298 CLXXiii. gkaminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) [L^toehloa. 



1752. Poa chinensis, Burm. Fl. Ind. 27, t. xi. f. 3 (non Linn.). Agrostis 

 montana, Herb. Bottler. — Leptochloa, Wall. Gat. n. 8895. 



TiNNETELLT ; at Palamcotta, Bottler. Ceylon, dry parts of the island.— 

 DisiBiB. — Tiop. Afrie. 



Stem 1-2 ft., very slender, genicnlately ascending from a creeping base. Leaves 

 1-3 by J-§ in., elliptic-lanceolate, acute and apiculate, very thin, flaccid, base 

 narrowed; ligule short, hyaline, lacerate. Panicle 6-8 in., very slender; spikes 

 capillary, 2-3 in. Spikelets about -f-g in. ; nerves of gl. Ill and palea fringed with 

 long hairs. Grain not seen. — Judging from Bnrmann's figure of the leaf his Poa 

 chinensis is, I think, L. uniflora. 



** Leaves long, narrow. 



2. Ii. polystachya, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 617 (non Kurith) \ 

 panicle elongate contracted, spikes 1-1 J ^^- crowded erect, spikelets 

 1-fld. L. Neesii, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 108 ; Trim. Gat. 

 Geyl. PI. 109. Oynodou Neesii, Thw. Enum. Geyl. PI. 371. C. poly- 

 stachyus, Br. Prodr. 187. C. virgatus, Nees ex Wall. Cat. n. 8894; Wight 

 Cat- IS.. 1751; Steud. Syn. Grram. 213. Agrostis virgata, Herb. Rottl. & 

 Herb. Madr. ex Wall. I. c. ; A. chinensis, Koen. ex Herb. Rottl. 



The Carnatic, Rottler, WigM. Ceylon; Trin:oinalee, Glenie. — Disteib. 

 Australia. 



Stems erect, 2-3 ft., stout or slender, sometimes proliferously branched below ; 

 lower nodes glabrous or bearded. Leaves 12-18 in., convolute, rarely flat, finely 

 acuminate. Panicle 6-10 in., fiexuons ; branches filiform. Spikelets ^-^ in., close- 

 set, pale; gls. I and II unequal, ovate-lanceolate, rather longer than III, pale 

 green; 111 broadly ovate, subacate, 3-nerved, nerves and keels of palea ciliate. 

 Orain oblong, deeply grooved on one side. — The form of the panicle differs much from 

 that of the following ; bat the spikelets and glumes are very much alike. L. poly- 

 stachya, Kunth, an American plant, is a species of Diplachne. 



3. Ii. filiformis, Boem. Sr Sch. Syst. ii. 580 ; spikes 2-3 in., spikelets 

 2-3-fld. Xunih Enum. PI. i. 270, SuppL 220; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 209; 

 Wiffht Gat. n. 1754; T/iw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 271; Trim. Gat. Geyl. PI. 

 109; Luthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 192; Aitchis. Gat. Panjab. PI. 167 i Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 389. E. chinensis, Dulhie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 59, t. 71. 

 ? E. tiliformis, Pers. Fyn. i. 87. Aiia filiformis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 326; 

 Herrb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 3804. Poa malabarica, Klein ex Steud. Nom. 

 F!d. ii. 303, 60. P. chinensis. Herb. Rottler. P. coutracta & panioea, 

 Retz. Ohs. iii. 11. P. virgata, Rotk. Nov. 8p. 66 ; Wight I. c. Festnca 

 tenuis & F. ? Basnia, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Oat. n. 3805 C. D. — Leptocbloa, 

 Wall. Cat. 3804, 3805. 



Throughout India and Burma in the low country. Csylon ; Colombo, Fer- 

 guson. — DisTBiB. Trop. Asia, Africa and America. 



Stem 1-2 ft., slender, genicnlately ascending. Leaves 4-10 in., flat, flaccid, 

 finely acuminate ; ligule short. Panicle 4-8 in., contnicted or diS'use, branches very 

 inany almost capillary ; spikelets ^'^ in., gl. 1 and II oblong-lanceolate, acute; III 

 and IV broadly ovate, nerves and palea ciliate. Sromoblong, closely invested with the 

 gl. and palea. — 1 have followed my predecessors in referring this Indian grass to 

 Leptochloa filiformis, R. & S., though that plant is described as Amerirau, and as 

 having glabrous flowers ; a character apparently confirmed by Jacquin's drawing of 

 its synonym Eleusine filiformis, Pers. (.lacq. Eulog. Gram. t. iv.) and by an observa- 

 tion of Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. III. 93. On the other hand, I find the nerves of 

 gl. Ill .to be invariably hairy in American specimens corresponding with Jacquin's 

 plate and the description of i. filiformis, and hence must suspect that this very 

 inconspicuous character (except under a good magnifying power) has been overlooked. 



