Leptochloa!\ CLXin. gramine^e, 249 
glume III shorter, broad ovate sub-acute. Grain oblong, deeply 
grooved on one side. Hah. Local in open ricefields in the north, 
Perlis, Kanga. Kedah, Alor Sta (Ridley). Distrib. South India 
and Ceylon. 
(2) L. chinensiB Nees, Syll. Ratisb. i. 4; Agrost. Bras. 432 ; 
Hook. ill. F.B.I. vii. 299; Ridl. Mat. hi. 175. 
A weak plant; siem geniculate, 2 to 3 ft. tall, rather thick. 
Leaves linear acuminate, 6 to 18 in, long, -2 in. wide, glabrous. 
Panicle 6 to 10 in. long, branches 2 in. long, slender, sub-erect or 
spreading. Spikelets pedicelled, -i in. long, flowers 4 to 6; rachilla 
flexuous. Glumes I and II lanceolate; glume III and following 
ovate obtuse, 3-nerved pubescent. Hab. In ditches and rice-fields, 
an aquatic grass, Singapore, Yo Chu Kang. Pahang, Pulau Tawar; 
Kwala Tembeling. Kelantan, Kamposa. Perak, Bagan Serai 
(Burkill). Penang, Bagian Jennal (Curtis). Setul heath. Distrib. 
India, Siam, China, Malaya and Australia. 
63. DINEBRA, Jacq. 
Annual grass. Leaves flat, Spikelets 2- or 3-flowered, crowded 
in two rows on one side of slender spreading spikes in a raceme; 
rachilla slender, jointed at the base and produced beyond the 
flowering glumes with an imperfect flower. Glumes 4; glumes I 
and II empty, much longer than glumes III and IV, lanceolate, 
awned, keeled; glume III small, broad ovate, i-nerved. Grain 
ovoid. I species, Africa and India. 
(i) D. arabica Jacq. Fragm. 77, t. 121, fig. i; Beauv. Agrost. 
98, t. 16, fig. 3; Hook. ill. F.B.I. vii. 297. 
Whole plant about 7 to 18 in. tall, leafy. Raceme 3 to 5 in. 
long. Spikes *25 to i in. long. Spikelets i, green or purplish, 
at first erect, after deflexed. Hab. Selangor, 2 specimens at Port 
Swettenham, no doubt introduced accidentally by Tamils (Burkill). 
64. CYNODON, Pers. 
Perennial creeping grasses, with narrow linear leaves and 
slender erect culms with 3 to 6 terminal spreading slender spikes. 
Spikelets very small, in one or two rows, not jointed at the base. 
Rachilla jointed at the base, not produced beyond glume III. 
Glumes 3, unawned. Glumes I and II short empty, a quarter of 
the length of glume III, thin nerved. Species 4, i cosmopolitan, 
the others Australian. 
(i) C. dactylon Pers. Syn. i. 85; Hook. fil. F.B.I. vii. 288; 
Ridl. Mat. iii. 173. 
Stems long-creeping. Leaves glaucous, -5 to 1*5 in. long. 
Spikelets -06 in. long, green or purple, imbricating. Hab. Dry 
sandy spots, seashores, coconut plantations, etc., abundant over 
the whole Peninsula. Singapore, Changi; Tanjong Katong. Pa¬ 
hang, Pulau Tawar; Pekan. Malacca Hill. Negri Sembilan, 
