264 Graminecz. {Calamagrostts, 



North Central and North-western Provinces. Kalpitiya, and Islands 

 (Trimen). Sea-shore, Chilan (Ferguson). 



Also in the Deccan. 



The specimens are insufficient for a satisfactory description. The 

 grain is like that of S. tremulus. 



7. S. coromandelianus, Kunth, Revis. Gram. i. 681 (1835). 

 Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 208. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 14. 



Annual, densely tufted; stems 3-6 in., copiously leafy at 

 the base, erect, spreading or ascending, lower internodes short; 

 1. 1-3 by g-|- in., narrowed from the subcordate base to the 

 finely acuminate tip, margins setoseiy or subspinulosely ciliate 

 towards the base with deciduous hairs, lower sheaths short, 

 terete or compressed, upper long, smooth, mouth hardly 

 auricled, ligule a narrow membrane, fimbriate with rather 

 long fine hairs; panicle i-i| in. long, ovate or pyramidal, 

 erect, rhachis filiform, smooth, branches capillary, in rather 

 distant whorls of 3-6, horizontally spreading, naked at the 

 base^ sparingly shortly divided upwards, bearing short clusters 

 of few, minute, red-brown, subsessile, caducous spikelets -£$ in. 

 long; glumes hyaline, I minute, orbicular, veins o, II as long 

 as III, ovate-oblong, subacute, III oblong, obtuse, palea as 

 long as the glume, oblong, acute, splitting between the closely 

 approximate veins; stam. 2, anth. very short; grain broadly 

 oblong or oval, laterally compressed, rounded at both ends, 

 quite smooth, loosely enclosed in the rather fleshy feticulate 

 pericarp, pale yellow-brown. 



Southern Province at Kirinde, and Jaffna district at Punakari (Trimen). 



Plains of India, Affghanistan, N. and S. Africa. 



Whole plant much larger, and panicle up to 6 in. long in Indian 

 specimens; and glume I variable in shape, often 1 -veined. 



48. CALAMAGROSTZS, Adans. 

 Erect, usually perennial grasses; 1. narrow; spikelets in 

 contracted or effuse panicles, not articulate on their pedicels, 

 i-fld., rhachilla articulate at the base, not produced beyond 

 gl. Ill ; glumes 3, I and II empty, acute, keeled, equal or 

 upper longer, III much shorter, hyaline, truncate, 3-veined, 

 dorsally awned, paleate, callus bearded, palea much shorter 

 than the glume, hyaline; stam. 3; styles short, free, stigmas 

 plumose; grain narrowly oblong, free within the glume. — ■ 

 Sp. 90 (many no doubt synonyms); 12 in FL B. Ind. 



C. pilosula, Hook.f. Fl. B. Ind. vii. 263 (1896). 



Agrostis pilosula, Trin. Agrost. ii. 372. A. Royleana, Trin. I.e. 371; 

 Thw. Enum. 370. A. zeylanica, Klein ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 83. Dey- 

 euxia Royleana, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108. (?) Cal. Hookeriana, Steud, 



