306 CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



98. FINGERHUTHIA, LeJtm. 



Erect, rigid, annual or perennial grasses, with the habit of Phlewn, 

 Leaves narrow. Spikelets crowded in a spiciform panicle, 1-3-fld., lowest 

 in the panicle reduced to subulate glumes, laterally compressed, jointed 

 on the very short pedicels; lower fl. bisexual or male, upper if present male, 

 uppermost an empty gl. Glumes I and II subequal, rigidly membranous, 

 keeled, 1 -nerved, awned ; III as long as II, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 5-nerved, mucronate or dorsally shortly awned ; palea rigid, 2-keeled. 

 Lodicules 2, obcordate. Anthers 3, linear-oblong. Styles long, free, stigmas 

 plumose. Grain elliptic or oblong, free. Species 2, a S. African, and the 

 following. 



A genus of doubtful affinity, with certain characters of Alopecurus, and of 

 Melica in the spikelets jointed on their pedicels ; the imperfect basal spikelets form a 

 sort of involucre to the spieiform panicles as in Sesleria. 



T. affghanica, Boiss. FL Orient, v, 569 ; spikelets 3-fld., lowest fl. 

 fern., intermediate male, upper neuter, gls. I and II shortly awned keels 

 and margins ciliate. F. Africana, Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1882) 

 193 (non Lehm.). 



WESTERN PANJAB ; Peshauur, alt, 3500 ft., Stewart. DISTRIB. Affghan. 



Stem 12-18 in., tufted, slender, leafy. Lewes very narrow, flat, glaucous, 

 glabrous, smooth ; sheath glabrous, mouth bearded ; ligule a ridge of soft hairs. 

 Spike f-1 in., oblong, obtuse, long-peduncled, pale green. Spikelets - in., closely 

 imbricate; gls. land II lanceolate, narrowed into straight awns as long as them- 

 selves, keels and margins ciliate with long hairs ; III chartaceous, mucronate, keel 

 smooth, margins ciliate ; keels of palea ciliate ; IV hardly awned; V an empty gl. 

 Grain elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends. The only Indian specimen is a very 

 poor one. 



99. ELYTROPHOllirS, Beauv. 



An annual erect grass. Leaves narrow, flat. Spikelets very minute, 

 3-5-fld., in globose sessile clusters that are densely packed along a simple 

 rachis forming a long cylindric often lohed or interrupted spike: each 

 cluster consists of very many densely crowded sessile compressed spikelets 

 with awned glumes subtended by many empty glumes, not jointed at the 

 base ; rachilla smooth, jointed at the base and between the flg. gls. 

 Glumes (of perfect spikelets), I and II subequal, empty, membranous, 

 mucronate, keeled, 1-nerved, persistent : flg. gls. rather larger, narrowed 

 into short awns, 3-nerved, uppermost empty; palea complicate, one or both 

 keels winged. Lodicules 2, obliquely oblong. Anthers 1-3, minute, 

 Styles free, stigmas long hairy. Grain obliquely oblong, beaked, free. 



E. articulatus, Beauv. Agrost. 67, 1. 14, f. 2j Kunth Revis. Gram. ii. 

 481, t. 154, Enum. PL i. 391, Suppl. 325; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 374; 

 Trim. Cai. Ceyl. Pi. 189 ; Aitchis. Cat. Pan jab PI. 171 ; Wall. Cat. n. 

 3825 ; Duthie 'Grass. N.W. Ind. 36, Fodd. Grants. N. Ind. 61, t. 72 ; Lisboa 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Hoc. vii. (1893)379; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. lii. 

 400; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 638. Echinalysium articulatum & strictum, 

 Trin. Fund. Agrost. 142. Dactylis spicata, Willd. in Ges. Nalurf. N. 

 Scln-ift. iii. (1801) 416. Sesleria spicata, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 21. Eleusiue 

 calycina, Iferb. Ham. ex Wall. I.e. 



