292 OLXXiii. GRiMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) IGMorie. 



Rajpootana, and TJppee and Lowbe Gawgbtic Plains, and sontbward to 

 Behar, and Centeat. and Sotjthbejt India. Westeen Tibet, Thomson. Bubua, 

 Wallich. — DiSTEiB. Westward to Algeria ; China, Mongolia, Trop. and S. Africa and 

 America, 



Stem rather stout, flattened, 8-12 in. high, usually leafy, deeumhent and much 

 proliferouslv hranched below. Leaves rather broad, flat, acute ; upper sheaths more 

 or less inflated. — Australian specimen of this in Herb. Kew from Mueller, are 

 ticketed 0. larhata, Muell., var. with one empty gl. The Western Tibet habitat is 

 remai'kable; there are two specimens collected by Thomson, dated by himself 

 at a time he was in Ladak, at an elevation not less than 12,000 ft. 



8. C- barbata5 Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 200 ; spikes 4-20, rachis scaberu- 

 lons, spikelets 3-awned. Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 10, t. 8 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 

 264, Swppl. 209 ; Burand de Chlorid. 13, 22 ; Trin. Diss. i. 232, Sp. Gram. 

 Ic. I. 306 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 421 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 204 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 331 ; Grai. Cat. Bomb. PI. 234. ; Wight Cat. n. 1764; Aitch. Cat. Panjab 

 PI. 167; Thw. Ermm. PI. Zeyl. 371; THm. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109; Buthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 33, Fodd Grass. N. Ind. 53, t. 34; Lisboa in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. Sac. vii. (1893) 367; Oriseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. f 39 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Eongk. 429, Fl. Austral. \\{. &\i {excl. Syn. Aeoova.) ; Doellin Mart. 

 Fl. Bras. ii. III. 67. Androposron barbatus, lAnn. PI. Jam. Pugill. 30, 

 Mani. ii. 302.— Chloris, Wall. Cat. n. S812.—Sheede Eorl. Mai. xii. t. 51. 



Throughout the plains of India, Buema, and Cbilon. — Distcib. Tropics 

 generally. 



Stem 1-3 ft., Blout, erect from a geniculate or from a creeping proliferously 

 branched base, simple or branchino; above, nodes with often large tufts of leaves 

 having comprtssed equitant sheaths. Leaves 6-18 long, flat; mouth of sheaths 

 cilinte ; lignle obscure. Spikes 4-4 in., sahereet, strict or flexuous. Spilcelefs 

 ■^g-^in,, green or red-purple; gls. I and II acuminate, II much the longest; III 

 ovate, more or less densely benrded above the middle and dorsally, tip acute or 

 notched; awn i-J in. ; lit cuneiform, at length globose, ciliate; IV much smaller, 

 globose, awned. — Extremely variable in size and habit. 



9. C. polystachya, Bomb. Fl. Ind. i. 330 ; spikes many, rachis 

 plabroHP, spikelfts very minute 3-awned. Kunth 'Enum. PI. i. 265 ; Spreng. 

 Neue Entdech. iii. 127 ; Grah. Cat Bomb. PI. 235 ; Wight Cat. n. 1763 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 33, C. Eoxburghiana, Schult. Mant. ii. 5i39 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 206.— Chloris, Wall. Oat. n. 3811 {ex Wight I. c). 



Decoan Peninsula, Roxburgh, Wight. 



Stem 1-2 ft., ascending from a procumbent base. Spikes about 16, 2-8 in. long ; 

 gls. I and II lanceolate, acuminate ; II much the longest ; III ovate, acute, margins 

 ciliate above or nearly glabrous ; awn flexnous, IV like III but very much smaller, 

 glabrois ; V a minute-awn^d gl. — Wight's is the only specimen I have seen, it is 

 very much smaller than in Eoxbui-gh's drawing. 



10. C. mont ana, iioxi. Fl. Ind. i. 329; spikes 2-6, rachis glabrous, 

 spikelets 4-awned. Kunth Enum. PL i. 265 ; Spreng. Neue Entdech. iii. 

 127 ; Steud. Syn. Oram. 204 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Mist. Soc. vii. 

 (1893) 369. C. decora, Thw. Enum. 371 {excL syn.). C. baibata, var. 

 decora. Trim,. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109. Tetrapos;on tetrastachys, HacJc. in Serb. 

 Buthie (in part) n. 7759. Andropogon tetra-aristatns, Roxb. Ic. ined. n. 

 882.— Chloris, WalL Oat. n. 3810. 



Mountain districts of Coeomandbl, Roxburgh. TTppkb and Lowee Gangetic 

 Plains, and southward to Ceylon. 



Stem erect or geniculately ascending from a creeping base, 4 in. to 2J ft., simple 



