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imootli, SpttcJefs brown or dull green, callus short, broad, shortly bearded ; gl. I 

 J^r coriaceous, dorsally shining, smooth or scaberuious; II chartaeeous : HI 

 woidly ovate, obtuse, nerveless ;' IV awn ^ in., very slender. Fedicelled spi^elets 

 J»r«)wer; pedicels shortly ciliate; gl. I 9-nerved, ciliate all over; II narrowly 

 Mceolate, 5-nerved, margins ciliate; III oblong; IV 0. — A stouter grass than 

 «e foregoing, with very sc.tbrid leaves and much broader spikelets. Allied to 

 iJ^l^^^^^y differing conspicuously in the rigid scabrid foliage. 



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' \,i flliculmls, Hook. /. ; annual, stem elongate filiform flaccid 

 nnch branched, nodes bearded, leaves 2-4 in. linear-lanceolate finely acumi- 

 Bate flaccid base suddenly narrowed, sheaths lax lower open, panicle 

 ^^peduncled lax-fld., rachis and branches capillary, pedicels of upper 

 gelets cihate with long hairs, sessile spikelets ^^ in. oblong-lanceolate 

 J^se 5-7-nerved between the keels villous below the middle or all over, 

 ^ee^ciliate with long slender hairs. 



• T^Deccan; Poonah, in rocky places, Jacgwffmon^ (n. 310) ; Mawae; Dhom- 

 ^Woodrow {Herb. -Bomb. n. 26:) ^ ' ^ ^ 



brancbH fK^ ^^'' apparently decumbent and interlaced, copiously geniculately 

 Iwi'« ]•■ "^^^"*^' 9-^'^^^ glabrous, very weak, internodes long pubescent. 

 "»Wirin8« ^l^^^'- **« "^' ^^^^^^' *^P filiform, glabrous or sparsely hairy beneath, 

 mth 1 °^^ ^'^^^'^ towards the very narrow base, costa and nerves very slender; 

 'g^lebr^H^* iiarrow, spreading at the ramifications, glabrous, bearded at the top ; 

 L (j™f' ^^eoibranous, ciliate. Panicle 1-2 in., branches few of extreme slender- 



^'^icelUd *^^7^^?' ^^^v^less, eciliute; IV, awn i-f in., column brown twisted 

 Ute 7 Q ^P^^^j^^^ narrower than the sessile; ffl. I lanceolate, tip truncate mucro 



^ The 



flfoodrow'« 



=iiine, nerveless; xv v- — ^ '*'*j _ 



L's specimens are nearly glabrous, ot 

 hairs. 



^l iut }*^^?^^^^y^? ^^<^r7ce in Joiirn. Linn. Soc. xxv. (1889) 88, t. 

 'Pattiform ^^ slender, nodes bearded, leaves very narrow, apper sheath 

 **>« W r,?i /v ^^°^® ^^^Py'"ami<ial, branches few capillary villous beneath 

 *88ile Irll ^.^^ ^P^k^s. spikelets 3-6, ioints and pedicels shortly cihate. 



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r,Ti/v °^® subpyramidal, branches few capillary villous beneatn 

 Irll ^.^^ ^P^^^S' spikelets 3-6, joints and pedicels shortly cihate, 

 elv T ! ^ ^^■' S^- ^ «^lo"^ obtnse 9-nerved glabrous keels 



^^^^^Ij Ciliate L L I 



J^f^EPORE;on 



pper f . Hack 



leafy 

 ■owed 

 sheaths 



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xuo„;°tj ''^"'^ ^''y «^<""t, ciliate. Panicle 2-3 in. ; branches 3-6, ascend- 

 ^- H\f ]• ^^"^V^ ^'^lo^^ tlie spikes where they are villous witli brown hairs 

 ^^jo'nul oo;i''^'o''' "^ "PP'^'- spikelets very slender, = k the sessile spikelets 

 ^glabK TT ^"^'^'^' erect, callus hairs = i the spikelet ; gl. I dorsally 

 tT*'«M;a°nl- °^«^e.]anceolate, acute, 3-nerved, ciliate; HI small, ovate 

 ^'«i gi I 9 1*1 '"•' *=*Pi""y, base acute. Fedicelled spikelets narrower than the 

 :i| :v: "'"•^^■'^erved ; H 3-nerved; III oblong, obtuse, glabrous, nerveless. 



£'"'=lel?t'll!:^^°^'^.3^*r. Sack. Spikes panicled, tips of branchlets of 

 r'^ ventS ' -^^'"^^ 1 °^ few and pedicels filiform not or obscurely 

 ??*"y com^t ^' !'P« truncate. SpiMets few, often large, more or less 

 * ^ °^ sessnS^f ^'•^^^ oblong ovoid or lanceolate ; callus short ; 



. "M^^'^.elets coriaceous, often sWning, margins narrowly mflexed 



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