iq6 Graminecs. \Dimeria~ 



awn as long as the glume or shorter, erect, scaberulous, wing 

 of keel as broad as the glume or narrower, scaberulous, III 

 narrowly oblong, ciliate towards the obtuse tip, veinless, IV 

 narrowly oblong, tip obtusely bifid, awn ^-f in., palea and 

 lodicules o or obscure; anth. ^ in. 



Var. I pusilla proper, Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. D. pusilla, Thw. 1. c. 



Stem 6-8 in., simple, spikes i-ii in., glumes I and II 

 sparsely hairy. 



Var. 2 elatior, Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. 



Stem taller, stouter, branching upwards, spikes \\-2 in.,, 

 glumes I and II copiously silkily ciliate, wing of glume II 

 narrower. 



Trincomalie (Glenie). Var. elat'ior, Kokoladoa (Gardner). 



2. D. pubescens, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 83 (1889). 



D. omithopoda, var. y, Thw. Enum. 369, excl. syn. fuscescens. C. P.. 

 956. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 105. 



Annual ; stems tufted, erect or ascending, leafy at the base 

 chiefly, upper internodes very slender, often decurved, lower 

 nodes bearded ; 1. erect, crowded at the base of the stem, 3-5 

 by \-\ in., narrowly linear, oblanceolate, finely acuminate,, 

 rigid, more or less softly covered with long tubercle-based 

 hairs on both surfaces, base very narrow, margins scaberulous,. 

 midrib rather broad, pale, sheaths shortly auricled, glabrous 

 or hairy, lower short, compressed, margins membranous, ligule 

 rounded, eciliate ; spikes I or 2, erect or divaricate, 2-3 in. long,, 

 pale brown, rhachis flat, ^V tV i n - broad, margins rigidly 

 ciliate, internodes very short ; spikelets \ in. long, sessile or 

 subsessile, callus very short, shortly bearded ; glumes I and II 

 acuminate, more or less silkily ciliate, I as long as II, II lan- 

 ceolate, keeled, keel nearly as broad as the rest of the glume,, 

 ciliate with long hairs, margins softly ciliate, III narrowly 

 lanceolate, ciliate, I -veined, IV oblong, tip bifid, awn \ in.,, 

 palea and lodicules o or obscure; anth. T * f in., linear; grain 

 yo in. long, narrowly fusiform, flattened. 



Central Province, Passilova, Pasdun Korale, Hantane, Ramboda, &c. 



Endemic. 



Nearly allied to D. Trimeni. 



3. I>. Lehmanni, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 82 (18S9). 



D. ornithopoda, Thw. Enum. 369, excl. vars. /3, y, et syn. D. gracilis.- 

 Pterigostachyum Lehmanni, Nees; Steud. Syn. Gram. 413. C. P. 952, 



3321- 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 104. 



Annual; stems tufted, 1-2 ft, slender, simple or branched, 



