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a rare grass according to Roxburgh, and we have not met with it 

 in more than one place^ viz., in the city walls of Surat." I have 

 received specimens from Surat, Dhulia, Poena, and the Loni Reserve 

 on the banks of the Mutta Mulla river, where it is extremely 

 local and by no means plentiful. Mr. Wroughton, Deputy Conser- 

 vator of Forests, has found it in the Late, Murum and Reserves on 

 the bank of the Nira river. " Here it grows in abundance and 

 strongly. I had to wade through patches which were above my 

 knees and covered considerable areas.'' (Wroughton.) 



Duthie has discovered it in Rajputana^ Bundelkhund, and the 

 Central Provinces. The uses of this elegant grass are not known. 

 At Ajmere it is reckoned to be a good fodder. 



C. Digitata, Stend., Synop. PI. Glum., I., 207 ; Melica digitala, 

 Roxb,, Fl. Ind. I., 328; Chloris digitata, ^dgew, Asiat. Journ., 

 1852, p. 183. 



Ver. — Kuncha, Bamna, Mathanya, Nika gadi, and Salakodam gadi 

 (Duthie). 



Culms slender, decumbent at the base and then ascending ; 

 or erect when growing amongst bushes, 4-5 ft. long or longer. 

 Sheaths hairy at the mouth. Leaves pilose, chiefly on the upper sur- 

 face. Spikes 4-5, filiform, secundj terminal, digitate, expanding or 

 divaricate, 6-9 inches long, hairy at the base, spikelets in two 

 rows, sessile. The two outer glumes unequal, shortly awned, 

 3-4 times longer than the 3rd. Flowering glume with a long awn 

 issuing just below the apex at the dorsal surface. The upper glume 

 or neuter floret rudimentary, awned. 



This is a large and beautiful species. When it grows amongst 

 bushes it attains a considerable height. It resembles at first sight 

 some of the large specimens of Panicum sanguinale. It is not 

 uncommon in this Presidency, nor uncommon in Northern India. 

 I have received specimens from Khandeish, Nassick, Thana, and 

 from Southern India. 



C. montana, Roxb., Fl. Ind., I., 329. 



This is a variety of Chloris harhata, with four to six spikes only, 



the spikelets large, like those of 0. tmella, often of a purplish colour. 



There is another beautiful variety of C. harhata with long flexuose 



spikes, 4^-5 inches long ; spikelets smaller than in C. montana, 



