Cynodon.] Graminecz. 273 



membranous, 1 -veined, I deeply lobed on one side only, II 

 longer, notched at the tip with a short awn in the sinus, fig. 

 glumes 5-8, all but the uppermost perfect, terete, 3-cleft, 

 3-veined, side lobes awned, mid lobe entire or 2-cleft, awned in 

 the sinus, awns all straight, callus short, bearded, palea 

 narrow, complicate, truncate, keels ciliate; lodicules cuneate; 

 stam. 3, anth. large, linear-oblong ; styles distant at the base, 

 stigmas short, plumose; grain narrow, free in the glumes. — 

 Sp. 12; wmFLB. Ind. 



T- bromoides, Roth, Nov. Sp. 49 (1821). 



T. zeylanicus, Nees ex Wight Cat. n. 2360 ; Thw. Enum. 374. 

 T. festucozdes, Jaub. and Sp. 111. Fl, Orient, iv. 49. C. P. 281. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 287. Jaub. and Sp. 1. c. t. ^^. 



Perennial; stem 6-12 in., Very slender, erect, naked above, 

 thickened at the base, and with the bases of the 1. clothed 

 with matted brown fibres ; 1. very many, much shorter than 

 the stem, erect, filiform, finely acuminate, quite smooth, 

 glabrous or hairy, sheaths very short, mouth not auricled, 

 ligule a narrow ridge, ciliate with long hairs; spikes 3-5 in. 

 long by J-§ in. across the spikelets, erect, rhachis slender, 

 smooth ; spikelets tV~to m - l° n g> distichously spreading, sub- 

 imbricate or the lower distant, few- or many-fid., rhachilla 

 glabrous ; glume I cuspidate, narrow on one side of the mid- 

 vein, very broad on the other side below the middle, and 

 totally wanting above it (appearing as if the upper half of that 

 side of the glumes was torn away), II oblong-lanceolate, tip 

 entire or acutely bifid, with a short awn in the sinus, fig. 

 glumes narrowly oblong, 4-fid, 3-awned, or 3-lobed, with the 

 lateral lobes a little divergent truncate and awned, the mid 

 lobe acutely bifid, with erect lobules and an interposed 

 longer awn, awns all shorter than the glumes, callus villous 

 with white hairs, keels of narrow palea silkily ciliate. 



Elevated parts of the Central Province. Spikes greenish-brown. 



Malabar Ghats. 



A very variable plant in the Nilgiri and other hills, where the leaves 

 are often as long as the stem, the fig. glumes more deeply cleft, and the 

 awns sometimes as long as the glumes. The above description is from 

 Ceylon specimens only. 



56. CYNODON, Pers. 

 Perennial, glabrous, creeping grasses ; 1. narrow, flat ; 

 spikelets minute, i-fld., sessile, unilateral, biseriate, and im- 

 bricate, in slender, strict, digitate spikes, not articulate at 

 the base, laterally compressed; glumes 3, awnless, I and II 

 part v. T 



