21 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXXII, No. 1. [Aug.' I, 1927. 



Distribution : Bengal, W. Peninsula, Ceylon. 



Var. dasyantha, Hack. Monogr. Androp. (1889). 209 ; Cke. ii, 962 



Locality ; Konk an (Stocks ex. Cke.).— Kanara (Woodrovv!) 



7. Ischaemum conjugatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 321 (not of Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 (1894), 8); Hack. Monogr Androp. 205; F.B.I, vii, 131. Spodiopogon 

 conjugatus, Voigt. Hort. Suburb. Calc. 706 —Andropogon cordatifolius , Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 375. 



Description : An annual. Stem spreading from the root and creeping, then 

 geniculately ascending, 30-35 cm. high, slender, stiff, purplish, repeatedly 

 branching upwards. Leaves short, 25-35 mm. long, base hastate or broadly, 

 deeply cordate, acuminate, broadest at the base, rather rigid, striate, lower 

 petioled ; sheath of the upper ventricose and often open ; liguie short, glabrous. 

 Spikes 2, short, 25-35 mm. long, sessile, villous ; joints very short, quadrately 

 clavate, plano-convex, ciliate. Sessile spikelets 3 mm. long, pale. Glumes 4. 

 Lower involucral glume oblong, obtuse, flat, 2-toothed, villous from below or 

 above the middle to nearly the top, margins narrowly inflexed, not winged, 

 upper half often greener, even or lower margins obscurely nodose. Upper 

 involucral glume lanceolate, acuminate, strongly keeled, puberulous. Lower 

 floral glume paleate. Upper floral glume cleft to about the middle, awn dors- 

 ally inserted at or below the cleft, slender, about twice as long as the spikelet. 

 Pedicel led spikelets subsessile, almost awnless. Lower involucral glume as 

 in the sessile. 



Locality : Konkan : Okda Forest (Ryan, 712 !). Deccan : Mahableshwar to 

 Pratabgad (Bhide !) ; Khandala (Garade !) ; College Farm, Poona (Pawar !).— 

 Kanara : Gersoppa Falls (Chibber !). 



Distribution : Bengal, W. Peninsula, naturalized in Ceylon. 



8- Ischsemum impressum, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 210 ; F.B.I, vii, 132. 



Stem 10-20 cm. high, slender, prostrate below, branching upwards, quite 

 glabrous. Leaves 5-8 cm. long, upper 18 mm. broad, ovate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, cordate, lower narrower, petioled, sparsely hairy beneath, margin 

 thickened, scaberulous, sometimes crenulate ; sheath compressed, glabrous ; 

 liguie oblong. Spikes 2, yellow ; joints and pedicels stout, clavate, ciliate with 

 rigid hairs, forked at the top. Sessile spikelets 6-8 mm. long, shining ; callus 

 short, broad, bearded. Lower involucral glume linear-oblong, flat, dorsally 

 broadly irregularly depressed with shallow subsemilunar pits in the lower 2/3, 

 above it winged and 2-cuspidate, narrowed and margins subnodulose at the 

 base, wings erose. Upper involucral glume obtuse, chartaceous, ciliate, 

 dorsally rounded with a median gibbosity and an auricle-like wing above it. 

 Lower floral glume oblong-lanceolate, hyaline, 3-nerved, ciliate. Upper floral 

 glume much shorter, glabrous, cleft to above the middle, awn short, genicu- 

 lately inserted at the cleft. Pedicelled spikelets smaller than the sessile. 

 Lower involucral glume obtuse, glabrous, many-nerved, winged on one margin. 

 Upper involucral glume 7-nerved. Upper floral glume mucronate. 



Locality : Deccan : Mahableshwar (Sedgwick and Bell, 4514 !); Panchgani, 

 Tableland (Blatter, 5083 !. B1221 !, B1285!); Igatpuii (Blatter'); Khandala, 

 Echo-Point (McCann 9943 !) ; Lonavla (Bhide !). 



Distribution : We have found this species only in the W. Ghats. Hooker f. 

 mentions the Konkan, but with a sign of interrogation. As we have never met 

 it in the Konkan, it is not likely to occur in that region. Where Huegel's 

 specimen comes from we cannot say, and will in all probability never be known.. 

 We think it is quite safe to say that /. impressum is endemic in the W. Ghats 

 of the Bombay Presidency. 



9. Ischasmum Lisboae, Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, (1896), 133 ; Cke. ii, 962. 

 Locality: Kanara: N. Kanara (Lisboa) ; Karwar (Talbot 2209 !, McCann! )„ 



A rare grass, apparently endemic in N. Kanara. 



10. Ischaemum ciliare, Retz. Obs. 6 (1791), 36 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 225 ; 

 Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. India. 30 ; Cke. ii, 962. /. geniculatum, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. 1,322. S.obliquivalvis, Nees in Nov. Act. Cur. XIX, Suppl. 1(1843), 

 185 ; Duthie Grass. M. W. Ind. 16. 



Locality: Konkan: Bassein (Ryan 445!); St. Xavier's College Comp., 

 Bombay (McCann 4594!); Parel, Bombay (Woodrow) ; Compoli (McCann 



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