Diplachne.] olxxiii. gkaminej). (J. D. Hooker.) 329 



not jointed at the base ; rachilla jointed at the base and beneath each 

 flg. gl., not produced beyond the uppermost gl. Olumes many, I and II 

 unequal, obtuse, membranous, 1-nerved, persistent ; flg. gls. rather longer, 

 oblong, 1-3-nerved, tip 2-4-toothed, mucronate or awned ; palea linear. 

 Lodioules 2, broad. Stamens 3, anthers short. Styles distinct, stigmas 

 plumose. Grain ovoid-oblong, subtrigonous, free within the gls. and palea. 

 — Species about 14, of warm regions. 



A second Indian species has lately been brought from Chitral, and will shortly 

 be published by Dr. Stiipf in the Kew Bulletin as I). Oatacrei. 



D. fusca, Beauv. Agrost. 163 ; tall, leaves convolute, panicle long, 

 spikelets i-i in. linear 4-10-fld. Benth. Fl. Austrxl. vii. 619 ; Boiss. ft. 

 Orient. V. 561; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PL 109. D. indioa, Sjpreng. Syst.i.Z&X. 

 Uralepis fusca, Steud. Syn. Gram. 2i!l ; Thioaiies ilnum. PI. Zeyl. 372. 

 U. Drummondii, Steud. I. a. Triodia ambigua, Br. Brodr. 183. Tridens 

 indicus, J^ee« in Wight Oat. u. 1794. Leptochloa? fusca, KuntJi Bevis. 

 Gram. i. 91, Unum. PL i. 271. Festuca fusca, Linn. Sp. PI 109; Del. Fl. 

 Jilgypt. 24:, t. xi. f. 1. F. indica, Betz. Obs. iv. 21; Kuntli Enum. 412. 

 F. i-eptatrix, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. II. 108 ; Kwntk I. c. 410. Eragrostis 

 procera, Steud. I. c. 266. Poa prooera, Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 332 ; KuntJi I. c. 

 345. Bronius polystachios, Forsk. Fl. Mg. Arab. 23. Eragrostis, Wall. 

 Gat. n. 5013. — Rheede Hort. Malab. xii. t. 45. 



0PPEB Gangetic Plain to Bengal and southward to Cjsyloi.'. — Distkib. 

 Egypt, Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stem tufted, 3-5 ft., stout, erect, or geniculately ascending, often branched, 

 clothed with leaf-sheaths. Leaves long, narrow, flat or convolute, smooth ; sheaths 

 smooth; ligule large, membranous, lacerate. Panicle 10-18 in., oblong, nodding; 

 rachis smooth ; branches 2-3 in., erect, filiform, smooth or scaberulous. Spiheleis 

 distant, very shortly pedicelled, pale or dark green ; rachilla smooth or scaberulous ; 

 callus hairy ; gls. I and II 1-nerved, tips crose, keels nearly smooth ; I lanceolate ; 

 II i longer, oblong ; flg. gla. thinly coriaceous, 3-nerved, lateral nerves submarginal, 

 tip 4-toothed, mucronate by the percurrenfc median nerve. 



109. niEXiXCA, Linn. 



Perennial erect grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets in open or spiciform 

 or raoemiform panicles, laterally compressed, jointed or not on their 

 pedicels, 1-3-fld. and with small convolute neuter gls. forming a olavate 

 narrow body terminating and jointed on the elongate rachilla. Gimmes 

 4 i;r more, membranous, hyaline or with hyaline tips and margins ; I and II 

 equal or unequal, empty, I 1-3-nerved ; II 5-nerved, persistent or separately 

 deciduous ; flg. gls. solitary, or 2-3 then distant on the rachilla, 5-9-nerved, 

 lowest stipitate ; palea 2-keeled. Lodiculea 2, connate, often most minute 

 or 0. Stamens 3. Styles free, stigmas plumose. Grain oblong fusiform 

 or subcylindric— Species proba,bly 20 or 30, of temp, regions. 



* Panicle spiciform or racemiform ; spikelets more or less jointed on 

 their pedicels ; lodicules most minute or 0. 



1. m. Cupani, Gtiss. Fl. Sicul. Prodr. Suppl. 17; panicle subspici- 

 fnrm, flg. gl. solitary clothed all over with long silky hairs. Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient. V. 590; Parlat. Fl. Hal. i. 301. M. ciliata, Duthie Gra.9s. N.W. 

 Ind. 39 (nan Linn.). M. Jacquemontii, Decne in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 174, 

 1.175; Buthie I.e. M. Hohenackeri,' Boiss. Biagn. Ser. I. xiii. 54. M. 



