488 
cl vn. gr amine jb (Stapf). [Alloteropsis. 
ciliate ; ligules reduced to a densely ciliate rim ; blades lanceolate 
from a cordate base, shortly acuminate or acute, J-3 in. by 2-9 lin., 
herbaceous, glabrous or with some scattered tubercle-based hairs, 
margins rigidly ciliate, cilia tubercle-based, spreading, midrib very 
slender, lateral primary nerves 2-6 on each side, hardly differentiated 
from the numerous secondary nerves. Inflorescence fastigiate, 
consisting of 2-6 strictly digitate racemes or the primary axis bearing 
higher up 1 to several scattered racemes ; racemes slender, oblique, 
2 to over 6 in. long, nearly always bare at the base for 1 in. or more, 
loose to very loose or denser upwards ; rhachis very slender, tri- 
quetrous, scabrid ; pedicels mostly 3-2-nate, more rarely solitary 
(upwards) or the lower 4-nate, angular, scaberulous with subcupular 
tips. Spikelets dorsally much compressed but distinctly convex on 
the back in fruit, ovate to elliptic, acute, 1J lin. by J-f lin., greenish. 
Lower glume ovate, long- and very acutely acuminate, 1-1J lin. 
long, thinly membranous, 3-nerved, glabrous ; upper of the outline 
and size of the spikelet, membranous, acute, 5-nerved with a sub- 
marginal dense fringe of subappressed rarely ultimately spreading 
cilia, up to over 1 lin. long. Lower floret g ; valve similar to the 
upper glume but glabrous with the short tip minutely truncate, the 
lateral nerves approximate to or near the flexure,, the back mem- 
branous and opaque except for a hyaline transparent zone at the 
base, with numerous globose papillae ; valvule J lin. long, deeply 
2-fid, flaps with oblong obtuse auricles not exceeding the middle ; 
anthers orange, j lin. long. Upper floret almost as long as the lower ; 
valve oblong, contracted into a mucro or a short bristle, up to 1 lin. 
long ; valvule with subacute auricles ; anthers as in the lower floret. 
Grain elliptic in outline, about 8-10 lin. by \ lin., slightly convex on 
the face ; scutellum not quite half the length of the grain. — - Milium 
cimicinum, Linn. Mant. Alt. 184. Panicum cimicinum, Retz. Obs. 
iii. 9 ; Rottl. in Neue Schrift. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, iv. 191, 194 ; 
Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 295 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 43. P. conjugatum, 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 291. Axono'pus cimicinum (?), Beauv. 
Agrost. 154 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 64 ; Hook. f. in Trim. 
Handb. FI. Ceyl. v. 166 ; Cooke, FI. Bomb. ii. 925. TJrochloa cimi- 
cina, Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 31, t. 103, and Enum. PI. i. 74, Suppl. 
56 ; Dalz. & Gibs., l.c. 289. Coridocliloa cimicina, Nees in Edinb. 
N. Phil. Journ. xv. (1833) 381 ; A. Chase in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, 
xxiv. 158. C. fimbriata , Nees ex Wight, Cat. no. 1656 ; Wallich, 
Cat. no. 8749 ; Aitchison, Cat. Punjab PI. 158. 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Nyasalancl : Msalu River, 
Alien, 118 1 Rhodesia : North Mazoe District, Mundy ! 
Also in Madagascar and throughout India to Java. 
56. C0RID0CHL0A, Nees. 
(= 55. ALLOTEROPSIS, Pies], emend. Hitchcock.) 
