1226 BENGAL PLANTS. (Gracilea. 
late on a slender spike ; spikelets not articulate at base; callus 
absent; rachilla usually produc “a beyond the upper glume, 
filifo: erulous. Glumes 4; I. and II. elongate-subulate, 
rigid, pai at base, and ending in rigid, scabrid awns, persistent, 
ne at base and laterally siktaclied to base of spikelet, I. 
thout IL, with rather wide, hyaline margins; III. bisexual, 
on, ovate-oblong, cymbiform, shortly awned, 3-nerved ; 
palea as long as glume, 2-cuspidate, keels scaberulous ; lodicules 
minute, cuneiform, truncate; IV. like II. but much smaller, 
bicuspidate, male; sometimes an imperfect flower of two empty 
glumes at end of rachilla; stamens 3; anthers of ¢ large, of 3g 
mas 
aterally exserted. Grain linear-oblong, free within the glumes. 
2705. GracibEA Royieana Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 284. 
Behar. 
A densely tufted, slender, annual grass. 
1107. Microchloa KR. Br. 
Slender, perennial grasses ; leaves filiform, sens Spikelets 
very narrow, 1-flowered, minute, 2-seriate, unilateral on a solitary, 
terminal, filiform, curved iy not jointed at the base, awnless ; 
rachilla jointed at the base, not produced beyond glume Til. 
Glumes 3; I. and II. empty, membranous, 1-nerved, keeled, per 
sistent; ILI. very small, oblong, hyaline, awnless; palea as long 
as glumes, keels ciliate ; lodicules 2, truncate; stamens 3; anthers 
linear; styles distinct. ra seen fusiform, suheots free 
within the hyaline glume cad 
2706. MickocHLoa seTacea R. i ah B. L. vii. 288. Rottboellia 
setacea F. I.i f 
C. Bengal ; W. Bengal ; Chota Nagpur. 
A tufted, slender, perennial grass. 
1108, Cynodon Pers. 
erennial, wee creeping grasses; leaves narrow, flat- 
Spikelets minute, 1-flowered, sessile, unilateral, 2-seriate and 
imbricate in slender, pe digitate spies: not articulate at the 
base, laterally compressed. Glwmes 8, awnless; I. and II. empty, 
ovate, stoutly 1-veined, persistent or Soparately deciduous ; I1- 
artic t the base by a minute, glabrous callus, broader, mem 
branous, 3-nerved; palea as long as glume, 2-nerved; lodicules 2. 
