10. Pollinia.] 97. GRAMINE&. [11. Ischium. 



slender rarely more than 2 terminal brown or yellow-brown 



spikes 1-3J" long. 



On damp soil, sites of deserted villages, otc Fls. Oct. 



L. 3-4'' by i' ; . Ligule short truncate, glabrous. Rachu and pedicel* 

 compressed with long brown hairs on the edges. Spikelets nearly $". 

 GL I brown silky, tip truncate with short hairs ; III absent; IV reduced 

 to a long bent awn with 1-2 short hairs at the base. 



A good fodder grass. 



11. Iscbaemum, L. 



Ischaemum differs from Pollinia in the usually very few 

 spikes, sometimes solitary, and 1, rarely more than 3 on the 

 common rachis (vide also P. Cnmingii); in the pedicelled 

 spikelet being usually dissimilar to the sessile spikelet, and in 

 the much larger Gl. IV and its pale. The spikelets nearly 

 always bear both a male and a 2-sexual flower. I. angusti- 

 folium is intermediate between the two genera, and should, I 

 think, more naturally be in Pollinia, it differs only by the 

 large pale of the Gl. IV. 



A. Sessile and pedicelled spikelets alike. Spikes 1-4 

 on a peduncle. Sheaths at base of stem woolly. 



L. under £" broad 1. angustifoliwn* 



B. Sessile and pedicelled spikelets more or less 

 dissimilar (sometimes alike in rugosum). Sheaths 

 at base of the stem not woolly. 



1. Spikes 2-3 (rarely many in hirtum). 



Gl. I dorsaliy hairy; II not winged. L. £* 



broad .2. hirtum. 



Gl. I glabrous or villous ; keel of II winged • . 3. ciliare. 



Gl. I glabrous at back, transversely rugose, 



broad .4. rugosum- 



2. Spike solitary. Spikelets over J* long, 



second .... .... 5. laxum. 



1. I. ailgUStifolium, Sack. Syn. Pollinia eriopoda* 

 Hance. Barchon, K. ; Bachkom, S. ; Sabai, bhabar, H. 



A tufted grass 1-2 ft. high with long drooping wiry 

 leaves when old and clothed with wool at the base of the 



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