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palea small, oblong ; awn reaching § in. long, the lower half brown, the 

 upper yellowish white. Pedicellate spikelets often imperfect, not awned. 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 436. 



KoNKAN : Matheran, IFoo(frow. Deccan: Woodrow,\Sl\; Mabableshwar, ff oo(Z/ft(>, 

 4 ! ; Bhoi-kas near Poona, Woodrow, 3 ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



6. Ischsemum pilosum, Hack. Monog. Andropog. in DC. Mon 

 Than. V. 6 (18S9) p. 240. Rhizome giving out densely scaly long stolons 

 stems erect, 2-3 ft. long, slender, terete, glabrous ; nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves 6-12 by i-^ in., linear, finely acuminate, glabrous ; sheaths 

 glabrous ; ligule rounded, f 2"~i ^"' l^i^g? membranous, glabrous. Racemes 

 2-6, fascicled, 1-4 in. long, yellow or brownish, pilose ; rhachis hairy ; 

 joints and pedicels slender, compressed, subclavate, shorter than the sess'le 

 spikelets, sparsely ciliate ; pedicel about | as long as its spikelet. Sessile 

 sp)iTcclets narrowly lanceolate, reaching \ in. long ; callus minute, bearded 

 with long hairs. Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume chartaceous, narrowed 

 from the middle upwards, dorsally hairy, the margins incurved throughout 

 their whole length, the nerves anastouiosing; upper invol.-glume rather 

 longer than the lower, chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, laterally 

 compressed, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves anastomosing ; lower floral 

 glume a little shorter than the upper invol.-glume, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 ciliate above, paleate, male, the palea acute, membranous, nerveless, 

 glabrous; upper 'floral glume equalling the lower one, cleft almost to 

 the middle into acute ciliolate lobes ; palea a little shorter, lanceolate- 

 subulate, nerveless ; awn |-| in. long. Pedicellate spiTcelets 1— 1- in. long, 

 like the sessile but usually with a shorter awn, sometimes imperfect or 

 reduced to a single glume. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 130 ; Grab. Cat. p. 239 ; 

 T)alz. & Gibs. p. 305 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 436 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 531.— Mowers : Oct.-Mar. Vebn. 

 Kunda ; Nuth. 



Very common in black soil. Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Deccan : 

 Graham, Bahell cf- Gibson, Lishoa ; Khandesh, Lisboa ; Sbolapur, Lisboa ; Sattara, 

 Lisboa. — Distrib. India (Rajputana, Central Provinces, W. Peninsida). 



7. Ischsemum semisagittatum, Root'^. Ilort. Beng. (1814) p. 8. 

 Annual ; stems 1-2 ft. long, decumbent at the base, then ascending, 

 slender, terete ; nodes glabrous ; internodes long. Leaves 2-3 by |-| in., 

 oblong-lauceolate, acuminate, with capillary tips, base auricled, broadly 

 cordate or sagittate, the lower leaves with a filiform petiole reaching 

 nearly 1 in. long, the upper sessile, glabrous or spai'sely hairy, the 

 margins scabrid; sheaths loose, glabrous, those of the uppermost leaves 

 spathiform ; ligule oblong, i in. long, obtuse, pilose. Racemes 2, more 

 or less softly villous with long white or grey hairs, 1-2| in. long, fragile; 

 internodes and pedicels much shorter than the spikelets, trigonous. 

 Sessile spikelets |— | in. long ; callus short, bearded with long hairs. 

 Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume ovate, convex, the lower half cartilaginous, 

 with 3-5 obscure or more or less conspicuous I'idges ending in marginal 

 nodules, the upper half chartaceous or membranous, with green veins 

 and ciliolate margins ; upper invol.-glume equalling the lower, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, coriaceous ; lower floral glume a little shorter than the 

 lower invol.-glume, ovate, acuminate, 1-3-nerved, paleate, male, the palea 

 linear-oblong, hyaline, 2-nerYed ; upper floral glume female, cleft to 



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