328 CLXxiii. GEAMiNBiE. (J. D.iHooker.) [^Myriostaehya. 



patent, flowering to the base. Spikelets i-3 in., 4-8-fld., compressed, quite smooth ; 

 pedicels short ; gls. I and I£ unequal, keels soaberulous, awn J in. or more stiff 

 stout. — In many respects Myriostachya is allied to Eragrostis cynosuroides, having 

 a very similar inflorescence, and spikelets jointed on the bra iichlets of the panicle; 

 but differs in the spikelets being pedicelled, in the long awned gls. I and II, and in 

 its great size. 



Var. lonffispicula ; spikelets longer, up to 4 in. and 8-20-fld. — Penang, Curtis. 

 Ceylon; at Kottiyar, 'I'rimen. 



106. KAXiOPYRUni, Stajif. 



A tall stout perennial glabrous grass, with a branching creeping sheathed 

 rootstock. Leaves narrow, rigid, cod volute. Spikelets large, many-fld., 

 sessile or shortly pedicelled on the short alternate branches of an elongate 

 panicle, ovate, strongly laterally compressed, not jointed on their pedicels, 

 nor are the pedicels on the branches ; rachilla jointed at the base and between 

 the flg. glumes, silkily hairy. Glumes many, closely distichoasly imbricate, 

 dorsally rounded, coriaceous, , keeled, I and II subequal, empty, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate or apiculate ; I 3-nerved, II 5-nerved ; flg. gls. 6-lU, 

 rather shorter than the empty, mucronulate, 3-nerved ; palea as long as 

 the gl., subacute, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, obcordate. Stamens 3. Styles 

 short, free, stigmas elongate. Grain ellipsoid, compressed, deeply hollowed 

 antioously, free. 



H. mucronatum, Stapf in Hook. le. PI. t. 2448. Brizopyrum 

 mucronatum, Nees in Wall. Cat. n. 8898; Wight Cat. n. 2386. Desmazeria 

 unioloides, Befl. Voy. Yemen, 220. Eragrostis mucronata, Trim. Gat. Oeyl. 

 PL 109 (non Poem. Sf Sch.). ? Uniola mucronata, Linn. Sp. PI. 104 ; 

 Siinth Enum. PI. i. 425 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 281. Triticum repens, 

 Thwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. 376. — ^luropus, Aitchii. Cat. Panjah PI. 169. 

 — Eragrostis sp. Sect. Sclerostachya, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 1187. 



Coasts of India from Sind to Cape Comorin and Tinnevelly . Ceylon, Gardner , 

 &c. — DisTBiB. Westward to Arabia and E. trop. Africa. 



Stem below creeping, as thick as a crow-quill, hard, smooth, woody, with strict 

 vermiform roots, sending up rigid slender flowering stems 12-18 in. high, and shorter 

 leafing ones. Leaves 8-12 in., flat or convolute, very narrow, wiry, glaucous, finely 

 acuminate, glabrous, sheath terete, appressed, striate, hard, mouth villous; ligule a 

 few hairs. Panicle 12-16 in., erect or inclined ; branches short with few spikelets 

 and rachis quite smooth. Spikelets \ in. long, sessile or shortly pedicelled, 

 smooth, white or pale yellowish ; rachilla very short, hairs half as long as the gls. ; 

 gl. I hardly longer than the lowest flg. gl., ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, 5-nerved towards 

 the centre ; II i longer, strongly 5-nerved. — There being no specimen of Uniola 

 mucronata in Linnseus's Herbarium its citation here is doubtful. 



107. COEZiACHVRUm, Nees.-" (See p. 8.) 



108. DXPIiACHNE, Beauv. 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute, narrow. Spikelets 

 many-fld., spicate on the slender simple branches of a tall simple panicle, 



1 This genus was erroneously supposed to be Indian when the Key was drawn 

 up. 



