Garnotia.] clxxiii. graminTej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 245 



atem 1-4 in., compressed and leafy at the base ; branches ending in a slender 

 peduncle a foot long or less with one or two subalate leaves. Leaves chiefly radical, 

 1 by A in., rather thick in texture, lanceolate, acute, flat, smooth, margins smooth 

 thickened, cauline convolv(te j sheath very short, compressed, mouth bearded ; ligule 

 truncate. Ql. I and II strongly 3-nerved. — The specimens are insufficient for a 

 satisfactory description. The species is quite unlike any other. 



69. PO&YPOaON, JDesf. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Bpikelets 1-fld., minute, 

 jointed (but persistent) on their pedicels, laterally compressed, keeled, 

 densely crowded on the short branches of a spiciform or lobed panicle ; 

 raohillanot produced beyond gl. III. Glumes 3 ; I and II equal, concave, 

 keeled, 2-fld notched or entire, with a slender awn below the tip or in the 

 sinus ; III much-smaller, hyaline, sessile, truncate, toothed, awned or not ; 

 palea small, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2, falcate. Stamens 1-3, anthers small. 

 Ovary glabrous ; styles free. Grain obovoid, free within the gl. and palea. 

 — Species few, natives of all warm regions. 



1. P. monspellenslSj Oe^. Fl. Atlant. i. 66; annual, panicle spici- 

 form oblong or cylindric, gl. I and II oblong scaberulous ciliolate tip 

 obtuse or notched, awn from the sinus or beneath it as long to many times 

 as long as the gl.. Ill 2-toothed shortly awned. Beauv. Agrost. 17, t. vi. 

 f. 8 ; Mutel Fl. Fr. t. 76, 77 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 232, Suppl. 181, t. xiii. 

 f. 7 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 32 ; Meichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 31 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Soss. iv. 443 ; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 184 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 520 j 

 Benih. Fl. Austral, v. 546 ; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. II. iii. 44, 1. 126 ; 

 Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 370, 444; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108; Aitchis. Cat. 

 Panjab.Pl.l&h; DutUe Grass. N.W. Ind. 30, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 50. 

 P. cruentus, Duthie I. c. (error for crinitus). P. maritimus, Duthie I. c. 

 {not Willd.). P. nepalensis, JVees ex Steud. Nam. Ed. II. ii. 378, Syn. 

 Oram. I. e. ; Trin. in Mem,. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. iv. ii. (1845) 255 ; 

 Duthie I. c. 30. P. fugax, Nees ex Steud. I. v. ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 51. P. paniceus, Lag. Gen. & Sp. Nov. 3. P. polysetus, Steud. in Flora, 

 xii. (1829) 467. P. zeylanicus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 182. Agrostis 

 alopecuroides, LamJc. Illustr. 812. A. crinita, Mwnch Meih. 178. A. 

 panicea, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 128; Engl. Bot. t. 1704; Moon, Cat. PI. Ceyl. 8. 

 A. P Eora, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Gat. n. 3777 B. A. triaristata^ Knapp 

 Oram. Britt. t. 23. Cynosurus paniceus, Linn. Sp. PI. 73. Phleum crinitum, 

 Schreb. Gram. i. 161, t. 20, f. 3 ; Sm. Fl. Grsec. i. 46, t. 22 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 313. P. monspeliense, £oel. Descr. Gram.. 57. Alopecarus aristatus, Gouan 

 Sort. Munsp. 37 ; Huds. Fl. Angl. 28. Al. monspeliensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 61. 

 Al. paniceus, Linn. I. c. Ed. ii. 90. Phalaris cristata, ForsJc. Fl. JEg. Arab. 

 17.— Agrostis, Wall. Oat. n. 3777. 



Throughout Continental Iniiia (not seen from Burma and the E. Peninsula). 

 Westeen Tibet, ascending to 9000 ft., and Ceylon. — Disteib. Trop. and Temp, 

 regiops. 



litems tufted, 6 in.-2 ft., stout or slender, leafy, base, geniculate, filiform and 

 erect in starved states from Tibet, with very small spikes and very short awns. 

 Leomes 3-6 by i-i in., green, ligule oblong. Panicle ^-6 in. long, J-l in. broad, 

 pale yellowish-green, silky, sometimes lobulate. Spilcelets i-'q-tV i"-) ^^''J' shortly 

 pedicelled. Gl. I and XI very variable in breadth, obovate-oblong, sides scaberulous, 

 keels scabrid, margins ciliate, tip entire notched or very shortly 2-fid ; awns from 

 the length of the gl. to i in. long, excessively delicate ; III very small, oblongs 



