Apliida."] OLxxiii. QRAMiNE^. (J. D.Hooker.) 161 



Cent. ii. 7 ; Sehreb. Beschr. Orses. 93. LamJc. III. t. 841, f. 1 ; Steud. 8yn. 

 Oram. 403; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 324; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 303; Tkw. 

 Fnum. PI. Zed. 364 ; Trim. Oat. Oeyl. PI. 108 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PL 

 174 ; Ihiihie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 44, t. 29. A. Gryllus, Beauv. Agrost. 

 133 {of. corrigend. in Sup'pl.) t. 23, f. 5. 



Yar. arisiaia proper ; spatbe rather shorter than its spike, sessile spikelet ^-^ in., 

 bulbous base ■^-^'■■g in., gl. I glabrous nerves scabrid, terminal spikelet = sessile, 

 pedicelled spikelet minute. A. microstacbya, Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cwr. xix. 

 . Snppl. ii (1843) 194. A. scabra, Anderss. I. c. 179. IschsBmum involucratum, 

 Hb. Russ. in Wall. Oat. n. 8794 A. 



Var. cUiata ; tall, robust, flg. spathes glabrous or hairy, spathe half as long as 

 its spike, sessile spikelet i-i in., bulbous base -x^-ts '"•> S"- ' *"'' raebis puherulous, 

 spathe glabrous or with tubercle-based hairs. A. ciliata, Anderss. I. c. 177-179.'— 

 "Hardly a distinct variety," Hackel. 



Yar. villosula ; spathe halt' as long as its spike, sessile spikelet i in., bulbous 

 base of racbis.^ in., gl. 1 and pedicel scabrous-pubescent, terminal spikelet shorter 

 than the sessile, pedicelled spikelet ^ in. clliate. A. communis, Nees Sj" Am. in 

 Nov. Act. l.c. 194; Anderss. l.u.Vn, t. 5, 2. A. villosa, ScAreb. Beschr.. Grces. 

 98 1— Wight Cat. n. 1713. 



Var. roitcate J spike strongly incurved far exserted beyond the spathe, spike- 

 let i in., callus i-^ in. A. rostrata. Am. Sf Nees I. o. 194. Wight Cat. n. 1714, — 

 Apluda, Wall. Cat. u. 8762. 



45. VOSSIA, Wall. & Griff. 



A. gigantic floating grass. Spikes terminal, solitary or 2- (rarely 3-6-) 

 nate, stout ; racbis narrow, compressed, flexuoas, jointed. Spiketets 2-fld., 

 imbricate, 2-nate, longer than tlie subexcavate joints, one sessile by a 

 very broad callus ; the other smaller pedicelled. Glumes 4, I very broad, 

 ovate, flattened, coriaceous, smooih, narrowed into a long rigid green tail ; 

 ,11 chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, keeled above; III 

 hyaline, 2-nerved, paleate, male ; IV hyaline, oblong, 3-nerved, tip ciliate, 

 palea 2-nerved. Lodicules large, toothed. Anthers 3, long. Styles dis- 

 tinct, stigmas short. Grain unknown. 



V. procera, Wall. & Griff, in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. v. (1836) 573, 

 t. 23; Wall. Cat. n. 8878; Grant in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxix. 175, t. 116; 

 Sack. Monogr. Androp, 270. V. ouspidata, Griff. Notul. iii. Index p. xii.. 

 Ic. Pl.Asiat. Index p. v. t. 153. Ischsemum cutpidatum, Boxb. Ft, Jjid. i. 

 324 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 616 ; Griff. Notul. iii. 70. I. ensiforme, SLerb^ 

 Mam. ex Wall. Gat. I. c. 



Jheels of Bbngal, Silhet and Assam. — Disteie. Afr. trop. 



Stem 6-12 ft., spongy, as thick as the thumb, rooting at the lower nodes. 

 leaves 1-2 tt., linear, acuminate, hispidulous, midrib stout 5 sheath large; ligule 

 densely ciliate. Spikes 6-8 in., nearly terete ; rachis narrower than the gls., maigiua 

 ciliulate ; joints ^ in., and pedicels cupped at the tip, Spikelets 1-lJ in. with tlia 

 spreading ciliolate tail of gl. I, green, callus anaular,— i&ardly generically ditfereaU 

 from Iichamum, 



46. aOTTBOEXiIiXA, Zinn.f. 



Tall, annual or perennial grasses. Spikes few or many, BubsoTitary or 

 panicled rarely racemose or panicled ; rachis usually fragile, joints 

 usually excavate at. the tip. ■ Spikekts 2- rai^ly S-nate, one (rarely two) 



