589 



on the sub-corymbose branches of the culm, cyliudric-obloug : 

 spikelets 2 — 4 in each involucre, ovate, acute, 2-fl.owered ; involucre 

 haxd, coriaceous, 10 — 12-divided, divisions stiff, lanceolate-acute, 

 unequal, smooth, beaded at the base on the inside, as long as the 

 spikelets. 



Hedges in Gruzarat. 



(2) C. BiPLOErfs. (Roxb.) i 



Uent. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 233. — Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culms branched from the base, spreading : leaves 

 elongated, slender, roughish : mouths of the sheaths a little hairy : 

 spikes terminal, solitary, cyUndric, 3 — 4 inches long, involucres 

 with only two spikelets, segments subulate, hooked, hairy within, 

 barbed and pungent. - 



Sandy sea-shores at Grogo and Domus. Dry parts of the Coro- 

 mandel coast. 



GENUS X. TEACHTOZUS. 

 Tviandvla Di^yiiia. Sex: Systt 



Berw. From Trachys rough, and 0%os a branch or twig. 



Gen. Chak. Kacemes simple, 1 — 2, approximated : partial 

 axis flattened, articulated, at each joint spikelets (usually 4) sub- 

 fascicled, sessile, lower spikelets complete : • glumes 3 -nerved, 

 lower one more than twice shorter than the -florets, coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, often recurved, upper one a little longer, membranaceous, 

 dagger-shaped, adpressed, a little villous below : neuter florets 

 2-valved, lower valve largest, coriaceous, oval, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 margins inflexed, 13-nerved: upper very minute, oblong, obtuse, 

 nerveless : hermaphrodite more than half shorter than the neuter, 

 chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, very acute : lower palea 3-nerved, 

 wrapping round the uppe? one : outermost spikelet composed of 

 some coriaceous, barren, more or less incurved palese. 



(1) T.-iiTEioATA. fPers.J 



Pers. syn. I. 85, (under Trachys.) — Steudel 1. c. p. 112. 



Syn. T. mucronata, Beavm. — Cenchrus muricatus, Linn. — 

 Trachystachys geminata, A. Bietr. spec. II. 16. — Panicum squar- 

 rosum, Ret%. Eoxh. I. c. p. 288. — P. dimidiatum, Bwrm. 



Bngrcm. Beauv. agrost. t. 21, fig. 7. — Schreb. gram. II. t. 34. 

 —Eoxb. Cor. t. 206.— Burm. Ind. t. 8, fig. 3. 



