-?02 Gvaminecz. \Lophatherum. 



Central and Western Provinces. Matelle (Gardner), Heneratgoda- 

 (Trimen). Spikes dark green. 



Travancore, W. Trop. Africa. 



The Ceylon species differs from the American 6". crinita in the much 

 longer glume I with slender equidistant veins, and silkily villous fig- 

 glumes. 



71. LOFHATHERUM, Brongn. 



Tall, erect, perennial grasses ; 1. broad, shortly petioled,. 



veins trabeculate, petiole articulate on the sheath ; spikelets 



1 -fid., biseriate, secund, sessile, articulate on the spiciform 



branches of a simple elongate panicle, laterally compressed, or 



subcylindric, rhachilla long, slender, naked, adnate to the base 



of the palea, bearing at the top 3-8 small crowded convolute,. 



imperfect awned neuter glumes, the awns of which protrude 



at the tip of the spikelets ; glumes convolute, margins and tip 



membranous, I and II empty, 3-5-veined, oblong-ovate, I tip- 



"rounded, II obtuse or apiculate, fig. glume larger than the 



empty, base articulate, broadly ovate, obtuse, shortly sub- 



dorsally awned below the obscurely notched tip, 5-9-veined,. 



callus very short, naked ; palea narrow, hyaline, keels nearly 



smooth; lodicules 2, cuneate-quadrate ; stam. 2, anth. linear; 



styles elongate, bases diverging from the narrow neck of the 



ov., stigmatic hairs long, lax; grain fusiform and terete, or 



oblong and compressed, free in the glume, embryo long. — 



Sp. 3 or 4 ; 1 in FL B. Ind. 



Glume I naked 1. L. GRACILE. 



Glume I bearded 2. L. zeylanicum.. 



1. Zi. gracile, Brongn. in Duperz. Voy. Bot. 50 (1829). 

 Thw. Enum. 374 (in part). C. P. 921. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 331. Brongn. 1. c. t. 8. 



Stem 2-5 ft, erect or shortly ascending from a branching 

 woody rootstock, soft, smooth, as thick as a small goose-quill, 

 internodes very long; 1. distant, 6-10 by \—l\ in., ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, membranous, base rounded or cuneate, upper 

 sparsely minutely hairy above, glabrous beneath, margins 

 smooth, midrib and 5-6 pairs of veins very slender, petiole \-\ in., 

 slender, channelled above, sheaths Long, membranous, glabrous 

 or margin ciliate, mouth truncate, ligule o; panicle 12-16 in., 

 erect or inclined, rhachis smooth, branches very few, sub- 

 secund, solitary or binatej lower up to 6 in. long, upper short, 

 rhachis strict, smooth; spikelets \-\ in. long, lanceolate, 

 rhachilla slender, about one-third shorter than fig. glume,, 

 smooth, terminated by 8-9 minute, convolute, oblong, shortly 



