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more or less 2-keeled with inflexed margins, the upper 1-3-nerved, keeled. 

 Lower floral glume empty, sometimes much reduced, muticous, hyaline ; upper 

 floral glume very short, 2-lobed, awned, pale small or 0. Lodicules small, 

 cuneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas linear, laterally ex-erted- Grain oblong ; embryo 

 almost half the length of the grain or longer ; hilum basal, punctiform. 

 Species about 25, in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. 



1. Ra :emes many, 6-12 1- E. argentea. 



2. Racemes few, 2-4 2. E. fimbriata. 



1. Eulalia argentea, Brogn. Voy. Coq. Hot. 92; Haines Bot. Bihar and 

 Orissa, 1018.— Pollinia argentea, Trim in Bull Sc Acad. Petersb. i (1836), 71 ; 

 Hackel Monogr. Androp. 162 ; Hook, f . in F. B. I. vii, 111 ; Cke. ii, 950. — 

 P. tristac/iya, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 368 {partim) ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 26, t. Si.—Erianthushexastachyus, Hochst, in Hohen. PI. Ind. Or. no. 279. 

 — E. Roxburghii, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. viii, 117 ' .—Andropogon tristachyus, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 256. 



Description: Cke. ii, 950. 



Locality: Khandesh : Tapti Valley, railway line (Bhide !).— Konkan : Ratna- 

 giri (Woodrow) -; Near Ratnagiri (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona !) ; St. Xavier's 

 College compound, Bombay (McCann 4510 !) ; Parsik Hill (McCann 9715 !) ; 

 above Kenery Caves (McCann 9723!) ; Ghatkoper, Horse-shoe Valley (McCann 

 9891!); Marine Lines, Bombay (Hallberg 9889!); Bassein (McCann 9475!); 

 Vetora (Sabnis 33507 \).—Deccan : Lonavla (Bhide!, McCann!, Woodrow, 

 Lisboa) ; Khandala, very common (McCann 9716 ! ) ; Lohagad, way up (MiCann. 

 9718 ! ; Panchgani (Blatter 5388 !. Blatter and Hallberg B. 1213 !, McCann !) ; 

 Mawal (Woodrow)-— 5. M . Country: Dharwar District (Sedgwick 2112!); 

 Dastikop (Sedgwick 2088 !) ; Castle Rock (Bhide !, McCann A. 304 !).— Kanara: 

 SuppaTaluka(Talbot 2257!); Jugglepet(Talbot 1569!) ; Yellapore (Talbot 1525!); 

 Halyal (Talbot 2224!); Kumberwada (Talbot 2257!); Dandeli (Talbot 

 2267 !). 



Distribution : Throughout India, Ceylon, Malaya, Australia. 



2. Eulalia fimbriata. Blatter and McCann, comb, nova.— Pollinia fimbriata, 

 Hackel Monogr. Androp. 164 ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 112 ; Cke. ii, 950. 



Description .-Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Konkan: Dahe Forest (Ryan 708!)'; Uran (McCann, 5123!); 

 Trombay (McCann 305!) ; Matherau, Monkey Point (D'Almeida A. 254 ! , 

 A. 255 !). — Deccan : Lonavla (Chibber 11 !, Woodrow 173) ; Khandala, common 

 (McCann 5300!). 



Distribution. W. Himalaya, W. Peninsula, Pegu. 



26. Sorghum, Pers. Syn. i, 101 ; Stapf Fl. Trop. Afr., ix, 104. 

 Annual or perennial, often robust, grasses. Leaf -blades convolute in bud, 

 usually flat, herbaceous, often large. Panicles erect or nodding with verticillate 

 or scattered branches, often large, in the spontaneous species mostly loose, in 

 the cultivated forms frequently variously contracted to compact. Spikelets 

 2-nate, those of each pair differing in shape and sex, one sessile, the other 

 pedicelled or represented by a pedicel only, on the articulate fragile or (in 

 cultivated forms) tough rhachis of panicled few- (sometimes- 1 or, the other 

 extreme, 6-8-) jointed racemes, the sessile spikelet falling with the contiguous 

 joint and the accompanying pedicelled spikelet or at least its pedicel. Florets 

 2, lower reduced to an empty valve, upper hermaphrodite in the sessile, male 

 or neuter in the pedicelled spikelets, if present at all. Sessile spikelet: In- 

 volucral glumes equal, coriaceous, at least when mature, rarely permanently 

 chartaceous, muticous. Lower with a broad flattened or convex back with the 

 margins narrowly inflexed near the tips and elsewhere involute. Upper 

 cymbiform with narrow hyaline, usually upwards ciliate margins. Lower floral 

 glume empty, hyaline, ciliate, 2-nervedor nerveless. Upper oblong to ovate, 

 1-3-nerved, 2-lobed or dentate, with the lobes free or more or less adnate to a 

 perfect or variously reduced awn or a mucro rising from the sinus, rarely 

 entire and mucronate or muticous, Pale hyaline, often minute or 0. Lodi- 

 cules 2, ciliate or glabrous. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally exserted ; styles 

 terminal or subterminal. Grain in the wild species mostly obovoid, dorsally 

 compressed, in cultivated forms frequently enlarged, globose or subglobose ; 

 embryo as long or slightly longer than half the grain. Pedicelled spikelets, if 

 present, much narrower than the sessile, lanceolate to subulate, male or neuter 



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