196 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



2nd glume thin, acute, membranaceous unawned, not murica'ted, 

 ahout 1 — 1^ Hn. long. 



3rd glume 1£ lin., transparent, acute. 



No flower seen in the axil. 



4th glume 1 lin. long with a seed. 



As the grass was in seed no stamens nor pistil could he found. 



Pedicillate spikelet. Pedicel, about 1 lin. 1st glume, chartacious 

 with several (7) nerves, not muricated, with transparent, rather 

 triangular wing, as in the first glume of the sessile spikelet, on one 

 side only. 



2nd glume smaller, thinner, boat-shaped, with a transparent wing 

 on the upper part of the keel, terminated by a short straight awn. 



No other glumes, stamens, nor pistil seen. 



This grass is named R. dkcrgcns in consequence of a suggestion 

 thrown by a high authority in England. It appears, however, to be 

 a distinct species of Rottbcellia, differing from R. divergens, chiefly by 

 the murications and awns of the first glume of the sessile spikelet 

 and awn of the oxvter glume of the pedicillate spikelet. 



Manisuris, Swart. Fl. hid. Oetid. I. 186. 



Mnnisuris granulans, Linn, fil Nees. Gram. Gen. Roxb. Corom,, 

 PL Plate 118 ; Dalz. and Gibs., Bomb. Fl. 300. 



Ver. Kangni, Datura Ghas. Very common on barren land in 

 this Presidency and all over India, on Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. 

 Also in the Neilgherries, Kamaon, Nepal, Assam, Kassia mountains, 

 Java, China, Brazil, Peru, and in all tropical and sub-tropical 

 countries. " Mr. Coldstream says that it is both grazed and stacked 

 at Hissar, Punjab, but it is not much relished by cattle. At 

 Ajmere it is considered to be a good fodder grass."' 



TuELEroooN, Roth. 



T. elegant, Roth. Nov. pi. spec. 62 ; Jardinea A?)t/6sinia, Steud. 

 Syn. PI. Glum. I. 360. 



Ver. TirpHd, Kadi. 



This is a beautiful grass 2— 3£ ft. high. Its spikelctsresemhlinp: 

 externally those of Ischdemtirii rugownn. Is common in Poona, 

 Nasik, and all districts of this Presidency. It grows on the sid- 

 of the roads and boundaries of the cultivated fields : also in tropical 



