618 



Spbc. Chak. Culm erect, compressed, simple, 1 — 2-feet : Sheaths 

 stiffly bearded, especially at the mouth: Ugula very short, torn, 

 ciliated: lower leaves flat, short, upper narrow, folded inwards, 

 nervosely striated: panicle shining, expanded, rays solitary or 

 twin, capillary, beset with a few thin hairs at the base, raylets 

 alternate, here and there divided, forming l-spiculatepedicels longer 

 than the spikelet : spikelets lanceolate, darkish, loosely 5 -flowered : 

 glumes unequal, lanceolate, acuminate: lower valve ovate-lanceo- 

 late, nerveless, except the keel, very smooth. 



Neilgherries. 



(22) E. PAEViGLTJMis. (Hoehst.j 



Ident. Hochst. 1. c, N. 936.— Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culm from the base or a' little above it branched, 

 somewhat compressed, geniculate, and with the elevated-striated 

 sheaths- glabrous, the latter sparingly hairy at the mouth : leaves 

 flat, convolute, pale glaucous, bristly towards the apex, more or 

 less with longish, spreading, adpressed hairs, at length glabrate : 

 panicle ovate-oblong, loose, rays solitary, alternate, branched 

 almost from the base, erect-spreading, more or less hairy in the 

 axils, raylets divided, capillary, divisions forming pedicels equalling 

 or exceeding; the spikelets : spikelets linear, 8— 10-flowered : glumes 

 very unequal, lower minute :- either valve somewhat truncately 

 obtuse at the apex, bristly scabrous. 



Neilgherries. 



GElSrUS XXXV. UNIOLA. 

 Triandria TUgyttia, Sex: Syst: 



Deriv, From Unus one and alone ; the glumes are united. 



Gen. Chae. Juba, panicle or simple raceme : rays solitary : 

 spikelets 3— 20-flowered : glumes 3 — 5, seldom upper one 7-nerved: 

 florets more or less distichously imbricated, lower ones 1 — 3, in 

 many barren, glume-shaped, 1-valved, seldom dissimilar to the 

 upper ones, much shorter : lower valve muticous or cuspidate, 

 7 — 11 -nerved, upper a little shorter, folded: scales 2, somewhat 

 truncated, naked, or connate with villi : caryopsis linear, elliptic, 

 compressed. 



(1) U. Indica. fSpreng.) 

 Ident. Spreng. Syst. I. 349. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 298. 

 Syn. Poa unioloides, Roxh. I. c. p. 339. 

 Spec. Chae. Culm decumbent at the base, branched, ascending. 



