460 GRAMINE^. 



Spike or bunch of spikelets ^ inch. Awn of female 

 spikelet stout, 1% inches. 



On the downs near Ootacamund and above Kodaikanal. 

 Bourne 1950, 5239, etc. 



Gen. Dist. North-west India ascending to 7,500 feet. Bengal, 

 Malabar, etc. 



CALAMAGROSTIS. f.b.i. 173 Lxxiv. 



Narrow-leafed grasses (of the POACE^ see p. 446), with 

 narrow or spreading panicles of one-flowered spikelets, 

 which are not jointed to their pedicels, but the rachilla 

 jointed at the base, and not produced beyond gl. iii, which 

 is awned. 



Closely allied to agrostis and deyeuxia, and the exact 

 number of species indeterminate. 



Calamagrostis pilosula Hook. /. ; F.B.I, vii 263, 

 LXXIV 10. A very slender grass with stems of I to 2 

 feet and open panicles of small spikelets. Leaves 

 narrow, usually very narrow, smooth : ligule largest on 

 the upper leaves. Glume i smooth, round-backed ; gl. ii 

 similar but slightly shorter ; gl- iii hairy all over with 

 sub-basal awn. 



In wet situations on both plateaus. Bourjie i486, 1962, 

 5234, etc. 



Gen. Dist. Temperate and Alpine Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikkim, 

 Nilgiris, Ceylon. 



CCELACHNE. f.b.i. 173 lxxviii. 



A genus of one species only. 



Coelachnc pulchclla Br. ; F.B.I. vii 270, LXXVIII I. 

 A small swamp grass peculiar in having leaves at equal 

 distances (of about I inch) all the way up the stem, and in 

 the spikelets being few, under ten, in a short spike which 

 may be over-topped by the last two leaves. 



