BOMBAY GRASSES 



BOMBAY GRASSES. 



By Dr. J. C. Lisboa, F.L.S. 

 PART IV. 



[Continued from p. S&9, Vol. V.) 

 Dimeria, B. Brown. 



D. Hohenacheri, Hockst. Hohenaok. PI. Ind. Or.; Psilostachys, Hohe- 

 narheri, Steud, Syn. PI. Glum. I. 413. In North Kanara, collected 

 by Mr. Talbot. Also grows in Mangalore. 



D. OrnitJtopoda, Trin. Fundam ; Andropogon filiformis, Roxb. Flor, 

 Ltd. I. 250. 



Var. D. tcncra, Trin. 



At Mali ablesh war and Lanowlee. In the latter place it is not 

 uncommon. 



D.fuscescens, Trin. Mem. Ac. Petersb. Culm slender, 14-16 inches 

 long, glabrous. Sheaths with a few hairs towards the junction with the 

 laminae, or none. Nodes glabrous. Ligula very small, truncate, 

 membranous. Leaves linear, acuminate, 2-3 inches long by 2 lines, 

 rather rigid, covered with numerous hairs. Racemes terminal, 

 secund, 2 or rarely 3, 2-2 j inches long, one sessile, and the other on a 

 peduncle 3 lines long, enclosed in, or emerged from, the last sheath ; 

 one raceme is often branched. Rachis almost glabrous, convex on 

 one side, and notched or depressed on the other. 



Pedicels, distant, separated from each other by 1 line, glabrous ; 

 very small, nearly £ line long. Spikelets of light yellowish-brown 

 colour 2-2j line long, inserted singly and alternately on the notches. 



1st or outer glume 2 line long, narrow, linear acute with hair 

 or ciliate on the margins. 



2nd glume, broader, a little longer (about 2£ line), acute with 

 ciliated margins. 



3rd, transparent, smaller (about 1 line), narrower and thinner than 

 the last two glumes ; no hairs. 



4th, nearly the. size of the third, 2-dentate with a twisted and 

 bent awn, arising from the top between the teeth. Stamens 2. 



Grows in Lanowlee, in the fields, in front of the bungalows of the 

 (J. I. P. Railway employes. Also in Bengal, Kassia, and Nepal. 



