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GENUS XXVI. CHLOBIS. 



Poly^amia UConceeia. Sesc: Syst: 



Derm. From Chhroa, green, aUuding to the colour of the 

 herbage. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes digitately fascicled, very rarely twin or 

 solitary ; spikelets 2 — many-flowered, imperfect upwards, unilateral 

 on a common rhachis, alternate, sessUe : glumes two, persistent, 

 lower one smaller, upper often mucronate or bristle-hearing : lower 

 florets 1 — 3, hermaphrodite : lower valve compressed and keeled, 

 chartaceous, emargiuate at the apex, 2-cleft or toothed or trvmcated 

 and from the hack of the sinus more or less hristle-beaxing : keel 

 and margin often bearded or ciliated, embracing the upper one : 

 imperfect flowers 1 or more, pediceUed : scales glabrous : styles 

 confluent at the base : stigmas plumose with simple hairs : caryopsis 

 elongated, obovate, free. 



(1) C. BABBATA. ( &Wmrt%.) 



Ident. Swartz flor. Ind. Occ. I. 200.— Koxb. 1. c. 329. 



Syn. Andropogon barbatum, -Idnn. Mamt. 302. — C. Cariboea, 

 Spreng. 



Mngrwo. JaccL- Eel. gram. fasc. I. t. 8. — Eheede Mai. xii. t. 51. 



Spec Chae. Culm 1-foot, compressed, branched : leaves acute, 

 a little hairy above : spikes digitate, 4 — 12, spikelets sessile, im- 

 bricated, hermaphrodite : corolla ciliated, awned, neuter of 2 awned 

 valves. 



Peninsula, very common. 



(2) C. TEITELLA. (Roxh.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 329.— Dalz. 1. e. p. 296. 



Spec. Chae. Culms delicate, erect, smooth, 1-foot : leaves 

 smooth, soft : spikes solitary, seound, scarcely 2 inches : spikelets 

 alternate, and alternately pointing two ways : flowers to each calyx 

 3—5, all perfect : glumes unequal, broad-lanceolate, smooth, acute, 

 persistent. 



City walls of Surat, elsewhere rare. 



(3) C. MONTAfTA. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 329. 



Spic. Chae. Spikes digitate, 4 — 6, secund, connate at the base : 

 hermaphrodite flowers ciUate, awned : awns straw-coloured : valves 

 of the neuter floret 3, muticous. 



Mountainous diBtricts in the Peninsula. 



