Cynodon.'] cLxxin. graminb^. (J. D. Hooker,) 289 



Nees ex Steud. Syn. Oram. 213. Chloris Cynodon, Trin. Cham. Vnijl. 229; 

 Ohlor. maritima, Trin. I. c. 226. Fibichia umbellata, -Ebe^. Gram. Gall. ^ 

 Germ. 308. Dactylon officinale, Vill. Hist. PI. Bauph. ii. 69. Digitaria 

 Dactylon, Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. \l. i. 52. D. littoralis, Salisb. Prodr. 19. 

 D. maritima & radiata, Spreng. I. c. 272. D. stolonifera, Schrod. Fl. 

 Germ. i. 165, t. 3, f. 9. Panicum dactylon, lAnn. Sp. PI. 58; Sost Gram. 

 Austr. ii. 15, t. 18 ; 8ibf/i. Fl. Grsec 45, t. 60 } Engl. Bot. t. 840 ; Knapp 

 Gram. Britt. t. 13; Grah. Gut. Bomb. PI. 236; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 289. 

 P. lineare, Burm. Fl. Ind. 25, t. 10, f. 2. Paspalum dactylon, DC. Fl. 

 Franc, iii. 16. Pasp. prascox, Walt. Fl. Carol. 75. Pasp. umbeliatnm, 

 Lam. lUust. i. 177. Afrrostis bermadiana, Tussac ex Kunth I. c. 259. 

 A. filiformis, Koen. ex Kunth I. c. 261. A. linearis, Befz. Oba. iv. 19. 

 A. Btellata, Willd. Sp. PI. i. S76.—Bheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 47. 



Throughout India, Bubma and Ceylon, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya. 

 — DiSTElB. All warm countries. 



Stem prostrate, often widely creeping and forming matted tufts with short ascend- 

 ing branches. I/eoi)es short, subulate, glaucous; ligule hairy. Spffies 2-5, 1-2 in., 

 radiating, green or purplish ; rachis very slender. Spikelets abont -r j-yj in. ; 

 gl. I and II spreading, ovate, acute, keels scabrid ; III much larger cymbiform, keel 

 and margin scabrid. Grain laterally compressed. — This plant is absent in Herb. 

 Wallich. (Cat. n. 3803). 



89. CKKORXS; Sw. 



Perennial rarely annual grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 

 1-fld., 2-seriate, unilateral on solitary geminate foscicled digitate or whorled 

 terminal erect or radiating spikes, not jointed at the base; rachilla jointed 

 at the base, sometimes produced beyond gl. Ill and bearing one or more 

 empty gls. Glumes 3 (with 1 or more upper neuter), I and II unequal, 

 1-neiTed, narrow, keeled, acute mucronate or II awned ; III l-S-nerved, 

 acute obtuse or 2-fid, usually awned ; palea rather shorterj 2-nerved, com- 

 plicate. Lodicules 2. AntJiers small. Styles free. Grain narrow, free.— 

 Species about 40, warm regions. 



This genus is wanting in the Wallichian Herbarium at the Linnean Society. — 

 I find no character by which Scliwnefeldia, Kunth, can be separated gencrically from 

 CMoris. 



* Spikelets 1-fld. with no rudiment of anotlier. Rachis of spike 

 flattened. . ,.r- 



1. C. pallida, Sooh. f. ; annual, very slender, spikes 1-3 \ in. broad, 

 awn very long capillary. Sohoenefeldia pallida, Edgfui. in Journ As. Soc. 

 Beng. xxi. (1852) 161, 183; Aitehis. Cat. Panjab PI. 166; Buthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 32, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 52, t. 64. S. gracilis, Kunth Btvis. 

 Gram. i. 283, t. 63 ; Enum. Fl. i. 258; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. vii. (1893) 365. 



BuNDELKUND, Edgeworth. Central India, King. 



Stem 10-18 in., simple or branched, almost filiform. LeatesGS in., very narrow, 

 flaccid, tips capillary ; ligule a few hairs. Spike 3-5 in., golden-yellow, erect ; 

 rachis flattened, serrulate. Spikelets Jj in., subsessile, gl. I and II ovate- 

 lanceolate, subaristiitely acuminate, 1-nerved, keels ciliate ; I i shorter than II j 

 III rather longer than I, sessile, ovate, 1-nerved, hairy, base bearded, tip minutely 

 notched; awn f-1 in. long, capillary, curved; palea narrow, keels ciliate, tip 2- 

 toothfd. Grain very slender, acute, pericarp loose. — I have seen no authentic 

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