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290. >CLXXiil. GBAMiNE-E. (J. D. Hoolcer.) [Cftlork 



specimeo of Edgeworth's plant, but have received one so named from Dr, King. « 

 agrees with Edgeworth's characters except in respect of an obscure passage lu taat 

 author's description which reads as if gl. Ill was much shorter than II. ^ ..,..^ 



myosuroides, Hook. /. ; annnal, spikes solitary or geminaW 



l^ih. broad, awn very long capillary. 



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Gangetic Plain ; ravines near Etawah, Duthie, . ^^ 



A much smaller plant than (7. pallida, 6-12 in. high, with very "arro^ *??!: 

 2-^3 in. lon^, often recurved, smaller spikelets and shorter awns, i-| »"• lo»g^ °° 

 perhaps only a variety. . . 



** Spikelets 1-fld., rachilla produced beyond the fig. gl. and bearing 

 one or two awns. Racbis of spike terete or angular. . 



3. C. delicatula, Clarke wss.; annual, spikes 5-10 capillary iH^^* 

 long alternate on the tip of the stem, awns ^^ in. straight. 



. Chota Nagpore; Manda, Hazarabagh, Clarke. Pegu-Yomah, Herb. ^^^' 



Stem 3-12 in., erect, slender, wirj, subsimple. Leaver i~l :n., "*^ *^*° '1°^^ 

 spreading, subulate, concave or convulutej ligule of hairs. Spikes erect. Sip* ^ 

 a^bout ^Vi "^-S gl- 1 very narrow, almost subulate; II i logger, /ather brp^j 

 both setaceously acuminate, keels scaberulous ; III oblong, finely hairy, tip 2lo » 

 rachilla produced and half as long as the gL, bearing 2-3 capillary ^^^'"^ ' ^, 

 narrow, ^toothed, keels glabrous. Grain very narrow, cylindric. — The Pegu p^ 



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',0th. Nov. Sv. 60 : tall. Derennial, spikes 4-1? 



mens are larger than Clarke's. 



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4. C. incompleta, Both, Nov, Sp. 60 ; tall, perenr 

 whorled 4r-6 in. long, awns \ in. straight. Steud, S^ - , m 



C. digitata, Steud. I.e.; Duthie Grass. N,W. Tnd. 23; Ushoa t^ ./^w'J^ 

 Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 369 {excl Sijn.). C. radiata, -ff^f^ 

 Roth. l.c. 61; Thio. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 371; Trim, Cat. Ceyl P''^^.i(. 

 'S.oxhnrghn, Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Bena. xxi. (1853) 160, 183; i^«^^ 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 54/ 1. 65; Lishoa I.e. 368. C. tetrameris, i'^/ 



m. Unifl. 235; Steud. I.e. 206. Di^itaria elongata, Spreng. by^:^ 

 271. Gymnopogon digitatus, iV^ees in Wight Gat. n. 1753; S^^wrf- p; :' 

 Ed. II. i. 713. Melica digitata, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 326 ; JKunth Enum. r^^' 

 37. Cteniura digitatum, Spreng. Syst. i.274i. Cynodon elongatns, -» .^ 

 in Spreng, N Entdeck. ii. 64; Kunth I.e. Agrostis filiformis, Koemg 

 Herb, Banks, ex Trin. I.e. ' , 



Throughout the Plains of India, from the Panjab to Burma and aoutbva 

 Ceilon. Axdamax Islds,, Kurz. — DisxRfB. Affghan., Cliiua. \cnhie» 



Stem 2-3 ft., or more, stout or slender, often branched, straight or ?^" .j^g. 

 Leaves 6-12 by ^J in., flat; ligule of long liairs. Spikes very slender, ^P^T y^h 



lanceolate, up :fi-tootnc«, base bearaed ; palea very narrow, Keei» "c«»v 

 rachilla produced to half the length of the gl., bearing a very minute long a^ 

 that is bearded at the base, . - 



*** Spikelets Lfld. ; rachilla produced beyond the flg. gl- and b^»^ 

 1-3 reduced empty gls. (In C. villosa, the gl. IV contains imp* 



anthers.) 



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6. C. tenella, Roxh. FL Ind.i. 329- annual, slender, ^pi^® fincaW 

 kelets 3-4-awned, gl. Ill broadly ctineiform, npper m^^^^'l^ gieaHj^^ 

 ced. Kunth Enum. PI. \. 267: Swena. Neue Entdeck. iii-,-'-^' - ■ " 



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