139. GRAMIXEJ:. :21. Chloris. 



the length of gl. iii and bearing a minute rudimentary glume. Grain 

 brown, oblong or fusiform-oblong, -04:— 05" long. 



On sandy soil throughout the province, but only on damp ground in the dryer 

 districts ! Fl., Fr. most of the year according to locality. 



One of the best fodders, perhaps the best for horses, but rather difficult to collect, 

 and it requires beating and winno-vring to get rid of the dirt. 



It extends into Etirope and is the English Doff'^ Tooth grass, the German 

 Hundizahn and the American Bermuda Gra^$. A preparation is applied by the 

 Santals in a parasitic disease which attacks the spaces between the toes, Campbell. 

 Nadkarni states that the fresh expressed juice of the grass is astringent. It is 

 also used in India (as on the Continent, where it is officinal) as a ditiretic and 

 urinary sedative in cystitis and other diseases. 



Var. suberectum. 



A stout very nearly erect tufted form 10-1.5" high with long stolons. 

 Leaves 2-3" long, by -15 — 22" broad, acuminate, rather strongly 

 3-nerved each side of midrib. Spikes 5-8, 2-3-5' long. Spkts. -09" 

 long, 1 -seriate, imbricate. 



Singbhum I Rajmahal Hills, Kurz I 



21. CHLORIS, Sir. 

 Perennial rarely annual, with usually flat leaves. Spikelets 2- 

 seriate closely unilaterally arranged on solitary fascicled or shortly 

 spicate spikes at the top of the stems, sometimes minutely pedicelled, 

 not jointed at the base ; rhachilla jointed at the base and usually 

 produced beyond gl. iii and bearing 1 or more empty glumes. Gl. 

 i, narrow, 1 -nerved, keeled, acute, usually posterior ; ii larger, often 

 shortly awned ; iii 1-3-nerved, acute, obtuse or 2-toothed, usually 

 awned ; palea rather shorter, 2-nerved, complicate. Lod. 2. Anthers 

 small. Styles free. Grain narrow, free, often with loose pericarp. 



A. Rhachilla not at all produced beyond gl. iii : — 



Awn of iii T-l' long . . . ' , ^ 1. pallida. 



B. Rhachilla produced beyond gl. iii :— 



1. Gl. at the end of rhachilla reduced to simple awns (or gl. very 



minute, flat in incomplefa) -. — 

 Annual, simole. Spikes l'o-2.5". Awns on rhachilla 2-3 . 2. delicatida. 

 Perennial, tufted. Spikes 4-75'. Awn on rhachilla 1 . , y, incomplefa. 



2. Rhachilla Ijearinsr 1-2 awned tubular or inflated glumes : — 



Gl. ii shortly awned. Barren gl. i, semi-tubtilar . . . i. rirgafa 

 Gl. ii awnless. Barren gl. ii, subglobose 5. barbata. 



3. Rhachilla bearing 3-i barren glumes. Spkts. 4-awned alto- 



gether 6. montana. 



1. C. pallida, HooJ:. f. 



A slender tufted grass 10-18" high with erect very narrow linear 

 leaves 4-8" long by •08--1" broad, sparsely hairy inside towards the 

 base and ligule of a few hairs, tip filiform. Spikes 1-3 erect digitate 

 3-5" long by •15--2" broad, yellow, closely pectinate with the two 

 rows of erecto-patent long-awned spikelets. Spikelets narrow taper- 

 ins, about •1--12" long without the awns; gl. i -15 — 17" including 

 the short awn, lanceolate ; ii -13" also with a short awn, both thinly 

 hairy on keels ; iii silky and with bearded base, -08" without the 

 long -7-1" awn, tip minutely notched : palea much narrower, ciliate 

 on keel. Grain linear -05", including the pericarp which is produced 

 beyond the seed. 



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