334 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_JEluropus. 



JE. villosus, Trin. ex 0. A. Mey. Verz. Pfl. Gauc. 18 ; spikelets in 

 short heads. Aitckis. Gat. Panjab. PL 169. M. arabicus, Steud. Norn. 

 Ed. II. i. 30. M. brevifolius, Wall. Gat. n. 8897 ; Wight Cat. n. 1792 

 (non Serb. Wight & excl. Syn. Dactylis brevifolia, Linn.) ; Dutkie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 39. M. concinnus & siniacus, Fig. et Notar. in Mem. Acad. 

 Torin. Ser. II. xii. (1852) 257. M. lagopodioides, Trin. ex Thw. Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl. 374. M. lagopoides, Trin. ex Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 110. M. littoralis, 

 var. repens, Goss. & Dur. Expl. So. Alger. 155; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 594 

 M. mucronatus, Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^Ethiop. 297 ; Boiss. I. c. 

 595. M. niliacus, Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 30. M. niloticus, Edgew. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 196. ./E. pubescens, Trin. ex Sleud. I. c. in part ? 

 M. pungens, C Koch, in Linnaea, xxi. (1848) 408. M. repens, Parl. Fl. Ital. 

 i. 462 ; Edgew. 1. c. Dactylis lagopodioides, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 298 

 (excl. Syn.}. D. lagopoides, Linn. Mant. 33 ; Burrn. Fl. Ind. 28, t. 12, f. 2 

 (the right hand portion) , Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 340; Grah. Gat. Bomb. Pi. 236 

 (excl. Syn ). D. massaviensis, Steud. Syn. Gram. 298. D. repens, Desf. 

 Fl. Atlant. i. 79, t. 15. Poa lagopodioides, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. Ill, 

 Enum.i. 325. P. massavensis, Fresen. in Mus. Senkenb. ii. (1837) 143. 

 P. repens, Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. iii. 69. P. tunetana, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 

 20. Calotheca arabica, niliaca & repens, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 347, 348. 

 Duthie I. c. (err. typ. miliacea). Ko3leria lagopodioides, Panz. in 

 Denkschr. Acad. Muench. K. brevifolia, Herb. Wight ex Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8897 C. Sesleria lagopodioides, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 22. Festuca mucro- 

 nata, Forsk. Fl. JEgypt. Arab. 22. F. pungens, Valil Symb. i. 10, t. 2. 

 Uralepis ? pungens, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 108, Enum. i. 319. 



Sandy shores of the DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON. Salt plains of the PANJAB 

 and SCIND. DISTEIB. Keg. Mediterr., Arabia, Persia, Affghan., Reg. Gasp. 



A rigid perennial herb, with long wiry roots. Stems 6-12 in., densely tufted, 

 branched, hard, smooth, erect, or prostrate with long often creeping stolous, base 

 slightly swollen, clothed with rigid glabrous or hairy sheathing scales, above clothed 

 with leaves, and terminating in a naked glabrous or pubescent slender peduncle 

 1-4 in. long. Leaves -1 in., erect or spreading and recurved, subulate-lanceolate 

 or acicular, coriaceous, pungent, convolute, rarely flat, striated with close-set nerves, 

 base rounded, glabrous or sparsely hairy, midrib obscure, margins smooth or 

 scaberulous ; sheaths short, terete, inflated or dilated, glabrous or ciliate j 

 ligule a rid^e of short hairs. Heads -f in. diam., globose ovoid or oblong. Spike- 

 lets 1-3 rV i Q -> ^~ niany-fld., crowded, sessile, villous with soft hairs, pale green or 

 white ; gls. closely imbricate, ovate-oblong, apiculate, concave, margins hyaline, 

 nerves strong; I 3-5-nerved ; II longer, 7 9-nerved ; flg. gls. rather longer than the 

 empty, many-nerved, lower 2-4 sometimes neuter; palea broadly truncate or 3-lobed, 

 keels villous. Ovary obovoid. Grain - in., obovate-oblong, compressed dorsally. 

 A very variable grass in habit, foliage and size of the heads and spikelets. Ee- 

 garded by Cosson and others as a form ot ' M. littoralis, in which the panicle is elongate. 



114. DACTYLIS, Linn. 



Stiff erect tufted perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets 3-10-fld. 

 compressed, subdidtichously crowded in short unilateral spikes forming a 

 terminal unilateral panicle, not jointed at the base ; rachilla continuous, 

 glabrous. Glumes I and II unequal, scarious, lanceolate, acuminate or 

 mucronate, keeled, empty, persistent ; 1 1-nerved, II 1-3-nerved; flg. gls. 

 rather longer, rigid, 5-nerved, subaristate, keel scabrid; palea 2-fid, keels 

 ciliolate. Lodicules 2, 2-lobed, fleshy. Stamens 3, anthers long. Styles 

 free, terminal; stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, acnte, trigonous, dorsally 



