ElytropJiorusJ] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 307 



From the SUTLEJ to BENGAL, ASSAM, the DECCAN PENINSULA, BURMA, and 

 CEYLON. DISTEIB. Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Whole plant 6-18 in. high, strict, glabrous ; flowering part often longer than 

 the rest. Leaves as long as the stem and spikes or shorter, very narrow ; sheath 

 loose ; ligule obscure. Spiciform panicle 2-8 in. by i- in. diatn., pale green or 

 white, rarely branched bdlow. Spikelets 1 in., empty gls. ciliate, hyaline, nerve 

 green ; flg. gls. ovate, membranous, tips and awns scaberulous ; palea hyaline, 2-fid. 



100. XiAMARKI A, Moench. 



A small annual tufted grass. Leaves flat. Spikelets dimorphic, fertile 

 and neuter, crowded on the drooping branches of a simple secund nodding 

 panicle, terminal spikelet of each branchlet fertile of few gls. surrounded 

 by empty gls., and by neuter spikelets of many obovate convolute erose 

 gls. Fertile spikelet ; glumes IV, I and II membranous, subequal, subulate- 

 lanceolate, 1-nerved, subaristate, persistent; III shorter, ovate, convolute, 

 dorsally awned below the 2-fid tip; IV terminating the slender rachilla, 

 neuter, long-awned ; palea of III narrow, 2-fid, 2-keeled. Lodicules very 

 minute. Stamens 3, anthers linear. Styles distinct, stigmas slender, 

 hairy. Grain elliptic-oblong, closely wrapped in the gls. and palea. 



I., aurea, Moench Metii. 201; Kunih^ Enum. PI. i. 389, Suppl 324; 

 T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. n. 77; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 570; Ai'chis. 

 Cat. Panjab PI. 170; Dufhie Grass. N.W. Ind. 36, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 61. L. Hookeriana, Griff. Notul. iii. 94, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 143, f. 2. 

 Chrysurus aureus, Beauv. Agrost. 123, t. 22, f. 5 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 58. 

 C. cynosuroides, Pers. Syn. i. 80. Pterium elegans, Desv. Journ. Bot. i. 

 (1813) 76. Tintea elegans, Garzia Rel. Ace. Zei. Aci.-Rea/e, Ann. 3-4, 24, 

 ex Parlat. Fl. Palerm. i. 138. Cynosurus aureus, Linn. Sp. PI. 73; Host 

 Gram.Austr. iii. t. 4; Sibth. Fl. Graec. i. t. 79. Gramin. Griff. Itin. Notes, 

 349, n. 106. 



WESTERN PANJAB; Peshawar, Vicary, Stewart, Aitchison. DISTRIB. Westwd. 

 to Spain and the Canaries. 



Stem 4-8 in., stout or slender, leafy. Leaves broadly linear, acuminate ; ligule 

 oblong. Panicle 1-4 in., golden-yellow, shining; branches crowded, \-% in. long, 

 covered with fascicles of pendulous scaberulous spikelets. Flowering spikelets 

 i\>-| in. ; awns variable in length, ^-5 in. A very beautiful grass. 



101. CVNOSURUS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial tufted grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets dimorphic, 

 fascicled, fascicles collected in a dense unilateral spiciform terminal 

 panicle, the 1-2 terminal of each fascicle 2-3-fld., the lower 1-2 of many 

 neuter distichous pectinately spreading subultte glumes, persistent 

 on an uu jointed rachilla. Glumes of fertile spikelet 4-5; I and II narrow, 

 acute or subaristate, 1-nerved ; III and IV awned or mucronate, 1-3- 

 nerved, uppermost imperfect ; palea narrow, 2-toothed, keels ciliate. 

 Lodicule* 2, acuminate. Stamens 3. Styles short, free. Grain elliptic 

 or oblong, glabrous, adherent to the gl. a ad palea. Species 3-4, in N. 

 temp, regions. 



C. cristatus, Linn. Sp. PL 72 ; perennial, fertile spikelets 3-5-fld. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 238; Host Gram. Austr. ii. t. 96; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 388, 



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