332 OLXXiiii GEAMiNEiB. (J, D. Hooker.) [Gentotheca. 



not jointed on the very short pedicels ; rachilla jointed at the base and 

 between the flg. gla. Glumes 5, I and II oblong-ovate, keeled, 3-5-nerved, 

 empty, persistent ; flg. gls. oblong, acute, dorsally rounded, 7-nerved, 

 naked or the upper bearing soft erect at length deflexed tubercle-based 

 spines above the middle; palea shorter than the gl., keels oiliolate. 

 Lodicules 0. Stamens 2-3, anlhers short. Styles free. Qrain ovoid, acute, 

 terete, free. — Species 1 or 3 P, Trop. Asia, Africa, Australia. 



C. lappaceaj Desv. in Nouv. Bull. Soa. P/^^7o»^. ii. (1810) 189, & jm 

 Joiirn. Bot. i. (18l;i) 70 ; Beauv. Agrost. 69, t. 14, f. 7 ; Kunth Revis. Gram. 

 i. 317, t. 70, Enum. PI. i. 366, Suppl. 302; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 116; Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 374 ; Tnm. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109 ; Wall. Cat. n. 3826 ; Griff. 

 Notul. iii. 62, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 152, f. 1 ; Miq. Ft. Ind. Bat. iii. 398 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, vii. 640; Sochst. in Bot. Zeit. (1857) 33; Lishoa in Journ, 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. 8oc. vii. (1893) 388. 0. latifolia, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 

 141. 0. parviflora, Anderss. in Peters. Seise Mosamb. Bot. 559. Hierochloa .' 

 latifolia, Kunth, Revis. Chram. i. 21. Holous latifolins, Osbech. Iter. 247 ; 

 Linn. Syst. Ed. x. 1305. Oplismenus ? magellauicus, Roem. Sf 8ch. Syst. ii. 

 485. Mfclica lappacea, Basp. in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. I. v. (1825) 443. M. 

 diaudra & refracta, Boxb. El. Ind. i. 327. Poa latifolia, Forst.f. Prodr. 8 ; 

 Vahl 8ymh. ii. 18. P. malatiarica, Linn. 8p. PI. 69 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 27, 

 t. 11, f. 2. P. nemoralis, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 3826 A. Torresia ? 

 latifolia, Beauv. I. u. 165. T. biflora, Boem. Sr 8ch. Syst. ii. 516. Uniola 

 lappacea, Trin. in Act. Petrop. YI. i. (1831) 358, 8p. Gram. Ic. t. 298. 

 Oenchrus lappaceus, Linn. 8p. PI. Ed. II. 1488. Festuoa latifolia. Both. 

 Nov. PI. 8p. 75. F. blepharophora, Boem,. & 8ch. 8yst. ii. 728. F. ciliaris, 

 Heyne ex Boem. S( Sch. I. c. V. ciliata, Hb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 3826 A. 

 F. virgata, Heyne ex 8teud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 633. Panicum festuciforme, 

 Hochst. PI. Ind. Or. Hohenack. n. 363.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8708. 



Tropical Sikkim Himalaya, the Ku asia Hills, Munnipore, Buema, Centeal 

 India, and southwjircl to Malacca, the Andaman Islds., and Ceylok. — Disibib. 

 Malaja, China, Polynesia, Africa trop. 



Stem 1-3 It., stout, erect from a branched woody rootstock, with stout root- 

 fibres. Leaves 4-10 by 1-li in., many-nerved, glabrous or sparsely hairy, base 

 Harrow obtuse or suboordate, midrib oblique; sheath glabrous or hairy; Jigule 

 short, lacerate. Panicle 8-10 in. long and broad, branches smooth. Spikelets 

 i-i in., green ; rachilla scaberulous ; palea often decurrent on the racliilla below the 

 gl. — The number of flg. gls. varies, but 5 is, I think, a normal; I and 11 are ratlier 

 distant at the base. In one spiltelet I find 6 gls., of which III was empty naked 

 and epaleate, IV nalsed and palcate, T and VI with stout reversed tubercle-based 

 spines ; not unfi ecjuently the fem. spikelet has only a single strongly-armed gl. and 

 a produced racliilla. Kunth (I. c. Suppl. 302) describes gl. Ill and IV as complete 

 and bisexual, V minute and imperfect. I suspect that this grass is polygamous. 



112. STREFTOGYNA., Beauv. 



A tall erect pereunial grass. Leaves petioled, flat ; nerves tessellate. 

 8pikelets 1-4-fld., narrow, terete, subsessile, not jointed on the long, rigid, 

 strict, unilateral spike ; rachilla elongate and jointed between the fl. gls. 

 Glumes 3-6, very narrow, I and II empty, persistent ; I small, 3-nerved ; 

 II longer, convolute, acute, awnless, many-nerved ; III longer, rigid, 

 tightly convolute, many-nerved, acuminate and awned; IV-VI empty; 

 palea embraced by the gl., narrow, 2-fid. Lodicules 3, subulate. Stamens 



