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places in the plains, and at low elevations on the hills of N. India, and 

 extends to Australia. It would apparently be correct to say that this plant is 

 found all over India and Ceylon. We are not so sure about Australia. 



The question now arises whether Hemarthria fasciculata, Kunth occurs in 

 the Presidency. Wight, Roxburgh, Hook. f. and Duthie mention it for other 

 parts of India and Duthie found it in the same localities where he gathered the 

 previous spscies, but we have no reliable information at hand to say that it has 

 been found in the Bombay Presidency. In all probability it does occur in our 

 parts. In order to help botanists to clear up this point we add Stapf 's descrip- 

 tion and synonymy of H. fasciculata, Kunth. At the same time it will be good 

 to remember what Hackel says under Rottboellia compressa, Linn, f . : ' Species 

 valde polymorpha ; varietates sequentes in speciminibus typicis satis distinctcs, 

 ed el ipsa: ita variabiles, ut nullus eartim characterum constans, formceque 

 intermedins frequentes.'' 



Hemarthria fasciculata Kunth Rev. Gram, i, 153, and Enum. i, 465; Hack, 

 in Mart. PI. Bras. II, iii, 314, t. 72, fig. 2.—H. capensis, Trin. Androp. 

 in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6 me ser. ii, 2\%. — Rottboellia compressa, Linn. f. var. 

 fasciculata. Hack. Monog. Androp. 286 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 153 ; Rottboellia 

 compressa, Linn. f. ; Cke. ii, 952, partim. — Rottboellia fasciculata, Lam. 

 Illustr. i,20±. —Lodicularia fasciculata, Link. Hort. Berol. i, 6. — Lo die id 'aria 

 capensis, Nees Fl. Afr. Anstr. 128. — Lepturus fasciculata, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 

 123. 



Description : A perennial grass. Stems erect or more often ascending, 

 sometimes from a long decumbent rooting base, usually branched. 30 cm. to 

 l - 5m. high, many-noded, compressed, glabrous. Leaves linear, gradually 

 tapering, acute, very variable in length and width, up to 23 cm by 4 mm ; 

 sheaths shorter or the lower longer than the internodes, compressed, keeled, 

 often ciliate towards the mouth, otherwise glabrous or almost so ; ligules 

 membranous, very short, ciliate. Racemes usually fascicled, straight or 

 curved, tapering to a slender point formtd by the terminal spikelet, ultimately 

 more or less fragile. Sessile spikelet linear-. -blong to oblong, from a short 

 obtriangular more or less conspicuous glabrous callus, 4-5'5 mm. long, glabrous. 

 Lower glume coriaceous, opaque, usually more or less constricted below the 

 obtuse entire or emarginate. 2-keeled and very narrowly winged tips, smooth, 

 intracarinal nerves about 7 ; upper broadly oblong-lanceolate, acute, mem- 

 branous except at the hardened tip, 3-nerved. Lower floret : Valve oblong, 

 subobtuse, distinctly shorter than the glumes, 2-nerved. Upper floret: Valve 

 slightly shorter, ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless. Anthers r5-2'3 mm. long. 

 Stigmas about 1*5 mm. long, laterally exserted. Grain oblong, dorsally com- 

 pressed, about l"5mm. long, reddish ; scutellum exceeding half the length of 

 the grain ; hilum punctiform, subhasal. Pedicelled spikelet similar in sex and 

 shape to the sessile, but slightly longer, with the lower glume more acuminate 

 and acute, and the upper sharply mucronate, the mucro somewhat exceeding 

 the lower glume. 



Distribution : British E. Africa, Mozambique District, throughout Africa in 

 the Mediterranean region (Stapf), India, America, probably introduced. 



14. Manistjris, Linn. f. 

 Species 1.— Throughout the tropics. 



1. Manisuris granulans, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. (1788), 25 ; Beauv. Agrost. 

 t. xxi, Fig. 10 ; Roxb. PI. Corom. ii, 11, t. 118; Mart, and Eichl. Fl. Bras, ii, 

 2, t. 46 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 314 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 18, Fodd. 

 Grass, N. India. 29, t. 46 ; Hook. f. F.B.I, vii, 159 ; Cke. ii, 955 ; Stapf Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. ix, 57. — M. polystachya, Beauv. Fl. Owar. et. Ben. t. 14.—Cenchrus 

 granularis Linn. Mant. ii, App. 575. — Hackelochloi granularis, O. Ktze. Rev. 

 Gen. PL ii, 776,—Rytilix granularis, Skeels in U.S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PL 

 Industr. Bull. 282 (1913), 20. 



Locality: Gujarat: Charodi (Gammie 16534 !) .—Konkan : Wada Taluka 

 (Ryan 600 !) ; Mulgaum in Salsette, open grass land (McCann 3642 !) .—Deccan : 

 Poona (Wocdrow ! Cooke) ; Deolali (Blatter and Hallberg 4552!) ; Igatpuri 

 cMcCann 4573!); Railway line, Kirkee to Poona (Garade 8231!) ; Chattar- 

 (hinji Hill, Poopa (Ezekiel !) ; Khandala (Woodrow), behind Hotel 



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