Imperata,} GRAMINE®. 1187 
1064. Dimeria R. Br. 
Erect, slender, annual or perennial grasses; leaves narrow. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, sessile, articulate on very short pedicels, 
laterally much compressed, solitary, secund, bifarious, in solitary, 
2-nate or digitate, slender r spikes, with inarticulate, terete, angular 
or flattened rachis; callus of spikelets short or long, bearded. 
Glumes 4; I, and ca usually divaricate in flower, empty; I. cori- 
aceous, linear, sides ber ies dorsally rounded; II. as long as 
or longer, papery, oblong, margins se hal Bee omplicate, 
focally keeled, ioe, scanabiaee winged ; III. much shorter, linear 
or oblanceolate, Be ee ciliate, palea agit IV. hyaline, 
complicate, oblong, 2-fid, awned in the sinus; awn capillary, with 
stamens 2; anthers long or short; styles short, distinct; stigmas 
short, haloes exserted. Grain linear, compressed. 
Rachis flexuous ; spikelets less than ‘1 in. long..........s.00+ ornithopoda, 
Rachis nearly straight ; spikelets exceeding ‘1 in, long ......... connivens 
2575. Dimeria orniTHopopa Trin.; F. B. I. vii. 104. Andro- 
pogon ld Ga F, I. i. 256, 
Ori hota Na 
Am a branched, seat, annual grass. : 
2576, iene CONNIVENS Hack. ; F. B. I. vii. 104, 
hota Na 
A slender, wecat grass, 
PS neha REE Se ROR SEE pe go aoe ks he ie Nas Eee EBs ger hrteks Sele are 
1065. Imperata Cyrill. 
Erect, perennial grasses; stem leafy ; internodes solid; leaves 
narrow. Spikelets 1- ee in spiciform, subcylindric, silvery- 
silky panicles, with very short, filiform, inarticulate branches and 
rachises, all alike ae ri nue narrow, terete, hidden among yery 
long hairs, rising from small callus and from outer glumes, 2-nate 
a pesails and a pedicelled, articulate at the base, fugacious. Glumes 
4; I. and II. subequal, membranous, dorsally rounded, or II 
obscurely keeled, 8-5-veined at the pee) IL Bic A, tip 
yaline, obtuse; II. acuminate; III. and IV. very short, erose ; 
palea minute, hyaline ; lodicules 0; emus 1-2; sti wes connate 
below; stigmas vy. very i ong, narrow, exserted at the top of the 
spikelets. Grain oblong, small, free. 
