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terminal, cylindric, a little drooping ; rachis smooth below, where 

 it is occupied by male and neuter flowers, above covered with short 

 brown hair ; all the awns twisted together like the strands of a rope. 

 A very common Grass, and almost as troublesome as Aristida 

 setacea. 



2. A POLYSTACHYUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 261. Culms 4 to 5 

 feet high, straight, branched ; leaves ensiform, straight, acute, ciliate 

 at the base ; spikes simple, many together from the axils of the 

 leaves, each elevated on a long-jointed sheathed peduncle, 1 to 2 

 inches long ; lower part of the spike perfectly smooth, upper part of 

 the rachis clothed with stiff, dark-brown hair ; awns twisted 

 together, as in the preceding. Rather a rare Grass. Our specimens 

 were found on the western side of the Mahableshwur hills. 



3. A TENELLUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 254. A delicate tall Grass; 

 culm 2 to 3 feet long at the base, resting on the ground, branched, 

 scarcely so thick as a pack thread ; nodes villous ; leaves slender, 

 with a few hairs near the base ; spikes paired, erect, short-pedicelled, 

 outside imbricated with 2 rows of sessile awned, hermaphrodite 

 flowers; inside with rows of pedicelled neuter, awnless ones ; rachis 

 jointed and hairy ; exterior glume oblong, striated, hairy, 3-toothed. 

 Near Surat. 



4. A MOLLICOMUS, Kunth. Gram, i, t. 96. Culm and branches 

 grooved, the apex and upper nodes villous ; leaves linear, flat, 

 roughish; sheaths keeled, smooth ; spikes terminal, digitate, 2 to 4; 

 spikelets in 4 series, clothed with silky hairs ; hermaphrodite 

 florets with long awns ; sterile ones pedicelled and mutic ; rachis 

 and pedicels hairy on one side, awri rough, spirally twisted. This 

 has hitherto been supposed to be confined to the Mauritius and 

 Timor, but it is common in the black-soil around Surat. It grows 

 to the height of 4 to 5 feet. 



5. A SCANDENS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 258. Culms long, branched, 

 creeping or climbing over bushes, emitting long roots from the 

 joints, smooth and deeply grooved on one side, flower-bearing 

 extremities erect, 1 to 2 feet long ; nodes woolly ; leaves sometimes 

 a little hairy on the upper side ; spikes generally from 3 to 6, 

 terminal, short-pedicelled, subpanicled ; flowers in approximate 

 pairs, one hermaphrodite and sessile, the other male and pedi- 

 celled ; glumes lanceolate, hairy. In the Deccan, common. Native 

 name " Marwail" ; sold as fodder. 



6. A IWARANCUSA, Roxb. Root perennial, with the fibres 

 aromatic ; culms erect, generally simple, 2 to 6 feet high, smooth ; 

 leaves elongated, linear ; margins hispid, panicle linear, intercepted, 

 composed of numerous fascicles of slender, pedicelled, thin spikes 

 of 5 joints, each fascicle furnished with its own proper boat-shaped 



