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This species is closely allied to the cosmopolitan species 

 Cynodon dactylon, Pers. and to another new species Cynodon 

 Barbcri, Rang. & Tad. described in the "Journal of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society," Volume 24, part IV, page 846, and it is 

 therefore named Cynodon intermedins. (See Journal of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society, Volume 26, part I, pages 304 and 305.) 

 This grass differs from Cynodon dactylon, Pers. (i) in not having 

 under-ground stems and having only stems creeping and rooting 

 along the surface of the ground, (2) in having less rigid leaves, (3) 

 by having longer, slenderer, somewhat drooping spikes and 

 narrower spikelets, (4) by having the first two glumes always 

 unequal, the second being longer, (5) by having clavellate pointed 

 hairs on the margins and keels of the third glume and (6) by 

 having smaller anthers. Compared with Cynodon Barberi, this 

 plant is more extensively creeping with longer slender branches 

 and the leaves are usually very much longer, and the third glume 

 is longer than the second. 



Distribution. — So far, this was collected atGokavaram in Goda- 

 vari district No. 8262, in Chingleput No. 11488, in Tinnevelly district 

 Nos. 13129 and 13259, and at Kallar on the Nilgiris No. 13988. 



