1194 . BENGAL PLANTS. [ Mnesithea. 
In all the provinces. ; 
A slender, erect grass, 2-4 feet high. Beng. Kurki. 
41074. Apluda Linn. 
A tall, slender, perennial grass; stems leafy, geniculately 
cending or subscandent, branched ; Jeaves narrow, flat, more or 
tebe petioled; upper sheaths spathiform. Spikes deformed, in @ 
leafy panicle, each in a spathiform bract ; base of spikes rounded, 
often utricular, bearing in front a sessile, 2-sexual spikelet, pro- 
longed above the base into 2 flat, linear, truncate, parallel arms, 
one terminated by a solitary, minute glume, the other by the 
upper spikelet. Glumes of both spikelets 4; I. and II. empty, 
.and IV. delicately membranous; glume I. of lower spikelet 
largest, anticous, linear-oblong, coriaceous, rigid; Il. thinner, 
tumid, beaked, dorsally gibbous, 7-veined; ITI. oblong, acute, 
3-veined, 3-androus or neuter; IV. short, conan deeply 2-fid, 
awned in the sinus, female or bisexual; palea of III. linear, 
2-veined, of IV. minute, ovate. Upper spikelet dorsally com- 
pressed; glume I. oblong, pen many-veined, herbaceous, 
margins narrowly incurved; chartaceous, ovate- lanceolate, 
acuminate, 3-veined ; III. and a eblang: 1-veined, III. 3-androus, 
IV. female or imperfectly 2-sexual; palee of III. and IV. as in 
lower spikelets ; lodicules 2, cuneate ; stamens 3; anthers linear; 
styles short, free ; stigmas short, penicillate. Grain oblong, sub- 
compressed. 
Glume IY. rarely awned, II. dorsally gibbous ; amen above the gibbosity 
depressed ria subsp. mutica. 
Glume IV, awned, II. dorsally less gibbous ......... varia subsp. aristata. 
2598. ApLupA varia Hack. aa wang Hack.; F. B. L 
vii. 150. A. geniculata F. 
N. Bengal ; C. Bengal; E. potters " Sundribuns. 
A leafy, perennial grass. 
cogk pet ARISTATA jag F. B. I. vii. 150. A. aristata 
a all the mdse provinces, 
A leafy, perennial grass. Vernac. Goroma. 
1075. Ischeemum Linn. 
Annual or perennial gr: ; leaves narrow. Spikes solitary, 
digitate or fei, ted internodes of rachis and pedicels 
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