630 



(3) R. Ctmbachhb. fWilld.J 



Ident. Willd. Spec. I. 465.— Steudel 1. c. p. 362. 



Syn. Cymbachne ciliata, Reht. 



Spec. Chae. Culms slender, simple or branched, naked or 1- 

 leaved : leaves radical, short, sparingly beset with long hairs and 

 back and mouth of the sheath: spikes twin, dimidiate, linear: 

 rhachis-flexuose, concave externally : glumes of the male floret ad- 

 pressed to the rhachis, outer on6 linear, obtuse, ciliated at the back, 

 inner half-ovate, compressed, coloured, winged at the back, wrap- 

 ping the 2-valved corolla which is shorter than the calyx : female 

 glume one, somewhat 2-cleft, ciliated at the margin : corolla none. 



Bengal. 



(4) E. tCEVis. (Reti.) 



Ident. Retz. obs. III. p. xi. 



Syn. Mnesithea loevis, Kunth I. c. p. 466. 



Spec. Chab. Culms ascending, covered upwards by the leafless 

 sheaths : peduncles very long : leaves short, keeled, hairy at the 

 mouths of the sheaths : spike simple, straight, jointed, with 2 

 lateral alternate spikelets at each joint: calyces ovate, smooth : 

 outer glume cartilagiaous, inner membranaceous. 



Tranquebar. 



GENUS XLIX. MANISUEIS. 



Triandria Digfynia.. Stxs Sytt: 



Beriv. Prom Manis a scaly lizard, and Owa a tail, alluding to 

 the appearance of the spikes. 



Gen. Chaii. Spikes either .solitary at the apex of the branchlets 

 or collected and alternate in the raylets, sheathed at the base : 

 joints of the fragile rhachis short : spikelets imbricated, dissimilar, 

 lower very shortly pedicelled, orbiculate or oblong, hermaphrodite : 

 outer glume coriaceous, pelviform, nerveless, inner 3-nerved : 

 perianth 2-valved, muticous, upper seated on a thick pedicel, ovate, 

 acutish, male less than the glumes, 3 — 7 -nerved : stigmas plumose : 

 seed orbicular. 



(1) M. GEAiTTTLAias. (Swa/rt%.j 



Idmt. Swartz flor. Ind. I. 186. — ^Dalz. 1. c. p. 300. — Roxb. 

 1. c. p. 352. 



Syn. Peltophorus granulans. Beam. — M. polystachya. Beam. — 

 Cenchrus granularis, Linn. 



