Thysanolena. } GRAMINE 2. 1171 
{ 1049, Chameraphis RB. Br. 
Glabrous marsh or aquatic grasses; leaves narrowly linear-lan- 
ceolate. Spikelets 1~-2-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the 
branches of a simple panicle, which are produced as awn-like 
bristles beyond the ultimate spikelet, obscurely articulate but per- 
sistent on their short, obconic pedicels, narrowly lanceolate, terete, 
green. Glumes 4; I. very small, suborbicular, hyaline, white, vein- 
less; II. and III, membranous, green, narrowly lanceolate, IT. 
acuminate, 9-11 veined, longer than III., the tip subulate or 
awned ; IIT, acuminate, 7-veined, paleate, male, the palea smaller 
than the glume, hyaline, the veins obscure ; [V. much smaller than 
aif, stoutly stipitate, female, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, flat, 
thinly coriaceous, veinless, the palea as broad as the glume, vein- 
less, acute; lodicules cuneate ; stamens 3; anthers very short; 
styles free; stigmas laterally exserted; hairs scattered, Grain 
minute, oblong, compressed, free in the coriaceous glume and 
hyaline palea, 
Stems stoutish ; spikelets on branches of panicle few :— 
Leaves longish ; spikelets -25 in. or longer 
spinescens var. Brunoniana. 
Leaves very short; panicle contracted ; spikelets under -25 in. 
tt spinescens var. depauperata, 
3 Stems Slender ; spikelets on branches of panicle many, very small 
: gracilis. 
2512. CHammRapPHIs spINesceNs R. Br. var. Brunontana Hook. 
i; FB. 1 vi. 
E. Bengal; Sundribuns. 
A floating, aquatic grass. 
2512/2. Var. pppauperaTAa Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 62. 
Behar 
A floating, aquatic grass. 
2513. Cuammrapuis Gracttis Hack.; F. B. I. vii. 62. 
C. Bengal; E. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A floating, aquatic grass. 
1050. Thysanolena Nees. 
A large, glabrous grass; stems solid ; leaves broad, flat. Spike- 
lets very minute, numberless, 1-flowered, jointed on very short 
Pedicels and subsecund on the very numerous, crowded, long, 
