14. Sacchahttm.] 97. GRAMINE&. 



hairs. Pairs of spihelets rather distant. Ql. I 3 faintly 5-nerved 

 acuminate or cuspidate ; II 1- or sometimes 3-nerved sparsely scaberulous 

 and ciliate on the slightly excurrent nerve ; III hyaline very acute ; IV 

 hyaline ciliate very shortly but distinctly awned. 



The Bolid stems are used for making arrow shafts by the Santals, 

 Camp., and for the walls of houses. The leaf sheaths give a fibre. 



Note. — This is Var. ciliaris of " Bengal Plants " which differs from 

 typical arundinaceum in the less effuse (sub-fastigiate) panicle, and it 

 might be added in the much shorter stouter internodes between the 

 spikelets, but it appears to differ from Roxburgh's S. Sara in the absence 

 of the long flagellum of the panicle-spathe, and in the shorter and less 

 finely-acuminate spitelets, though 61. 1 and II are sometimes sub-aristu- 

 late. 



3. S. Narenga, Sack. 



A stout grass 7-9 ft. high with a stout horizontal root- 

 stock and numerous solid stems \" diam. densely hairy at the 

 nodes and silky below the panicle. Panicle 1-1| ft. purple, 

 the rachis scaberulous and bearded at the nodes, hairs on 

 rachiB of spikes and pedicel and callns not or only slightly 

 exceeding the spikelet which is xt'tV l° n g> glnme I brown 

 oblong obtuse not dorsally hairy. 



In damp valleys both outside and inside the forests. Fls. Aug.-Nov. 



L. 1-3 ft. by !' with scabrid margins, sheaths hairy, ligule 

 hard with long hairs from the base. L. below the panicle reduced to a 

 brown sheath with villous margins and setaceous point. Branches of 

 Panicle 1-4-nate, lower often compound, f-2 " long. Spikelets quite 

 awnless. 



Used for rough mats, ceilings, etc., also for arrows. 



4. S. spontaneum, L. Puyal, K.\ Kariba, M. ; Khans, 

 H.y Beng. 



A graBS 5-7 ft. high with solid stems but much more 

 slender than either of the preceding, easily recognised by its 

 very narrow leaves with incurved or rolled up margins and 

 the white silvery narrow panicles 1-2 ft. long with the 

 callus hairs many times as long as the small spikelet. 



Along water courses and swampy ground, common. Pis. Aug.'Oct. 

 Ft. Bept.-Dec. 



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