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•ground ; upper glume subehartaceous, slightly shorter, boat-shaped, sublinear 

 |n profile, keeled above, with the keel widened at the apex and passing into a 

 fine bristle 11—12*5 mm. long. 5-nerved with fine transverse veins, ciliate. 

 Lower floret : valve faintly 2- nerved, Iryaline, ciliate, 4 - 5 mm. long, with a 

 narrow, linear valvule of about equal length and a male flower. Upper floret 

 bisexual : valve oblong-lanceolate, 4 mm. long, 2-fid, with narrow lobes, 

 hyaline, 3-nerved, ciliate; awn up to 43 mm. long slender, column spirally 

 twisted, bronze colour, very minutely ciliate along the spiral, bristle whitish, 

 as long as the column or slightly longer ; valvule as long as the valve, linear, 

 subacute, 2-nerved, ciliate. Anthers 3 mm. long. Styles and stigmas pale, 

 2 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, acuminate, green or tinged with 

 purple, 7-8*5 mm. long, glabrous ; lower glume slightly 2-toothed, long-ciliate 

 from the hairs of the tightly inflexed margin, keels very narrowly or obscurely 

 winged, wing rigidly ciliate, intracarinal nerves 5, the inner 3 very prominent 

 and rough ; upper glume lanceolate, longand finely acuminate, hyaline, ciliate, 

 3-nerved ; lower floret as in the sessile spikelet ; upper floret very much like the 

 lower. Stamens smaller in the lower floret or both florets reduced and empty. 



Locality: Gujarat: Porbandar ('Bhide!); Junagad, Kathiawar (Blatter 

 3799 !) ; Surat, city walls (Herb. St. X~. C. 9498 !) ; Ahmedabad (Sedgwick !).— 

 Khandesh: (Lisboa) ; Umalla village, on Tapti river (Blatter and Hallberg 

 .5160!); Toranmal, common on the slopes (McCann 9916 !).— Dcccan : 

 Purandhar Fort (Bhide !, McCann 5106 !) ; Khandala, St. X. Villa compound 

 (McCann 9419!) ; Deolali (Blatter and Hallberg 4548 !) ; Lonavla (Bhide!) ; 

 Panchgani (Blatter and Hallberg B1269!) ; Poona (Woodrow); Poona to 

 Karli (Jacquemont 530).— S. M. Country : Dharwar (Bhide !) ; Haveri (Talbot 

 2186!). 



Distribution : Bengal, Behar, Central Provinces, Rajputana, W. Peninsula, 

 Ceyloi), Tropical Australia, vSomaliland, Abyssinia, Eritrea. Cape deVerd Islands. 



Uses : Used for thatching in Khandesh ( Lisboa) . Considered to be one of the 

 •best fodder grasses and is eaten by cattle even after the fall of the spikes( Haines) . 



3, Sehima ischsemoides, Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.— Arab. 178; Stapf in Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. IX, 37 .—Sehima Koischyi, Hochst. in Flora (1844), 247 '. — Ischcemum 

 Sehima, R. Br. Prodr. I, 204.—- Ischcemum inscalptum, Hcchst. in Schimp. PL 

 Abyss, n. 739 and Flora (1844), 247; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 11,472.— 

 Andropogon Sehima, Steud. Syn PI. Glum. 1, 369. — Andropogon lineatus, 

 Steud. I.e. — Andropogon schaugulensis, Rupr. ex, Steud. I.e. — Andropogon 

 inscalptus, Anders, in Schweinf. Beitr. FL Aeth. 306 {per errorem 310). — 

 Ischczmum laxum, R. Br. Prodr. (1810), 205; Hook. f. in F.B.I. , VII, 136, 

 partim. — Ischcemum laxum var. inscalptum, Hack, in Monogr. Androp. 245. — 

 Andropogon rhynchophorus, Stapf in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. LV (1908) Mem. VIIL 

 101. 



An annual herb. Stems usually in small fascicles, rarely over 45 cm. high, 

 slender., terete, simple, 2- or 3 noded, middle and upper internodes slightly 

 exserted, smooth, glabrous. Leaves glaucous, linear, tapering to a long fine 

 point, up to 13 cm. long, L5-3'l mm. broad, more or less scabrid, midrib fine 

 like the 1 or 2 primary lateral nerves. Racemes solitary, or sometimes an 

 additional 1 or 2 from the upper nodes, 2'5-7'5 cm. long, erect, or slightly 

 ■nodding ; joints and pedicels parallel, sublinear, slightly compressed, 3*1 mm. 

 long, very densely ciliate from white hairs along the angles, otherwise glabrous, 

 tips more or less oblique. Sessile spikelets linear 7-11 mm. long, pale green, 

 with a shortly bearded callus ; lower glume subehartaceous to chartaceous, 

 with an unequally 2 toothed flat and membranous long beak, the teeth of 

 which run out into mucros, deeply grooved, especially below the middle, 

 acutely 2-keeled, the outer keel generally winged upwards, intracarinal nerves 

 3-5, raised, rough, only distinct just above the groove ; upper glume and florets 

 as in Sehima nervosum, excepting the bristle of the glume which is over 

 15'5 mm. long and the awn, the column of which is generally more brown than 

 bronze in colour and has much longer cilia along the spirals. Pedicelled 

 spikelets narrowly lanceolate, long- acuminate, pale green, up to 12 - 5 mm. 

 long, glabrous ; lower glume with two long setaceous teeth, sparingly 

 hairy on the back, otherwise the spikelet as in Sehima nervosum. 



Locality : Deccan (Woodrow 147, Law, ex. Stapf.) 



Distribution : Tropical Arabia, Yemen, Abyssinia, Sudan, Kordofan, Nubia, 

 Cameroons, Cape de Verd Islands- 



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