'334 cLxiiii. GEAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [^^Eluropus. 



.TO. vUlosus, Trin. ex O. A. Mey. Verz. Pfl. Garm. 18 ; spikelets in 

 short heads. Aitchis. Gat. Panjab. PI. 169. Js. arabicus, Stevd. Nom. 

 Ed. II. i. 30. M. brevifolius, Wall. Gat. n. 8897 ; Wight Oat. n. 1792 

 (non Herb. Wight & excl. Syn. Dactylis brevifolia, Linn.) ; Duthie Grass. 

 ■ N.W., Ind. S9. M. conoiunus & smia,cns, Fig. et Nota/r. in Mem. Acad. 

 Torin. Ser. II. xii. (1852) 257. M. lagopodioides, Trin. ex Thw. Unum. PI. 

 Zeyl. 374. M. lagopoides, Trin. ew Trim. Cat. Geyl. Pi. 110. M. littoralis, 

 var. repens, Goss. & Dur. JExpl. Sc. Alger. 165 ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, v. 694. 

 M. inuoronatus, Aschers. in 8cJiweinf. Beitr. Fl. .^Mop. 297; Boiss. I.e. 

 .696. .M. niliaous, Steud. Nom. MA. II. i. 30. M. niloticns, Edgew. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 196. M. pubescens, Trin. ex Steud. I. c. in part ? 

 M. pungens, C Koch, in Linnsea, xxi. (1848) 408. M. repens, Pa/rl. Fl. Ital. 

 3. 462 ; Edgew. I. c. Dactylis lagopodioides, Bale. & Oibs. Borah. Fl. 298 

 {excl. Byn.). D. lagopoides, Linn. Mant. 33 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 28, t. 12, f. 2 

 (the right hand portion), Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 340; Orah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 236 

 (excl. Syn ). D. massavieDsis, Steud. Syn. Gram. 298. D. repens, Besf. 

 Fl. Atlant. i. 79, t. 15. Poa lagopodioides, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. Ill, 

 Fnum. i. 325. P. massavensis, Fresen. in Mus. Senkenb. ii. (1837) 143. 

 P. repens, Bieh. Fl. Ta/wr. Gomc. iii. 69. P. tunetana, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 

 20. Calotbeca arabioa, niliaoa & repens, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 347, 348. 

 Buthie I. c. (err. iyp. miliaoea). Koeleria lagopodioides, Panz. in 

 Benhschr. Acad. Muench. K. brevifolia, Herb. Wight ex Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8897 C. Sesleria lagopodioides, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 22. Festuoa mnoro- 

 nata, Forsh. Fl. Mgypt. Arab. 22. E. pxmgens, Yahl Symb. i. 10, t. 2. 

 Uralepis ? pungens, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 108, Enum. i. 319. 



Sandy shores of the Decoan Pbninsui.a and Oktlon. Salt plains of the Panjab 

 and SoiND. — Distmb. Reg. Mediterr., Arabia, Persia, Affghan., Reg. Casp. 



A rigid perennial herb, with long wiry roots. Stems 6-12 in., densely tafted, 

 branched, hard, smooth, erect, or prostrate with long often creeping stolons, base 

 slightly swollen, clothed with rigid glabrous or hairy sbeatliing scales, above clothed 

 with leaves, and terminating in a naked glabroas or pubescent slender peduncle 

 1-4 in. long. Leaves i-l in., erect or spreading and recurved, subulate-lanceolate 

 or acicular, coriaceous, pungent, convolute, rarely flat, striated with close-set nerves, 

 base rounded, glabrous or sparsely iairy, midrib obscure, margins smooth or 

 scaberulous ; sheaths short, terete, inflated or dilated, glabrous or ciliate ; 

 ligule a ridge of short hairs. Seads ^-^ in. diam., globose ovoid or oblong. /Spiie- 

 Zeis -Jj—Jij in., 4- many-fld., crowded, sessile, villous with soft hairs, pale green or 

 white i gls. closely imbricate, ovate-oblong, apiculate, concave, margins hyaline, 

 nerves strong ; I 3-5-nerved ; II longer, 7-9-nervpd ; flg. gls. rather longer than the 

 empty, many-nerved, lower 2-4 sometimes neuter; palea broadly truncate or 3-lobed, 

 keels villous. Ouor^/ obovoid. Grain -f^m., obovate-oblong, compressed dorsally. — 

 A very variable grass in habit, foliage and size of the heads and spikelets. Re- 

 garded by Cosson and others as a form of .^. littoralis, in which the panicle is elongate. 



114. DACTVZiXS, Linn. 



Stifi erect tufted perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets 3-10-fld. 

 compressed, subdistichously crowded in short unilateral spikes forming a 

 terminal unilateral panicle, not jointed at the base ; raohilla continuous, 

 glabrous. Glumes I and II unequal, scarious, lanceolate, acuminate or 

 mucronate, keeled, empty, persistent; 1 1-nerved, II 1-3-nerved ; flg. gls. 

 rather longer, rigid, 5-nerved, sabaristate, keel scabrid; palea 2-fid, keels 

 ciliolate. Lodicules 2, 2-lobed, fleshy. Stamens 3, anthers long. Styles 

 free, terminal stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, acute, trigonous, dorsally 



