1218 BEN GAL PLANTS. [Elytrophorus. 
shih fusiform or narrowly oblong, free ; pericarp loose at both 
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an, ELYTROPHORUS ARTICULATUS Beauv.; F. B. I. v 
Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal; E. Bengal, pauenae 
An erect, annual grass, 
1098. Arundo Linn. 
Tall, stout, perennial grasses; leaves flat. Spikelets few- 
flowered, in large, decompound panicles, laterally eg sree 
flowers mostly 2-sexual ; rachilla jointed at the base and betwee 
em 
glabrous, scarious, persistent, 2-nerved ; flowering glumes lanceo- 
late, acuminate or 2-fid, with a aa awn, 8-nerved, dorsally hairy 
all over below the middle; palea hyaline, 2-nerved; lodicules 2, 
obovate; stamens 3; ovary glabrous; styles distinct; stigmas 
plumose. Grain oblong. 
2 Arunpo Donax Linn.; F. B. I. vii. 302; E. D. A. 1538. 
A, bengalensis F. 1.1. 847. A. bifaria F. I. i. 348 
Behar; W. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
A tall, stout, perennial grass; stem 6-10 feet high. 
Beng. Gaba-nal. 
1099. Phragmites Trin. 
Tall, perennial grasses ; leaves long. Spikelets 3-7-flowered, in 
decompound panicles, not jointed on the pedicels, laterally sub- 
compressed; rachilla jointed between the flowering glumes and 
above glume III, silkily penicillate, with very long hairs, not 
produced beyond the flowering glumes. Gluwmes all glabrous; 1. 
and IT. unequal, oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved, membranous, persis- 
tent ; III. much longer, ly oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, 
male or neuter, persistent ; flowering glumes subulate-lanceolate, 
subaristate, —— palea much shorter than glume; lodicules 2, 
obtuse; stam 1-3; styles 2, terminal, distinct; stigmas 
plumose. desi: oblong, terete. 
Pedicels glabrous .... Karka. 
Pedicels villous with silky hairs Karka var. cineta. 
2681. Puracmires Karka Trin. ; F, B. I. vii. 804. P. Roxburgh 
D, P, 617. Arundo Karka F. I. i, 348 
