102 cl vii. CKAMLNEiE (Stapf). [. Homozeugos . 
or entire with a slender kneed awn. Valvule 0 in the lower floret, 
very minute in the upper. Lodicules 2, cuneate. Styles almost as 
long as the laterally exserted stigmas. Grain unknown. — Perennial, 
csespitose ; blades long, very narrow, often terete, more or less rigid ; 
ligules membranous. Racemes slender. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Leaf blades narrowly linear, convolute, 1-2^ lin. wide 
when flattened out ; spikelets 7-9 lin. long (includ- 
ing the callus) ... ... ... ... ... 1. H. fragile. 
Leaf-blades terete, slightly channelled above. 
Culms 4-5-noded ; racemes 3 on a short common 
axis ; joints 2 lin. long, ciliate ; spikelets 4-5 
lin. long (including the callus) ... ... ... 2. H.huillense. 
Culms 2-noded ; racemes solitary ; joints 3^-4 lin. 
long, glabrous ; spikelets 6 lin. long (including 
the callus) ... ... ... ... ... . . . 3. H. Gossweileri. 
1. H. fragile, Stapf in Hook. Ic. PL t. 3033. Perennial, densely 
csespitose, innovations intravaginal. Culms up to 4 ft. high, terete, 
3-noded, glabrous except towards the inflorescences, surrounded at 
the base by the firm persistent • leaf-sheaths. Leaf -sheaths terete, 
tight, frequently longer than the internodes, striate, densely silky, 
the lower glabrescent, ultimately glabrous, nodes densely bearded ; 
ligules scarious, rounded, up to 1J lin. long, ciliolate and densely 
hairy on the back ; blades narrowly linear, tapering to a fine point, 
usually convolute, over 1 ft. long and 1-2J lin. wide when flattened 
out, densely silky on the back, glabrous above, midrib very stout, 
like the fine lateral nerves rather prominent above. Inflorescence 
embraced at the base by the sheath of the uppermost leaf, common 
rhachis very short or up to 1J in. long, terete, sparingly hairy, trans- 
versely bearded at the nodes, internodes up to 6 lin. long. Racemes 
3-5, subsessile, 3-4 in. long, somewhat flexuous, very fragile ; joints 
very slender, 5-6 lin. long, long-ciliate (upper cilia up to 2J lin. long), 
disarticulating with a very oblique linear-oblong scar ; pedicels 
similar but shorter. Spikelets 7-9 lin. long, including the callus 
which is up to 2 lin. long. Glumes subequal ; lower lanceolate- 
oblong when flattened out, densely and silky hairy all over with 
the hairs increasing in length upwards (the uppermost over 2 lin. 
long), tip minutely truncate, nerves about 8, well marked within, 
greenish, with transverse veins ; upper glume linear-oblong, very 
narrow, subobtuse, 3-nerved, hairy on the back, glabrous towards 
the base, ciliate along the margin. Lower floret reduced to a linear- 
oblong subacute hyaline pubescent densely ciliolate 2-nerved valve, 
3J lin. long. Upper floret $ : valve narrow-linear, about 3 lin. 
long, ciliate, with 2 minute, often subulate lobes ; awn slender, 
about 3 in. long, kneed below the middle, with 2 to 3 very steep 
spirals, shortly hairy, bristle subplumose at the base, hairs up to 
1 lin. long, decreasing very much in length upwards ; valvule as 
