154 CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [RoUhodlia. 



narrowed from the middle upwards ; II more or less usually wholly adnate to the 

 joint, IV very short or 0. Pedicelled spikeleU, gl. I 7-nerved ; II J-J in., keel 

 excentric. — Very nearly allied to R. eompressa. " The only Androp. grass in which 

 fruiting spikelets are not detached, hence there can be no dissemination exuept tVoia 

 the whole spike," Hackel. The Laccadive Islds. specimens are very slender with 

 narrow leaves and quite erect strict lanceolate finely acuminate spikelets, rather 

 longer than the joints. 



Var. Hamiltoniana ; callus of sessile spikelets bearded with short hairs. ? B, 

 Hamiltoni, Trin. mss. ex Sleud. Nom. Hi. II. ii.474. B. eompressa. Wall. Cat. n. 

 8870 A. C. R. eompressa liar. "EamWtom&nai, Hack. Monngr. Androp. i%B. Hemar- 

 thria Hamiltoniana, Stevid. Syn. Oram. 358. Lodicularia Hamiltoniana, 2fees &s 

 Sten4.l.c. 359.— Lower Gangetic Plain; S&thpwr, Hamilton. — Referred to com. 

 presso by Hackel, but I think nearer to proteasa. 



5, Rr. long-iflora, Sook. f. ; spikes short, racbis firm, sessile spikelets 

 3-5 in- lanceolate narrowed into a long point, callus obscare, gl. II rather 

 longer subaristate, pedicelled spikelets like the sessile. 



TenAsskrim ; at Mergui, Griffith. Assam, Herb. Munro. 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect, leafy, stout, spongy ; nodes glabrous or pubescent. Zeavet 

 3-6 by ^-4 in,, linear-lanceolate from a rounded base, flaccid, smooth, glabrous, 

 margins smoothj sheath inflated ; ligule short, membranous. Spikes 4-6 iu., 

 sheathed below, stout, nearly i in. across the spikelets; rachis subtetragonoua. 

 SpilieleU twice as long as the joints, the pedicelled rather longer and longer awned 

 than the sessile j gl. II adnate to the joint; III of sessile spikelet oblong, obtuse, 

 nerveless; IV like III, palea small. Zodicules quadrate, broader than long, 

 membranous. tJl. TV of pedicelled spikelet narrower than the sessile, paleate, with 

 imperfect stamens and pistil. — Eesembles a very large state of B. protema. 



Sect. IV. Peltophobus and Ccelorhachis, Hack. Spikes solitary or 

 fascicled, fragile, terete or compressed ; joints transversely (rarely obliquely) 

 truncate, deeply hollowed, dorsally convex, ventrally excavate ; pedicel of 

 npper spikelet free or adnate to the joint of the raohis, tip hollowed. 

 Peltophorus, Desv. (Gen.). 



* Ql. I isf sessile spikelets hroadh/ winged. 



6. B. Kyurus, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 68 ; perennial, 

 gl. 1 ot sessile spikelet pandnriform dilated above the middle into an 

 orbicular win^and towards the base into two anricles joined by a trans- 

 verse ndge. Sack^ Monogr. Androp. 290. Ma.mautis My urns, Linn. Mant. 

 11. dOO; JJesv.ex Beam. Agrost. 14, t. 1 ; Rottl. itiNeue Schrift. Nat. Fr. 

 Berl. ly. (1803) 191 ; Roxb. Coram. PI. ii. 10, 1. 117, M. Ind. i. 351 ; Schrel. 

 f/-^, H^T^,^ *• ^^' ■^»™''^ ■^««'»- -P^- i- 470; Grif. Notul. iii. 100 j 

 ■^l?-, ^*' .^•nd-Bat. m. 41 0. Peltophorus Myunis, Desv. in Nouv. Bull. Soc. 

 Fhilom. n(i810) 188, Joum. Bot. i. (1813)73; Beaav. Agrost. Ud, t ^i. 

 f.ll; Wall Gat. n. 5880; Wight Cat. -a. 1726, Herb. n. 3071. Isobemam, 

 Jklyuras & .^igilops sanguinea. Herb. Linn. 



The Decean Peninsula, Heyne, Wight, Ac, in dry places. 



mem creeping and rooting, with ascending compressed branches 6-28 in. high. 

 Leaves 2-6 in., spreading, linear, acute, flat, glabrous; sheath compressed, margins 



^IL^rfin ^^" f 'i^ "'Y^- u*^'*'* ^-2 '°- =°"*«'^' i^vmmBX and axillary shortly 

 exserted ; joints scaberulous, shorter than the spikelets, excavate on each side leaving 



^iTscaSn "V^''^'''.' ""? J""'- ^^^"'^ '^^*«^*^ ^^ ■°- brown, Callus minutel 

 nhHwt ^ 'ivr"^*^,' '^"'S scarious,; II ovate, acute, S-nerved ; III oblong 

 Ob S Z^ ' .' lanceolate, nerveless ; palea obsolete. Fedioelled spilceUts; gl.^I 

 n^l„»£ "b'use S-nerved. winged on one side; II navicular, 3-nerved j -HI S-ne^ed, 

 paleate ; IV oblong, obtuse, male; pedicel free or adnate to the joint ' 



