so. IsEiLEMA.j i:iO. GRAMINE^. 



lanceolar in outline, gl. i minutely 2-cuspidate or truncate, smooth 

 and polished below dorsally, keels granulate and scabrid, nerves about 

 4 between the keels. 



Palamaii, in moist gTOuml in the forest ! Fl. Oct. 



Peduncles and peduncle of cluster smooth. Spatheole •25-*3", nob at all 

 acuminate, mostly with a row of small tubercles along- the keel but not on the 

 submarginal nerve, often strongly geniculate on the short i^eduncle and villous at 

 the flexure, margins broadly hyaline or scarious. Invol, spkts. gl. i about 9-nerved 

 altogether (7 n. between the keels of which 2 are imperfect), keels granulate, 

 margin broadly inflexed ; ii 3-n. also with broadly inflexed margins ; st. or 

 3. Sess. spkt. "2", callus bearded, gl. i narrowly lanceolar, keels scabrid except 

 at top and bottom, about 4 imperfect nerves between keels, margins broadly 

 inflexed over ii ; ii polished, suddenly acuminate from one-third way up, 3 n. 

 above, margins wrapping over iii ; iii linear, hyaline, truncate, minutely denti- 

 culate ; iv deeply 2-fid, "05" long including the finely subulate seg-ments, awn vei*y 

 slender, sharply porrect near base, •26" long-, smooth. Styles reaching tip of gl. ii 

 and feathery stigmas exserted far beyond the awn. Grain ellipsoid brown 'Go" 

 long. 



81. APLUDA, L. 



Annual or perennial, leafy and usually tall grasses. Leaves flat, 

 upper reduced to spathiform sheaths. Inflorescence very compound, 

 leafy. Spikelets in triplets (one usually very imperfect) subtended 

 by a spathiform peduncled bract and articulate on a very short 

 peduncle above the bract, usually 2-3 triplets and their bracts together 

 with other imperfect spikelets fascicled on a branchlet Avhich is again 

 subtended by a common spathe, the arrangement being continued 

 indefinitely according to the size of the panicle and the spathes 

 gradually becoming more like ordinary foliage leaves downwards. 

 Triplets (spikes) of one sessile 2-fld. 2-sexual spkt. Avith two pedicelled 

 spikelets seated on a swollen common basal internode with a shelf - 

 like support for the sessile spkt. Sessile spkt. Gl. 4, i chartaceous 

 concave many-nerved, margins not or very narrowly inflexed ; ii 

 laterally compressed 5-7 -nerved dorsally gibbous and keeled ; iii 

 ovate lanceolate hyaline, male, paleate ; iv smaller, 2-sexual, ovate 

 or oblong entire or 2-toothed or 2-fid, aAvned or not, palea small, 

 lodicules 2, cuneate. St. 3, anthers short. Styles free. Grain oblong, 

 embrj-o large. Pedicelled spkts. Avith their pedicels compressed equal 

 and symmetrical to the plane of the sessile spkt., or one displaced 

 laterally smaller and its spkt. reduced to a single glume in continuation 

 of the plane of the pedicel, the other also someAvhat reduced or usually 

 floAvering Avith 4 glumes more or less resembling the sessile spkt., but ii 

 not gibbous and iv never aAvned, usually both fls. male. 



1. A. varia. Hack. A. mutica, L., inc. A. aristata, Willil. Syn. A. 

 varia, Hack. ; Tati, K. ; Dhudhia-sauri, S. 



A very variable grass with the characters of the genus. The two sub-species as 

 here conceived look very different in the field, but Hooker, Stapf and lEackel all 

 unite them into one species. There are many intermediates. 



A. Sub-sp. mutica proper. Syn. A. geniculata, Roxb., and also (?) 

 part of Roxburgh's aristata. 

 A very slender grass creeping, climbing or suberect and geniculate 

 with pale smooth delicate stems. Leaves narroAved above and beloAV, 



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