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Gersoppa Falls (Hallberg & McCann A125 !) ; Atimod, forests (Sedgwick 

 3252 !) ; Kulgi, elevation 2,000 ft. (Talbot). 



Distribution : Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, India, Malaya, Australia, 

 Pacific Islands. 



3. Cyrtococcum patens, A. Camus in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 27 (1921), 118.— 

 Panicum patens, Linn. Sp. PI. 86 ; Burm, Fl. Ind. t. 10, f. 2 ; Spreng. Syst. i, 

 322 {excl. syn. multinode) ; Kunth Enum. PI. I, 126 {excl. syn. Roxb.) ; Hook, 

 f. F. B. 1. vii, SI.— P. accrescens, Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 88, etcorrig. vol. iii ; 

 Kunth I.e. 116.— P. obliquum, Roth. Nov. Sp. 51 ; Kunth I.e. 103; Miq. Fl. 

 ind. Bat. iii, 452.— />. radicans, Retz. Obs. iv, 18; Nees Agrost. Bras. 206 ; 

 Kunth I.e. 216. 



Description : Culms 30-90 cm. high, creeping and rooting and branched 

 below, leafy, nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-15 cm. by 6-8 mm., ovate to linear- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, thin, glabrous or cdiate below with tubercle-based 

 hairs. Sheath with the margins and mouth ciliate. Ligule rounded. Panicle 

 5-13 cm. long, contracted or effuse, usually inclined with spreading glabrous or 

 puberulous branches naked below, and very long distant spreading branchlets, 

 rnachis. branches and pedicels capillary. Spikelets 1*5 mm. long. Lower invo- 

 lucral glume ^-| the length of the lower floral glume, ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved. 

 Upper mvolucral and lower floral glume glabrous or with ciliate tips. — A very 

 variable plant. 



Locality : Konkan : Vasco da Gama (Bhide !) ; Vetora (Sabnis 33440 !).— 

 5". M. Country : Tadas, in shade of trees, elevation 2,000 ft., rainfall 35 in. 

 {Sedgwick 2102 !) ; Castle Rock (Gammie 15579!), very large specimen 

 (McCann A144 \).—Kanara : Nagargalli, forests, very abundant (Sedgwick 

 2892 !) ; Gersoppa Falis (Hallberg & McCann A126 !, Chibber !) ; Malamani, 

 elevation 1,600 ft. (Talbot 2676 !) ; Kulgi (Talbot 2280 !) ; Guddhalli, Karwar 

 (Hallberg & McCann A127 i). 



Distribution : Tropical Asia, Malaya, Pacific Islands. 



55. Sacciolepis, Nash in Britt. Man. Bot. 89 ; Stapf in 

 Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 747. 



Annual or oftener perennial grasses. Leaf-blades linear and flat or filiform- 

 convolute, or filiform-subulate. False spikes often very dense, dark or varie- 

 gated. Spikelets mostly very small, oblong to ovate-oblong or elliptic or 

 lanceolate, subterete or laterally compressed, usually somewhat turgid, falling 

 entire from the short finely filiform pedicels of a spiciform, very rarely open 

 panicle. Involucral glumes similar in structure but unequal. Lower much 

 shorter, softly or rigidly membranous, with a narrow hyaline margin or hyaline 

 tip, stiffened by the hardening of the prominent and often rib-like nerves, or 

 more or less dissimilar owing to the reduction of the lower glume to a small 

 hyaline scale, or its differentiation into a narrow, hardened obscurely nerved 

 back and broad hyaline margins. Upper with a curved or basally gibbous or 

 saccate back, always much concave, mostly 7- or 9-, rarely 5- or up to 13-nerved. 

 Lower floral glume male or barren, very dissimilar to the upper involucral 

 glume and of the same or almost the same length, but with a straighter back ; 

 pale narrow, hyaline, finely 2-keeled, shorter than the glume, sometimes 

 reduced or quite rudimentary. Upper floral glume hermaphrodite, oblong in 

 outline seen from the back, very convex, chartaceous, ultimately subcrustace- 

 ous, with firm narrowly involute margins, obscurely 5-nerved ; pale almost the 

 length of the glume, tightly embraced by it all along and of the same texture, 

 2-nerved, hardly keeled. Lodicules two, small, broadly cuneate. Stamens 

 three. Styles distinct ; stigmas long, loosely plumose,, exserted terminally or 

 subterminally. Grain tightly enclosed by the glume and pale, elliptic in outline, 

 dorsally compressed, with an almost flat backhand convex face ; hilum puncti- 

 form. 



Species over 30.— Tropics of the whole world, 

 I. Lower involucral glume 3-nerved 



1. Spikes 1-5 cm. long. Spikelets lan- 



ceolate-ovoid, hispid, 2-2*5 mm. ... 1. 5. indica. 



2. Spikes 5-23 cm. long. Spikelets 



ovoid, P3-2-1 mm. long ... 2. S. niyosuroides. 



II. Lower involucral glume 5-nerved ... 3. S. interrupta. 



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