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4. Sebima sulcatum, comb. nov. Blatter and McCann. — Ischcemum sulcatum, 

 Hack, in Monogr. Androp. 248-; Hook. f. in F.B.I. , vii, 137 ; Cke. ii, 964. 



Description : See Cke. I.e. 



Locality: Deccan : Satara (Lisboa) ; Malsiras, Sholapur Taluk a (Lisboa).— 

 5. M. Country : Black soil banks 35 miles S. of Dharwar (Sedgwick 3745 !) ; 

 banks of black soil fields 7 miles S. of Hubli (Sedgwick and Bell 53421); 

 Dharwar. common (Sedgwick 1819 !, McCann !). 



Distribution : Central 1 Provinces, W. Peninsula. 



9. PoLLiNirauM, Stapf. 



As far as we can make out the diagnosis of this genus was published for the 

 first time in Haines' Botany of Bihar and Orissa, pt. 5 (1924), 1020. 



Densely tufted, perennial herbs with woolly rootstock and basal sheaths. 

 Leaves convolute when old, wiry, mouth of sheaths ciliate. Spikes digitate or 

 fascicled, fascicles with filiform peduncles on a more or less branched panicle. 

 Spikelets 2-nate, sessile and pedicelled, similar, on the articulate, fragile, 

 compressed, not stout rhaehis. Callus densely clothed with long brown hairs. 

 Glumes 4 : Lower involucral glume flattened, 2-3-dentate, dorsally hairy at 

 base, 5-7-nerved, margins inflexed ; upper involucral glume cymbiform, 

 minutely cuspidate, 3-5-nerved, with a slender awn. Lower floral glume 

 hyaline, sparsely ciliate, elliptic, palea finely ciliate ; upper floral glume narrow, 

 conduplicate, entire or 2-toothed shortly awned from the tip or minute sinus, 

 palea broad and nearly as long as the glume, densely ciliate on the top. 



1. PoUinidium angustifolium, Haines Bot. Bihar and Orissa, pt. 5 (1924), 1020. — 

 Ischcemum angtistifolium, Hack in Monogr. Androp. 241; Hook. f. in F B.I. 

 vii, 129 ; Cke. ii, 960,— Spodiopogon angustifolius, Trim in Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb., ser. VI, ii (1833),. 300; Spec. Gram. lc. t. 336.— Pollinia eriopoda, 

 Hance in Journ. Bot. iv (1866), 173.- Andropogon binatus. Retz. Obs, vi, 21. 



Description : Cke. I.e. 



Locality : Gujarat : Rajkot (Woodrow) . — Konkan : Victoria Gardens, Bombay 

 (McCann 4302 ! ) . — Deccan : College Garden, Poona (Grade!); cultivated at 

 Poona (Woodrow). 



Distribution : Afghanistan, India, China, Philippines. 



Uses : In Bihar and Orissa the Sabai grass is used for strings, ropes and 

 mats (the Baib matting of Calcutta) and is very largely employed for paper- 

 making. Fires improve the crop by removing shade. It is easity grown by 

 division of the rootstock or from seed. From seed it yields a crop in about 

 three years. Cattle do not eat it (Haines). For Bombay see Cke. I.e. 



10. Apocopis, Nees. (Cke. ii, 967) 



1. Apocopis vaginatus, Hack, in Oestr. Bot. Zeitschr. 41 (1891), 8 ; Cke. ii, 

 967.— A. Wightii, Nees, var. vaginata, Hook. f. in F.B.L, vii, 143. 



Description : Cke I.e. 



Locality: Gujarat: Ahmed a bad, field (Sedgwick \).— Konkan : Kalyan 

 (Woodrow).— .S". M. Country : Forests W. of Dharwar (Sedgwick \)—Kanara : 

 Halyal (Talbot 2379 !) ; N. Kanara (Woodrow). 



Distrib?dion : Bihar, Central India, Deccan and W. Peninsula, Burma, 

 Ceylon. 



11. Lophopogon, Hack. 



I. Lophopogon tridentatus, Hack, in Engl, and Prantl. Nat. Pflanzenf. ii, pt. 

 ii (1887), 22, 56, Monogr. Androp. 254, t. i. f. 14 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 149 ; 

 Cke. ii, 966.— Andropogon tridentatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 257 .—Saccharum 

 tridentatum, Spreng. Syst. i, 283. 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Khandesh : Tapti, Bhusawal (Blatter and Hallberg 5457 f). 

 —Deccan : Agricultural College compound, Kirkee (Bhide !) : Bapodi near 

 Poona (Gammie 15315 F) ;. Bowadhar near Poona (Garade !)> ; Rahuri (Nana 

 A80!); Igatpuri (McCann 4572!'); Chattarshinji Hill, Poona (Ezekiel!); 

 Deolali (Blatter 9620!, 9610!); Jeur, Sholapur Dist. (Woodrow !).— 5. M . 

 Country: Dharwar, on dry gravelly uplands 2,400 ft., rain 34 inches 

 (Sedgwick 3010!). 



Distribution • Central Provinces, W. Peninsula. 



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