248 CLXxiii. GEAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) ISporoholus^ 



in. long, gl. I and II obtuse hyaline 1-nerved, III opaque, grain broadly 

 obnvoid. Link Sort. Meq. Berol. i. 87 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 211 ; Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 370 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. 

 iV. Ind. 49 J Benth. Fl. Eongk. 426, Fl. Austral, vii. 622 ; Qriseb. Fl. 

 Brit. W. Ind. 583. S. angustus, B^lcM. in Proc. Acad. 8c. Philad. (1862) 

 88. 8. elongatus, Br. Prodr. 170; Hook. Sandh.N. Zeal. Fl. 327; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 376 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 39. S. Lamarokii, Besv. in 

 Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. 4. 8. minor, Kunth Enum. PI. i. 212. S. 

 tenacissimus, Beawo. Agrost. 26; Kunth I.e. 212, 8uppl. 167; T. Nees Gen. 

 Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. n. 28 ; Duthie Fodd. G^ass. N. Ind. 49. Vilfa oapensis 

 4 elongata, Beauv. Agrost. 16 ; Trin. Gram,. Diss. i. 154 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 



159. V. exilis, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. Sc. Nat. v. II. (1840) 

 89 ; Steud. I. e. 159. V. indica, Trin. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. ii. 767, Syn. 

 Gram. 162 ; Baker Fl. Mav/rif. 449. V. tenaoissima, H. B. Sf K. Nov. Gen. 

 & Sp. i. 138 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 393 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 60 ; Steud. I. c. 



160. P. rupestris, Trin. Diss. ii. 22 ; Steud. I. c. 161. Agrostis elongata, 

 Lamk. Illustr. i. 142. A. fertilis, Steud. I. c. 170. A. indica, Linn. Sp. Fl. 

 63. A. tenaoissima, Jacq. Collect, i. 85, Jij. Rar. 3, t. 16 {excl. Syn.). 

 A. tenuissima, Spreng. Syst. i. 258. — Sporobolus, Wall. Cat. n. 3766, B, 

 3767. 



Throughout India, ascending the Himalaya to 5000 ft., Bdema and Obtlon. — 

 DiSTBiB. All warm countries. 



Stem 2-3 ft., sometimes as thick as a small goose-quill at the base. Leaves 8-21 

 in., convolute or flat, rarely Jin. diam., margins smooth ; ligule a few hairs. Panicle 

 6-18 in., often interrupted; rachis stout, erect, or curved; branches erect, i in. or 

 longer, often whorled, densely clothed usually to or to near the base with green 

 spikelets, which are erect and imbricate. Spikelets larger than in S. diander. Gl. 

 I = about i III ; II not twice as long ; III acute. Pericarp adherent. — It is not 

 always easy to distinguish this from S. diander, which is much the most common in 

 India. In its normal state indious is a far more robust plant, with a stout rachia 

 and branches of the panicle, larger and more herbaceous more crowded spikelets, 

 and a broader grain ; but both vary greatly in the panicle. 



3. S. minutlflorus, Link Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 88 ; tall, slender, 

 leaves long, panicle very large efiuse supra-decompound, branches capil- 

 lary, spikelets -^ in., gl. I minute subquadrate, II ^ i III orbicular- 

 ovate obtuse, grain broadly obovoid. Kunth Enum. PI, i. 214. Vilfa 

 capillaris, Wight & Am. ex Wight Cat. n. 2036 (non Miq). Y. minuti- 

 flora, Trin. Diss. i. 158 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 158. V. mangalorica, Sochst. 

 ex Miq. Analect. Bot. ii. 24 ; Steud. I. c. 1 59. V. tenuissima, Schult. Mant. ii. 

 479. Panicum tenuiflorum, Hort. Monac. ex Link. I. c. ' P. tenuissimum. 

 Mart, ex Schrank in Denkschr. Bot. Oes. Begensb. ii. (1822) 26. 



The Decgan Peninsula, Wight. Canaba, SohenacTcer. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves narrow, flat, finely acuminate, margins quite smooth ; 

 Jigiule of minute hairs. Panicle 12-18 in., erect; rachis quite smooth, very 

 slesoder j branches innumerable, 1-2 in., spreading, and branohlets excessively slender, 

 flowering at the tips. Spikelets ellipsoid, dark colrd. ; gl. I truncate ; II broadly 

 ovatCj obtuse, nerveless ; III ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless ; palea shorter, broad, 

 truncate. Stamens 2. 



4. S- Walllchll, Munro mss. ; very tall, erect, leaves long, panicle 

 .tall oblong or subpyramidal decompound branobes capillary, branchlets 

 .divaricate few-fld., spikelets Jj in., gl. I minute truncate, II = ^ III or 



