306 CLXXiii. GRAMiNEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) 



98. rXNGERHUTKZA, Zehm. 



Erect, rigid, annual or perennial grasses, with the habit of Phleum, 

 Leaves narrow. Spikelets crowded in a spiciform panicle, 1-3-fld., lowest 

 in the panicle reduced to subulate glumes, laterally compressed, jointed 

 on the very short pedicels ; lower fl. bisexual or male, upper if present male, 

 uppermost an empty gl. Glumes I and II subequal, rigidly membranous, 

 keeled, l-nerved, awned ; III as long as II, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 S-nerved, mucronate or dorsally shortly awued ; palea rigid, 2-heeled. 

 Lndicules 2, obcordate. Anthers 3, linear-oblong. Styles long, free, stigmas 

 plumose. Crrain elliptic or oblong, free. — Species 2, a S. African, and the 

 following. 



A genus of doubtful affinity, with certain characters of Alopecurus, and of 

 Melica in the spikelets jointed on their pedicels ; tiie imperfect basal spikelets form a 

 sort of involucre to the spiciform panicles as in Sesleria. 



P. affg'hanica, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 569 ; spikelets 3-fld., lowest B. 

 fem., intermediate male, upper neuter, gls. I and II shortly awned keels 

 and margins ciliate. F. Africana, Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1882) 

 193 (non LeJim.). 



Westeen Panjae; Peshauur, alt. 3500 ft., Stewart. — Distbib. Affghan. 



Stem 12-18 in., tufted, slender, leafy. Letjtves very narrow, flat, glaucous, 

 glabrous, smooth ; sheath glabrous, mouth bearded ; ligule a ridge of soft haiis. 

 Spike f-1 in., oblong, obtuse, long-peduncled, pale green. Spikelets \ in., closely 

 imbricate; gls. I and II lanceolate, narrowed into straight awns as long as them- 

 selves, keels and margins ciliate with long hairs; III ehartaceous, mucronate, keel 

 smooth, margins ciliate ; keels of palea ciliate ; IT hardly awned; V an empty gl. 

 Grain elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends. — The only Indian Epecimen is a veiy 

 poor one. 



99. EZiTTROPKORVS, Beauv. 



An annual erect grass. Leaves narrow, flat. Spikelets very minute, 

 3-5-fld., in globose sessile clusters that are densely packed along a simple 

 rachis forming a long cylindric often lobed or interrupted spike; each 

 cluster consists of very many densely crowded sessile compressed spikelets 

 with awned glumes subtended by many empty glumes, not jointed at, the 

 base ; rachilla smooth, jointed at the base and between the flg. gls. 

 Glumes (of perfect spikelets), I and II subequal, empty, membranous, 

 mucronate, keeled, l-nerved, persistent : flg. gls. rather larger, narrowed 

 into short awns, 3-nerved, uppermost empty; palea complicate, one or both 

 keels winged.^ LodicvJes 2, obliquely oblong. Anthers 1-3, minute. 

 Styles free, stigmas long hairy. Grain obliquely oblong, beaked, free. 



E. articulatus, Beauv. Agrost. 67, 1. 14, f. 2; Kunth Bevis. Gram. ii. 

 481, t. 154, jEnum. PI. i. 891, Suppl. 325; Thw. JEjium. PI. Zeyl. 374; 

 Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 189 ; Aitchis. Gat. Panfab PL 171 ; Wall. Gat. n. 

 3825 ; Duihie Grass. N.W. Ind. 36, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 61, t. 72 ; Lisloa 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 379 ; Miguel Fl. Lnd. Bat. lii. 

 400 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 638. Echinalysinm articulatum & strictum, 

 Trin. Fund. Agrost. 142. Dactylis spicata, Willd, in Ges. Nalurf. N. 

 Sch.rift. m.(l^O\) 416. Sesleria STp\(ia.i^, Spreng . Pugill. ii. 21. Eleusiae 

 calycina, Serh. Ham. ex Wall. I. e. 



