BOMBAY GRASSES. 



A. spicata. Dalz. in Dal/, and (ftbs. Bomb. Fl 293 



'Conimon at Mahableshwar ; also in Poona. 

 The inflorescence resembles that of Setaria. 



Tkiciiol/kxa, Sell rati 



Triehohctia Whjhtii, Xecs, MSS., Puiiieiim Megalanthum, Stued. 

 Synl, Fl. Glum I., 9:3. 



Culm slender, about H ft. high or more, geniculate at the fir'st or 

 second node, hairy; sheath with bulbous hairs, striated, ajppressed 

 up to about one inch of the node ; nodes also hairy ; ligula small, 

 truncated, ciliated; leaves 5g in. long, 2 lin. broad at the base, nar- 

 rower and pointed at the end, the central line on the back broad and 

 prominent; panicle '3 — 4 in. long, rather dense, branched at the lower 

 part; the common rachis seldom or never excerted from the broad 

 sheath of the highest leaf, very thin and glabrous; the rachis of the 

 branches thinner and flexuose ; peduncles of spikelets thread}', glab- 

 rous, of various lengths, 4 — 5 lines long, tortuous, solitary or very 

 seldom geminate; spikelets large, nearly 4 lin. long; the lower 

 glume 1 lin. long, hairy, narrow, oblong, obtuse, and at a very short 

 distance from the second glume; second glume 3 ribbed, 3 — 3| lin. 

 long, clothed with long shining silky, lilac hairs, concealing a thin, 

 small awn which arises from the two-dentate end ; third glume similar 

 to the second in every respect, except that it bears in its axil a male 

 flower and palea ; 4th glume smaller, broad, destitute of hairs, thin, 

 opaque, and rather stiff, enclosing a hermaphrodite flower. 



The above description is mine. 



This beautiful grass with dense panicles of a pink or lilac colour 

 grows at Mahablesh war, Panch gunny and the Western Ghats. Also 

 in Rajputana and Jeypore, where it is known by (he name of Burt/ 

 and Griri. Professor Hakel names it Trichbberia tubefculosd and Mr 

 Duthie now adopts this name, though in his brochure, "Fodder 

 Grasses of Northern India," he described it under the name Rhyn- 



chelytrum Witfhtn.* 



Thysaiiol.t.xa, Nees. 



This genus contains the following single species : — 



T. acarifera. 1ST. act. N. C. XVII. Sup. I. 18Q ; Steud Syn. Gram. 



* This grass ought to have come ud of tl ■ 



Pan" " in. 



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