Apocopis.] GRAMINEZ. 1197 
1076. Pogonatherum Beauy. 
Slender, perennial grasses; stem leafy upwards, branches rigid ; 
eaves narrow, suberect. Spikes solitary, on long, flexuous 
peduncles, plumose from the slender awns; rachis at length 
fragile ; internodes short; spikelets bets small, subterete, 2-nate, 
1-2-flowered, a sessile 2-sexual, and pedicelled male or neuter 
rarely 2-sexual; callus bearded with one fine hairs. Glumes 8 or 
4, all membranous and hyaline, obscurely veined or veinless; 
I. oblong, truncate, dorsally Paid: II. longer, ovate, keeled, 
d awned i h 
and awned in the sinus like glume II.; palea broadly oblong, a 
keeled ; lodicules eniie stamens 1 or 2; anthers long; ov 
narrow; styles short, free; stigmas very long, a at the te 
of the spikelet, shortly hairy. Grain narrow, gibbously obovate, 
compressed, acute. 
Stems rarely under a = usually longer; glume II. ciliate; stamens 
usually 2; leaves pale gree saccharoideum 
Stems never a foot long ; Tes II. glabrous or nearly so; stamens 
usually solitary ; leaves bright green nitu 
| 2608. PoGoNATHERUM SACCHAROIDEUM Beauy.; F. B. I. vii. 141. 
Orissa ; Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal ; N. Bengal ; Chitta- 
gong. 
A densely tufted grass, with spreading stems, 12-18 in. 
ong . 
2609. Pogonaruerum crinrrum Trin.; F. B. I. vii. 141. Andro- 
pogon monandrus F, I. i, 260 
Chittagong. 
A densely tufted grass, with erect stems, 6-9 in. high. 
ere Apocopis Nees. 
Annual or per grasses; stems slender; leaves narrow, 
flat. Spikes cele or 2-3-nate, compressed; rachis firm, not 
ating; internodes very short, slender and villous ; 
spikelets secund, closely imbricate in 2 series, solitar e, 1-2- 
Very short, acute, bearing the long capillary, ciliate pedicel of an 
obsolete upper spikelet. Glumes 4; I. very large, — 
