1 64 Graminece . \Chamceraphis. 



empty, palea, broadly oval, flaps broad, IV ovoid, acute, 

 brown, dorsally very convex, minutely transversely rugulose 

 all over. 



Moist region ; not uncommon in damp shady places. Panicle pale 

 green. 



Temperate and tropical regions. 



4. S. gracillima, Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 81 (1896). 



Stems 12-18 in., tufted, very slender, almost filiform above, 

 smooth, internodes long; 1. 8-12 by \-\ in., narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, flat, smooth, shortly hairy on 

 both surfaces, base very narrow, margins hardly scabrid, 

 sheath pubescent, margins villously ciliate, ligule a brush 

 of hairs ; panicle 2-3 in., on a very long filiform, smooth, 

 puberulous ped., 6-8 in. long, very narrow, rhachis filiform, 

 pubescent, branches \-\ in., capillary, flexuous, 2-3-fld. ; 

 bristles of involucel 1 or few, ^ in. long, pale, flexuous, 

 minutely scaberulous ; spikelets sessile, -^e m - l0n g, broadly 

 ovoid, glabrous; glume I one-fourth to one-third as long as 



III, broadly ovate, 5-veined, II about one-third shorter than 



IV, orbicular, 5- rarely 7-veined, III as long as IV, broadly 

 oval, subacute, 5-veined, male, paleate, palea broadly oblong, 

 flaps broad, IV ovoid, acute, pale green, dorsally very convex, 

 transversely rugulose from the lower half or two-thirds, 

 punctulate above it. 



Ceylon, Gardner (n. 968), in Herb. Kew. Panicle pale green. 



A very peculiar- looking species. Dr. Trimen, to whom I sent a 

 fragment, did not know it, but observed that it looked like a starved 

 S. intermedia, which is certainly its nearest ally (if it be not a form or 

 variety of it) ; but, over and above the slender habit, the spikelets are 

 smaller, and glume IV smooth in the upper third. 



5. italica, Beauv. (Moon, Cat. 8), the Italian Millet, a taller and much 

 stouter species than any of the above, with broader 1. and contracted 

 panicles 6 in. long and as thick as the thumb, is cultivated in Ceylon. 

 Ferguson gives it the native names Tanna Hal, S, Tennay, T, and says 

 of it one of the dry or very fine grains cultivated in India and Ceylon, 

 and considered by the natives to be one of the most delicious of culti- 

 vated grains. 



7. CHADIJERAPKIS, Br. 

 Glabrous marsh or aquatic grasses; 1. narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate; infl. panicled, branches of the panicle filiform, 

 ending in a flexuous awn-like scabrid bristle; spikelets 

 narrowly lanceolate, terete, green, scattered, subsecund, sub- 

 articulate but persistent on the very short thickened obconic 

 pedicel, which is subarticulate on the branch; glumes 4, 1 very 

 small, suborbicular, hyaline, white, veinless, II and III 



