No. 48. On a new Indian Urochloa [1922]. 8 
subplanae, postice valde convexae, virides, glabrae; glumae steriles 
valde inaequales, gluma I tertiam spiculam subaequans, subobtusa, 
5-nervis, gluma II spiculam aequans, acutissima, elevato-7—9-nervis, 
gluma III priori isomorpha plana, 5-nervis, dorso glabra, sed prope 
marginem tuberculatim echinulata, nisi inferne et superne prope 
marginem glabra, in axilla paleam floris abortivi fovente; palea 
inferior floris hermaphroditi quam glumae praecedentes brevior, ex 
elliptico apice rotundata, rigida, opaca, bruneo-straminea, optime 
rugulosa, longe caudata, 5-nervis, inferne bullata; palea superior 
dense punctulato-rugulosa, bicarinata, marginibus inflexis laevibus. 
Hab. India orient.; Southern Maratha Country and North Canara; 
Bombay Presidency. Collected and presented by A. P. Young, Esq., 
LN. anno 1884 ex Herbario Musei Britannici in Herb. Lugd. Batav. 
sub no. 908.99— 9300. 
Var. velutina Henr. nov. var. Differt a typo spiculis dense 
pubescentibus. i 
Hab. Cum praecedente Young legit, in Herb. Lugd. Bat. sub 
no. 908.83—143. ; 
The only species of the genus Urochloa that comes near to the 
new one is the already mentioned Urochloa Helopus, Srapr. If more 
material will be found the Urochloa marathensis may prove to be 
identical with this species, but the hairs of the fringe in the Poona 
plant are not springing from papillae as in the new species, where 
they are imbedded on crateriform glandlike tubercles. The fertile 
valve is very bullate in the lower part, and on the back of the 
fruit just below the long mucro there are two nodules (evidently 
the thickened ends of the marginal nerves of the two paleae). I never 
saw them so manifest in the allied Urochloa Helopus. These cha- 
racters combined with the glaucous aspect of the plant seem to me 
Sufficient to separate the two species. 
