368 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Yer. — GosJiya, A'ptia, Oondwal, Chanderyot, PhulUa (Balagliat), 

 Ohinkri (Jeypur), Oandi gavung and palriah (North- West Pro- 

 vince? by Eoyle), Ganni (Punjab.) 



Culm glabrous, compressed. Sheaths ciliate at the mouth. 

 Leaves acute, bifarious at the base of the culm, shortly hairy on the 

 upper surface. Spikes 6-12, digitate, secund, 1^-2 inches long. 

 Spikelets two-flowered, imbricated, the lower sessile, hermaphrodite. 

 Outer glumes two, empty, awnless ; flowering glume membranous- 

 keeled, ciliate at the end, with rather long hairs, and produced into 

 a long straight awn. The upper floret consists usually of two empty 

 glumes, often awned. The palea is hairy. This grass is very 

 common all over India and also in Ceylon, and in Australia reckoned 

 to be a good fodder. Cattle eat it till it flowers, after which they 

 will not touch it. 



C. BoxhurgUana, Schult., Mant., II, 239 ; 0. folystacliia, Roxb.^ 

 Fl. Ind., I, 332. 



Culm slender, erect, or decumbent at the base, and then ascend- 

 ing, about two feet high. Leaves smooth, sparingly hairy on the 

 upper surface. Spikes numerous, usually about 20, terminal, digi- 

 tate, or fasciculate, umbelled, 2-2 ^ inches long, secund. Spikelets 

 alternate in two rows, sessile, imbricate, with one hermaphrodite 

 flower. Glumes two, unequal, lanceolate, keeled, smooth, awnless. 

 Flowering glume of the hermaphrodite flower produced into a fine 

 straight awn, ciliate at the margins. The rachis bears at the top 

 two pedunculated awned glumes. 



The plant is rare. My specimens are from the compound of the 

 Grant Medical College and from the neighbourhood of the Victoria 

 Gardens. Is it a variety of Chloris harhata with numerous spikes ? 

 G. tenella, Roxb., Fl Ind., I, 200. 

 Ver. — Kagya, Morhhago grass (Duthie). 



Culm slender, smooth, glabrous, 1 foot high or higher. Leaves 

 smooth, soft, glabrous, long in proportion to the plant, often longer 

 than the stem. Spikes terminal, secund, solitary, or very seldom two, 

 about two inches long. Spikelets 3-5 flowered, distichous or alternate, 

 all hermaphrodite except the last which is often rudimentary. 

 Glumes unequal, broad, lanceolate, acute. Flowering glume broad, 

 cucculate, awned. The author's of the Bomb. Flora state: "This is 



