ChamaerapMs.] OLXxiii. GRAMiNBiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 63 



branches slender ; internodes 1-2 in. Leaves 1-1^ by -^-J in., spreading, striofci 

 linear, acute, striate, base rounded, glabrous or sparsely hairy j sheaths broad, loose, 

 membranous, compressed, 2-aurioled, glabrous; ligule short, hyaline, toothed. 

 Paniole shortly esserted beyond the upper sheath, 1-2 in. long, rachis and erecto- 

 patent subsimple branches capillary, smooth. Spihelets very shortly pedicelled, 

 green or brownish j gl. I truncate ; II straight, sometimes long-acuminate or almost 

 beaked, glabrous or obscurely sparsely hairy, nerves close, strong; III J-^ shorter 

 than II, subacute ; I V about j III. — Very near the Australian C, ahortma, Poir. 

 (0. spinescens Tar. parvispicula, Benth.) which has a lax panicle with few branches 

 and spikelets. 



8. SPXXTZFEX, Litm. 



Stout, rigid, bushy, polygamo-dicBoioaa grasses. Leaves long, rigid, 

 involute. Male spikelets 2 -lid., snbaesaile, articulate on rigid peduucled 

 spikes, whieb are collected in umbels surrounded by spathaoeous leafy 

 bracts ; glumes 4, membranous, not awned ; I and II empty ; III and IV" 

 paleate, triandrous. Fem. spikelets collected in large globose heads of 

 stellately spreading very long rigid rod-like raohides, surrounded by 

 shorter subulate bracts ; each spikelet solitary, and articulate at the very- 

 base of a rachis, lanceolate, 2-fld. O-lumes I, II, III, as in the male, but 

 larger ; III paleate, empty or triandrous ; IV fern. Lodicules 2, large, 

 nerved. Stales long, free ; stigmas shortly feathery. Grain free within 

 the hardened glumes. — Species 4 ; an Indian and 3 Australasian, 



S. squarrosus, lAnn. Mant. u. 300; glabrous, glaucous, leaves 

 pungent, male spikes 2-3 in., spikelets distant, fern, spikelets concealed 

 by the bracts. Lamh. lUust. t. 840 ; Kunth Entim,. PI. i. 175 ; Wall. 

 Oci*. n. 8631 ; Stead. Sj/n. Oram. 113; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl.362; Trim, 

 Cat. Geyl. PL 106 ; Elliott Fl. Aiirh. 163 ; lAsboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 Mist. Soo. V. (1890) 339; Duthie &rass. N.W. Ind. 11 ; Benth. PI. Hongk 

 415 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 474. S. dioious, Sam. ex Pritz. Icon. Index, 

 1058. Stipa littorea, Bwrm. f. Fl. Ind. 29. S. spinifex, lArm. Mant. i. 84. 

 — Bheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 75. 



Sandy coasts of both Peninsulas, Bubma, and Oeilon. — Distbib. Java, China. 



A squarrose gregarious bush, several feet high and broad. Leaves 4-6 in. ; 

 sheaths often imbricating; ligule very short, hirsute. Pedvmcles of male 2-3 in. ; 

 scaberulous, tips naked, pungent. Male spikelets -J-iin.; gls. thin, all glabrous, 

 I and II subequal, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 7-9-nerved,: nerves scaberulous; 



III rather longer, 5-nerved, paleate ; IV shorter, ovate-Ianceolfite, acuminate, 5- 

 nerved; palcaa of III. and IV. narrowly lanceolate, keels ciliate. Fern, spikelets 

 I in., narrowly lanceolate ; gls. all glabrous, I oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, many- 

 nerved, nerves scaberulous ; II rather shorter, acute, 7-nerTed; III like II, 5-nerved; 



IV ovate -lanceolate, abruptly narrowed above the middle and acuminate, 5-nerved ; 

 palea shorter but broader than the gl., acute, 2-nerTed, keels smooth, style very 

 long, branches slender. 



9. A.XONOPVS, Peauv. 



Perennial grasses. Spikelets 2-fld., articulate with the pedicel, sessile 

 or subsessile in whorled or digitate spikes, awned. Glumes 4, I shortest, 

 ovate, acuminate or cuspidate, glabrous, 3-nerved ; II ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate or awned, 5-nerved, lateral nerves marginal villous ; III oblong, 

 acute, 5-nerved, paleate, male, palea very short 2-fld or 2-partite ; IV = II, 



