CLXni. GRAMINE^. 
216 
[Digiiaria. 
I and II longer than glume III and strongly white-bearded. Hab. 
Sand-hills of the east coast. Johor, Jambu Larang (Feilding). 
Pahang along the Pahang and Rumpin rivers (Ridley). Distrih. 
Java and China. 
27 . AXONOPUS, Beauv. 
Creeping grass with broad lanceolate-linear leaves and broadly 
flattened sheaths. Culms slender. Racemes. 2, digitate, slender; 
rachis narrow, flat. Spikelets lanceolate, alternate, in one row, 
very shortly pedicelled. Glume I absent. Species about 20, 
South American, i widely spread in Asia as a weed. 
(i) A. compressus Beauv. Agrost. 154. Paspaliim platycaulon 
Poir. Encycl. iv. 34; Ridl. Mat. hi. 125. 
Glabrous bright green grass, tufted. Leaves broad, undulate, 
linear to lanceolate, blunt, base round, 2 to 8 in. long, -2 to -5 in. 
wide, edges and base minutely hairy. Culms two from each axil, 
slender, i ft. tall or more. Racemes 2, rarely 3, very slender' 
2-75 in. long; rachis very narrow undulate, not winged, flat. 
Spikelets ellipsoid-lanceolate, glabrous, sub-sessile, alternate. 
Glumes thin. Hah. Roadsides, Singapore, Tanglin. Selangor, 
Kwala Lumpur (Ridley). Distrih. South America, now introduced 
into Java, Australia and the Mascarene islands. 
For many years the only patch of this grass known to me was on the 
Cluny road, Tanglin, but having utilised this for edging beds in the garden, 
it rapidly spread over the whole island of Singapore and into the Malay 
States. 
28 . PASPALUM, Linn. 
Herbs. Leaves narrow. Inflorescence of several spike-like 
racemes remote. Spikelets i-flowered, flat, elliptic to orbicular, 
sub-sessile, on a flattened or winged rachis in 2 or more rows' 
articulate on the pedicel. Glumes 3. Glume I suppressed, glumes 
II and III membranous thin sub-equal, more coriaceous. Stamens 3. 
Styles short, plumose, 2. Species over 300, all warm regions. 
Tufted grasses; leaves from base; spikes rather 
broad. 
Spikelets in more than 2* rows. 
White bristles on mouth of sheath; spikelets 
orbicular glabrous ..... 
No white bristles; spikelets smaller elliptic 
hairy ....... 
Spikelets in 2 rows, no white bristles. 
Plant quite glabrous ..... 
Plant with the basal leaves hairy 
Stems leafy creeping ascending. 
Leaves broad thin; spikes 2, very slender, 3 in. 
long. 
Leaves narrow; spikes 2, terminal, i in. long 
(1) P. longifoliam 
(2) P. platycoleum 
(3) P. orbiculare 
{4) P. Commersonii 
(5) P. conjugatum 
(6) P. distichum 
