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faintly 5-nerved, with a few long hairs or glabrous, and with 

 margins scaberulous towards the tip to about one-third the length 

 of the glume. The second glume is lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 

 sub-chartaceous, 3-nerved. The third glume is hyaline, nerveless, 

 apex irregularly cut, short ; sometimes this glume is wanting. The 

 fourth glume is a very slender awn of about Yz inch. 



Iig. 168. — lseilenia laxum. 



i. Inner spikeiets consisting of 2-pedicelled male and two female or bisexual spikclets ; 

 2, 3, 4 and 5. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the sessile 

 spikeiets ; 6. ovary ; 7, S and 9. the first, second and the third glume, respectively, of 

 the inner pedicelled spikelet. 



This is a widely spread common grass growing in somewhat 

 moist situations. This is the well-known Chengali gaddi of the 

 Telugu districts. 



Distribution. — All over Madras and Bombay presidencies. 



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