288 BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Tall branched grasses with broad flat blades, the monoecious in- 

 florescences numerous on long, stout peduncles, these clustered in the 

 axils of the leaves, each inflorescence consisting of an ovate or oval, 

 pearly white or drab, beadlike, very hard, tardily deciduous involucre 

 (much modified sheathing bract) containing the pistillate lower 

 portion of the inflorescence, the points of the pistillate spikelets and 

 the slender axis of the staminate portion of the inflorescence pro- 

 truding through the orifice at the apex, the staminate upper portion 

 of the inflorescence 2 to 4 cm. long, soon deciduous, consisting of 

 several clusters of staminate spikelets. Species about four, one 

 widely distributed in tropical countries, the others in the East Indies. 



Type species: Coix lacliryma-joM L. 



Coix L., Sp. PI. 972, 1753; Gen. PI., ed. 5, 419. 1754. Linnaeus describes 

 two species, C. lachryma-jobi and C. dactyloides. The reference in the Genera 

 Plantarum (above cited) is to Tournefort's plate 302, which represents the first 

 species. 



Coix lachryma-joli L. (fig. 174), known as Job's-tears and some- 

 times as Christ's-tears, is cultivated in all tropical countries for orna- 

 ment and has escaped into waste places, especially around dwellings. 

 It is also cultivated in greenhouses and sometimes in the open in 

 warm temperate regions. The name Job's-tears comes from the fan- 

 cied resemblance of the fruit to tears. The fruits, or so-called seeds, 

 are used for a variety of purposes, such as beads, and for rosaries. 



LIST OF NEW SPECIES AND NEW NAMES. 



Page. 



Aspris capillaris (Host) Hitchc. 



Aira capillaris Host 116 



Blepharidachne benthamiana 



(Hack.) Hitchc 78 



Munroa bentMmiana Hack. 

 Bracmaria cilia tissima 



(Buckl.) Chase 221 



Panicum ciliatissimum 



Buckl. 

 Capriola dactylon maritima 



(H. B. K.) Hitchc 179 



Cynodon maritimus H. B, iK. 

 Echinochloa crusgalli edulis 



Hitchc 238 



Panicum frumentaceum 

 Eoxb., 1820, not Salisb., 

 1796. 

 Echinochloa crusgalli zelayen- 



sis Hitchc 238 



Oplism enus zelayensis 



H. B. K. 

 Epicampes emersleyi (Vasey) 



Hitchc 144 



Muhlcnlergia emersleyi 

 Yasey. 



Page. 

 Epicampes subpatens Hitchc. 



sp. nov 144 



Fluminea festucacea (Willd.) 



Hitchc 38 



Arundo festucaoca Willd. 

 Muhlenbergia andina (Nutt.) 



Hitchc 145 



Calamagrostis andina 



Nutt. 

 Muhlenbergia montana (Nutt.) 



Hitchc 146 



Calycodon montanum 



Nutt. 

 Osterdamia japonica (Steud.) 



Hitchc 166 



Zoysia japonica Steud. 

 Pholiurus incuryatus (L.) 



Hitchc 106 



Aegilops incurvata L. 

 Polypogon lutosus (Poir.) 



Hitchc 138 



Agrostis lutosa Poir. 



Triodia flaya (L.) Hitchc. 76 



Poa flava L. 



