559 



apex: scales ovate-lanceolate, acute: stigmas 3, fniit lanceolate- 

 triquetrous, curved, beaked, roughish, beak exceeding the scale. 



Neilgberries. 



(24) C. piAiYCAEPA. (Soehst.j 



Ident. Hochst. 1. c. 1292. — Steudel 1. o. p. 2l4. 



Spec. Chae. Culm acutely triquetrous, smooth or slightly 

 scabrous to-wards the apex, leafy belo-w the spikelets : leaf of the 

 lowest spikelet much exceeding dl (5 — 8) the spikelets, rest smaller, 

 glaucescent : spikes axillary, all peduncled, somewhat nodding, 

 terminal one male, rest female, cylindric, dense, many-flowered : 

 style 2-cleft: fruit imbricated, compressed, ovate, very shortly 

 mucronate, daik brown, white margined : scales narrow mucronate 

 from an obtuse apex, scabrous mucronule equalling or exceeding the 

 fruit. 



ITeUgherries. 



(25) C. GEMBLiA. (Hochst.J 



Ident. Hochst. 1. c- 942.— Steudel 1. c. p. 214. 



Spec. Chak. Culm thin, triquetrous, leafy at the base and there 

 covered by scariose sheaths: leaves linear, flat, very narrow, a little 

 shorter than the culm, scabrous at the margin : bracts leafy, smaller 

 by degrees : terminal spikes 2, male, thin, females 8, more or less 

 peduncled, males usually at the apex : female scales oblong, acute, 

 shorter than the oblong-ovate beaked fruit. 



ITeilgherries. 



(26) C.-OLivACBA. (Boott.) 



Ident. Boott. Car. nov. 138.— Steudel 1. c. p. 232. 



Spec. Chae. Culm triquetrous, below strong, smooth, above 

 slender, 2-feet : uppermost bracts narrower, seldom shorter than the 

 spikelet, inner ones far exceeding the culm : spikes 6 — 8, elongated, 

 cylindric, alternate, remote, males 2, rusty, peduncled, unequal, 

 females 4 — 5, males at the apex, tawny olive, very long bracteate, 

 lowest one remote : fruit elliptic, acuminately beaked, 2-toothed, 

 ventricose, wrinkled, divaricate, shorter and broader than the lanceo- 

 late, hispidly awned scale. 



Assam. 



ORDER CLXXXIV. GRAMINACE^. 



Annual or perennial herbs, seldom undershrubs, very rarely 

 aborescent : rhizome fibrous, sometimes bulbous or woody and 



