CXLTII. GRAMI^CE.E, 1001 



lanceoliite, acute, hispid with white bulbous-based hairs, base rounded; 

 sheaths reachiuof 2 in. long, hispid with long white bulbous-based hairs ; 

 ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 3-6 in. long, narrowly oblong; rhacbis 

 angular ; branches -^-l in. long, scaberulous. Spikelets ovoid, acute, 

 pedicellate, single or geminate, ^ in. long (excluding awns), clothed with 

 long bulbous-based hairs. Glumes 4; lower invol. -glume ^in. long (in- 

 cluding an awn of about -^j in.'long), 3-nerved, with bulbous-based hairs 

 along the nerves, subcoriaceous ; upper invol. -glume ^ in. long (excluding 

 the beak), ovate, acute, 5-nerved, with bulbous-based hairs along the nerves, 

 narrowed into a beak as long as the body of the glume, subcoriaceous ; 

 lower floral glume rather more than ^ in. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 2-fid, 

 glabrous, subcoriaceous, with incurved margins, paleate, male, the palea as 

 long as the glume, oblong-lanceolate acute; upper floral glume rather more 

 than jQ in. long, lanceokte, acute, when ripe subcrustaceous, brown and 

 scabrid ; median awn reaching g in. long, the lower half brown, twisted 

 O" not, the upper half straight, whitish, scaberulous ; lateral awns 

 acicular, transparent, jV-iV i"- long. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 69 ; AVoodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 434.— Flowers : Oct. 



Bahell without locality in Herb. Kevv. Konkan : Stocks ! Deccan : Pooua, 

 iVoodrow. — DiSTKiB. Central India. 



; 3. Arundinella setosa, Trin. Gram. Panic. (1826) p. 63. Peren- 

 nial ; stem 1-3 ft. high, erect from a Iiard rootstoek, slender, rigid, 

 subtuberous at the base ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 6-12 by \-\ in., 

 'iuear, finely acuminate, glabrous, pubescent or sometimes hispidly hairy ; 

 sheaths glabrous ; ligule very small. Panicle 3-10 in. long, lax ; branches 

 2-5 in, long, distant, suberect, filiform. Spikelets (including the mucro 

 of the upper invol. -glume) reaching i in. long (or more). Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol.-glume \ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, aristately acuminate, 

 3-neryed, hairy or almost glabrous ; upper invol.-glume rather more than 

 \ in. long, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into a long awn with truncate 

 tip, 5-nerved ; lower floral glume i in. long, obtuse, paleate, male, the 

 palea | in. long, oblong-lanceolate, subacute ; upper floral glume 1 in. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acuniinate, 2-sexual ; palea as long as tlie glume, 

 narrowly oblong-lanceolate, subacute ; median awn more than \ in. 

 long, brown below, pale above ; lateral awns capillary, ^L in. long. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 7, p. 70 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 177 ; ' Woodr. in Journ, 

 Bomb. Nat. v, 13(1901) p, 434; Prain, Beng, PI, p, 1215, 



Konkan: near Bombay, Eitckiel — Distrib. India (W. Himalaya, Khasia Hills, 

 Central India) ; Ceylon, Tonkin, China, Philippines. 



4. Arundinella tenella, Nees 4' Wight, ex Siend. Norn. ed. 2, 

 part 1 (1840) p. 143. Annual, nearly glabrous ; stems solitary or 

 tufted, erect, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Leaves 1-3 by ^- 

 I in., ovate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, many-nerved, 

 sprinkled with a few slender soft hairs, base narrowed ; sheaths usually 

 glabrous with ciliate margins. Panicle 2-10 in. long, etfuse, copiou.sly 

 branched; rhacbis slender, strict, erect; branches alternate or the lower 

 subverticillately fascicled, each with widely spreading capillary branches 

 and branchlets. Spikelets the smallest of the genus, yj^-jTr in. long ; 

 pedicels long, slender. (Tlumes4; lower invol.-glume -g^^j-J^ in. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly membranous, 3-nerved ; upper invol.- 



