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which is A. aristata of Roxb. Ft. Ind. L o'2G, (3) A. rostrata, Nees 

 I.e. 194, (4) A. ci/iata, Anders. I Tack, Andropog. 200. 



All these varieties grow in India, and the above vernacular names 

 are applicable to all of them. The leaves of A. rostrata are petioled, 

 the petiole of A', communis is short. THis grass in hedges and 

 bushy places lv elongated, and assumes a ('limbing habit. 



•Slid to be a good fodder iu some places. It is eaten only when 

 young and green'. 



Report from Poena 3ays : — "Good fodder for buffaloes when young, 

 but it easily breaks down when tall, bence not fit for cutting and 

 stacking." 



NOTES CMS A RARE FUNGFS FOUND GROWING OX 

 THE DRUMSTICK TREE. 



By Surgeon Majob I\. R. Kirti'kar, T.M.D. 



( With a plate,) 



Read before the Bombay National History Society on 29th June 1891. 



In December, 1887, I came across a recently cut stump of the 



Drumstick tree — Moriuga pterygosperma, — at the foot of the "Worli 



Hill iu Bombay. The fungus, pictured in the plate accompanying 



this note, was found growing all along the cambium layer of the 



maiil stem. It was in large masses grouped, all round the woody 



tissue but not growing from it nor sending its mycelium along the 



loose cellular tissue of the porous medullary rays. The mycelium 



appeared to be chiefly scattered over the recently cut cambium layer 



thickly covered over with the gummy exudation so often seen on the 



bark and fresh cut surfaces of the plant. I have seen several fungi 



of this " Pleurotus" sub-division growing on the dead bark of 



Noringa pterygosperma many a time since, but I have not yet come 



across another specimen which has had all the characteristics I 



observed in the particular specimen I am now describing. It appears 



to me to be a distinct species in itself. If I were to give it a 



name — and indeed a name is required as it is a fungus neither 



Jdvered dor described before— I should call it Agartcuk(PThufotus) 



