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N. slope of Chanseli (McCann 9968 ! ).— Konkan : Parsik, railway tract 

 (McCann 9633 ! ) . — Decca n : Junnar (Mamlatdar of Junnar!) ; Shevgaon 

 (Mamlatdar of Shevgaon!); Lohagad, half-way up (McCann 9627!); 

 Agricultural College Farm, Poona (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona!); Khed 

 (Mamlatdar of Khed !) ; Purandhar (McCann 5570 !) ; Bairawady, Purandhar 

 (McCann 5075 ! ) ; Panchgani (Blatter 3803 ! , Blatter and Hallberg B1223 ! ) ; 

 between Mahableshwar and Panchgani, elevation 4,000 ft. (Sedgwick and 

 Bell 4743;).— 5". M. Country: Dharwar, elevation 2,400 ft., rainfall 34" 

 (Sedgwick 1828 \).—Kanara : Halyal (Talbot 2427 !). 



Distribution : India, Burma, Ceylon, Mauritius, China. 



Uses : A good fodder grass. 



5. Dichanthium annulatum, Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 178; Haines Bot. 

 Bihar and Orissa 1039. — Andropogon annulatus, Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab, 

 (1775), 173 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 33, t. 20 ; Hack.Monogr. Androp. 570 ; 

 Hook, f . F.B.I, vii, 196 ; Cke. ii, 988.- For further synonyms see Hook, f . 1. c. 



Vent. Names: Zinjoo, handi daroya, daroya (Surat), dhrow (Broach), 

 zinzma (Charodi), jinjva (Panch-Mahals), marvel (Poona), sheda, sam-payen 

 palvan-hullu, marwalyan-hullu (Dharwar). 



Description : Cke. I.e. 



Locality: Sind : Jamesabad (Sabnis B972 !) ; Mirpurkhas (Sabnis B1028 !, 

 B1185 !) ; Hyderabad (Sabnis B51 !) ; Pad-Idan (Sabnis B515 !) ; Larkana 

 (Sabnis B462 !) ; Nasarpur (Sabnis B1140 !) ; Tatta, Kullan Kote Lake (Blatter 

 and McCann D667 !) ; Tatta, tombs (Blatter and McCann D668 !) .—Gujarat : 

 Kabirwad (Chibber !) ; Nadiad Farm (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona !) . — Khandesh ; 

 Amboli, Bori River (Blatter and Hallberg 5148 !) ; Dadgaum (McCann 9665!) ; 

 Toranmal (McCann 9670 ! ) ; Bor, Bori River (Blatter and Hallberg 4428 ! ); 

 Umalla, Tapti Bank (Blatter and Hallberg 5228 ! ).— Konkan : Sion (McCann 

 3672 !) ; Sewri (McCann 3587 !) ; Parsik, railway line (McCann 9654 !) ; Cam- 

 poli (McCann 5356 !). — Deccan : Kirkee to Poona, railway line (Garade 83 !) ; 

 College Garden, Poona (Garade !) ; Chattarshinji Hill, Poona (Ezekiel) ; 

 Trimbak (Chibber !) ; Khandala, very common (McCann 5297 !) ; Manmad 

 Blatter 99/0 !) ; Purandhar, north foot (McCann 9421 !).— S.M. Country: 

 Devikop, elevation 1,800 ft., rainfall 40" (Sedgwick 3984 !). — Kanara : Halyal 

 (Talbot 2081 !) ; Kulgi (Talbot 2299 !). 



Distribution : Tropical Africa (Nileland, Mozambique District), from 

 Morocco through North Africa, the Orient and India to China and Australia, 

 Pacific Islands. 



Uses : Considered good fodder. 



6. Dichant'iiutn serrafalcoides, Blatter & McCann, nov. comb. — Andropogon 

 Cookei, Stapf ex Woodrow in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiii, 438 (nomen 

 tanlum) ; Cke. ii, 986 (descriptio) .—A. {Dichanthium ?) serrafalcoides, Cooke et 

 Stapf "in Kew Bull. (1908), 450. 



The systematic position of this species is somewhat doubtful. Cooke already 

 found that it does not agree with Hackel's subgenus Dichanthium, but he adds: 

 ' It is the only subgenus into which it will fit at all.' Cooke and Stapf, when 

 describing the same species under a different name, remark : ' Ob spiculas secun- 

 darias infimas saepissime neutras caeterum eadem forma ac fertiles si vis ad 

 Dichanthiun referendus, sed nulli speciei arete af finis spiculis maiusculis in 

 racemos spiculis Serrafalci haud dissimiles congestis insignis.' Following 

 this suggestion we have put it under Dichanthium. 



Description : Cke. ii, 9»6. 



Locality: Deccan : Lonavla (Bhide !); Khandala, Echo Point (McCann 9403!); 

 Kalanbai Hills (Patwardhan !) ; Sakar-Pathar near Lonavla (Woodrow !) ; 

 Mahableshwar (McCann!); Panchgani (McCann!, Blatter and Hallberg 

 B1250!). 



Distribution : W. Peninsula, apparently endemic. 



34. Eremopogon, Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix (1917), 182. 



Perennial or annual grasses. Stems slender, simple below, more or less 

 branched above, the branches often gathered in fastigiate bundles, each sup- 

 ported by a bladeless sheath and terminated by a solitary raceme. Spikelets 

 small, 2-nate ; one sessile, the other pedicelled, similar in shape, different in 

 sex, on the fragile rhachis of many-jointed solitary spatheate racemes which are 



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