304 Graminecz. {/Eluropus. 



o; stam. 2-3, anth. linear; styles short, free, stigmas narrow, 

 hairs short ; grain ovoid, acute, terete, free within the 

 glumes. — Sp. 3; 1 in Fl. B. Ltd. 



C. lappacea, Desv. in Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. ii. 189 (1810). 



Thw. Enum. 374. Kunth, Revis. Gram. i. 317. Poa malabarica, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 69. C. P. 923. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 332. Kunth, 1. c. t. 70. Beauv. Agrost. t. 14, f. 7. 

 Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 298 {Uniola). 



Stem 1-3 ft, erect from a woody rootstock with very 

 stout root-fibres ; 1. 4-10 by i-i^ in., acute or acuminate, 

 more or less unequal-sided, thin, smooth, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy, 9-1 1 -veined, base narrowed but hardly into a petiole, 

 sheaths glabrous or hairy, mouth obscurely auricled, ligule 

 broad, membranous, erose or lacerate; panicle 8-10 in. long 

 and broad, rhachis slender, strict, smooth, spiciform branches, 

 suberect, lower up to 5 in. long, sometimes nearly overtopping 

 the panicle, lower with often a short branch at the base ; 

 spikelets \-% in. long, ovate-oblong, rhachilla scaberulous, 

 palea sometimes decurrent on the rhachilla below the glume. 



Warm region; common on margins of woods. Spikelets green. 



Trop. Asia, Africa, Australia, and Pacific Islds. 



In specimens growing near Colombo the spikelets are metamorphosed 

 into leaves (Ferguson). There are no spines on the glumes of the 

 Peraden. Herb, specimens. 



73. JELUROPUS, Trin. 



Low, much branched, very rigid, perennial, leafy grasses; 



!. distichous, short, strict, convolute, rarely flat, coriaceous, 



pungent ; spikelets 6-many-fld., minute, sessile, densely 



crowded in terminal villous heads, laterally compressed, not 



articulate at the base, rhachilla obscurely jointed at the base, 



not produced above the upper glume, internodes very short; 



glumes oblong, apiculate, margins and tips broadly hyaline, 



I and II unequal, empty, persistent, I narrowly oblong, 1-3- 



veined, II much larger, 5-7-veined from below the hyaline 



tip, fig. glumes, oblong, apiculate, 7-9-veined, palea very 



large, broadly cuneate, 3-lobed, lobes erose, flaps broad, 



keels nearly smooth or ciliate; lodicules obliquely truncate; 



stam. 3, anth. minute ; styles short, free, stigmas short, 



plumose ; grain oblong or obovoid, free within the glumes. — 



Sp. few; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



IB. villosus, Trin. ex L. Mey. Vers. Pfl. Cauc. 18 (1831). 

 JE. lagoftodioides, Trin. ex Thw. Enum. 374. sE. lagopoides, Trin. ex 

 Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. no. 



