Axonopus.] GRAMINE#. 1173 
scaberulous ; base narrow, auricled on one si ide; ligule a ridge of 
long hairs. Spikelets 1-flowered, sessile or subsessile, solitary or 
Qnate, articulating at the base, secund on a terminal spike or on 
a raceme of spikes, subterete, awned. Glwmes 4; I. and II. empty, 
both usually awned, awns straight, I. shorter ne III., 3-5-veined ; 
Il. as long as or shorter than IV., 5-7- prc, IIL. as long as IV. 
or longer, 7~9- veined, paleate or not, empty; IV. sessile, lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, thinly coriaceous, terete, smooth, white, 
shining, paleate, 2-sexual, margins broadly incurved, palea 2-keeled ; 
lodicules minute; anthers 3, linear; styles free ; stigmas exserted 
at the top of the glume. Grain oval-oblong, free within the 
hardened glume and palea. 
Awns stout, smooth, obtuse compositus 
Awns capillary, minutely scaberulous Burmanni 
2517. Optismenus CoMPosITUS Beauv,; F, B. I. vii. 66. Panicum 
lanceolatum F. I. i. : 
4 res of ‘i provinces, 
tall, branching grass. 
2518, Pale Ss Burmanni Beauv.; F. B. I. vii. 68. Panicum 
urmanne F, I. i. 295. 
A small, diffuse grass. Uriya Kan-guria. 
1053. Axonopus Beauv. 
Perennial grasses; leaves subradical. Spikelets in whorled or 
digitate, terminal spikes, solitary or 2-nate, awned, 2-flowered, 
articulate on their short pedicels, erect. Glumes 4; I. shorter 
than IIT., hyaline, acuminate or aristulate, veins 3, lateral arching 
to join the median below the tip; II. as long as IV., ovate or 
Ovate-lanceolate, empty, acuminate or awned, 5-veined, the lateral 
Veins villous, marginal ; III. as ioe as LV., ovate-oblong, 5-veined, 
paleate, ¢, palea very small, 2-partite, segments auricled; IV. 
sng # , omate aise into a slender, te ermin awn, thinly 
pu ce narrowly incurve e palea shlong, 2- ‘escted, the lobes 
auricled ; lodicules flabelliform ; stamens 3; ers linear ; styles 
free ; stigmas linear, laterally exserted, ‘shortly yeni, Grain 
Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; spikes subverticillate ......... eimicinus. 
Leaves long, linear ; spikes few, subdigitate.........++eseenesemialatus, 
