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There is but one sheet from the Bombay Presidency in Herb. Kew. from Dalzell's 

 Herbarium, but no hicality is given for the plant. Tliere is one other small specimen 

 of the plant in the Kew Herbarium, collected in the Chanda district, Central Provinces, 

 by Mr. Duthie. 



4. Ischsemum angustifolium, Hack. Monog. Andropog. in DC. 

 Monog. Phan.. v. 6 (1889) p. 241. Perennial ; stems tufted, woolly at 

 the base, 2-3 ft. high, erect, slender, sparingly branched, grooved on 

 one side, glabrous. Leaves 1-2 ft. by y^p-^ in., tapering into a sub- 

 pungent acumen, concave or convolute, base obtuse, fimbriate, margins 

 scaberulous ; sheaths glabrous; ligule a tuft of short hairs. Racemes 

 2-4, on axillary and terminal filiform peduncles, 1-2 in. long, close or 

 distant, erect, golden or rusty-villous ; joints and pedicels g as long as 

 the lower spikelet, slender, shortly ciliate, the pedicels bearded at the 

 base. Sessile spikelets \ in. long, lanceolate ; callus short, hairy. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol.-giume ^ in. long, elliptic-oblong, chartaceous, 2-3-toothed, 

 5-uerved, the lower part of the glume ciliate with long rufous hairs 

 and also with a tuft of hairs at the middle of the lower part of the 

 back ; upper invol. -glume \ in. long, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, 

 2-dentate, often mucronate between the teeth, 3-5-nerved ; lower floral 

 glume equalling the lower invol.-glume, oblong, obtuse, irregularly 

 2-dentate, hyaline, nerveless, paleate, the palea a little shorter than the 

 glume, linear, 2-dentate ; upper floral glume ^ in. long, linear, hyaline, 

 usually 2-deniate, but sometimes only acute at the apex; palea shorter 

 than the glume ; awn reaching § in. long. Pedicellate spikeleis like the 

 sessile. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 129; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 436; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1195 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 526. — Flowers : Dec.-Feb. Vekn. Sabai. 



Deccan : cultivated at Poona, Woodrow. Gujar.\t : Kajkot (Kathiawar), Woodrow. 



DisTRiB. India (Lower Himalaya, Paujab, Rajputana, Bebar, Central India); 



Afghanistan, China, Philippines. 



The grass was cultivated at Poona for paper-making by the Deccan Paper Mills. It 

 was found suitable for the lower grades of paper, but for the higher grades was not 

 satisfactory. The nodes are hard, and if boiled long enough to soften them the 

 remaining parts are overboiled and useless. 



5. Ischsemum diplopogon, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 129. 

 Annual ; stem 12-2U in. long, branched from the base and upwards ; 

 nodes glabroiis ; internodes long. Leaves 3-6 by |-| in., linear-lanceo- 

 late from a narrow base, acuminate, with many slender nerve.s, dark 

 green and shining above ; sheaths glabrous, those of the upper leaves 

 open, spathiform ; ligule an oblong glabrous membrane. Peduncles many 

 from the upper spathe-like sheaths, solitary, filiform, the spathes 1-3 in. 

 long, lanceolate. Racemes usually 2, compressed, 1-1| in. long; joiuts 

 and pedicels h the length of the lower spikelets or longer, subclavate, 

 dorsally rounded, ventrally concave. Sessile spikelets: callus nearly 

 -}f^ in. long, thick. Spikeh-ts reaching \ in. long. Glumes 4 ; lower 

 invol. -glume \ in. long, oblong, shortly 2-cuspidate, obscurely nerved 

 and with shortly incurved margins ; upper invol.-glume ); in. long, ovate, 

 subacute, shortly 2-fid, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves pectinately ciliate 

 near the apex with long erect hairs and fin-nished with a slender whitish 

 awn i in. long; lower floral glume linear-oblong, hyaline, 1 -nerved; 

 upper"floral glume \ in. long, 2-fid at the apex into acute lobes, hyaline; 



