64 CLxxiii. GHAMiNEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Axonopus. 



oblong or ovate, coriaceous, narrowed into a straight subulate awn ; palea 

 oblong, coriaceous, 2-nerTed. Lodicules caneate. Stamens 3, anthers long. 

 Styles distinct. G-rain small, suborbicular, free within the glames. 



A natural genns, remarkable for the small cleft palea of gl. III. It was 

 established by Beauvois on Panicum cimidnum, Betz, to which other grasses having 

 no affinity with it were added. Kunth erred in taking np Beauvois Urochloa (which 

 is Panicum javanicvm, Poir) and placing A. cimicmum in it. 



1. A. cimicinus, Beauv. Agrost. 12 ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 spikes suhverticillate. Panicum cimicinum, Retz. Obs. iii. 9 ; Rottl. in 

 Neue Sr-krift. Ges. Naturf. Freund. iv. (1803) 191, 194 ; Boash. Fl. Ind. i. 

 295 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Ze.yl. 358 ; Trim,. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104. P. conjugatum, 

 Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 291. Urochloa cimicina, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 

 31, ii. 56, t. 103, Enum. PL i. 74, Swppl. 56 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 289. 

 Coridochloa cimicina, Nees in Edinb. N. Phil. Joum. xv. (1883) 381. 

 0. fimbriata, Nees ex Wight Gat. 1656; Wall. Gat. n. 8749; Aitchis. Cat. 

 Panjab PI. 158. Milinm cimicinum, Linn. Mant. 184. 



Thronghoat India, in the plains and lower hills, BuBMA, Penanq and Cbtion. 

 — DiSTBIB. Malaya, China. 



Stem 1-2 ft., tufted, stout or slender, erect, or decumbent and geniculate at the 

 base, and leaves hirsute with long spreading white hairs, rarely glabrescent. 

 Leaves 1-3 by ^1 in., acute or obtuse, flat, green, striate, ciliate, base deeply cor- 

 date, ligule obsolete. Spikes 3-8 in a whorl, 1-6 in. long ; rachis filiform, simple or 

 divided, scaberulous ; flowerless below. Spikeleis f-^ in. long, solitary or clustered, 

 very shortly pedicelled, dorsally compressed, pale, rather shining j gl. I acuminate ; 

 II mucronate or shortly awned; III aciite; IV with a setiform awn. 



2. Am semi-alatus, Sook. f. ■ leaves long linear, spikes few sub- 

 digitate. Panicum semi-alatum, Br. Prodr. i. 192; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 

 472 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 358; Tnm. GaL GeyL PL 104. P. viaticum, 

 Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. t. 145, f. 2. Bluffia Bckloniana, Nees in Lindl. Introd. 

 Nat. Syst. Ed. II 447. Coridochloa semi-alata, Nees in Edinb. New Phil. 

 Joum. XV. (1833) 381. Urochloa semi-alata, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 311, 

 Enum. PI. i. 74. Oplismenus semi-alatns, Besv. Opusc. 81. Arundinella 

 Schultzii, Benth. I. c. 545. Aira viatica. Griff. Notul. iii. 64. Holosetnm 

 philippinense, Steud. I. c. — Coridochloa, Wall. Cat. n. 8758. 



SuBTEOPiCAL Himalaya, alt. 4-6500 ft., from Knmaon to Sikkim. The 

 Khasia Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft.; Munnbporej Bubma, Oolleti Beiiar on 

 Parusnath 3-5000 ft. Ceylon up to 5000 ft. — DlsiEiB. Mauritius, S. Africa, 

 China, Philippines, Australia. 



Stems 1-3 ft., densely tufted, bases thickly clothed with the woolly remains of 

 old leaf-sheaths. Leaves 8-12 by |— J- in., glabrous or pubescent, finely acuminate; 

 ligule obscure. Spikes 2-5, 3-6 in. long j rachis slender snbflexuous, smooth or 

 hairy. Spikeleta i in., pale or brown, solitary or in distant pairs, sessile or 

 pedicelled. 



10. TRXCHOIiSiNA, Schrad. 



Erect, tufted, annual or perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets 

 1-2 fid., articulate on their pedicels, panicled, laterally compresded, clothed 

 with long silky hairs, callus stipitiform. Glumes 3 or 4, I if present very 

 small, often inserted much below III ; II and 111 snbequal, membranous, 

 broadly ovate, mncronate or awned, dorsally rounded ; III paleate, trian- 

 drous J IV very thin, shining, fem. or bisexual. Lodicules 2, minute, dolabri^ 

 form. Grain loose within the gls. — Species many, chiefly S. African. 



