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7. Arundinella Metzii, Hochst. in Miq. Anal. But. Ind. part 2 

 (Ibol) p. 19. Annual, 1-3 It. high ; stems slender, erect. Leaves 4-6 

 by i- 1^ in., linear, glabrous or sparsely hairy ; sheaths glabruus or 

 sparsely hairy. Panicle 1-8 in. long, eUuse ; rhaehis slender, smooth or 

 subscaberulous ; branches elongate, alternate or fascicled, 1-4 in. long. 

 iSpikelets \ in. long, ovoid-laneeolate. Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume 

 -jig- in. long, ovate-lanceolate, with a slender mucro about J^ in. long, 

 strongly 3-nerved ; upper invol.-glume ^ in. long, similar, with a mucro 

 about -^ in. long, 5-nerved ; lower floral glume elliptic, obtuse, ^ in. 

 long, 3-nerved, paleate, empty or male, the palea ^^ in. long, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, hyaline ; upper floral glume ^^j- in. long, ovate, obtuse ; 

 palea as long as the glume, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse ; awn solitary, 

 ^ in. long, the lower half brown, the upper pale. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 72 ; 

 \Voo:lr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 434.— Flowers : Oct. 



Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow. Kanaka: Thomsonl — Distrtb. India (W. Peuinsula). 



8. Arundinella Lawii, Hool. f. in Trim. Fl. Ce^jl. v. 5 (1900) 

 p. 180. Perennial; stems tui'ted, erect, 2-4 ft. high, leafy, smooth; 

 nodes hairy. Leaves 8-12 by i in., linear, finely acuminate, flat, sparsely 

 hairy, with nearly smooth margins ; sheaths elongate, glabrous or nearly 

 so, auricled and ciliate at the mouth ; ligule a tomentose lunate ridge. 

 Panicle 12-20 in. long., pyramidal, decompound, effuse, drooping; 

 rhaehis slender, smooth ; lower branches reaching 6 in. long, in distant 

 fascicles, filiCorm, spreading, flexuous ; branchlets capillary. Spikelets 

 numerous, usually hairy, rather more than J^ in. long (excluding the 

 awns) ; pedicels very long. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume about -^-^ in. 

 long (including a short slender awn about -^ in. long), lanceolate, acute, 

 3-uerved, hairy on the nerves, thinly membranous ; upper invol.-glume 

 similar to the lower but longer (nearly -i- in. long, including ah awn of 

 nearly j^Iq in. long), o-nerved, hairy on the nerves, thinly membranous ; 

 lower floral glume rather less than ^ in. long, shorter than the upper 

 involc-glume, oblong, subobtuse, faintly 5-nerved, not awned, hyaline, 

 paleate, the palea narrowly oblong, subobtuse with a faint median 

 nerve; upper floral glume -fj^~-^t^ in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 

 hyaline, usually 3-nerved, with incurved margins and a long filiform awn 

 reaching | in. long, 2-sexual. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 435. Arundinella ayrostoides, Hook. f. PI. B. I. v. 7 (1896) 

 p. 71 (partly). 



KoNKAN : Wuodrow, 35 ! ; N. & S. Konkan, Law ! — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula) ; 

 Ceylon. 



9. Arundinella brasiliensis, Kaddi, Agrost. Bras. (1823) p. 37, 

 t. 1, fig. 3. Perennial; rootstock stout, hard, creeping and sending out 

 stout sheathed branches sometimes as thick as a goose-quill, or tufted 

 and intricately branched ; stems 1-5 ft. long, stout or slender, simple or 

 branched, hairy or almost glabrous ; nodes glabrous or pubescent. 

 Leaves 6-12 by -^-f in., usually ciliate at the narrow base, glabrous or 

 hairy ; sheaths usually glabrous ; ligule a minute ridge fringed with long 

 hairs. Panicle pyramidal, thyrsiform or subcorjmbose, 4-18 in, long; 

 rhaehis angular, usually glabrous ; branches l~i in. long, few or many, 

 fasciculate or subverticillate. Spikelets ^-j^ in. long, subsecund, 

 pedicellate, ovoid-lanceolate, usually glabrous. Glumes 4; lower invoL- 



