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elliptic, minutely 2-lobed at the apex with a minute mucro between, 

 I-nerved with a scabrid keel. The third glume is as long as the 

 second, awned, pale or purple, ovate or obovate, narrowed at the 

 base and clasping the rachilla at its base ; apex shortly 2-fid with a 

 purple dorsal awn, 3-nerved, paleate, the two marginal nerves are 

 densely bearded with long white or purple tinged hairs from near the 

 base to almost the apex and the mid-nerve also similarly bearded with 

 long hairs on both sides, and the base with a tuft of long hairs ; the 

 palea as long as the glume, coriaceous, obovately cuneate, obtuse, 

 minutely bifid, purple-tipped, with folded hyaline margins, 2-keeled, 

 keels shortly ciliate. Stamens three with yellow or purple anthers ; 

 ovary with two feathery stigmas and two lodicules. Grain is oblong, 

 shining, light reddish brown, narrowed at both ends and somewhat 

 trigonous. The remaining glumes, fourth to seventh, are borne by the 

 rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually 

 diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3 to 5-nerved, scaberulous. The 

 fourth and the fifth glumes are empty and epaleate when the spikelets 

 are 5-glumed. If there are six glumes, the fourth bears both stamens 

 and the ovary, the fifth and the sixth glumes are empty, and in 

 spikelets of seven glumes, the third, the fourth and the fifth glumes 

 are flower-bearing and contain grains, and the remaining two glumes 

 are empty. 



This species is a tall-growing robust one resembling Chloris 

 barbata in its inflorescence, but with longer spikes and larger spikelets, 

 as large as those of C. tenella. No doubt, it is closely allied to 

 C. barbata, but differs from it by having larger spikelets that are 3 to 

 5-awned and 1 to 3-flowered, and the nerves being bearded throughout 

 their length with long hairs. 



This grass was found growing in abundance in the fields 

 Nos. 13, 37 and 62 of the Agricultural College and in the grounds 

 around the Forest College, Coimbatore, and was also collected in 

 Bellary District and Samalkota. 



Specimens of this grass were sent to Dr. O. Stapf of Kew and he 

 writes as follows : — ■ 



" We have not been able to match it with any of the described 

 species of Chloris, and Mr. Eangachariar will be fully justified in des- 

 cribing it as a new species. We have it apart from Wight's specimen 

 from the following collection : — 



(1) Sattur, November 19, 1795 sub " Andropogon barbata Var.?" 

 Herb. Rottler. 



(2) Ahmednagar, Madras Presidency, Miss Shattuck (U. S. Dep. 

 Agric. reed 1914). 



(3) Tornagallu, Bellary District 11th August, 1901 (Ex. herb. 

 Rangachariar in Herb. Bourne No. 3594). 



