220 OLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [PseudanthisHria'. 



proper spathes much longer than the spikes, sessile spikelets J in., gl. I 

 terete glabrous except as to the scabrid summit, awn 1-li in. 



The Concan, Stocks, Law, Daleell, &c. CBifiBAt Provinces; Ehandwa, 

 DviUe (No. 8478). 



Stem 1-2 ft., rather stoat, erect. Leaves J-J in. broad, base narrowed, 

 scaberulons above and on the margins. Panicle elongate, simple, leafy.— Closely 

 allied to P. heterocUta, and perhaps only a variety of it, but a stouter more hispid 

 plant of a pale green colour, with much longer fascicles of spikelets with longer 

 spathes and glabrous sessile spikelets. 



3. P. umbellata, Sooh. f.; stem filiform straggling, leaves 1-3 in. 

 glabrous linear-oblong acute base rounded sessile or petiolulate, nerves 

 very slender, fascicles of spikelets few axillary |-f in. broad with few 

 sparingly ciliate spathes and spikes, outer spathes ^-1 in., proper spathes 

 rather longer than the spikes, sessile spikelets T5~i ^^- scabernloua, 

 pedicelled naked, awn ^-f in. Andropogon umbellatus. Sack. Monogr. 

 And/rop. 401. Anthistiria heteroolita, j3 foliis glabris, Wight Cat. n. 1706. 



Deccan Peninsula, Wight j Cochin, Johnstone. Ceilon, Gardner, &c. 



A very slender glabrous plant, with prostrate creeping branched stems rooting at 

 the nodes. Leaves distant, with a few scattered cilia on both surfaces, nearly 

 smooth ; sheaths shorter than the blade. Fascicles of spikelets axillary, glabrous or 

 with a few tubercle-based cilia, on simple rarely branched capillary peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves ; lower peduncles sometimes elongate 1-3 in. long and bearing 

 several fascicles ; outer spathes J-| in. long. Spikes 3-6 in a fascicle, proper 

 epathe glabrous. Gl. I of sessile spikelet dorsally concave ; base of awn as in P. 

 heteroclitdi, 



4. P. burmanlca, Sook.f.; stem filiform straggling, leaves 1-2 in., 

 linear-oblong or lanceolate glabrous, nerves very slender, fascicles of spike- 

 lets few axillary very narrow with few sparsely ciliate spathes and spikes, 

 outer spathes 1-li iii'> proper spathes longer than the spikes, sessile 

 spikelets ^-f in. scaberulous, pedicelled naked, awn 1-1^ in. base 

 subulate-hastate. 



Pe&tt, Kurz. 



Habit of P. umlellata (of which it is possibly a variety) but leaves narrower, 

 fascicles of spikelets 1-1^ in. long, very narrow, with much longer awns, the base of 

 which is suddenly dilated and hastate or sagittate at the dilatation. 



Tribe V. Phalakidi^. (See p. 5.) 



56. PHAZiARXS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets 1-fld., ia con- 

 tracted or spioiform panicles, laterally compressed, rachilla with 1 or 2 

 minute scales (imperfect gls.) below gl. Ill, beyond which it is not pro- 

 duced, jointed at the base. Glumes (perfect) 3, I and II subequal, empty, 

 persistent, keels winged or not ; Hi much smaller, bisexual, 3-5-nerved, 

 thin, at length coriaceous ; palea like the gl. 2-nerved. Lodicules 2. 

 Stamens 3. Styles 2, free. Grain ovate or oblong, free within the gl. — 

 Species 9 or 10 temperate and tropical. 



The uppermost glume alone being flowering should technically refer this genus 

 to the Series of JPanicacece ; but its affinities are with Foaceoe. P. canariensis, 

 Linn. (Canary Grass) is given as a K.W. India Grass by Duthie and others, but 1 

 have seen no specimens ; it closely resembles P. minor, difiering in the quite entire 

 wings of the gls. P. paradoxa, Linn, fil., is stated by Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. to 



