590 



Spec. Chab. Culm procumbent, ascending, branched, 1-foot or 

 more: leaves linear-lanceolate, sheaths and knots more or less 

 hairy. 



Dry sandy ground near the sea. 



GENUS XI. LAPPAGO. 



Vriandria Dig'ynia. Sex: Sytt: 



Berw. From Lappa burdock, because of its rough prickly 

 flowers. 



Gejst. Chae. Thyrse cyUndric, composed of 2 — S-flowered fas- 

 cicles or thyrsules : partial a:ris very short, raylets approximate- 

 alternate, very short: spikelets fascicled, in twos or fives, 2- 

 flowered-hemigamous, stiff: lower glume none, upper small, 

 membranaceous, nerveless : neuter floret l-valved, large, oval, 

 acute, 5-nerved, thickly glochidiate-echinate : hermaphrodite one 

 chartaceous, scarcely shorter than the neuter, lanceolate, acute, 

 lower palea 3-nerved, wrapping round the upper more tender one : 

 hypogynous scales 2, truncated, prolonged into a smaU. tooth : 

 caryopsis oblong. 



(1) L. AxiENA. (Spreng.J 



Ident. Spreng. N. Ent. 11. 15.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 295. 



Syn. L. biflora, Roxb. I. e. p. 281. — Tragus occidentalis, JVees. 



Spec. Chah. Culms pressing on the earth, rooting from the 

 joints, 6 — 12-inches long, branched: leaves short, margins ciliated 

 and waved, glaucous, mouths of the sheaths bearded: racemes 

 terminal, simple : pedicels short, diverging, 2-flowered : flowers 

 lanceolate, echinated on the back or outside, diverging on all 

 sides round the rhachis, the prickles pointing in five different 

 directions. 



Dry pastures on the Coromandel coast. 



GENUS XII. SPINIFEX. 



Sicecia Triandrla, Sex: Si/st: 



Deriv. From Spina a thorn ; alluding to the prickly nature of 

 the plant. 



Gen. Chae. Capitules or floral fascicles terminal and axillary, 

 large, composed of many densely fascicled axes : males and 



