1002 CXLVII. GEAMINE.E, 



glume longer, y^-^^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, 



10 "^. ^--a' — r ■■"' -^-a-^v ^..^■^^^^^, ^^^ upper part pale. 



El. B. I. V. 7, p. 71 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 292 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 13 (1901) p. 434; Prain, Beng. PJ. p. 1215. AnmdmeUa 

 pumila, Steud. Syn. PI. Gram. (1855) p. 114 ; Lisboa, in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 5 (1891) p. 345.— Flowers : JS^ov. 



Bombay, Lambert I Deccan: Karli and Klaandala, Jacqttemont, 031!; Lanoli, 

 Woodrow ; Maliableshwar, common under the shade of trees, Dalzell\, Cooke\, 

 Woodrow, Lisboa. — Distrib. India (W. Himalaya, Behar, Central India, Khasia Hills 

 W. Peninsula) ; Abyssinia. 



5. Arundinella pygmsea, Hooh. f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 72. A 

 small slender plant scarcely 6 in. high ; stem very slender. Leaves 

 chiefly radical, 1-1^ by -^ in., linear-lanceolate, nerveless except the 

 strong midrib, with a few scattered long hairs and finely serrulate 

 margins ; sheaths glabrous. Panicle erect, effuse ; rhaehis filiform ; 

 branches few, capillai-y. Spikelets ^ in. long (including the cuspidation 

 of the upper invol.-glume), ovoid-lanceolate, hispidly hairy; pedicels 

 very long, capillary. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume jV in. long, ovate, 

 3-nerved, hispid with long hairs; upper invol.-glume ^ in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, 5-nerved, hispid with long hairs ; 

 lower floral glume yV in. long, ovate, obtuse, coriaceous, with incurved 

 margins, obscurely 5-nerved ; upper floral glume about -^ in. long, 

 elliptic-oblong ; awn solitary, l-i in. long, the lower half bi'own, the 

 upper half pale. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 434. — 

 Flowers : Sept. 



KoNKAN : crest of W. Glulta, Woodrow. Kanara : N. Kanara, Lisboa. There is 

 only one half sheet of very poor specimens in Herb. Kew., collected in N. Kanara by 

 Dr. Lisboa. 



6. Arundinella agrostoides, Trln. Sj}. Gram. Icon. v. 3 (1836) 

 t. 265. Annual; stem 8-18 in. long, stout or slender. Leaves 1-4 

 by -1— I in., flat, narrowed to the base, clothed with long soft hairs ; 

 sheaths softly hairy ; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 1-8 in. long, 

 contracted ; branches fascicled, suberect. Spikelets -j^-g in. long, ovoid- 

 lanceolate, the lower liaK usually bristly ; pedicels reaching i in. long, 

 slender, glabrous or nearly so. (jlumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume ovate, 

 acuminate, 3-nerved, usually with a few bristles on the lower half; 

 upper invol.-glume i in. long, ovate, cuspidately acuminate, 5-nerved ; 

 lower floral glume rather more than -^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, paleate, 3-nerved, the palea ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 upper floral glume about -Jjj- in. long, elliptic, obtuse, usually female ; 

 palea oblong, obtuse ; median awn reaching i in. long, the lower half 

 twisted, brown, the upper half pale, geniculate above tlie twisted 

 column ; lateral awns 0. PI. B. I. v. 7, p. 71 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 13 (1901) p. 434. 



KoNKAN : Wight. 



I have seen no specimens from Bombuy. Woodrow includes the- plant in his list of 

 grasses in the 'Journal of the Bombay Katural History Society," but does not ajipear 

 to have collected it, as he gives no habitat. 



