15fi CLXxiii. QEAMINEJB. (J. D. Hooker.) [RotthoelUa. 



spikeUts aB long as the seasile ; gl. I very unequally winged, dorsally smooth, awn as 

 in the aesslle ; pedicel wholly adnate to the joint of the rachis. 



10. Xt. Clarkei, Mack in CEatr. JBot. Zeitschr. xli. (1891) 8 ; annual, 

 leaves lanceolate base cordate, spikes solitary short, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 orbicular-oblong dorsally gibbous and scabrid below the middle winged 

 above it, tip notched, pedicel of npper spikelet quite free. B. gibbosa, 

 Sack, ex Lisboa in Bomh. Joum. Mat. Hist. vi. (1891) 195. B. Talboti, 

 Lishoa mss. I. c. 



Behab, on Parusnath ; and Hazaribagh, in Chota Naspore, alt. 2000 ft., Clarice, 

 Bombay ; N. Kundra District, Talbot, Lishoa. 



Stem 6-8 in., branched, erect, compressed. Leaves 3-5 by i— J in., acuminate, 

 glabrous or hairy ; sheath ciliate ; ligule of bairs. Spikes J-l in., erect, rachis 

 fragile, joints clavate shorter than the spikelets, tips ciliolate, side not hollowed. 

 Spikelets -^g-i in., closely imbricating. Gl. I of sessile spilcelet with a coriaceous 

 3-5-nerved disk and ciliate hyaline wings; II much smaller, ovate^ 1-uerved; III 

 ovate, obtase, hyaline, nerveless; IV much smaller, broadly oblong-, obtuse, nerveless, 

 sides incurved, palea like the gl. nerveless. Pedicelled spikelet like the sessile, but 

 smaller and less gibbons ; pedicel pyriformly clavate, truncate, top scabernlous. 



** 01. I of sessile spilcelet winged at the tip only or narrowly on the 

 margins. 



11. R. exaltata, Linn. f. Suppl. 114 ; annual, leaf-base narrow 

 rounded tip setaceous, gl. I of sessile spikelet very coriaceous about as 

 long as the joint obtuse hardly margined 'or winged dorsally flat smooth, 

 pedicels of upper spikelet shorter than the joints. Kunth Snwm. Pli. 

 466 ; Sack. Monogr. Androp. 294 ; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 361 ; Boxb. Coram. 

 PI. ii. 30, 1. 157, Fl. Ind. i. 354 ; Ch-ah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 233 ; Thw. Enxtm. 

 PI. Zeyl. 364; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 107; Aitchis. Oat. Panjah. Fl. 172; 

 ButUe Orass. N.W. Ind. 17; Lisboa in Bomb. Joum. Nat. Sist. vi. (1891) 

 196; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 406 ; Br. Prodr. 206 ; Benth. PL Austral, vii. 

 513 ; Baker Fl. Maurit. 457; Wall. Oat. n. 8875 ; Wight Oat. n. 1724, Eerh. 

 n. 3286. E. arundinacea, Sochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 444 ; Sleui. 

 I. c. 362. B. denudata, Steud. ; Miq. I. c. 408. B. gymnorhiza, Serb. Sam. 

 ex Wall. Oat. n. 8875. B. hispida, Sei-b. Boxb. B. setosa, Presl Bel. Exiik. 

 i. 329. Ophiurus appendiculatns, Steud. I. c. 359. Stegoasia cochin- 

 diioensis. Lour. Fl. Oochincli. 51. 



Plains and lower hills of India, from the N.W. Provinces to Assam and BnuMA 

 (ascending the Himalaya in Uarwhal to 7000 ft.), and southward to Travancore 

 and Ceyion. Andaman Islds., Prain. — Disteib. China, Malaya, Australia, 

 Africa. 



Stems 6-10 ft., stout, erect, spongy within, as thick as the little finger below and 

 hispid. Leaves 6-24 by i~l in., linear-lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, scabrid or 

 hispid above, margins scabrid ; sheath hispid with tubercle- baaed hairs or glabrate. 

 Spikes 3-6 in., stout, eylindric below, much narrowed with imperfect spikelets abore j 

 joints smooth, scaberulous. Sessile spikelets \-\ in.; gl. I ovate-oblong, 2-fld,, 

 keels scabernlous narrowly winged, entire or emarginate ; II broadly ovate, charta- 

 ■ceous, convex, 9-11-nerved, keel scabrid; III elliptic, 3-nerved, male, margins 

 inflexed; IV shorter, convex, ovate, acute or mucronate. Pedicelled spikelets 

 with the pedicel usually adnate by one margin to the joint, 1-2-fld. or neuter. 



Var. robusta; leaf-base more cordately couflaent with the sheath, spikes stouter 

 below, slender above the middle, spikelets in upper half distichously imbricate longer 

 than the joints, fertile nearly to the tip, palea of gl. IV auricled at the base.— 

 Maliiharand at Palamcotta, Wight Serb. n. 3286 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8875 IJ. Poena, 

 Woodrow. 



