Gamotia.'] . Graminece. 257 



apiculate, very thin, tip bidenticulate, awn, if present, \ in. 

 long, capillary, straight, erect; lodicules cuneate, retuse; grain 

 linear-oblong. 



Central Province, alt. 2-4000 ft. Spikelets very pale green. 



Endemic. 



Two forms have been distinguished, one with stouter stems creeping 

 at the base and awned glume III; the other, var. nana, Stapf in Fl. B. 

 Ind., with shorter, more slender stems and awnless glume III. But a 

 fine series of specimens in Herb. Peraden. shows that these distinctions 

 do not hold good. 



6. G-. courtallensis, Thw. Enum. 363 (1864). 

 Miquelia courtallensis, Arn. and Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. 

 Suppl. i. 1877 (1843). C. P. 454. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 244. 



Annual ; stems 6 in.-2 ft., branching from the base and 

 upwards, as thick as a sparrow's quill or more slender, erect, 

 leafy, smooth, shining, internodes long or short, nodes 

 pubescent; 1. 1-3 by \-\ in. long, spreading, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, thin, smooth, glabrous, on both surfaces or sparsely 

 covered chiefly beneath with long flexuous hairs, margins 

 scaberulous, base rounded, contracted, sheaths glabrous or 

 hairy like the 1., ligule a short fringed membrane ; panicle 

 2-4 in., long-peduncled, oblong, rhachis filiform, smooth, 

 branches, \-\\ in., distant or in distant fascicles, widely 

 spreading or deflexed, few-fid., rhachis slender, shining, and 

 capillary branches smooth ; spikelets xo-g in., few, distant or 

 in distant pairs, upper of each pair longer than its pedicel, 

 lanceolate, base minutely bearded; glumes I and II subequal, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or laxly clothed with 

 long hairs, veins scabrid, III hardly stipitate, lanceolate, 

 awned, tip minutely bidentate, awn as long as the glume or 

 shorter, erect or if deflexed geniculate at about the lower third, 

 which is purplish ; lodicules cuneate. 



Central Province, alt. 4000-8000 ft. Adam's Peak, Ramboda, 

 Dambulla. Spikelets green or purplish. 



Nilgiri and Travancore Hills. 



The spikelets with long hairs on glume I and II occur on a branch 

 of a specimen in which the spikelets on all the other branches are 

 perfectly glabrous except on the scabrid veins. The column of the awn 

 is either straight or very slightly twisted in Ceylon specimens. 



7. G. panicoides, Trim, in Joum. Bot. xxvii. 181 (ii 

 Perennial ; stem 1-2 ft, rather stout, creeping and rooting 

 at the base, then ascending, smooth, branched above, sparingly 

 leafy, internodes 1-2 in., nodes glabrous; 1. 6-8 by |— § in., 

 linear -lanceolate, acuminate, flat, rather thin, scaberulous 

 above and on the margins, smooth beneath, base narrow, 



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