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breadth, linear; attenuate at the base into a short, less than "1 in. long, petiole; tapering 
above into a long setaceous twisted point; scabrous above, minutely pubescent beneath 
when young, afterwards glabrous or with scattered soft long hairs near the midrib, 
scabrous on the edges; main vein prominent, secondary veins 2 to 7 pairs, pale; inter- 
_ mediate 5 to 7; transverse veinlets none, but many pellucid glands, some of which give 
the appearance of transverse veinlets when dry; leaf-sheaths striate, glabrous, ending in 
a minutely. hairy ring below the petiole, and produced upwards on either side to 
meet the ligule; Пуше long, membranous, dentate ог lacerate. Inflorescence on leafless 
separate culms, consisting of paniculate faleate racemes fascicled at the nodes, and 
subtended by short linear or lanceolate membranous bracts. Spikelets *ó to ‘7 in. long, 
bearing 2 empty glumes, then 1 to 2 fertile flowers, then a terminal rudimentary 
flower or free rachilla; rachillee cuneate, hairy at the top; empty glumes 2, pale, the lower 
‘3 in. long 3- to 5-nerved, the upper 4 in. long 7- to 9-nerved, acute, ciliate at tip; 
flowering glume *5 in. long, sub-acute, mucronate, scabrous, 7- to 9-nerved, ciliate at tip; 
palea as long as or rather longer than flowering glume, bifid, 2-keeled, 2-nerved on either 
side of keels, keel ciliate at tip, margins of both flowering glume and palea often 
black, Lodicules ovate or obovate, one rather narrower, hyaline, somewhat swollen at base, 
3-veined, fimbriate on the margins. Stamens at first hardly exserted, later protruding; 
anthers bifid at the tip, the filaments sometimes flattened. Ovary glabrous, linear- 
oblong, attenuate into a short st, which is speedily divided into 2 plumose 
stigmas. — Caryopsis linear, *5 in. long, furrowed on one side, surmounted by the base 
of the bifid style. Ruprecht Bamb. 25, tab. ii. 8; Steudel Syn. 335; Munro in Trans, 
Linn. Soc. xxvi. 26; Brandis For, Flora 562, Ind. Forester xii, 206. А. INTERRUPTA, 
Trin. іп Mem. Acad.  Pelersb. Ser. vi. iii. ii. (1835) 620. А. urus, Cleghorn in Јошт, 
Agr. Soc. of India xii. 388 (1865) (7) 
Vara. typica, spikelets distant, іп falcate filiform racemes. 
„ B. glomerata, spikelets collected in groups of 3 to 4 together, in close 
racemes or panicles, 
North-Western Himalaya, from the Ravi to Nepal, ascending from 4,000 feet to 
19,000 feet, but rarely found over 7,000 feet, gathered by numerous collectors. 
This is the well-known low level ringal of the North-Western Himalaya, always 
found in the undergrowth of forests of white oak (Quercus incana), firs and mixed 
trees in more or less shady places, usually on northern slopes or in ravines, It 
has been frequently found in flower, and though, as happened in 1879, years 
of general seeding are of occasional occurrence, a few clumps may be found in 
flower in almost any year. Brandis (Ind. Forester xii. 206) gives Chakrata 6,000 ft. 
in 1881; Manglad Valley 6,000 ft., 1881; Jaunsar 1878; Kulu 1876; and A. F. Broun 
(Ind. Forester хіі. 414) gives Jaunsar 1886. Brandis says that “two kinds аге 
« generally distinguished, one growing at lower elevations (up to 7,000 ft.) thinner, 
* with solid or nearly solid culms and narrow leaves; the other growing between 8,000 
“and 12,000 ft. with shorter, thicker and hollow culms and :broader leaves, the 
* foliage more feathery;" but in his paper in the “ Transactions of the Royal Society of 
« New South Wales reprinted in Jnd. Forester xii. 204," he seems to explain that the 
higher level one is A. spathiflora, Trin. for he has never seen A, falcata above 7,000 
f. Не gives many vernacular names, the chief of which are Дуа! and Ringal. 
