Pommei-eulla.'] cLXxiil. GRiMiNKffi. (J. D. Hooker.) 301 



Mysoee and the Caenatic, Beyne, Wight. Cbtion; Northern Province. 



Stem as thick as a crow-quill, rooting at the nodes j branches erect, stout, lenfv, 

 flattened. Leaves 1-3 in., distichons, flat, exactly linear, coriaceous, tip rounded, 

 margins sparsely ciliate ; sheath long or short, broad, flattened ; lignle a ciliate 

 ridge. Saceme i-2 in., usually half sunk in the uppermost sheath, rarely with an 

 exsertpd naked peduncle and sometimes 2 erect branches. SpikeUts -Ay-^ in., shortly 

 pedicelled, white, tomentosc, awns shortly exserted ; gls. I and II mucli shorter 

 than the spikelet, keels nearly smooth, b.ases narrowed ; II inserted much aliove I, 

 Its base tightly embracing the raehiUa ; IH and IV narrowed into a tomentoie stipes, 

 embracing V and VI, 4.1obfd with a short dorsal awn, disk coriaceous, margins nnd 

 lobes hyahne; V-VII cuneately obovate, 3-Iohed.— A very curious grass. The 

 turbinate spikolets resemble clusters of tliose of Gfraeilea, but are not jointed at the 

 base, and their structure is totally diBFerent. The above characters are drawn from 

 many analyses, but they will no doubt be found to vary in a more extended suite of 

 specimens. 



95. PAPPOPKORVDX, Nees. 



Perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikdels 1-3-fld., in contracted or 

 spiciform panicles, not ioitited at the base ; raohilla jointed at the base. 

 Gl. I and II membranous, keeled, 3- many-nerved, persistent ; III and IV 

 much shorter (except the awns), coriaceous, orbicular, concave, obscurely 

 many-nerved, cleft into 9 or more equal or alternately longer long-ciliate 

 erect awns ; IV and Y usually imperfect ; palea small, broad, 2-keeled. 

 Lodicules 2, dolabriform. Stamens 3. Styles short, distinct; stigmas 

 plumose. Grain ovoid or oblong, free. — Species about 20, in warm 

 regions. 



The synonymy of the species of this genus is in a most unsatisfactory condition; I 

 am doubtful of the nomenclature of some here described, and the Indian materials 

 of others, not here alluded to, are insufficient for reliable determination or de- 

 scriptions. 



1. p. elegrans, Nees in Wight Gat. n. 1771 ; gl. I 9-nerved, II 7-nerved, 

 awns of fl. gi. nearly equal about thrice as long as their gl. Wall. Gat. 

 n. 8902 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 199 ; Duthie Grass. N. W Lid. 35. Ischsemum 

 pappoBum, Serb. Rottler. Enneapogon dipsaceus. Wall. mss. Calotheca 

 elegans, Wight & Am. ex Steud. I. e. 



Peshawue, Stewart. Scind, Stocks. Mysore and the Cabnatio, Heyne, 

 Wight, &c. KuEMA, Wallich, &c. 



Stem 3-18 in., very sleniler, wiry, erect or ascending from a woody often 

 thickened base; nodes glabrous or tomentose. Leaves very narrow, flat or con- 

 volute; ligule a ridge of hairs. Famcle 1-3 in., brunches very short and rachis 

 villous. Spikelets with the awns ^-i in., sessile and pedicelled, softly tomentose, 

 nearly white ; pi. I and II oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, I i shorter than II ; awns 

 of III and IV ciliate below the middle ; keels of palea pubescent. 



2. P. Aucherl, Jauh. & Spach III. PI. Orient, iv. 32, t. 323 ; gl. I 

 and II 7-nerved, awns of flg. gls. three to four times as long a'' the gl. 

 4 much shorter than the others. Steud. Syn. Gram. 200 ; Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 35. P. turcomanicum, Trautv. in Act. Sort. Petrop. i. (1871) 27. 

 P. psrsicum, Steud. I. c. ; Boi.'<s Fl. Orient, v. 558 ; P Edgew. in Joum. 

 Lmi. Soc. vi. (1862) 196 ; Aitchis. Oat. Pavjal. PL 106. Bnneapogon 

 persicum, Boiss. Biagn. i. V. 71. 



