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or ovoid ; callus very short, oblong, bearded. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.- 

 glume 2-ciispidate, coriaceous, convex, smooth or pitted, hirsute b(;lov\', 

 flatter and veined above the middle, with lateral ciliolate broad or narrow 

 equal wings, the margins narrowly incurved above, broadly so below ; 

 upper invol. -glume as long as or longer than the lower, cliartaceous, 

 lanceolate, acuminate or shortly awned, 3-5-nerved, k(iel nan-ovvly 

 winged towards the tip ; lower floral glume ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 ciliate near the tip, triandrous, paleate, the palea lanceolate, acuminate, 

 opaque, with broad hyaline ciliolate wings ; upper floral glume cleft to 

 the middle into oblong obtuse glabrous or ciliate lobes, female ; palea 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2-nerved, not ciliolate ; awn ^-.] in, long. Anthers 

 ^ in. long. styles and stigmas short. Pedicdlate spikelets like the 

 sessile, the upper floral glume usually awned. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 133; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 21G; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 437 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1195 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 530. 

 — Flowers : Oct. Vi^iiN. Futena. 



KoNKAN : Salsette, Jaer/nemoni, 710!; Parel (Bombay), Woodrow. Kanaka: 

 D(dzell\\ Kakti (N. Kanai-a), Youn;/ (^^tl Woodrow.— DiHTUia. More or less Lliroughout 

 India ; Ceylon, China, Malaya, Australia. 



10. Ischsemum spathiflorum, rfoolc. f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) 

 p. 138. A tall grass reaching 3-4 ft. high, much branch(;d above ; 

 branches erect. Stem as thick as a goose-quill below, leafy above ; 

 nodes glabrous. Leaves 1-1^ ft. by f in., linear-lanceolate, iinely 

 acuminate, narrowed from the middle, often tinged with purph;, almost 

 petiolate, thin, sparsely hairy, margins smooth ; midrib stout, nerves 

 obscure ; sheaths of lower leaves 6 in. long and upwards, terete, quite 

 glabrous, the sheaths of the upper leaves passing into compressed lanceo- 

 late flowering spathes 3-4 in. long; ligule short, scarious. Jtacemes 

 about 2 in. long, more or less exserted from the spatln.'S, very slender, 

 pale straw-colored ; joints and pedicels more than ^ as long as the sessile 

 spikelets, compressed, one angle ciliate. Sessile spikelets ^ in. long, 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate; callus very short, hairy: lower invol. -glume 

 ■| in. long, thinly coriaceous, nerveless, white with dense silky hairs to 

 above the middle, dorsal furrow very deep, causing a thick ridge on the 

 inside of the glume, margins equally incurved, the tip 2-dentate ; upper 

 invol. -glume cliartaceous, dorsally coiivex, nerveless, but with a nerve- 

 like fold towards tlie ciliate margin, keel with long cilia above the middle, 

 scabrid towards the emarginate tij) ; lower floral glume shorter, hyaline, 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 3-nerved, paleate, the palea lanceolate, the 

 anthers imperfect; upper floral glume as long as the lower, linear, 

 3-nerved; palea 0; awn 1^ in. long, the column twisted, brown, the 

 upper portion slender, usually purple. Fedicellate spikelets longer than 

 the sessile ; lower invol. -glume | in. long, dorsally convex, not furrowed 

 lanceolate, narrowed into a bisetuse often purplish awn, sparsely silky, 

 7-9-nerved ; upper invol. -glume lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; lower floral 

 glume as in the sessile spikelet ; upper floral glume awnless. Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437. — Flowers : Sept. 



Konkan: Island of Salsette in hilly stony places, .Jcwquernonl , 797! Deccan : 

 Kliandala, Hoodrowl; Palasdari on the Bhore Ghat (G. I. i*. Railway), Woodrow.— 

 DiSTiiiB. India (W. t'eninsula), apparently endeniin. 



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