1224 BENGAL PLANTS, [ Myriostachya, 
form panicle with a stout rachis, shortly pedicelled, not articulate 
on the pedicels, but pedicels articulate on the branches; rachilla 
very stout, shortly produced between the flowering glumes but not 
beyond the uppermost neuter glume. Glwmes all coriaceous and 
persistent, I. and II. empty, subequal, 1-veined, lanceolate, taper- 
ing into rigid awns; flowering glumes quite glabrous, ovate-lanceo- 
late, 3-veined, ae into short, very stout, scabrid awns, keel 
smooth ; callus very short; palea chartaceous, as long as the 
glume, Seminal, 2-toothed, keels wea lodicules very minute ; 
stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong; ovary globose; styles short, 
distant at the base; stigmas long-penicillate, laterally exserted. 
rain obliquely ovoid, subterete 
2700. MyriosTACcHYA Wises Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 327. 
Sundribuns. 
A tall, stout, perennial grass. Beng. Nalai. 
1103. Bromus Linn. 
Annual or perennial grasses; leaves narrow, usually flat. Spike- 
lets many-flowered, panicled, laterally compressed; uppermost 
flowers usually imperfect; rachilla jointed below the flowering 
ag not produced beyond the uppermost glume. Glwmes 
I. and II. unequal, empty, acuminate, 1-5-nerved, persis- 
3-awned, median awn erect or recurved, sometimes twisted towards 
the base ; palea 2-fid or 2-toothed, keels scabrid or ciliate; lodi- 
cules 2, oblong or lanceolate, entire or cleft; stamens 3; ovary 
oblong or cuneiform, crown more or less enlarged and hairy or 
villous ; styles short, usually inserted ventrally below the tip of 
the ovary; stigmas plumose. Grain linear-oblong, usually con- 
cavo-convex and adherent to the palea. 
. Bromus nranaticus Stapf; F. B. I. vii. 358. 
E. Bengal, Mymensingh. 
A perennial grass, with short rootstock ; stems 2-2°5 feet 
high. 
41104, Diplachne Beauv. 
Tall, tufted grasses; leaves flat or convolute, narrow; stems 
erect or ascending. Spikelets many-flowered, sessile, 1-seriate on 
the slender, spiciform branches of a contracted, subsimple, erect 
panicle, not articulate at the base, strongly laterally compressed 5 
