8i»8 cxi.vi. cvperace;e. 



Dalz. & Gibs. p. 280. F. jiaUscens, Boeck. in Linnsea, v. 37 (1871) 

 p. 104 (not of K until).— Flowers : Sept. 



Deccan : watery plarcs. Dahr.ll ! ; Poona, Wuodrow, 882 !, Jacquemont, 413 ! — 

 DiSTRiB. India (N.-Wtst, Central India, W. Peninsula). 



2. Fuirena glomerata, lAtm. lUust. v. 1 (1791) p. 150. Annual ; 

 stems 4-10 in. long, slender, erect, leafy, sparsely hairy above, glabrous 

 or nearly so below. Leaves 2-5 by i-^ in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3-5-nervecl, hairy ; sheaths long, closed, striate. Spikelets clustered, 

 approximate ; bracts but the leaf under each cluster of spikelets. 

 Spikelets ^— ^ in., ovoid or oblong, obtuse, brown ; lowest glumes longest, 

 empty. Glumes -l- in. long (including the stout hairy awn w hich some- 

 times reaches -^ in. long), squarrosely imbricate, at length deciduous, 

 membranous, obovate-oblnng, obtuse, the keel ending in a long awn, the 

 tip ciliolate, the back sometimes with a few bristles ; hypogynous scales 

 (petals) nearl>^ J^j in long, with a slender stalk about equalling the blade, 

 the blade quadrate, strongly 3-nerved, with 3 acute lobes or teeth at the 

 apex, of which the middle one is the longest, hastate or cordate at the 

 base, brown, membranous. Nut -^^ in. long, stipitate, trigonous with 

 acute angles, subrotund or broadly obovoid, cuspidate, smooth, pale ; 

 style ^^-^ in. long : stigmas 3, nearly as long as the style. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p.* 666: Boeck. in Linna>a, v. 37' (1871) p. 107; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, 

 p. 79 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. \. 13 (1901) p. 432 ; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 1157. Fuirena ciliaris, lioxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 81; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 232.— Flowers : Nov. 



KoNKAN : Stocks I, Law'.; Siivantvadi, Woodrow. Gujarat: Godra, Wood row. — 

 DiSTRiB. Throughout the warmer parts of India, common in rice-fields ; Ceylon, 

 Tropical Africa, S.E. Asia, and Australia. 



3. Fuirena uncinata, Kunfh, Enmn. v. 2 (1837) p. 184. Annual ; 

 stems 4-12 in. long, rather stout, leafy, glabrous below, more or less 

 pubescent above. Leaves 2-6 by i-J in., lineaz'-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 membranous, 3-5-nerved, laxly hairy on both sides ; sheaths long, closed,, 

 hairy. Spikelets |— i in. long, densely crowded in capitate axillary, 

 sessile or pedunculate, simple or lobed clusters \-h in. in diam., pale- 

 brown ; lowest glumes longest, empty, with a broad membranous blade 

 and rather longer awn thsm the others ; rhachilla scarcely any ; bracts 

 at the base of the clusters like large glumes within which are a few very 

 short broad hyaline ciliate scales unlike either th(> bracts or glumes. 

 Glumes -!■ in. long (excluding the recurved stout laxly hairy mucro -Jj. in. 

 long), obovate, obtuse, cymbiforra, pubescent on the back, hispid and 

 hispidly ciliate at the apex, 5-nerved ; hypogynous scales quadrate, 

 shortly clawed, -^ in. long, with a short scabrid aivn at the apex and often 

 a minute triangular tooth at each side of the awn. Nut J^ in. long, 

 shortly stalked, obovoid, trigonous, with a curved beak, pale, almost 

 white; style longer than the nut; stigmas 3, nearly as long. I have 

 not found the awns of the glumes hooked as stated by Mr. Clarke, hut 

 merely recvrve<l. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 666 ; Boeck. in Linna^a, v. 37 (1871) 

 p. 108; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 79; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (lOOl)p. 432.— Flowers: Dec. 



Kanaka: 2'Ao;«so«!— DisTRrn. India (\V. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



