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Spec. Chae. Culms creeping, branched, extremities erect: leaves 

 lanceolate, waved, hairy: sheaths half the length of the joints,' 

 very hairy : spikes compound, secund, erect : spikelets 4 — 8, 

 alternate, secund, adpressed : flowers generally paired, 1 sessile, 

 the other pedicelled : glumes hairy, long-awned. 



Generally found under the shade of trees. 



(8) P. Penhststtlaitdm. (StmiA.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 44. 



Syn. Oplismenus decompositus, JVees in Midi. prod. flor. Norf. 

 19. — P. compositum, Rottl. herh. 



Spec. Chae. Culm creeping at the base and with the branch 

 elongated, knots hairy : sheaths striated without tubercles, margin 

 mouth Eind ovate-oblong leaves at the base, ciliated : spikes 8 — 12, 

 alternate, erect, compound at the base, approximate : spikelets 

 packed together : pedicels long-bearded : glumes iglabrous, equal, 

 lower one besiring bristles, upper one obsoletely mucronulate, neuter 

 floret 1-valved. 



Peninsula. 



(9) P. AcuMnrAiissiMTTM. fSteud.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 45. 



Syn. Oplismenus compositus, var. Wight herb. 



Spec. Chae. Culm- branched, ascending, marked below with a 

 hairy line, knots glabrous : sheaths ciliated at the edge and mouth : 

 leaves narrow-lanceolate, very acuminate, scabrous : spikes about 

 12, distant, few-flowered, hairy at their origin, upper ones fascicle- 

 shaped : lower glume larger long-bristly, upper one and the valvelet 

 of the neuter floret short-bristly, bristles purple. 



Peninsula. 



(10) P. EiATius. (Linn.fil.) 



Ident. Linn, suppl. 107. 



Syn. Oplismenus elatior, Roem. <md Schutt. II. 483. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, stiff : leaves grassy, elongated : spike 

 compound, incurved : rhachis triquetrous : spikelets 12 or more, 

 ovate-oblong, adpressed, remote, alternate, seldom opposite: glumes 

 awned, neuter valvelet mucronate. 



Malabar. 



