1198 BENGAL PLANTS. — [ Apocopis. 
obovate or obcordate, papery below, membranous above, more or 
less villous, with pale brown or yellow hairs, 7-9-veined below the 
apex, margins incurved at the base only; II. as long as I., much 
narrower, membranous, oblong-ovate, truncate, 8-veined, sides 
broadly incurved ; II. oblong, iced to its hyaline palea, their 
tips broadly truncate and ciliolate, m or neuter; IV. 2-sexual, 
inear, 2-toothed, 1-ve , hyaline, ieee awned, the awn slender, 
twisted ; palea half as mia as glume, quadrately oblong, veinless, 
truncate, tip onl ; lodicules 0; stamens 2 or 3; anthers 
ear; ovary n ; styles 2, very short ; stigmas long, slender, 
eidievbed at apex rd spikelet. Grain very small, narrowly oblong. 
Perennial; glume IV. oblong, 2-fid ; awn short or 0 ..........-. Royleanus. 
nnual; glume IV. linear, entire or 2-toothed ; awn long......... Wightii 
2610. Apocoris RoyLeanus Nees; F. B. I. vii. 142. 
N. 
A simple, slender grass, 1-2 feet high. 
2611. ious tonto Nees ; F. B. I. vii. 142. 
A low, tufted grass. 
4078. Arthraxon Beauv. 
Annual or perennial slender grasses ; stems decumbent, creeping 
and branching below ; leaves short, broad, base cordate, sheaths 
shorter than the internodes. Spikes 2-nate, digitate or fascicled ; 
rachis very slender, articulate, fragile ; spikelets 1-flowered, secund, 
sessile, solitary or with an imperfect pedicelled spikelet, sere: 
compressed, aaa with the internode ; callus bearded. Glum 
ye eola a acute, thin or ak Hees 
more or less paateiiia or aculeate, margins hardly incurved ; Il. 
rrower, lanceolate, acuminate, ‘Saialiciaad keeled ; III. hyaline, 
Pab¥s 
dorsal; palea minute or 0; lodicules 2, cuneate or quadrate ; 
stamens 3, 2, or 1; styles short ; stigmas laterally exserted. Gram 
linear or narrowly fusiform. 
Stamens 3 ; anthers oe nearly as long as glume IV.; marginal nerves 
of glume I, armed with very strong, curved teeth .........--..+ lanceolatus. 
Stamens 2 or 3 ; cag much shorter than glume IV.; glume I. echinu- 
late or soabernloiie on the nerves but not toothed :— 
*Glume II. aristiform in the upper third :—[p. 1199] 
