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Iu the latter place it was collected in the villages of Jalgaon, 

 Amalwar and Pachora. Said to be used as fodder and in thatching. 

 Pro!'. Hackel describes it as a variety of A. intermedins, R. Br., it is 

 distinguished by a shallow pith on the outer glumes of the sessile 

 and pedicillatc spikelets. " It occurs in the hilly parts of Northern 

 India, and is abundant on the Himalaya up to moderate elevations. 

 The Seoni specimens have three shallow piths on the outer glume 

 of the sterile florets, and one deep pith on the outer glume of the 

 hermaphrodite floret." 



A. glabcr, Roxb. FL Lid. I. 267 ; Trim Sp. Glum. Plate 328. 



Ver. Tambat. The spikelets are marked with piths as in A. 

 punctatus, but not always even in the same spike. It is also de- 

 scribed by Hackel as a variety of A. intermedins, R. Brown. Is one 

 of the common fodder grasses of the Deccan. Roxburg states that 

 it is thinly scattered on rather elevated spots over Bengal. In 

 the North- Western Provinces it is found in localities similar to 

 where A. annulatus, Forsk, grows, but not in such abundance. 



A. montanus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 267. Specimens received from 

 Dharwar. It is an elegant grass, reckoned to be a good fodder. 

 A. g/aueop&is, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. I. 397 ; A. subrepens, Steud. 1. c. 

 At Dharwar ; also in Nepal and Burma, specimens received from 

 Mr. Talbot, 



A. odoratus, Lisb. 



Vern. Bhos, Vedi-Gavat, Tambrut. Under this name Mrs. Lisboa 

 has described a beautiful, tall, highly-scented grass, very abundant 

 at Lanowlee, and the neighbouring villages, Thana, Jalgaon, Cho- 

 pada, in East Khandeish, and, perhaps at Khandalla. It has a close 

 affinity to A. intermedins, R. Brown, but is distinguished from it by 

 not branching as much as the latter, the leaves being shorter, and 

 branches not so long and narrow as in A. intermedins ; nodes being 

 always covered with long white hairs, the rachis and the spikelets 

 being also very hairy, and the whole plant, leaves, and the inflo- 

 resence highly scented. It is named Weddi-Gavat by the inhabitants 

 of Lanowlee. 



The following description is taken from Mrs. Lisboa's paper read at 

 the Bombay Natural History Society Meeting on 7th August, 1889. 



" Culm erect, 3 — 5 ft. high, sometimes branching from the lower 



