98 OLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



25. X.0FIZ0Z.Z:PXS, Decne. 



An annual tnfted erect grass. Leaves short, flat. Sipilcelets minute, 

 1-fld., jointed but persistent on the very short spreading pedicels of an 

 elongate simple spiciform raceme, exactly like a bird's head; pedicels 

 jointed on the rachis. Ql-umea 3 ; I incumbent, oblong, acute, strongly 

 iDourved above the base, produced above into a globcse boss with a 

 pectinate crest, and with a pectinate wing on the mesial line beyond it; 

 II shorter, narrower, with often a dorsal pectinate wing; III flg. 

 much shorter, hyaline, ovate, acute; palea hyaline. LoAirules quadrate. 

 Stamens 2; anthers short, most minute. Styles shox%; stigmas feathery. 

 Grain subulate, base gibbously incurved, free within the rigid glumes. 



Xi. ornithocephala, Steud. Syn. Gram. 112 ; Becne in ArcMv. Mus. 

 Par. i. (1839) 147 ; Wall Cat. n. 8881. HolboeUia ornithocephala, Wall, in 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 144, t. 76 ; Wight Cat. n. 1741 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 

 171. 



Southern Provinces of the Deccan Peninstoa, Madura, Tinnevelly, Ac, Eoenig, 

 &c. Cetion ; Northern Province, Trimen. 



A rather stifiF grass, 6-18 in. high ; roots wiry. Leaves i-1 J in., ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, margins ciliolate ; lower sheaths short ; ligule 0. iSoceme* 

 2-4 in., columnar, J in. diam. ; rachis slender, strict, and the horizontal rather stout 

 grooved pedicels green and scahridly ciliate. Spihelets ■^g-'^ in. long, red-brown in 

 age, horizontal or slightly deflexed from the pedicel. — One of the most singular 

 Indian grasses. 



26. FEXIOTXS, Ait. 



A slender grass, with short broad leaves and a crinite spike. Spikelets 

 subsessile, 1-fld., jointed on a slender simple unjointed rachia, very narrow, 

 callus conical. Glumes 3 ; I and II empty, aubequal, narrowly linear, 

 1-nerved, tapering into long capillary awns ; III very minute, flg. ; palea 

 hyaline. Lodicules short, hyaline. Stannens 3, anthers very short. Styles 

 very short, united at the base, stigmas very short. Grain much longer 

 than its glumes, narrow. 



P. latifolia. Ait. Sort. Kern, i. 85 ; Eeauv. Agrost. t. 4, f . 9 ; 6 (laxi- 

 folia), Kunth Beds. Gram. i. 357, t. 92, JEnum. PI. i. 471, Suppl. 380 ; Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 186 ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 239 ; Wall. Cat. n. 3783 ; Wight Cat. d. 

 1740 ; Grah. Cat Bomb. PL 237 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 296 ; Tkw. Enum. 

 PI. Zeyl. 369; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 106; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 13; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. 418; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 479. P. Burmanni, Steud. 

 Norn. Ed. I. 605. P. cubana, Wright in 8auv. Fl. Cub. 202. P. glabrata, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 186. P. hordeiformis, JSfees ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 

 306; Syn. Gram. I. c. ; Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. VI.' vi. II. (1845) 

 267. P. longiflora, Nees m Eooh. Sf Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 247 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 186. P. patula, Nees ex Steud. Norn. I c. ; Trin. Fund. Agrost'. ii. 

 266 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 186. P. rara, Br. Prodr. 172 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 vii. 509. P. scabra, Willd. ex Trin. Biss. ii. 172. P. spiceeformis, Beauv. 

 ex Steud. Nom. Ed. I. 605. Perostis laxifolia, Beauv. I. c. 6. Saccharum 

 spicatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 54. S. brevifolium. Herb. Sam. ex Wall. I c. B. 

 Agrostis spicseformis, Linn.f., Suppl. 108; Willd. Sp. PI. i. 362. Anthox- 

 anthum indicum, Linn. Sp. PL 28. Xystidium barbatum, Presl Bel. Hmnh. 

 i. 228. X maritimum, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 102, t. 2. — Bheede Hort. Mai. 

 xii. t. 62, 



