t 



SoUboelUa.] clxxiii. GRAMiNEic. (J.D.Hooker.) 155 



ri f f" *.^^"**'>a'*a» Sack. Monogr. Androp. 291 ; annual, spitcB short, 

 ftn'na ^^^ V , ^P^^^^^^ broadly ovate acuminate winged above the middle, 

 7i^r^^ '^^ ^^*^ 3 to 6 dorsal transverse echinulate or warted 



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£f S^- ^^^^^^^^.^' G.rAomson; N.Canara; Carwar, Talbot 

 flftccid low 9 -!?*'•' ^''?®"*^*^& from a creeping base, compressed, leafy. Leaves 

 •preadinff / ^"'' linear-lanceolate from a narrow base, acuminate, upper sborter 

 short tn t r*^curved; sheath turgid, compressed, keeled, mouth hairy; ligule 

 «^ile flr^L 1 f' 4^^''^"®' Spil-e^ 1-2 in. ; joints subclavate, much shorter than the 

 S-nerred n 1» "^* excised. iSe^siZe spikelets |-i in,, callus obscure ; gl. I 



•cate 3.n A ^^^^^""^ coriaceous part between the wings ; II elliptic-lanceolate, 

 2-)obed "n^^ 1 ' ^*l\iptio, paleate, male; IV short, oblong, obtuse; palea small, 



toberded -^^Vt Q^^' -PediceZZed spikelet; g\, I winged on one side, 5-nerved, base not 



Var 9/ 7 .■"®''^®^> I^ mnle, lanceolate, many times longer than the joint. 

 s^tJuiatei r ' '^^^^^^y branched from the root, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet \ in. 

 obscarelv -^ }^ ^^^^^ ^^ recurved narrowed into a slender scaberulous awn not or 

 ^^'wrarietv a ~^^**^'^^^' S^ocfcs.— The long gls. of the pedicelled spikelets gire 

 Were mIraJ -If ^^, ^^^^^^^ "PP^arance, but intermediates occur, and the specimens 

 >^ea with those of 2J. acuminata proper. 



?^- i of\?*^f'^®?^*' -^^^^^ Monogr, Androp. 293; annual, spikes short, 

 ^^ate^mT ^P'^^^J^t crossed below the middle with echinulate ridges 

 I^ho^ t^r^^^t^^ 2-ari8tate with broad hyaline wings above the middle. 

 ^^tnJoum. Boml. Nat. Hist Sac. vi. (1891) 195. 



*"^ ihS?' ^r ?^?^- TheCoNCAN and CanAEA; Belgaum, EitcMe; Satara 

 ft. csiiwar, Lishoa, 



ery variable, and 

 spinules on the 



!^ ^metimea ' r^^fi ^^^^^^ ^^ §^- ^ of the sessile spikelet are v 

 nerves, ^^Piaced as it were by vertical rows of incurred 



I"\'*.^8hort*^^?*»r-^'''''^- /• ("o» Lishoa); annual, leaves linear, spikes 

 v"^^ awn'fi'/ . ^^8«i^« spikelet lanceolate narrowed into a slender 

 >'J'y wineed nJ ""'^-^ ^ trausverse ciliolate ridges towards the base 

 ^« rachis. ^ ^*'°''^ ^t. pedicel of upper spikelet adnate to the joint of 





Leaves 2-3 in., 



r ^ 



oSL?'<^"^er, fle ' '^,'"*^ /l-l^rcis ; ligule short, membranous. Peduncles 2-3 m, 

 S'! ^J'e «PikeW .*^''*"' i i"- d'am., green, joints rery short, tumid excaTate 

 gf r^,<^ close! J &*.' ^?P broad, cavity very large, margins thick hispidulous. 

 OT.U >sile spST"^'°^' * '"• l«"g mcludiug tht awn ; callu- annuh,r, ciliolHte; 

 5i^r^J'^»e. acutl ,°"'°^-"«'"V"^<l 0° the coriaceous disk; II much shorter, hyalme, 

 ^i^y small nJ"''^'''^^*^ J ^" broadly oblong, tip rounded, faintly B-nerved. 

 •-,, ail, oblong, obtuse, nervelis, palea as long nerveless. Pedicelled 



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