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GENTJS XXIV. MICHEOCHLOA. 

 Vriandria Digfynia. Sex: Syat: 



Berw. From Micros, small, and CMoa, grass. 



Gen. Chae. Spike terminal, solitary : spikelets unilateral, l- 

 flowered : flower sessile : glumes 2, oblong, acutish, nearly equal, 

 mutioous : valves 2, shorter than the glumes, jvery thinly membra- 

 naceous, densely hairy externally : lo-wer one broadly ovate, trun- 

 cated, snb-mucronate, mucro membranaceous, concave, 3-nerved, 

 upper one 2-keeled : stamens 2 — 3 : ovary glabrous : stigmas 

 plumose : hairs simple : scales 2, adnate to the upper valve. 



(1) M. SEiACEA. (R. Br. J 



Ident. Brown Prod. 208. 



Syn. Ifardus Indica, Lirm. — KotboeUia setacea, Roxh. I. e. 357. 



Engrwo. Koxb. Cor. II. t. 132. 



Spec. Chab. Very small, caespitose : culms several, filiform, 

 branched : leaves ILnear, at length folded inwards, scabrous : spike 

 bristly, somewhat incurved, valves densely hairy at the back. 



Peninsula, on old walls. 



GENUS XXV. SCH(ENEFELDIA. 



Triandvla Dig'ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Geit. Chae. Spikes soHtary or several, 2 — 4 : spikelets uni- 

 lateral, closely imbricated, sessile, 1 -flowered: glumes 2, nearly 

 equal, acute-subulate, keeled, twice exceeding the floret, which is 

 hairy at the base : valves- 2, lower long awned below the apex, 

 concave, upper channelled, ciliated or hairy at the back : ovary 

 fusiform : style simple : caryopsis free. 



(1) S. PALLIDA. (Edgew.) 

 Ident. Edgew. in Asiat. Joum. 1852, p. 183. 



Spec. Chab. Annual, branched: sheaths ciliolate at the mar- 

 gins, ligula Mliolate-membran.aceous : leaves linear, here and there 

 with a few scattered hairs, at length convolute : spikes twin, second: 

 rhachis serrulate at the margin : spikelets 1 -flowered, sessile, bifa- 

 rious, glumes 2, persistent, sharply keeled., prolonged at the apex 

 into a small bristle, flower stalked on a silky callosity, bipaleaceous, 

 outer valve larger, inYolving the other nerveless one, outwardly 

 puberulous, bearing below the apex a vejry long hispid awn : scales 

 emarginate at the apex : aohenium long, azure. 



Banda district. 



