332 OLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Centotheca. 



not jointed on the very short pedicels ; rachilla jointed ab the base and 

 between the flg. gls. Glumes 5, I and II oblong-ovate, keeled, 3-5-nerved, 

 empty, persistent ; flg. gls. oblong, acute, dorsally rounded, 7-nerved, 

 naked or the upper bearing soft erect at length deflexed tubercle-based 

 spines above the middle; palea shorter than the gl., keels ciliolate. 

 Lodicules 0; Stamens 2-3, anthers short. Styles free. Grain ovoid, acute, 

 terete, free. -^-Species 1 or 3 ?, Trop. Asia, Africa, Australia. 



C. lappacea* Desv. in Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. ii. (1810) 189, & in 

 Journ. Bot.i. (181H) 70;' Beauv. Agrost. 69, t. 14, f. 7 ; Kuntli Revis. Gram. 

 i. 317, t. 70, JZnum. PI. i. 366, Suppl. 302; Steud. Syn. Gram. 116; Thw. 

 JEnum.Pl. Zeyl. 374; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109; Wall. Cat. n. 3826; Griff. 

 NohiLui.62, jfr. PI. Asiat. t. 152, f. 1 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 398; Bentli. 

 Fl. Austral, vii. 640; Hochst. in Bot. Zeit. (1857) 33; Lisboa in Journ. 

 Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii.^1893) 388. C. latifolia, Tiin. Fund. Agrost. 

 141. C. parviflora, Anderss. in Peters. Reise Mosamb. Bot. 559. Hierochloa? 

 latifolia, Kunth, Revis. Gram. i. 21. Holcus latifolius, Osbeck. Iter. 247 ; 

 Linn. Syst. Ed. x. 1305. Oplisrnenus ? magellauicus, Roem. fy Sch. Sysf. ii. 

 485. Mt-lica lappacea, Rasp, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. I. v. (1825) 443. M. 

 diaudra & refracta, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 327. Poa latifolia, Forst.f. Prodr. 8 ; 

 Vald Symb. ii. 18. P. malaharica, Linn. Sp. PI. 69; Burm Fl. Ind. 27, 

 t. 11, f. 2. P. nemoralis, Ileyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 3826 A. Torresia ? 

 latifolia, Beauv. I. c. 165. T. binora, Roem. $ Sch. Syst. ii. 515. Uniola 

 lappacea, Trin. in Act. Petrop. VI. i. (1831) 358, Sp. Gram. 1C. t. 298. 

 Cenchrus lappaceus, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. II. 1488. Festuca latifolia, Roth. 

 Nov. PI. Sp. 75. F. blrpharophora, Roem. & Sch. Sys^i\. 728. F. ciliaris, 

 Heyne ex Uoem: <$f Sch. f. c. F. ciliata, Hb. Heyneex Wall. Cat. n. 3826 A. 

 F. virgata, Heyne ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 633. Pamcum festuciforme, 

 Hochst. PL Ind. Or. Holienack. n. 363. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8708. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, the KIIASIA HILLS, MDNNIPORE, BURMA, CENTBAL 

 INDIA, and southward to MA-LACCA, the ANDAMAN ISLDS., and CEYLON. DISTRIB. 

 Malaya, China, Polynesia, Africa trop. 



Stein 1-3 tt., stout, erect from a branched woody rootstock, with stout root- 

 fibres. Leaves 4-10 by 11^ in., many-nerved, glahrous or sparsely hairy, hast; 

 narrow obtuse or subcordate, midrib oblique; sheath glabrous or hairy; ligule 

 short, lacerate. Panicle 8-10 in. long and broad, branches smooth. Spikelets 

 ^-j in., green; rachilla scaberulous ; palea often decurrent on the rachilla below the 

 gl. The number of flg. gls. varies, but 5 is, I think, a normal ; I and II are rather 

 distant at the base. In one spikelet I find 6 gls., of which III was empty naked 

 and epaleate, IV naked and palo-ate, V and VI with stout reversed tubercle-based 

 spines; not unfiequently the fern, spikelet has only a single strongly -armed gl. and 

 a produced rachilla. Kunth (I. c. Suppl. 302) describes gl. Ill and IV us complete 

 and bisexual, V minute and imperfect. I suspect that this grass is polygamous. 



112. STREPTOGVNA, Beauv. 



A tall erect perennial grass. Leaves petioled, flat ; nerves tessellate. 

 Spikelets 1-4-fld., narrow, terete, subsessile, not jointed on the long, rigid, 

 strict, unilateral spike ; rachilla elongate and jointed between the fl. gls. 

 Glumes 3-6, very narrow, I and II empty, persistent; I small, 3-neived; 

 II longer, convolute, acute, awnless, miny-nerved ; III longer, rigid, 

 tightly convolute, many-nerved, acuminate and awaed ; IV-VI empty; 

 palea embraced by the gl., narrow, 2-fid. Lodicules 3, subulate. Stamens 



