1214 BENGAL PLANTS. [Garnotia. 
1091. Garnotia Brogn. 
Erect, perennial, rarely annual grasses ; stems stout or slender ; 
leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets paniculate. very small, narrow, 
terete, 1-flowered, solitary or 2-nate, jointed on their pedicels; 
rachilla not produced beyond the palea. Glumes 3; I. and IL. 
subequal, Be acute, acuminate or awned, strongly 3-veined, 
empty ; s long as IL., lanceolate, acuminate or awned, thinly 
coriaceous or sata daciae quite smooth, faintly 1-veined, paleate, 
2-sexual, tip acute or minutely 2-dentate, awn rarely jointed, 
sometimes geniculate, slender, scaberulous; palea as long as the 
glume, linear lobes minutely auricled at the base; lodicules 2; 
stamens 3; anthers linear; sty dee free ; stigmas with simple hairs, 
laterally exserted. Grain linear or oblong, dorsally compressed, 
free within the glume and palea. 
2669. Garnorra stricta Brogn.; F. B. I. vii. 243; E.D. G. 142. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
A tufted grass; stems 1-3 feet. 
1092. Coelachne R. Br. 
Slender, flaccid, leafy, glabrous marsh grasses; stem erect, 
ascending or creeping below; leaves linear-lanceolate, flat or con- 
volute. Spikelets small, in panicles or interrupted spiciform 
racemes, 2-flowered, not articulate on their pedicels; lower flower 
perfect, upper female; rachilla not articulate at the base, elon- 
gated and slender between the flowering glumes, but not prolonged 
beyond the upper. Glwmes 4; I. and II. membranous, orbicular 
or broadly oblong, empty, persistent, faintly veined, II. largest; 
III. and IV. flowering, persistent on the rachilla, thinly coriaceous, 
veins faint or 0; III. cymbiform, dorsally rounded, margins 
strongly incurved; palea of similar consistence, ovate, keel or 
veins 0 or very obscure, the margins strongly incurved below ; IV. 
much smaller, flat or concave, keels of palea hispidly ciliate ; lodi- 
cules 2, very minute; stamens 8; anthers long, narrow; styles 
free, short ; stigmas eae ics Grain fusiform or oblong, 
nearly terete, free within 
2670. C@LACHNE PULCHELLA R, Br. var. sptcata Hook. f.; F.B. I. 
vii. 271. 
Chota Nagpur 
A short, shank: suberect grass of marshy spots. 
