1 66 Gr amine ce. [Axonopus. 



Watery places in the hotter parts of the Island. Vars. subglabra and 

 depauperata. Colombo {Ferguson). 



India, Malaya, China, Australia. Var. depauperata, Bengal and the 

 Deccan. 



Ferguson regards Fan. sordidum (var. depauperata) as a distinct 

 species. Cattle, he says, eat both species. 



8. AXONOPUS, Beauv. 

 Perennial grasses; 1. subradical; spikelets in whorled or 

 digitate, terminal spikes, solitary or binate, awned, 2-fld., 

 articulate in their short pedicels, erect; glumes 4, I shorter 

 than III, hyaline, empty, acuminate or aristulate, veins 3, 

 lateral arching to join the median below the tip, II as long 

 as IV, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, empty, acuminate or awned, 

 5-veined, lateral veins marginal and villous, III as long as 

 IV, oblong-ovate, 5-veined, paleate, male, palea very small, 

 bipartite, segments auricled, IV sessile, bisexual, oblong, 

 narrowed into a slender terminal awn, thinly coriaceous, 

 dorsaMy flattened, quite smooth, margins glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, narrowly incurved ; palea oblong, 2-keeled, flaps 

 auricled; lodicules flabelliform ; stam. 3, anth. linear; styles 

 free, stigmas linear, laterally exserted, shortly penicillate; 

 grain oblong, free within the hardened glume and palea. — 

 Sp. 2 ; both in FL B. hid. 



Spikes umbellate 1. A. cimicinus. 



Spikes digitate 2. A. semialatus. 



1. A. cimicinus, Beauv. Agrost. 12 (18 12). 



Panicum cimicinum, Retz. ; Thw. Enum. 358 ; Moon, Cat. 8. C. P. 911. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 64. Kunth, Revis. Gram. ii. t. 103 {Urochloa cimiciiia). 



Stem 1-2 ft, erect or decumbent at the base, glabrous or 

 hairy, internodes 1-4 in., nodes hirsute, 1. 1—3 in., ovate- 

 lanceolate from a broad cordate base, acute or acuminate, flat, 

 glabrous or hairy on both surfaces, margins ciliate with rather 

 distant, long, stiff, white, tubercle-based hairs, sheath glabrous 

 or hirsute, ligule of very short hairs; spikes 3-8, umbellate on 

 the tip of a slender smooth glabrous ped. 2-6 in. long, with 

 sometimes a fascicle of 2 or more lower down on the ped., 

 rhachis filiform, flexuous, scaberulous, naked for the lower 

 third or half, simple or forked ; spikelets xg— | in., erect, sub- 

 secund, solitary or binate, loosely imbricate or the lower distant, 

 very shortly pedicelled, ovoid, flattened, pedicels glabrous; 

 glume I about one-third shorter than III, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, veins 3, lateral arching to join the median below 

 the tip, II and III membranous, II acute, III obtuse, IV 



