3$ 2 Graminece. \sporobolus. 



narrowed into capillary tips, coriaceous, quite smooth, base 

 narrow, sheaths smooth, mouth truncate, angles hardly bearded, 

 ligule a ridge of minute hairs; panicle 12-18 in. by 4-5 in. 

 broad, most laxly effuse, erect or nodding, rhachis filiform, 

 smooth, branches capillary, erecto-patent, opp. alt. or fascicled, 

 sparingly divided ; spikelets minute, tt~t X o i n -> distant, solitary 

 on very long capillary sparsely scaberulous pedicels, narrowly 

 ovate ; glumes hyaline, veins obscure or o, I about half as 

 long as II, both ovate-oblong, obtuse, III nearly twice as long 

 as II, ovate-oblong, subacute, palea as long but broader, acute 

 or 2-dentate, not infiexed along the median line, veins o; 

 stam. 3, anth. linear-oblong, one fourth shorter than the palea, 

 yellow; grain pyriform, subtruncate, capped by the remains 

 of the loose pericarp, pale brown, rugulose. 



Between Trincomalie and Kantalar (Ferguson). 

 Also in Behar and Pegu. 



In some Indian specimens the grain is obcordate, being retuse at the 

 broad upper end. 



4. 3. virg-inicus, Kunth, Revis. Gram. i. 67 (1835). Mudu 



JEtora, S. 



Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 249. Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 48 {Vilfa). Labill. PI. 

 Nov. Holl. t. 23 {Agrostis). 



Perennial; stems 6-12 in. long, erect from an elongate 

 woody sheathed rootstock as thick as a crow-quill, that is 

 usually buried in the sand, stout or slender, solitary or 

 fascicled, naked below, copiously leafy above, lower internodes 

 very short, stout, leafy, terminal long, slender, sheathed to 

 near the panicle, sheaths of rootstock and bases of stems 

 scarious; 1. distichous, close-set, erecto-patent, 2-5 in. long, 

 coriaceous, convolute, hence terete, rarely flat, narrowed from 

 the base to the very slender, often recurved tip, dorsally 

 rounded, quite smooth, deeply striate on the upper surface, 

 sheaths \ to £ in., equitant, auricles very short, bearded, ligule 

 of short fine hairs ; panicle 2-3 in., erect, contracted, almost 

 spiciform, pale green, branches very short, fascicled, appressed 

 to the rhachis; spikelets very shortly pedicelled, T V in. long; 

 glumes subequal, all 1 -veined, rather thick in texture, I and 

 II rather shorter than III, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, I rather 

 the shortest, III ovate, acute, palea plicate along the median 

 line; anth. half as long as the palea; grain obovoid. 



Sandy shores, not uncommon, but rarely flowering (Trimen). Colombo, 

 Trincomalie, &c. 



Mediterranean region, Africa, America, Australia. 



It is singular that there is no record of this grass having been found 

 in India proper. Grain not seen in Ceylon specimens, the flowers of 

 which seem to be imperfect. 



