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0. Mrticillatus, Roxb., Fl. Ltd., I. 263; Dak. andGibbs, Bomb. FL 

 (under - lw*ropo</o»). I have not seen this, nor do the authors of the 

 Bomb. Fl. state the locality where they had found it. Roxburgh 

 says that it is a native of mountains, flowering about the end of the 

 wet season. Uses not known. 



C. moManus, Trin, Spreng. neue Entdcek, 1193. Andropogou 

 monticola, Schult ; Mant. III. 665; A. Sprengelii, Kunth. Rcvis. 

 Gram. 166. 



Vcr. Tl'jori, Kami (Duthie). 



Dharwar and Mount Aboo ; also in hilly parts of Northern India. 

 On Mount Aboo it is reckoned a good fodder grass, and the grain 

 used by the natives as food. 



C. sorrulatus, Trin. Mem. Ac. Petersb. ; Sp. Gram., plate 331 ; 

 Andropogon Trinii., A. ciliolatus, A. cceruleus, Stcud. Syn. PI. Glum. 



395, 396. 

 Vcr. Goyad, Ghoda or Ghora, Band. 



This beautiful grass, especially when in flower, is- common all over 

 the Presidency in the rainy season, also in Nepal, tropical Himalaya, 

 Kumaon, Afghanistan, Ceylon and Africa. Said to be good fodder 

 and used in Poona, but reports from other districts arc unfavourable. 



C. aciculatus, Trin. Fundam 106. Rhaphis trivictis, Lourciro. Fl. 

 Cochinch. 553. Trin. Sp. Gram, plates 8 and 9; Andropogon acicu- 

 latus, Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 303. 



Roxburgh gives the following vernacular names: — Sans, Shun 

 tince, Chora-pooslipce, Keshinee, Chora Kanta (Bengali name). 



Grows all over India on barren moist pasture ground ; its seeds 

 arc exceedingly troublesome to those who walk where it grows ; they 

 stick in the stockings and produce a disagreeable itching. Cattle 

 arc not fond of this coarse grass (Roxb.). This grass, named Tutor I 

 or Flat-tutor i in Ceylon, is very common there. 



" There is a story told about the late Sir Emerson Tcnnent having 

 come in from a walk in Kandy covered with this grass, and on 



king a Modliar what it was, got in reply " only a Tutteri, Sir"! 

 The knight mistaking the information for bad English, indignantly 



plied " only two or three millions!" 



11 •■ ropogon contortus and Aristida ccerulescens arc also very trouble- 



d ' . sportsmen or others, who have to walkthrough them, as they 



