80. IsEiLEMA.] 139. GRAMINEM. 



1. I. anthephoroides, Hacl^. 



A much tufted grass, very leafy below, with many stems 1-2-5 ft. 

 high sometimes pink, nodes glabrous. Leaves mostly short, longer 

 about 5" by -16", sub-obtuse, ciliate at base and tip of sheaths, cilia 

 ^nth small tubercle-bases, blades with scabrid margins, nerves usually 

 fine and uniform ; ligule of short fine hairs. Panicles long, rather 

 strict, but some of the spatheoles divergent, lower spathes foliaceous, 

 upper with shorter blades, base of blade and top of sheath with very 

 long cilia. Spatheoles cymbiform not acuminate, smooth and glab- 

 rous or minutely tubercled and scaberulous, margins scarious, several 

 spatheoles from each spathe or leaf-sheath. Peduncle of cluster very 

 short •1--2", invol. spikelets broadly oblong -17" long, rounded at tip, 

 their pedicels •04--05" long and nearly as broad at top, compressed, 

 glumes 2 only. Central pedicel slender -02—03" long only. Sessile 

 spkt. -2—22" long, the suddenly tapering part or beak rather longer 

 than the lower broader part : gl. i hispid-hairy on the back on the 

 wider portion, the beak scabrid or scabrellous. 



Anorull Probably also Sambalpur, as it is frequent in the Central Provinces! 

 Fl. Oct.-Xov. Perennial? {Hole thinks annual). 



Spathes often with many tubercles on the marg-ins. Clusters scantily bearded 

 at the base. Invol. spkts, not or very sparsely, ciliaie, pedicels bearded, gl. i with 

 nari'owly inflexed maroins. stron<>iy 3-nerved on the back and almost sulcate 

 either side of n)idrib. 2 other partial nerves between the strong- ones; ii nearly as 

 long, flat, oblong, obtuse, 1-iierved; anthers '09" yellow. Se^s'. spkt. 2-cuspi(iate 

 at tip, 4-nerved between keels; ii as long, narrowly lanceolate with prominent 

 cihate keel on lower tliird, scabrellous above, margin inflexed ;iii very narrow, 

 2-nerved, ciliate ; iv awn -o-'o-S" long, vei-y slender, nearly smooth. 



2. I. laxum, Hack. Mushan, Vern.\ Panda-suali, Or. 



Erect or suberect 1-3 ft. high with many weak stems from a tuft 

 of radical leaves, base of stems covered with loose dry glabrous sheaths, 

 nodes (at least the lower) glabrous. Leaves up to 1" by -15" rarely 

 larger, acute, sometimes ^\ith a few long hairs or cilia towards the base, 

 margins scabrellous ; ligule very short, membranous shortly ciliate. 

 Panicles long slender very strict, spathes distant, erect with several 

 spatheoles and clusters. Spatheoles smooth and glabrous, or scab- 

 rellous on keel, margins often hyaline, -3--45" long. Peduncle 

 scarcely exsertecl •I--2" long only, slender, ending in a concave disc 

 from which the cluster falls. Base of cluster white-bearded. Pedicel 

 of invol. spkt. -02--04" only, and about half as wide. Invol. spkt. 

 glumes 3 ; central pedicel slender -04--07" with scattered erect long 

 white hairs to top but callu.s of sessile spkt. not bearded. Sess. spkt. 

 •17--2" long, tapering from about half way up and base rather con 

 tracted, gl. i depressed dorsally and smooth and polished below, upper 

 half minutely scabrellous or keels almost scabrid. 



Especially on cotton soil. Gy a, -l/o/./;n, frequent ! Manbhum, C7rt/-Are ! Orissa, 

 Wahh\ Perennial (always?/. Fl., Fi-. Oct. -Jan. 



Branches of inflorescence sometimes bearded at the nodes (base of spathes or 

 spathaceous leaf-sheaths), lower spathes passing into leaves. Cluster (from base 

 of involucre to tip of ped. spkt.) '3- -35" long. Invol. spkt. narrow-oblong •I5-"2" 

 long, obtuse or sub-truncate, strongly 3-5-nerved and with 1-2 weaker nerves each 

 side, keels with ereeto-patent white cilia, back minutely scabrellous ; ii sub- 

 chartaceous, as long, acute ; iii hyaline very narrow about two-thirds i ; anthers 

 brown "l" long, tiess, spkt. gl. i narrowly truncate or appearing minutely 



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