[From the Journal of the Bombay Natural Hist. Soc., October 15, 1929. 



REVISION OF 

 THE FLORA OF THE BOMBAY. PRESIDENCY 



BY 



E. Blatter, s.j., ph.d., f.l.s. 



PART X 



GRAMINE^E 



BY 



E. Blatter and C. McCann 

 {Continued from page 496 of this Volume) 



TRIBE XII. CHLORIDES 



85. Oropetium, Trin. ; Cke. ii, 1045. 



Species 6. — India, Ceylon, Algeria, S. Africa. 



1. Oropetium Thonueum, Trin. Fund. Agrost. (1820), 98, t. 3; Kunth Enum. 

 PI. i, 464 ; Suppl. 375 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 403 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 

 45, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 69 ; Hook. f. F. B. I. vii, 366 ; Cke. ii, 1046 ; Haines 

 Bot. Bihar & Orissa 964.— Nardus Thomcea, Linn. f. Suppl. 105 ; Sm. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. i, 116. — Rottbosllia Thomcza, Koenig in Naturf . xxiii (1788), 

 210 ; Willd. Sp. PI. i. 464 ; Roxb. PI. Corom. ii, 17, t. 133, Fl. Ind. i, 357 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 300.—^. pilosa, Willd. 1. c. 465. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1045. 



Locality: Konkan : Trombay, on rocks (McCann A32!); Antop Hill 

 (McCann 3611!, 2449 !).— Deccan : Gungapur (Blatter A33 ! . 584!); Poona 

 (Woodrow) ; Junnar near Poona (Woodrow).— S. M. Country : Dharwar Dist., 

 dry uplands, 2,400 ft., rainfall 34 inches (Sedgwick 2656!) ; Badami, Fort 

 (Bhide !, Talbot 2923 !) ; Ranibennur (Chibber !). 



Distribution : Throughout the plains of India, Ceylon. 



86. Microchloa, R. Br. ; Cke. ii, 1031. 



Species 7. One distributed throughout the tropics, 3 in Afrcia, 3 in Australia. 



1. Microchloa setacea, R. Br. Prodr. (1810), 298 ; H. B. and K. Nov. Gen. 

 & Sp. i, 84, t. 22 ; Beauv. Agrost. 115, t. 20, f . 8 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 441 ; 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 247 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i, 258 ; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, iii, 

 76, t. 21; Steud. Syn. Gram. 202; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 428; Fl. Austral, vii, 

 608 ; Hook, f . in F. B. I. vii, 283 ; Cke. ii, 1031 ; Prain Beng. PI. 1226 ; Haines 

 Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 964.— Rotbcellia setacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i (1832), 

 357, Corom. PI. ii, 18, t. 132.— Nardus indica, Linn. f. Suppl. 105. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1031. 



Locality : .S. M. Country : Dharwar (Woodrow), on dry hill sides, 2,400 ft., 

 rainfall 34 inches (Sedgwick 2908!); Dumbal (Talbot 2949 !).- Kanara . 

 Halyal (Talbot 2387 !).— Usually growing on old walls. 



Distribution : Tropics of the Old and New World. 



87. Cynodon, Rich ; Pers. Syn. PL i (1805), 85 ; Cke. ii, 1032. 



Hitchcock (U. S. Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 792 (1920), 178) considers Panicum 

 dactylon, Linn, as the type species. He justifies the change of Cynodon into 

 Capriola in these words : " Capriola Adans., Fam. PL 2 ; 31, 532, 1763. The 

 genera are indicated and distinguished by Adanson in a much abbreviated and 

 often unsatisfactory manner. The tabular arrangement of the genera ■ of 

 Phalarides, his first section of the grass family or Gramina, includes Capriola 



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