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62. DKIIiXUin;, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets loosely panicled, 

 not jointed on their pedicels, ovate, dorsally compressed, 1-fld., rachilla 

 not produced. Glumes S, I and II snbeqnal, thin, 3-nerved, persistent ; 

 III oblong or obovoid, dorsally compressed, coriaceous, shining, not awned ; 

 callus very short, broad, naked ; palea 2-nerved. Lodicules 2. Btamcns 3. 

 Styles short, free. Grain ovoid or oblong, free within the gl. and palea. — 

 Species 5 or 6, N. temp, regions. 



K. effusum, lAnn. 8p. Fl. 61 ; perennial, panicle effuse, spikelets 

 glabrous. Fl. Ban. t. 1143; Sost Gram. Austr. iii. t. 22; Engl. Bot. 

 1. 1106 ; Enapp Gram. Britt. t. 19 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 66, Su-ppl. 44, 1. 10, 

 f . 1 ; Beichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 45, vii. t. 73 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. 

 n. 17; Bteud. 8yn. Gram. 34; Ledeb.Fl. Boss. iv. 510; Aitch. Cat. Punjab 

 PL 158 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 28. M. ascendens, Boxh. Sort. Beng. 8 

 {name). M. dubium, JaequeTti. m,ss. Agrostis effusa, Lam,k. FJncycl. L 

 159. 



Western HurAiAYA, alt. 7-11,000 ft., from Kashmir, Jacquemont, &o., to 

 Kumaon, Strachey if Winterb. — Disteib. N. Temp, and Arctic regions. 



Perennial. Stem 2-4 ft., erect, smooth, shining, leafy. Lemes 6-12 by ^ in. 

 acute, minutely, scaberulons or smooth above ; ligule oblong, truncate, torn. Panicle 

 5-10 in., close or effuse; branches capillary, fascicled or subverticillate, naked below, 

 at length spreading or deflezed. Spikelets i in., green. 



DOTTBTPTTL INDIAN SPBCIES. 



M. PHLEOIDES, Sweet, Sort. Brit. Ed. 2, 555. 



63. KSXiEOCXXiOA, Host. 



Kigid annual or perennial erect or prostrate grasses. Leaves flat or 

 convolute. Spikelets 1-fld., densely imbricate in cylindric spikes or 

 spioit'orm panicles, laterally compressed ; rachilla not produced above gl. 

 HI. GZwmes 3, hyaline, I and II subequal or I shorter, keeled, 1-nerved, 

 persistent ; III = II or longer, lanceolate or oblong, 1-nerved ; palea oblong, 

 obtuse or 2-fid, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2 (or ?). Stamens 2 or 3. Styles 

 elongate. Grain ovoid, loose in the gl. and palea.— Species few. Oriental. 



Crypsis aculeata, Ait., a grass resembling Eel. schoenoides in habit, but with 

 capitate spikelets, is recorded as Indian by Aitchison (Cat. Favjab. PI. 157), 

 Boissier (jPi. Orient, v. 475) and other works, hut no doubt by mistake for Heleochloa 

 schoenoides, I have seen no specimen of Crypsis, which is an Eastern and Siberian 

 plant from India, or even from AfFghanistan. 



1. K. schoenoideS; Host Gram. Austr. i. 23, t. 30; annual, stems 

 compressed prostrate spreading in a circle Irom the root, panicle ovoid- 

 oblong sessile on the greatly dilated sheath of the uppermost leaf. Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 476; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 48. Orypsis aculeata, 

 DutMe Grass. N. W. Ind. 25, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 45, t. 62. 0. schoenoides, 

 Lamk. Illust. i. 166, t. 42, f . 1 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 22, Suppl. 17, t. 5, f . 1 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 459 ; Steud. 8yn. Gram. Ii2; ButUe Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 25. C. oompacta, Steud. I. c. 151. 0. nilaica, Fresen. S( Notar. in Mem. 

 Acad. Tor. 8er. II. xiv. (1854) 322. 0. vaginiflora, Opiz Natural, viii. 

 (1824) 83 ; Steud. 1. 0. 152. Phalaris vaginiflora, ForsL FL ^gypt. Arab, 



