Aug. 1, 1917. J Revision of the Flora of the Bombay Presidency 



9-115!); Alibag, sandy shore (Ezekiel !) ; Uran (McCaan 5126!); Salsette 

 (Jacquemont710) .— Deccan: Khandala, very common (McCann 9612 !); Ganesh- 

 khind Bot. Gard, (Herb. Econ. Rot. Poona!); Igatpuri (Blatter and Hall. 

 3927A!).— S. M. Country: Mngad, hill-side (Sedgwick 1823!); Castle Rock 

 (Bhide!).— N. Kanara : Yellapore (Talbot 1526!); Halyal, borders of rice 

 fields (Talbot 2141!)! Ankola ^Mamlatdar of Ankola!) ; Karwar, sea coast, 

 sandy soil near Gaol (Talbot 2821 !) ; Gersoppa Falls (McCann !) ; Common 

 throughout Kanara (McCann !) ; Kakti (Woodrow). 

 Distribution : India, Ceylon, China, Malaya, Australia. 



11. Ischaemum timorense, Kunth Revis. Gram, i, 369, t. 98 ; Hack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 229 ; F. B. I. vii, 136 : -7. tenellum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 323. 



Stem 15-45 cm. high, slender, branched, straggling, nodes glabrous, or 

 sparingly bearded. Leaves 2-5-10 cm. long, sessile and petioled, linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or sparsely hairy, base of upper rounded. 

 of lower rounded ; sheath lax, mouth hairy ; ligule obscure. Spikes 2-3, 

 25-50 mm. long, rather slender, sparingly villous; joints and pedicels about 

 half as long as the spikelets, nearly equal, shortly ciliate. Sessile spike- 

 lets 2*5-3 mm. long, greenish or with green nerves ; callus narrow, long- 

 bearded. Lower involucral glume ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 bicuspidate, 5-9-nerved, base ventricose, margins broadly involute below, 

 subauricled, dorsally convex, polished, nerves strong. Upper involucral bracts 

 longer, acuminate or aristulate, dorsally rounded, recurved, 3-5-nerved, tip 

 2-toothed, dorsally usually ciliate. Lower floral glume lanceolate, falcate, 

 palea linear-oblong. Upper floral glume shore, 2-lobed, glabrous, awn in the 

 cleft very slender, shortly exserted. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile 

 awned. 



Locality: Sind: Sukkur (Mamlatdar of Sukkur !).— Deccan: Mahableshwar, 

 common (Sedgwick and Bell 4503!) ; Lonavla (Bbide!) ; Khandala, behind 

 the Saddle (McCann 9915!).— 5. M. Country: Deciduous forests W. of 

 Dharwar (Sedgwick and Bell 4500!) ; Devikop (Sedgwick 2170!) ; S. W. of 

 Dharwar (Sedgwick and Bell 4429!); Londa (Bhide !). —Kanara : Suppa 

 (Talbot 2101 !) ; Yellapore (Talbot 2327 !) ; Dandeli (Talbot 2494 !). 



Distribution : Burma, Chittagong, Bsngal, Central Provinces, Sind, W. 

 Peninsula, Ceylon, Malaya, Pacific Islands. 



7. Thelepogon, Roth. (Cke. ii, 971). 



Species 1. — India and tropical Africa.. 



1. Thelepogon elegans, Roth, ex Roem. and Schult. Syst. ii, 788; Nov. 

 PL Sp. 62; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 267; F. B. I. vii, 148; Cke. ii, 671.— 

 Andropogon princeps, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii, 470, t. 102 — Rhiniachne 

 princeps, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. PI. Glum, i, 360. — Jardinea abyssinica, 

 Steud. I.e.— Rhytachne princeps, Durand and Schinz. Consp. Fl. Afr. v, 700. 



Vern. Names: Bodga (Kairaj, Bhatad (Thana), Bangadi (Poona), Pharoda 

 (Ahmednagar). 



Description : Cke. I.e. 



Locality : Gujarat : Ahmedabad (Sedgwick !) ; Kaira (ex Burns).— Konkan: 

 Matheran (D' Almeida A257 !) ; Thana (ex Burns).— Deccan : Najar to Pasur 

 Rd. (Paranjpe!); Lina Hill, Nasik District (Blatter and Hallberg A79!, 

 4544!); Katraj Ghat (Gammie!); Bairawadi, Purandhar (McCann 5053!); 

 Panchgani (Blatter and Hall. B1267 !) ; Poona (Woodrow) ; Hewra (Dalzell) ; 

 near Nasik (Edgeworth) ; Ahmednagar (ex Burns).— 5. M. Country : Dharwar 

 (Sedgwick 1824 !) ; Alnawar (Talbot 2303 !) ; Belgaum (Ritchie 812).— Kanara : 

 Halyal (Talbot 2094 !, 2142 !). 



Distribution : Central India, W. Peninsula, Tropical Africa. 



Uses : Eaten by horses, although very bitter (Dalzell). 



8. Sehima, Forsk. Fl. Aegypt. 

 Arab. 178 ; Stapf . in Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 35. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Blades convolute when young, at length 

 flat, narrow ; ligules a line of stiff hairs. Racemes usually gently curved, 

 dorsiventrally and laterally compressed, with the pedicelled spikelets converg- 

 ing over the convex side, joints and pedicels sublinear and parallel. Sessile 

 and pedicelled spikelets heteromorphous, Spikelets 2-nate, those of each pair 



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