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unequal, 3-nerved. One of the commonest Grasses about culti- 

 vated fields. Syn. Panicum colonum, Linn. sp. 84; P tetrasta- 

 chyon, Forsk. Descr. 19. 



3. O CRUSGALLI, Kunth. Gram, i, 44. A delicate, rather 

 rare species; culms filiform, creeping at the base, above nearly 

 erect; leaves soft, downy; spikes compound, alternate, secund ; 

 flowers imbricated in 2 rows ; glumes and outer palea of the neuter 

 floret hispid, awned, or mucronate. Syn. Panicum crus-corvi, and 

 P crus-galli, Linn. sp. 83, 84. Our specimens were found near Surat. 



4. O STAGNINUS, Kunth. Gram, i, 44. Culms 1 to 4 feet high, 

 ascending; leaves soft and smooth; mouth only of the sheaths 

 ciliate ; spike compound, erect ; partial ones alternate ; spikelets 

 ovate-oblong, tubercled, bristly and ciliate ; lower glume ovate- 

 elliptic, acute; a half shorter than the flower; upper one awned. 

 Syn. Panicum stagninum, Willd. sp. i, 337. Generally found in 

 wet, cultivated ground, and about ditches. 



5. O LANCEOLATUS, Kunth. Gram i, 45. Culms creeping and 

 branched, with their extremities suberect; leaves lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, undulated, about 4 inches long and nearly 1 broad, very 

 unequal-sided; mouths of the sheaths bearded; panicle terminal, 

 naked, consisting of distant-spreading spikes ; florets sessile, soli- 

 tary, subtended by a few long hairs ; lower glume narrow, ending 

 in a long, purple awn ; upper broader, oblong and mucronate. About 

 the foot of the Ghauts, under the shade of trees ; Kineshwur. Syn. 

 Panicum lanceolatum, Retz., and P aristatum, Retz. Obs. iv, 17. 



6. ARUNDINELLA, Raddi. 



1. A TENELLA, Nees (?). Six inches to 1 foot high; culms 

 several, from the same root; sheaths about 1 inch long, ciliate alon^ 

 the margins ; leaves few, 1 to 3 inches long, and 3 to 9 lines broad 

 in the middle, very tender, a little narrowed at the base, and acumi- 

 nate at the apex, sprinkled on both sides with a few slender, stiff 

 hairs ; flowers in a panicle of the most delicate and slender kind ; 

 pedicels long, capillary, solitary or more frequently twin on the 

 branches of the panicle ; spikelets 2-flowered, lower flower barren, 

 the upper fertile ; glumes lanceolate acuminate, unequal, the upper 

 larger, with a long acumen, and minutely bifid at the apex, with 3 

 to 5 green veins clothed with hairs rising from papilli ; paleag of 

 the lower flower membranous, and, like the glumes of the upper 

 flower, much smaller, of a dark-brown colour, membranous, scabrous 

 at the apex, and with 2 tufts of bristly hairs at the base ; the lower 

 paleae bifid at the apex, and furnished with a long, bent awn. One 

 of the commonest Grasses at Mahableshwur, under the shade of the 

 shrubs and trees. 



