:29. Aristida.] 139. GR AMINE. E. 



A pest from its Imrbed fruiting glumes penetrating the clothes, helped hy the 

 3-fid awns. Cattle do not touch it. 



4. A. redacta, Stapf. 



Very slender 6" to 2 ft. high with filiform leaves and effuse panicles. 

 Leaves at base and sheaths with fine hairs. Branches capillary, mostly 

 2-nate ending in 1-3 erect or ascending spikelets. Gl. iii very slender 

 and very gradually tapering into the twisted base of the awn which 

 has tAvo very fine branches (sometimes 0) about •2--25" long and a 

 very long slender branch often 1", whole length of glume and column 

 up to trifurcation far exceeding glumes i and ii which are subequal 

 and about -o" long. 



Manbhum (near Barakar), Jr«;-c ! Common in Central Provinces and therefore 

 likelj' to be found in other districts of our province. Fl. Sept.-Oct. Annual. 



Among a group of specimens collected I find one with all three branches of the 

 awn equal, but it is not otherwise distinguishable from redacta. 



The F.B.I, states that "the awn readily separates from the glume, but without 

 any indication of the joint." When green the awn cannot be separated. In some 

 specimens the joint is visible, the glume minutely scabrellous, and I am inclined to 

 think this is a form oifnniculata. 



5. A. funiculata, Trin. c& Rupr. 



Stems many tufted geniculately ascending, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves 

 at base and sometimes sheaths with sparse very long weak hairs. 

 Panicle contracted or narrow, lax with very short branches. Gl. i 

 -and ii -5" but variable (and up to 1", J.D.H.), more or less aristate- 

 tipped, scabrid on the nerves ; iii 1-1 -2" to trifurcation of awn and 

 awn with three very long slender branches 1-1 -5" long. In this species 

 the junction of column of awn with the -2" long glume is distinct. 



Gaya, Nusl-er\ Fl. Oct. 



Gl. iii is scaberulous below the awn-column ; callus pungent, bearded excejjt at 

 the extreme tip. 



30. PEROTIS, Ait. 



A slender grass with short leaves and a feathery spike of very narrow 

 awned spikelets articulate on the slender simple rhachis. Glumes 3, 

 i and ii empty subequal narrowly linear tapering into long capillary 

 awns ; iii minute, flowering, mviticous. Palea and lodicules hyaline. 

 Stamens 3, anthers very short. Styles very short connate at base, 

 stigmas short. Grain much longer than its glumes, narrow. 



1. P. latifolia, Ait. Maria-buch, Gond. 



A prostrate and ascending small grass 3-10" high or occasionally 

 18", branched from the root, stem leafy. Leaves -5-1" rarely 1-5" 

 ovate to lanceolate Avith cordate often bristly or ciliate base; sheath 

 short, ligule ciliate. Spikes 2" only in some plants, usually 3-6" long 

 slender, rhachis and short pedicels pubescent. Spkts. often purplish, 

 scattered all round the rhachis, -08" long with the 2 awns several times 

 longer. Gl. i and ii laterally compressed, someAvhat pubescent and 

 ciliate, 1 -nerved ; iii very small hyaline. 



Characteristic of dry over-grazed sandy soils. Purneah, JTtw^! Santal Parg., 

 Cal. Herb. ! Gya, Mokim ! Ranchi ! Manbhum, Cam}}. ! Puri, Wahh ! Fl., Fr. 

 Sept.-Nov. 



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