130 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



Vern. — Git, Sera, Male, Shamnkha, Gharam Ghamar, Girni, Man- 

 c/rur, Bam, Barwari, Barigagli. 



It is a coarse grass, not generally considered to be a fairly good 

 fodder grass, but is used when superior qualities fail. Mr. Cold- 

 stream reporting from Hissar states that it is grazed only when green , 

 as it afterwards becomes bitter or saltish, and poisonous to cattle. 

 Its smoke has the reputation of a disinfectant in small-pox and in 

 healing wounds. In Madras it is used in throat affections. It 

 extends to N. Australia. 



P. repens, Linn., Kunt. Enum. 103; Roxb., II. Ind. 300. 

 Vern. — Berod. It grows all over Bombay and Northern India, and 

 extends to Ceylon and Australia. It also occurs in N. Africa, South 

 Europe, and on the coast of Brazil. Both horses and cattle relish 

 it as a good fodder grass. Roxburgh states that cattle are fond of 

 it. Mr. Ferguson in his "Grasses of Ceylon" says: — "It is 

 indigenous to Europe, Africa, Asia and America, and in Ceylon 

 grows equally well in the dry sandy soil, as it does in marshes 

 or water, its long creeping underground stems enabling it to endure 

 the hot dry weather. It is one of the most difficult plants to get rid 

 of once it establishes itself in any locality, and in this respect 

 resembles the Triticuni repens of Europe. It is found from the sea 

 up coast to Newera Eliya, and is a common weed on some coffee 

 estates." 



P. Roxburghii, Spr. Steud., Syn. Gram. 98. 

 P. tenellum, Roxb., Fl, Ind. 1, 309. 



I am unable to describe it, as it is only marked in my note- 

 book as having been seen on Malabar Hill some five years ago. 



P. hermaphrodilum, Steud., Syn. Gram. 1, 67 ; Benth., Fl. Austr. 

 VII., 485. 



Vern. — Pokelia. Thana, Konkan, and Poona. Uses not known. 



P. radicans, Retz. Obs. IV. 18; P. accrescens, Trim, Spec. Glum, 

 t. 88. ; Steud. Glum. 1, 87. From the Collection in the Poona Science 

 College. 



P. decompositum, R. Br. Prodr. 191., Benth., Fl. Austr. VII. 489. 

 P. paludosum, Roxb., FL Ind. I. 307. 



Vern. — Boruti and Kuhis-nar, Roxb. Not uncommon in Poona, 

 Lanowli and Salsette 



