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with hairs on the nerves ; 3rd glume 3 faintly-nerved, transparent, 

 lanceolate, pointed, a little broader and longer than the first, with 

 a largo palea in the axil, no hairs ; 4th glume smaller, half size of 

 the 3rd, thin, transparent, with an awn 10 lin. long arising from the 

 top between two thin hair-like processes, the lower part flat, contorted 

 and dark-brown up to the knee, the upper bent part is round, whitish. 



At the Western Ghats and at Mahableshwar, 



The above description is mine. 



A. Canypbelliana* (Sp. nov.) 



Culm erect, 4-8 in. long, very slender, glabrous, of purplish colour, 

 nodes glabrous; leaves 1£ — 1^ in. long by 2 — 3 lin., acute, glabrous, 

 of straw colour ; sheath glabrous, of purplish colour, striated, 

 appressed, as long as the nodes ; ligula small, not hairy. Inflore- 

 scence capitate, and consists of several small racemes, densely and 

 closely congested at the upper part of the peduncle, and slightly 

 exerted, (about, half an inch) above the uppermost leaves. The 

 general rachis is ribbed, about J inch long, glabrous, partial rachis 

 about 2 lin., also glabrous. Each raceme is about one-third in. long ; 

 and consists of 5 or 6 spikelets, which are single or occasionally 

 geminate ; first glume rigid, 2 lin. long, 3-ribbed, glabrous, with a 

 few small scattered hairs on the middle rib ; the second glume also 

 rigid, 1-3 lin. long, including the point, with 3 or 5 ribs, 3 distinct, 

 with very small murications ; third a little smaller than the first, but 

 broader than it, and the second, thin, rather transparent, with a few 

 small hairs on the upper half of the middle line, the end is jagged, 

 not drawn into a point, with a palea or occasionally a male flower ; 

 fourth smaller than the third, hyaline, with a slender geniculate awn, 

 4^ lin. long, twisted below the geniculation, arising between 2 fine 

 setiforcn processes of the glume ; palea smaller. 



A small grass resembling at first sight Apocopis fiUfolia, or a variety 

 of Poh/pogon MontpeUense. Not common. Grows at Mahableshwar : 

 collected at the end of the rains in 1889. Uses not known. 



* Arundinella Campclliana is thus named in honour of Mr. J. M. Campbell, C. S., 

 CLE., the editor of the Bombay Gazetteer, for his eminent services to the literature 

 and archaeology of this country, and in recognition of tho favour of obtaining for me 

 a large collection of grasses through tho Forest Officers of various districts of Guze- 

 rat, Konkan and the Deccan, before tho Bombay Government had passed the 

 Resolution No. 521 on the 21st January, 1891, directing the three Conservators of 

 Forests to supply me with specimens of grasses. 



