Elytrophorus.l olxxiii. graminejs. (J. D. Hooker.) 307 



From the Sutlkj to Bengal; Assam, the Deooan Peninsula, Buema, and 

 Cetlon.— DiSTElB. Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Whole plant 6-18 in. high, strict, glabrous ; flowering part often longer than 

 the rest. Leaves as long as the stein and spikes or shorter, very narrow ; sheath 

 loose ; ligule obscure. Spiciform panicle 2-8 in. by i-J in. diain., pale green or 

 white, rarely branched bilow, SpikeleU ^ in., empty gls. cillate, hyaline, nerve 

 green ; flg. gls. ovate, membranous, tips and awns scaberulous ; palea hyaline, 2-iid. 



100. X.AiaARK.IA, Moench. 



A small annual tuEted grass. Leaves flat. Spihelets dimorphic, fertile 

 and neuter, crowded on the drooping branches of a simple seound noddinof 

 panicle, terminal spikelet of each branohlet fertile of few gls. surrounded 

 by empty gls., and by neuter spikelets of many obovate convolute erose 

 gls. Fertile spikelet ; glumes TV, I and II membranous, subequal, subulate- 

 lanceolate, l-nerved, sabaristate, persistent; III shorter, ovate, convolute, 

 dorsally awned below the 2-fid tip ; IV terminating the slender raehilla, 

 neater, long-awned ; palea of III narrow, 2-fid, 2-keeled. Lodicules very 

 minute. Stamens 3, anthers linear. Styles distinct, stigmas slender, 

 hairy. Grain elliptic-oblong, closely wrapped in the gls. and palea. 



la. aurea; Moench Meih. 201; Kunih Enum. PI. i. 389, Suppl. 324; 

 T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. n. 77; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 570; Ai'chis. 

 Cat. Panjab PI. 170 ; JDuthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 36, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 61. L. Hookeriana, Griff. Notul. iii. 94, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 143, f. 2. 

 Chrysurus aureus, Beauv. JLgrost. 123, t. 22, f. 5 ; Reiehh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 58. 

 0. cynosuroides, Pers. Syn. i. 80. Pterlum elega.ns, Desv. Journ. Bot. i. 

 (1813) 76. Tinaaa elegans, Garzia Rel. Ace. Zel. Aci.-Beale, Ann. 3-4, 24, 

 ex- Parlat. Fl. Palerm. i. 138. Cynosarus aureus, Linn. Sp. PI. 73 ; Most 

 Oram. Austr. iii. t. 4; Sibth.Fl. Graec. i. t. 79. — Gramin. Griff. Itin. Notes, 

 349, n. 106. 



Westebn Panjab ; Peshawar, Vicary, Steivari, Aitchisoit. — Disteib. Westwd. 

 to Spain and the Canaries. 



Stem 4-8 in., scout or slender, leafy. Leaves broadly linear, acuminate ; ligule 

 oblong. Tanicle 1-i ia., golden-yellow, sliining ; branches crowded, ^-^ in. long, 

 covered with fascicles of pendulous scaberulous spikelets. Flowering spikelets 

 Jjj-J in. ; awns variable in length, \-k in.— A very beautiful grass. 



101. CYMOSVZtVS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial tufted grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets dimorphic, 

 fascicled, fascicles collected in a dense unilateral spiciform terminal 

 panicle, the 1-2 terminal of each fascicle 2-3-fld., the lower 1-2 of many 

 neuter distichous pectinately spreading subulite glumes, persistent 

 on an nujointed raehilla. Glumes of fertile spikelet 4-5 ; I and II narrow, 

 acute or subaristate, l-nerved; III and IV awned or mucronate, 1-3- 

 nerved, uppermost imperfect ; palea narrow, 2-toothed, keels ciliate. 

 Lodicules 2, acuminate. Stamens 3. Stales short, free. Grain elliptic 

 or oblong, glabrous, adherent to the gl. and palea.— Species 3-4, in N. 

 temp, regions. 



C. cristatus, Linn. Sp. PL 72; perennial, fertile spikelets 3-5-fld. 

 Fl Dan, t. 238 ; Sost Gram. Austr. ii. t, 96 ; Kunth Ewum. PI. i. 388, 



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