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1 — 2-feet, round, smooth : leaves glaucous, ratter short : mouth of 

 the sheaths bearded : panicle ovate-oblong, half the length of the 

 plant : branches short, simple, horizontal, fascicled below, solitary- 

 above : spikelets long-pedicelled, 16 — 20-flowered, with a bluish- 

 purple tinge, ovate. 



Peninsula. Bengal. 



Gmrus XXXVI. dacttlis. 



Vrlandria. Dl^ynia. Sex: Sj/stt 



Beriv. From Dactylon a finger ; the head is divided as to give 

 the resemblance of fingers. 



Gen. Chae. Panicle glomerate, secund : spikelets 2 — 7 -flowered : 

 glumes 2, somewhat unequal-sided, keeled, mucronate or awned, 

 somewhat one-sided at the apex, upper usually thinner, nerveless, 

 concave : valves 2, herbaceous, lower one 5-nerved, keeled, mu- 

 cronately awned, keel ciliated : upper one 2-keeled : stigmas 

 plumose : scales 2, 2-cleft : caryopsis glabrous. 



(1) D. LAGOEODioiDES. (lAnn.) 

 Linn. Mant. 33. 



Syn. Koeleria brevifolia, Spreng. — Poa brevifolia, Kunth Emim. 

 I. 324. — ^D. brevifolia, Komig. Boxb. I. o. p. 342. 



Migra/v. Burm. Ind. t. 12, fig. 1. (?) 



Spe6. Chae. Culm ascending : branches simple, short : leaves 

 short, lanceolate from a broad base, rigid, convolute and pungent at 

 the apex : spike terminal, ovoid or sub-rotund, white, dense : spike- 

 lets about 4-flowered. 



Common on salt ground near the sea. 



GENUS XXXVII. ELYTHEOPHOEUS. 



Monandria Dl^ynla. Sex: Syat: 



Beriv. From Elytron an envelope, and Phoreo I bear, alluding 

 to the involucre. 



Gen. Chae. Panicle cyHndric, glomerately spiked : involucre of 

 the glomerules many-leaved : spikelets, 3 — 7-flowered : flowers dis- 

 tichous, beardless : glumes 2, keeled, subulately awned at the apex, 

 nearly equal, shorter than the spikelet : valves 2, lower keeled, 

 3-nerved, subulately awned at the apex, upper a half shorter^ 



