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slightly longer than Glume III. Glume III (floral glume) with a complete 

 flower, obliquely oblong to ovate, subacute, truncate or 2-toothed with a 

 minute mucro between sub-chartaceous, boat-shaped ; nerves 3 pale, (not 

 green as in C. dactylon), one median and the other two marginal not promi- 

 nent, keel and margins densely pilose with distinctly clavellate hairs. 



Palea firmly membranous, equal to slightly smaller than the third glume, 

 linear oblong, two-keeled, densely hairy with clavellate hairs along the 

 keels, 2-nerved, margins glabrous. 



Lodicules 2 small. 



Anthers 3. 



Ovary glabrous, styles distinct and stigma feathery. Grain oblong, free 

 . within the glumes, smooth, pale, transparent, obscurely trigonous, the 

 embryo scar about one-third to half the length of the grain. f'-^ 



Distribution : — Palamcotta, Tinnevelly District ; Samalkota, Godavari 

 District— 0. A. Barber. Alluru, Bezwada, Maylavaram and Jaggayyapet, 

 Guntur and Kistna Districts — C. Tadulingam. Vandalur and Sithamur, 

 and Egmore, Madras-Chingleput District, Coimbatore, Coimbatore Dis- 

 trict ; — K. Rangachari. 



This species is closely allied to Cynodon dactylon, Pers., but differs from 

 it in the following respects : — The absence of underground stoloniferous 

 branches ; leaves always being short and not pungent ; spikes not exceed- 

 ing 5 ; the second glume equal to or slightly longer than the third glume 

 and never shorter ; clavellate hairs on the keel and the margins of the third 

 glume and also on the keels of the palea. 



Fig. 1. A portion of the plant. 



Fig. 2. Parts of the spike and spikelet. 



1. Front and back views of a small portion of the spike. 



2. Spikelet. 



3. Spikelet with flower. (Note the rachilla behind the palea 



of the third glume without any glume.) 



4. Third glume and its palea. (Note the rachilla with a 



minute glume behind the palea.) 



5. Ovary. 



6. Lodicules. 



7. Grain. 



8. Clavellate hairs, 



K. RANGACHARI. 

 12th September 1916. 



