Lolium.'] ciixxiii. GRAMiNEj!. (JJ D. Hooker.) 365 



Bpecimens of L. rigidum which I have examined. The awns are as long as the gls. 

 or lorger. 



3. Ii. perenne, Linn. Sp. PL 83 ; perennial, leaves linear complicate 

 in vernation, spikelets oblong 3-11-fld., empty gl. 3-5-ribbed, shorter than 

 the rest of the epikelet, fl. gin. oblong-lanceolate obtuae or sub-acnte 

 5-nerved a-wned or not. Fl. Dan. t. 747 ; Most Gram. Austr. i. t. 25 ; 

 Engl. Bot. t. 315 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 180 ; Beichb. le. Fl. Germ. t. 8 ; 

 T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. n. 78; Xunth Enum. PI. i. 436, Suppl. 

 358, t. 33, f . 1 ; Ledeh. Fl. Boss. iv. 343 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 679 ; Duthie 

 Grass. N. W. Ind. 44, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 68. L. vulgare, Host I. c. 

 t. 25. 



Western Tibet, alt. 15,000 ft., SioUzTca (Duthie); Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 

 7000 ft., Clarke (introduced). — Distkib. Europe, N. Asia. 



Probably not indigenous in India, though likely to occur in temperate regions.' 

 Its perennial character and stoloniferous habit at once distinguish it. 



126. XiEPTVRITS, Br. 



Small slender grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 1-2-fld., 

 sessile, solitary, ^ immersed in hollows of the rachis of a simple terminal 

 articulate or not. straight or incurved spike, with the back of the lowest 

 fl. gl. opposite the rachis ; rachilla jointed. Glumes 3 or 4, I minute or ; 

 II longer than the flg. gls., linear, rigid, acute, 5-nerved, erect or at length 

 deflexed ; III and IV much shorter than II, hyaline ; palea 2-keeled. 

 Lodicules 2, cuneate or lobed. Stamens 1-3. Ovary glabrous ; styles short, 

 distant. Grain narrow or oblong, glabrous, free. — Species 6, natives of the 

 Old World. 



1. Zi. repens, Br. Prodr. 207 ; perennial, creeping, spikes shortly 

 pednncled fragile, gl. I 0, II acuminate or sub-aristate many-nerved much 

 longer than the flg. gls. Brongn. in Duperr. Yoy. Bot. 57, t. 16; Kunth 

 Enum. PI. i. 463, Suppl. 374 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 357; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 

 110 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 668. L. aoioulatus, Steud. I. c. ; Miq. Fl. Lnd. 

 Bat. iii. 403. Rottboellia repens, Forst. Prodr. 9. Monerma repens, 

 Beauv. Agrost. 117. Lolium coeloraohis, Forst. in Serb. Paris, Steud. 

 Nam. Ed. II. ii. 64. 



Ceylon ; near Colombo, THmen. — Disteib. Malay and Pacific Islds., Australia. 



Stem elongate, woody branched and widely creeping below. Leaves 3-6 by 

 i-i in., spreading or erect, acuminate, glaucous ; sheaths glabrous or mouth clliate j 

 ligule inconspicuous. Spikes 2-6 iu., strict, erect; rachis glabrous. Spikelets 

 2-fld., rachilla elongate bearing an upper imperfect fl.; empty gls. 1 (or 2 in the 

 uppermost spikelet) flat, rigid, i-J in. long, closely appressed to the rachis; flg. gls. 

 much shorter than the empty, elliptic, concave, 3-nerved ; palea 2-keeled. Lodicules 

 fleshy, obliquely truncate or 2-lobed, glabrous. Grain oblong. 



2. Ii- Roxburgrhlanus, Steud. S^n. Gram. 357; annual, erect, 

 spikes long- pednncled very slender inarticulate, gl. I minute ovate, II 

 linear-oblong acute rather shorter than the flg. gls. Rottboellia biflora, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 357 {non Both.) ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 467. E. ? Eox- 

 burghiana, Schult. Mant. ii. 430. 



Deccan Pbninsitla, Momhurffh. Bastebn Panjab, dry hills in Hissar, Herb. 



" Whole plant 8 in. high, densely tufted. ZewBes 3-4 in., filiform or setaceous. 



