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of the branches ridged and .scabrous from minute tubercles; spikelets 

 mostly 2, both unequally pedicelled ; pedicels not hairy, thejongest 

 pedicle 3 lin., shortest 1 — 1£ lin ; spikelet nearly 2 lin., broadly ovate 

 lanceolate; outer glume 1^ lin, acute; nerve? 3, the central more 

 prominent with minute murications ; 2nd glume 2 lin., a little shorter 

 pointed, with five nerves, 3 more distinct ; third glume thinner, broader 

 and a little longer than the first, but shorter than the second, not dis- 

 tinctly nerved, with a male flower, and palea in the axil; fourth glume 

 I hin, transparent, smaller than the first, with an awn 2 — 2 J; lin. long, 

 arising from the undivided top; palia small and transparent. Her- 

 maphrodite flower well formed. 



This is called A . Ritchei from a specimen, thus named by Munro, 

 kept in the herbarium of the Poena College of Science. The above 

 description is mine. 



Vera. Kotir, Turdia. 



Common at Thana, Salsette and Lanowli. 



It is not used as a fodder, nor is it of much use for grazing. 

 When young, mixed with AfUfkistetia polt/stachia f Roxb., and A. 

 tremula, Nees, it yields good rab. 



A. mutica, Nees, MS. Steud Syn. PI. Glum. I. 116. 



All over Bombay. 



The spikelets, like those of I'coticioit mi/osurus, are of a purple colour. 



A. nervosa, Nees, Steud. Syn. PL Glum. I. 115; Holcus nervosum 

 Roxb. Fl. Lid. I. 318. 



Poena, Coromandel, and also in Ceylon. 



A. tubeycuhda, Munro MSS. 



Culm simple, erect, or slightly decumbent at the base, 1 — 1 \ ft. 

 long, glabrous; sheaths, leaves and spikelets densely clothed with 

 while hairs, 1 lin. long, from a papilose or tubereulated base; sheaths 

 2—3 in. long, appressed, longer than the internodes ; ligula very 

 small, consisting chiefly of hairs ; leaves 2£— 2'i in. by 2 lin. (lower 

 shorter), linear-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, scabrous; 

 panicle o— 5£ in. long ; rachis angular, glabrous or minutely pube- 

 scent ; branches or racemes alternate, 1 in. long or a little longer, the 

 upper shorter ; spikelets ovate-oblong, geminate, both of the same size, 

 about 3£ lin. long, including the awn-like point of the second 

 glume, and both unequally pedicelled, one on a very short pedicel or 



