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(1) F. Indica. (ReU.) ■ 



Ident. Eetz. Obs. iv. 21, 



Digitaria Malabarica, Boem. and Schult. — Poa Malabarica, 



Linn. — Meliea diandra, Roxb. 



Engrwo. Eheede Mal..xii. t. 45. 



Spec. Chae. Culm in moist places erect, in dry procumbent, 

 azure green : panicle contracted, erect, half the part at the same 

 time flowering and spreading, then contracted and the other part 

 flowering : spikelets compressed, somewhat 6-flowered, sub-aristate. 



Malabar, Coromandel mountains. 



SJGCT. X. BAiriBVNACEiS:. 



Fruticose or arborescent : culms slender or thick, usually fistular, 

 seldom soKd, branched, thorny, or unarmed : leaves of the trunks 

 withering," of the branches contracted at the base in the form of a 

 petiole, broadish : sheaths distichous, close : panicle seldom much 

 compound, usually more contracted and depauperate : spikelets 

 many-flowered, seldom 1 -flowered by abortion, lower florets often 

 imperfect, 1-valved, resembling glumes: glumes 2, convex, many- 

 nerved, chartaceo-herbaceous, often supported by braeteoles : fertile 

 florets 2-valved, lower valve herBaceo-chartaceous, muticous or 

 mucronate, many-nerved, upper one large, 2-nerved : scales ,3, 

 large, or none : stamens 6, seldom 3 : styles usually joined together 

 at the base, 2 — 3 -cleft : caryopsis free, posticously fiirowed, 



aENTJS XL. BAMBirSA. 

 Bexandpia Triandvla. Sex: St/st: 



Deriv. From Bamlos, an Indian term. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes panicled : spikelets many -flowered : flowers 

 imbricate-distichous, some lower ones imperfect neuter l-paleaceous, 

 the rest with two paleas, sometimes all hermaphrodite, sometimes 

 one, the rest males : glumes 2, small, muticous, concave : palese 

 sub-coriaceous, lower one concave sharp-mucronate at the apex, 

 or subulate, upper one narrow, 2-keeled : stamens 6, seldom 3 : 

 ovary pubescent at the apex, sometimes glabrous : style terminal, 

 very long, pubescent, 2 — 3-cleft at the apex : stigmas plumose : 

 scales 8, entire, ciliated : caryopsis free, enclosed by the paJese. 



(1) B. TuxeAEis. (Sckrad.J % 



Ident. Schrad. et "Wendl. CoU. II. t. 47. Dalz, 1. c. p. 329. 

 V. Eupr. Bamb. t. 40, fig. 47. 



