BOMBAY GRASSES 343 



almost sessile, and the other on a pedicel 1 [in. long. Outer 

 glume chaJrtaceous, acute, LfilinMongj 3snefvedj nerves prbnlinent 

 ami hairy; second glume ohartaeeotis, broader, i ! > j lin., &-nerved, hairy, 

 specially at the lower ftfh part ; 3rd glume obtuse; nearly equal to im 

 li<->] or outer plume, but broader and thinner; 5 indistinct nerves, no 

 hairs.; palea In the axil; fourth or flowering glume, a little smaller, 

 thinner, transparent, with, an own. arising from the top between two 

 transparent bristles. The twisted part is brown, the straight whitish. 



Poona and Konkan. 



A specimen of this grass kept in the Herbarium Of tin- Ptfontf 

 < 'ollege of Science is thus named. Tt has great affinity to A. pi'lasa, 

 Hockst., Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1. 1 16, if not the same. 

 The abovo description is mine. 



A. purpurea, Hockst., Steud. Syn. PI. Glum I. 115. 



Received a specimen from the Konkan 



A. tenella, Nees, MSS. Dalz. and Gibs. Bombay Fl 292. 



One of the commonest grasses at Mahableshwar, specially under 

 the shade of the trees and shrub. Not cared for by cattle; Used as 

 an ornament in bouquets in the dry state. 



A.pumilla, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum, t, 114. P.ich, FJ. Abyss II. 411. 



This elegant grass continues to be of a green colour even when dry. 



At Lanowlee and Konkan and various part of India; Nothiug is 

 known about its uses. 



A. avenacea, MSS., Tbwaites, Enum. PL Zeylan. 



A small elegant grass. Culms glabrous, slender, branching and 

 rooting from the base, 3 — 5 in. long ; nodes glabrous; sheath abou! 

 |th in. long, appressed, sparingly pilose along the margins; ligula 

 acuminated by a line, leaves 10 — 12 lin. long, ovate lanceolate, acute or 

 minate, cordate at the base, amplexicaul, sparingly pilose, with rigid 

 cilia at their origin from the sheath. Panicle erect, dense, or slightly 

 spreading, about 1 in. long, consisting of very short racemes, densely 

 congested on the top of 1 — 2 in. long glabrous peduncle; rachis mi- 

 nutely pubescent or sparingly hairy ; spikelets lanceolate, 3 lin. long 

 (exclusive of the long awn-like point of the 2nd glume), geminate, 

 equal in size, but unequally pedicelled ; outer glume 2 lin long, lan- 

 ceolate, pointed, 3-nerved, with long hairs on the nerves ; 2nd glume 

 3 lin. (exclusive of the point), 5 lin. long with the point, 3 — ;j nerved, 



