Rottboellia
(named in honour of C. F. Rottboell, 1727-1797, a Danish botanist). SYN. Stegosia. ORD. Gramineae. A genus comprising about eighteen species of often tall, hispid or glabrous, stove or hardy grasses, broadly dispersed over warm regions, one being found in the Orient. Spikelets closely adpressed, pedicellate, inserted in notches on alternate sides of the spike, which is simple, or very rarely twice or thrice divided at the base; glumes four; peduncles solitary or fascicled. Leaves flat. A few of the species have been introduced, but they are more curious than beautiful.