1182 © BENGAL PLANTS. (Digitaria, 
Tn all the provinces. 
mall, tufted grass. Hind. Kanka-juriya. 
2560. ‘oreaeiat Royieana Prain. Paspalum Royleanum F. B. I. 
vii. 18 
In all the provinces. 
A slender, tufted grass. 
2561. DiGITARIA PEDICILLARIS Prain. aug pedicillare 
vii. 19. Milium sanguinale F. I. i. 315. 
‘kk the western and northern provinces. 
A slender, tufted grass. Beng. Chiri-chira. 
1056. Paspalum Linn. 
Annual or perennial grasses; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 
late. Spikelets 1-flowered, awnless, in digitate, racemose, OF 
panicled spikes, jointed on the pedicel but not thickened at the 
base. Glwmes 8, or occasionally 2, corresponding to glumes 
IL.-IV. or glumes III. and IV. of Digitaria and Panicum (glume 
I. [of Panicum, &e.] absent) ; II. membranous, epaleate, as long 
as IV. (flowering glume) or shorter, sometimes obsolete; II. 
membranous, as long as flowering glume, Sree: IV. (flowering 
glume) paleate, coriaceous, smooth, shining, the palea coriaceous, 
wi ed margins; stamens 8; styles 2, free; stigmas 
plumose, exserted from near the top of the spikelet. Grain 
oblong, compressed, free, but tightly enclosed between the 
hardened glume and the palea. 
Rachis as wide as the spikelets :-— 
Spikelets glabrous or nearly s so scrobiculatum. 
Spikelets ciliate with long ha conjugatum. 
Rachis narrower than the sdidhon spikelets ........sccsceeeerees distichum. 
2562, PaspALUM scRopicuLaTUM Linn.; F. I. i. 278; F. B. 
vii. 10; E. D. P. 882. P. Kora F. I. i, 278. P. soni 
folium F, I. i, 280. 
In all the provinces. 
An annual grass; sometimes poisonous. Hind. Kodo, 
kodaka ; Beng. Khodod dhan; Santal. Janhe; Uriy4 
odus. 
K 
2563. Basratox conJuGatuM Berg.; F. B. I. vii. 11. 
C. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
An annual grass. 
