 

 scriptions. 



1. P. eleg'ans, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1771 ; gl. I 9-nerved, II 7-nerved, 

 awns of fl. gl. nearly equal about thrice as long as their e\. Wall. Gat. 

 n. 8902 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 199 ; Duthie Grass. N. W I:id. 35. Ischjemum 

 papposum, Herb. Rottler. Enneapogon dipsaceus, Wall. mss. Calotheca 

 elegans, Wight & Am. ex Steud. I. c. 



PESHAWUR, Stewart. SCIND, Stocks. MYSORE and the CARNATIC, Heyne, 

 Wight, &c. BURMA, Wallich, &c. 



Stem 3-18 in., very slender, wiry, erect or ascending from a woody often 

 thickened base; nodes glabrous or tomentose. Leaves very narrow, flat or con- 

 volute; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 1-3 in., branches very short and rachis 

 villous. Spikelets with the awns ^- in., sessile and pedicelled, softly tomentose, 

 nearly white ; gl. I and II oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, I shorter than II ; awns 

 of III and IV ciliate below the middle ; keels of palea pubescent. 



2. P. Aucheri, Jaul. & Spach III. PI. Orient, iv. 32, t. 323 ; gl. I 

 and II 7-nerved, awns of fig. gls. three to four times as long as the gl. 

 4 much shorter than the others. Steud. Syn. Gram. 200; Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 35. P. turcomanicum, Trautv. in Act. Hort. Petrop. i. (1871) 27, 

 P. persicum, Steud. 1. c. ; Boixs. Fl. Orient, v. 558 ; ? Edgew. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 196; Aitchis. Cat. Punjab. PI. 106. Enneapogon 

 persicum, Boiss. Diagn. i. V. 71. 



