Vol. VIII, No. 8.] Two more new species of Gramineae. 313 
N.S.) 
rooting at the lower nodes and there forming small tufts of 
leaves and an erect flowering stem reaching 2 feet high ; nodes 
glabrous. Leaves 1 to 6 inches long by } to Linch broad, young 
ones sparsely, delicately long ciliate, ultimately glabrous, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, truncate at the base, margins very minutely 
scabrid to touch, ligule a narrow, fimbriate membrane. Spikes 
5 to 10 (18in Mr. Gammie’s specimen), 1 to 2inches long, crowded 
in a very short racemose fascicle the branches of which —at least 
in Mr. Gammie’s specimen—are decurrent into the peduncle for 
rounder, all awned. Gl. I +; inch long, elliptic, lanceolate, 
membraneous, strongly 1-nerved, slightly oblique : II 14 times 
as long as [, elliptic, oblong, membraneous, shortly mucro- 
nate, strongly I-nerved: III (without the awn) as long as LI, 
elliptic, obovate, cuneate, coriaceous, 3-nerved, and with a 
dorso-terminal awn 3, inch long, lateral nerves densely 
bearded with long white hairs nearly from the base. Palea 
as long as the glume but narrower, slightly hairy at the back, 
very shortly 2-fid at the apex, 2-keeled, keels minutely ciliate. 
Stamens 3, styles 2, stigmas plumose. Grain plano-convex or 
trigonous. Lodicules minute. 
A new species of Sporobolus. 
Sporobolus scabrifolius, Bhide, collected by me at Rani- 
bennur on N ovember 30th, : 
a few solitary or twins intervening. Spikelets jj; to z'5 inc 
d 
than II, ovate, acute, membraneous, l-nerved, paleate, bi- 
sexual; pale, shorter than the glume. Stamens 3, styles 2, 
stigmas plumose, grain rounded, slightly beaked at the ex- 
tremities, lodicules minute. : 
first took it to be a variety of 8. Coromandelianus ; 
Dr. Stapf however says it is apparently a new species but= 
Wight No. 3309, which is not described in the ‘‘ Flora of British 
India.” 
