24. Eleusine.] 97. GRAMINEM. [28. Bambtjsa. 



\-\" long and spikelets at right angles to the rachis, is said to be a good 

 fodder by Campbell. It is a common grass flowering in the rains. 



Triticum vulgare, Vill., the wheat, is only very sparingly culti- 

 vated, and Hordeum vulgare, L., the Barley, more frequently, both 

 more especially in the plain at the foot of the Palamau hills. Barley 

 may be distinguished from the bearded wheat (which is the only variety 

 I have seen cultivated) by the spikelets being 2-3-nate in the hollows of 

 the rachis and by there being only 3 glumes (of which 2 are empty). 

 In Triticum the spikelets are solitary and 3-more-fiowered above the 

 empty glumes. The lateral spikelets in Hordeum may be imperfect. 

 There is no special Kol name for either. 



27. Phragmites, Trin. 



1. P. Karka, Trin. Jankai K, The Reed. 



A very large grass 10-20 ft. high with rather cIosb 

 jointed hollow leafy stems, often widely spreading by means 

 of stolons and its creeping roots. L. stiff erect distichous 16* 

 by 1". Panicles very large and compound, grey or brown 

 with innumerable slender rather large spikelets terminating 

 the' very slender branches. Racbilla joinied between the 

 glumes and with long silky hairs above glume III. 



Watery places, sandy beds of nalas and rivers, frequent. Fls. Nov.- 

 Dec. 



L. with scaberulous margins. Panicle 12-18" by 9-12" Spikelets 

 with several glumes, I and II empty persistent, unequal, 3-nerved ; III 

 largest $-£* long lanceolate, 3-nerved acute, others aristulate, all widely 

 spreading in fruit. 



The stems are made into shepherd's pipes, and are used for preparing 

 fish traps (Kumbat, K.) The tender shoots are greatly appreciated by 

 horses but produce diarrhoea in excess. 



28. Bambusa, Schreb. 



Large bamboos, ceespitose or not, stem sheaths very 

 broad. Transverse veins of leaves reduced to a pellucid dash 

 or dot. Spikelets capitate in panicled spikes, 1-many-ftd. 

 Lowest 1-4 glumes empty. Fl.-glumes ovate lanceolate with 

 2-keeled palea, uppermost imperfect. St. 6. Ovary oblong or 

 obovate with hairy tip, stigmas 2-3. Pericarp thin adherent. 

 A. Branches below unarmed. 



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