213 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



Willd. Spec. IV, 901 ; A. cuuicina, Edgew. As. Jour. 1852 ; p. 182. 

 Anthistria Wightii. Nees, Steud. Syn. PL Glum. I., 400. 



Ver. Sana or Achigrass, Tambrut, Tambit, GondwaL 



Grows all over the Presidency ; specimens received from East 

 Khandeish, Poona, Satara, Sholapur, Konkan and Kanara, also from 

 Northern India. 



" ! n Bundelkhand and Central Provincesit is frequently the prevail- 

 ing grass on the black soil, its reddish coloured stems and spikelets 

 rendering it a conspicuous object from a considerable distance." 

 Duthie. 



/. laxum, Hackel, Andropog., 082; I.prostrata, Anders. Nov. Act. 

 Soc. Scient. 



Ver. Shata, Gandwel, Tambit, Tambrut. 



< < tows everywhere in Bombay, in Bundelkhand, Central Provinces, 

 Patna, Pondicherry, Ceylon. In Bundelkhand this grass is abundant 

 and largely used as fodder, and i< prized above all. other kinds. 

 It is sweet-scented when fresh. Mr. Coldstream says that it is very 

 common in Hissarbir swamps, in good land, and that where it will 

 grow, wheat will grow. It is both grazed and stacked, and is much 

 eaten by buffaloes. Report from East Khandeish says that its uses are 

 not known there ; from Poona that it is not much valued, used 

 for grazing when young. 



The two grasses are similar, but /. Wightii is more diffuse and 

 generally quite prostrate. The clusters of its spikelets are smaller 

 and usually more excerted from the bracts; and the keel and edges of 

 the bracts are papiiose. Both these grasses are common near the 

 Yeroda jail and other parts of Poona. 



I believe that one or two more species of Is&ikmq are growing in 

 this Presidency. They require an examination. 



Apluda, Linn. Gen. Pi. 



A. ansfata, Linn. Amsen, Ac. IV. 303. Lin. 111. gen. Plate. 841, 

 Fig. 2; A. GryllusL, Beauv, Agrost. 23. Fig. 5. 



Ver. Phulse, Tuk>, Paodi, Khavas, E ■ Eharwel, Tambiti, 



Chickwar, Thambat, Eurdia, Pokilia, Pockli, Phulaer, Bhas, Makkhd. 



Botanists have described several varieties, such as ( 1 ) A . micro&tachya, 

 Nees, PL Meyn. 193.(2; A. c&mmunis, Nfces. I.e. 194,; A- *>/;■> , 



