1172 BENGAL PLANTS. [Thysanolena. 
filiform, compound, suberect branches and branchlets, which form 
a very large, effuse, pyramidal panicle. Glumes 4; I. and HU. 
minute, concave, obtuse, awnless, and nerveless, I. shortest; III. 
much longer, epaleate, e ich coriaceous, acuminate, 1-nerved, 
ther 
with white, erect hairs; ates short, cate; stamens 2-3; 
anthers short; Rede free. Grain very ‘nus free within the 
hardened glum ; 
2514, eavuiboatibnk Acrostis Nees; F. B. I. vii. 61. 7. acart- 
fera E. D. T. 420. Agrostis maxima F. I. i. 317. Melica 
latifolia F. I, i. 328. 
Chota Nagpur ; eline N. Bengal, Duars; Chittagong. 
A tall, handsome grass. Santal. Karsar. 
1051. Isachne R. Br. 
Perennial grasses ; leaves ovate- or linear-lanceolate. Spikelets 
small or minute, loosely paniculate, not or obscurely articulate 
with the pedicel, subglobose or obovoid, 1-2-flowered. Glwmes 4, 
the two lower often separately deciduous, thinly coriaceous of 
membranous, strongly veined ; I. and IT. subequal, convex, empty + 
III. and IV. both paleate, equal, and both convex or III. larger 
and flatter; III. ¢ or neuter; IV. jointed and often stipitate on 
the very short rachilla, hemispheric, @ or ¢; lodicules most 
minute ; stamens 3, rarely 4-6; styles 2, free; stigmas short, 
feathery, exserted at the top of the spikelet. Grain free within 
the hardened glume and palea. 
Panicle ovoid or pyramidal . australis. 
Panicle small, lax-flowered miliaced. 
2515, IsacHNE austTRais R. Br.; F. B. I. vii. 24. 
ota Nagpur; N. Bengal Duars. 
A grass, with creeping stem below. 
2516. IsacHNE MILIACEA Roth; F. B. I. vii. 25. Panicum patens 
i. 305. 
N. Bengal. 
A slender grass, prostrate throughout. 
1052. Oplismenus Beauv. 
Slender grasses; stems creeping below, branching ; branches 
ascending, leafy; leaves ovate-lanceolate, thin, flat; margins 
