274 Graminece. \Chloris. 



empty, ovate, stoutly I -veined, persistent, or separately 

 deciduous, III articulate at the base by a minute glabrous 

 callus, |-ovate, laterally compressed, subacute, smooth, veins 3, 

 a median and two marginal, keel obtuse and tip scabrid or 

 ciliate, margins incurved, ciliate above, palea nearly as long 

 as the glume, linear-oblong, obtuse, keels 2, approximate, 

 nearly smooth; lodicules 2, very minute; anth. short; styles 

 short, bases close together, stigmas laterally exserted, short, 

 plumose; grain free in the glume, fusiform. — Sp. 4; 1 in 

 FL B. Ltd. 



C. Dactylon, Pers. Syn. i. 85 (1805). Arug-am-pillu, T. 



Thw. Enum. 371. C. P. 312. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 288. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 26. Rheede, Hort. Mai. 

 xii. t. 47. 



Stem slender, prostrate, widely creeping, forming matted 

 tufts, with slender erect or ascending flowering branches 

 3-T2 in. high; 1. 1-3 by -^-\ in., narrowly linear or lanceolate, 

 acuminate, soft, smooth, sheath of lower short, of upper long, 

 ligule of a few hairs; spikes 2-5, radiating from the top of 

 a very slender ped., \\-2 in. long, rhachis compressed and 

 angled, scaberulous ; spikelets tVti- m - long and as broad. 



Warmer parts of the Island, common. Spikes pale green. 



All warm countries. 



Widely known as Bermuda and Doob grass. A most useful tropical 

 fodder, makes excellent hay, and sometimes a near approach to a 

 sward. 



57. CHLORIS, Sw. 



Annual or perennial grasses; stems erect or decumbent 

 below; 1. flat or sides complicate; spikelets i-fld., sessile or 

 subsessile, secund, biseriate, imbricate in slender whorled 

 digitate spikes, not articulate at the base, rhachilla produced 

 much beyond the solitary fig. glume, terminated by one or 

 more very small, imperfect, epaleate neuter glumes; glumes 3, 

 I and II empty, membranous, 1 -veined, persistent, III fig., 

 broad or narrow, awned, concave, 3-veined, lateral veins near 

 the margins, callus short, bearded, articulate at the base, 

 palea narrow, 2-veined ; lodicules 2, minute; stam. 3, anth. 

 small ; styles free, stigmas laterally exserted ; grain linear- 

 oblong, concavo-convex. — Sp. about 40 ; 1 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Spikes 4-9 in. . . 1. C. incompleta. 



Spikes 1-3 in. 



Spikelets 3-awned 2. C. barbata. 



Spikelets 4-awned 3. C. Montana. 



