Chloris.) GRAMINE&. 1227 
short ; stamens 3; anthers short, thick; styles distinet, short, 
their ae contiguous ; stigmas ae plumose, laterally exserted. 
Grain oblong, free within the 
2707. Cynopon pacryton Pers. ; ees B. I. vii. 288 ; E. D. C.-2558. 
Panicum dactylon F. I. i. 289. 
n all the provinces 
A slender, percinhal creeping grass. Vernac. Dubh. 
1109. Chloris Sw. 
Annual or perennial grasses ; leaves flat or convolute. Sptkelets 
1-flowered, 2-seriate, unilateral, on solita ary, geminate, fascicled, 
digitate or whorled, terminal, erect or radiatin ing spikes, not jointed 
at the base; rachilla jointed at the base, sometimes produce 
beyond glume IIT. and bearing one or more empty glumes. 
Glumes normally 3; I. and II. empty, membranous, 1-nerved, 
Persistent, acute, sabi: or Loam II. awned; III. flowering, 
broad or narrow, awne 8-nerved, acute obtuse or 2-fid, 
articulate at ‘base ; ae ek bearded ; palea rather shorter, 
<egta complicate ; lodicules 2, minute, when the produced 
illa bears empty glumes these small, epaleate and imperfect ; 
Saina 3; anthers small; styles free; stigmas laterally exserted. 
Grain narrow, free 
anh 1-flowered, with no rudiment of a second; rachis of lb 
ned llida 
|. 1-flowered, the rachilla produced beyond the flowering PS , 
rachis of spike terete or angular : 
Rachilla bearing one or two awns iene the flower :— 
Annual ; spikes 1:5~2 in. long, alternate on the apex of stem 
delicatula, 
Perennial ; spikes 4-6 in. long, whorled.........ccsecesseeesees incompleta. 
Aig bearing one to three reduced empty glumes beyond the 
iy eae 2-awned virgata 
Spikelets 3-4-awned :— 
Rachis seaberulous ; spikelets 3-awned barbata 
achis glabr rous :-— 
Spikelets 3-awned polystach ya 
ikelets 4-awned montana 
2708. Cutorts panna Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 289. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A slender, filiform, annual grass. 
