162 CLxxiii. GEAMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Elionurtts. 



TJppEB Gangetic Plain, Soyle ; Agra and Ettawah, Duthie ; Delhi, Clarke.— 

 Di-TRiB. Arabia, Abyssiuia, Cape Verd Isldi. 



Stems 4-12 in., slender, leafy, geniculate. Leaves 4-10 in., narrow, flat or 

 convolute, glabrous or sparsely bairy, base fimbriate; lower sheaths terete, upper 

 spathifonn ; ligule very short. Spikes 1-2 in., erect, clustered towards the top of 

 tiie stem, stout, green or purple, each enclosed in a long narrow flattened acute 

 sheath; joints bearded below the tip. Sessile spikflets ^ in., erect ; callus densely 

 bearded ; gl. I deeply 2-fid at the top, lobes linear ciliate divergent, sides with a row 

 of large tubercles each carrying a pen- il of long hairs; II membranous, linear- 

 lancenlate, acuminate, 1-nerved ; III shorter, oblong, acute, nerveless, glabrous, 

 epaleate ; IV" much shorter, oblong, obtuse, l-nerved or nerveless. Pedicelled, 

 spikel ts i in., narrowed almost from the base into a long subulate ciliate blade ; II 

 cynibiform, glabrous, narrowed into a scabrid awn ; III and IV 0, pedicel with one 

 margin shortly ciliate. 



2. E. hirsutus, Munro ea- Benth. in Journ. TAnn. Soc. xix. (1881) 68; 

 perennial, spikes peduncled naked, gl. I of sessile spikelet narrowed into a 

 long narrow flat 2-fid beak margins Tillous, gl. Ill and IV paleate. Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 466 ; Dutkie Grass. N. W. Ind. 17, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 28, 

 t. 17. Rottboellia Hrsuta, VaU Symb. i. 11 ; Bel. Fl. Mgypt. t. 14, f. 1; 

 Eunth Fnum PL i. 467 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 311. Isoh»mam hirsntum, 

 Nees ex Steud. 8yn. Gram. 361. 1. mastucatnm, Trin. in. Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb. iSVr. VI. ii. (1833), 298. Coelorachis hirsnta, Brongn. in Duperi: 

 Voy. Bot. 68. Lasiurus hit sutus, Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. II. iv. (1859) 146. 

 Saocharum hirsntum, Forsh. FL ^gypt. Arab. 16. 



NoETHEBN Panjab ; Jelalpoor on the Jhelura, Jacquemont ; Peshawur, alt. 

 3500 ft., Stewart. Rajpootana ; Multan, SAgeworth; Sind, Stocks. — Disteib. 

 We-itward to N. Afi'ica. 



Rootxtock woody, branched. Stems 1-2^ ft., ascending from a branching base, 

 stout, smooth, rigid. Leaves narrow, coriaceous, sheaths white. Peduncle 6-10 in., 

 slender. Spike solitary, stout, 2-4 in., silvery silky all over. Spjifce/e^s imbricating, 

 appressed to the rachis ; gl. I of lateral spikelet divergent, narrowly lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, 7-H-uerved; II ^ shorter, chartaceous, 5-uerved, aristately acuminate, 

 awn scabrid ; III hyaline, oblong, obtuse, faintly nerved, neuter, palea lanceolate, 

 nerves seaberulous ; IV oblong, obtuse, faintly S-nerved, palea as of gl. Ill but 

 smaller. Pedicelled spikelet smaller, erect ; gls. shorter, flowerless. — Kes;arded by 

 Hackell as an anomalous Rptthoellia, and nearer to Ischamum than to BKonurus, 

 but neither in habit nor characters does it approach the RottboelUece ; and is naturally, 

 I think, an Sliunurua, from other species of which it only dififers in the naleate els. 

 Ill and IV. J r 8 



51. CI.EXSTACHNE, Benth. 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves long, narrow, flat. Spihelets solitary, 

 1-fld., in an oblong contracted much branched panicle, linear-oblong, terete, 

 hirsute, jointed on the branohlets of the panicle. Glumes 4, 1 and II 

 narrow, rigidly coriaceous, obtuse, completely enveloping III and IV; III 

 much smaller, narrow, hyaline, 2-nerved, margins inflexed ciliate; IV 

 very short, hyaline, with a terminal stout twisted awn ; palea minute, 

 hyaline, ciliate. Lodicules cuneate, ciliate. Anthers 3, large, linear. 

 Sty/es free, stigmas short. Grain obovate-oblong, compressed, free.— 

 Species 3, the following and 2 African. 



The affinities of this genus and of G-ermainia are with AntUstiria. 



C. Stocksii, Sook. f. ; ligule oblong, spikelets dark brown, margins 

 of gl IV entire, palea ovate obtuse. 



