Diplacltnc.~\ CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. T). Hooker.) 329 



not jointed at the base ; rachilla jointed at the> base and beneath each 

 flg. gl., not produced beyond the uppermost gl. Glumes many, 1 and II 

 unequal, obtuse, membranous, 1-nerved, persistent ; flg. gls. rather longer, 

 oblong, 1-3-nerved, tip 2-4-toothed, mucronate or awned ; palea linear. 

 Lodicules 2, broad. Stamens 3, anthers short. Styles distinct, stigmas 

 plumose. Grain ovroid-oblong, subtrigonous, free within the gls. and palea. 

 Species about 14, of warm regions. 



A second Indian species has lately been brought from Chitral, and will shortly 

 be published by Dr. Stapt' in the Kevv Bulletin as D. Gatacrei. 



D. fusca, Beauv. Agrost. 163 ; tall, leaves convolute, panicle long, 

 spikelets ^-| in. linear 4-10-fld. Benth. Fl. Austrjl. vii. 619 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 561; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109. D. indica/ Spreng. Syst. i. 351. 

 Uralepis fusca, Steud. Syn. Gram. 247 ; TJmaites Enum. PL Zeyl. 372. 

 U. Drummoridii, Steud. 1. c. Triodia. ambigua, Br. Prodr. 183. Tridens 

 indicus, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1794. Leptochloa? fusca, Kunth Revis. 

 Gram. i. 91, Enum. PI. i. 271. Festuca fusca, Linn. Sp. PI- 109 ; Del. Fl. 

 jfigypt. 24, t. xi. f . 1. F. iudica, Jietz. Obs. iv. 21 ; Kunth Enum. 412. 

 F. reptatrix, Linn. Sp. PL Ed. II. 108; Kunth I.e. 410. Eragrostis 

 procera, Steud. I. c. 266. Poa procera, Roxb. FL Ind\ i. 332 ; Kunth I. c. 

 345. Jh-onn'.* polyatachiog, Forsl;. Fl. &g. Arab. 23. Eragrostis, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 5013. Rhecdc Hurt. Nahih. xii. t. 45. 



UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN to BENGAL and southward to CEYLON. DISTRIB. 

 Egypt, Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stem tufted, 3-5 ft., stout, erect, or geniculately ascending, often branched^ 

 clothed with leaf-sheaths, leaves long, narrow, flat or convolute, smooth j sheath's 

 smooth; ligule large, membranous, lacerate. Panicle 1018 in., oblong, nodding; 

 rachis smooth ; branches 2-3 in., erect, filiform, smooth or scaberulous. Spikelets 

 distant, very shortly pedicelled, pale or dark green ; rachilla smooth or scaberulous ; 

 callus hairy ; gls. I and II 1-nerved, tips erose, keels nearly smooth ; I lanceolate; 

 II } longer, oblong; flg. gls. thinly coriaceous, 3-nerved, lateral nerves submarginal, 

 tip 4-toothed, mucronate by the percurrent median nerve. 



109. BHBX.XC&, Linn. 



Perennial erect grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets in open or spiciform 

 or racemiform panicles, laterally compressed, jointed or not on their 

 pedicels, 1-3-fld. and with small convolute neuter gls. forming a clavate 

 o narrow body terminating and jointed on the elongate rachilla. Glumes 

 4 or more, membranous, hyaline or with hyaline tips and margins ; land II 

 equal or unequal, empty, I 1-3-nerved; II 5-nerved, persistent or separately 

 deciduous ; flg. gls. solitary, or 2-3 then distant on the rachilla, 5-9-nerved, 

 lowest stipitate ; palea 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, connate, often most minute 

 or 0. Stamens 3. Styles free, stigmas plumose. Grain oblong fusiform 

 or subcylindric. Species proba,bly 20 or 30, of temp, regions. 



* Panicle spiciform or racemiform ; spikelets more or less jointed on 

 their pedicels ; Lodicules most minute or 0. 



1. UK. Cupani, Guss. Fl. Sicul. Prodr. Suppl. 17; panicle subspici- 

 form, flg. gl. solitary clothed all over with long silky hairs. Boiss. Fl 

 Orient, v. 590 ; Parlat. Fl. Ital. i. 301. M. ciliata, Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 39 (non Linn.}. M. Jacquemontii, Dezne in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 174, 

 1.175; Duthie I.e. M. Hohenackeri, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I. x'iii. 54. M. 



