CXT.TTT. GRAMlXEiE. 1009 



I in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 225 ; Grab. Cat. p. 235; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 295 ; Trim. ¥1. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 253 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v, 

 13 (L901) p. 439; Praiu, Beng. PL p. 1211 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 1, p. 312. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! ; Salsette, Graham. Deccan : Khandala, Graham. Gujarat : 

 Eajkot (Kathiawar), Woodrow. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula, Betiar) ; Ceylon, 

 Mascarene Islands. 



The grass is largely used for making the screens known as "tatties." 



3. Aristida Hystrix, Linn. f. Supph (1781) p. 113, Perennial; 

 stems 6-24 in. long, from a creeping rootstock, diffuse, ascending, 

 sometimes proliferously branched. Leaves rather glaucous, l|-4 by 

 ^-g in., convolute ; sheaths glabrous, striate ; ligule of soft hairs. 

 Panicle 4-6 in. long and as broad as long, rigid ; rhachis stout, flexuous 

 and angular; branches and branchlets smooth. Spikelets (excluding 

 awns) I in. long, straw-colored. Lower invol. -glume | in. long (in- 

 cluding awn), lanceolate, acuminate, 1 -nerved, with an avA'n of J^ in. 

 long, chartaceons ; upper invol. -glume more than | in. long ^including 

 an awn of jL- in. long), lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceons, 1-nerved, 

 quite glabrous, minutely toothed at the tip at the base of the awn ; 

 floral glume | in. long; callus -J^ in. long, pointed, shortly villous; 

 awns 3, not articulate with the glume, subequal or the middle one 

 sometimes the longest, scabrid. Fl. B, I. v. 7, p. 225 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 235; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 295; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 439.— Flowers : Oct. 



S. M. Country: Badaini, CooJcel, Woodrow.—DisiRi^. India (Central Provii.ces, 

 W. Peninsula). 



4. Aristida hirtigluma, Steud. Nom. ed. 2 (1840) part 1, p. 131, 

 et Sijn. Oram. (1855) p. 144. Perennial ; stems tufted, 1-2 ft. high, 

 smooth, glabrous, terete, shining ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-6 in. 

 long, reaching -Jy in. broad when opened out, convolute, filiform with 

 capillary tips ; sheaths quite glabrous except for a few long hairs at the 

 mouth, close ; ligule a very narrow densely ciliate membrane. Panicle 

 slender : branches short, erect, capillary. Spikelets pale green or 

 straw-colored, linear-lanceolate. Lower invol. -glume j in. long, linear- 

 oblong, acute, scarious ; upper invol. -glume a little longer, but similar ; 

 floral glume slightly muricate ; callus about -^^i^- ^ong, pointed, shortly 

 villous ; column of awn jy— § in. long, plumose with long slender hairs, 

 articulated on the glume; middle branch 1| in. long or more, plumose 

 in the lower half with long delicate hairs ; lateral branches very slender, 

 hair-like, about | in. long, not plumose. Fl. B, I. v. 7, p. 227 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 439.— Flowers : Aug. 



Smn : Dahelll; hill near Bullo Khan, Woodrow, 200! — Distrib. India (Panjub, 

 Peshawar, Sind) ; Egypt, Abyssinia. 



5. Aristida hystriculaj Edgeiu. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 6 (1862) 

 p. 208. Annual, dwarf, slender, about 1-3 in. high, pale; stems many 

 from the root, g-l in. high, densely crowded ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 

 subulate, curved, convolute, acuminate, glabrous, less than 1 in. long ; 

 sheaths glabrous ; ligule a small line of hairs. Panicle without the 

 awns g-l in. long, shorter than the awns, narrow, few-flowered ; 



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