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Deccan : common, Bulzdl ^ Gibson ; Poona, Jaequemont, 407 !, IVoodrow, Lisboa ; 

 Lmnoli, Lisboa ; Nasik, ZMoa. S.M. Country: Belgamn, Woodrow. Sind : Dalzelll 

 — DisTRin. India (W. Peninsula, Eajputana, Central India), The leaves are used 

 on Mount Abu for making ropes. 



2. Pennisetum dichotomum, Delile, Fl. d'Egypte, p, 159, t. 8, 

 fig. 1. Perennial, quite glabrou^s, bushy ; stem distantly dichotomously 

 branched, the branches often fascicled ; iuteruodes long, rigid, smooth 

 and polished. Leaves 3-6 by y^-^ in., narrowly linear, tapering to a 

 subulate point, rigid. Eacemes 2|-5 in. long, cylindric, pale (nearly 

 white) ; rhachis more or less scaberulous, angiUar ; involucel sessile or 

 nearly so ; bristles very numerous, slender, pale, unequal, the longer 

 twice as long as the spikelet, free to the base. Spikelets usually 

 solitary, 5 in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly white. Glumes 4; lower 

 invol.-ghime nearly i in. long by yig in. broad at the base, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 1-nerved, hyaline ; upper invol.-glume ^ in. long, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 5-7-nerved, hyaline ; lower floral glume as long as the upper 

 invol.-glume, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, paleate, 5-nerved, 

 the palea nearly as long as the glume, lanceolate, acute ; upper floral 

 glume as long as the lower one, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cuspidate, 

 5-nerved ; palea | in. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Styles much exserted 

 beyond the spikelets, free nearly to the base, densely plumose in the 

 upper part. El, B. I. v. 7, p. 85 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb, Nat. 

 v. 13 (1901) p. 435. Cenclirus ramosissimus, Poir. Encyc. Method. 

 V. 6 (1804) p. 51 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 294.— Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



Gujarat: in bodges, Dalzell ^ Gihaon. Sia'D : on sand hills, Stocks], Wood row ; 

 Ilj'derabad, C'ookel — Distrib. India (Panjdb, N.W. Provinces, W. Peninsula); 

 Afghanistan and westwards to N. Africa. 



3. Pennisetum orientale. Rich, in Pers. Si/n. v. 1 (1805) p. 72. 

 Perennial, 2-4 ft. high; stem suberect from a stout rootstock, leafy, 

 clothed below with withered sheaths. Leaves 6-12 by ^-'i in., 

 narrowly linear, finely acuminate, flat, smooth, the margins scaberulous 

 ciliate close to the obtuse or truncate base ; sheaths glabrous with 

 ciliate margins ; ligule a shortly ciliate line. Eacemes reaching as 

 much as 10 in. long ; rhachis subterete, pubescent ; involucel shortly 

 stipitate, the stipe pubescent ; bristles very unequal, the loi>gest about 

 I in. long (rarely one may be found 1 in. long), often purplisli, 

 scaberulous, the inner ciliate with long hairs below the middle, but 

 naked at the base. Spikelets usually 2-6 (rarely solitary) within the 

 involucel, reaching | in. long, on pubescent pedicels. Glumes 4 ; lower 

 invol.-glume j-V-tV i^- 1<^"S» ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless, hyaline; 

 upper invol.-glume -^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; lower floral 

 glume ^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 5-nerved, awned, triandrous, the 

 palea i in. long, oblong, obtuse, often 2-fid, hyaline ; upper floral glume 

 4; in. long, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, 5-nerved, awned; palea 4- in. 

 long, lanceolate, acuminate, with involute margins, sometimes biaris- 

 tulate at the tip. PL B. L v. 7, p. 86; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 171 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 435; Prain, Beng. P]'. 

 p. 1169.— Flowers : July. 



ICoNKAN : Stocks ! — Distrib. India (\V, Ifiuialaja, Panjal), W. Peniii'sidn) • 

 N. Africa. 



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