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narrowly lanceolate with prominent ciliate keel on lower third, seabrellous 

 above, margin inrlexed. Lower floral glume very narrow, 2 -nerved, ciliate, 

 upper reduced to the membranous base of the awn, awn 12-14 mm. long, 

 very slender, nearly smooth. 



Locality: Khandesh: Near Naradana (Blatter & Hallberg 5206!). — 

 Deccan : Katraj Ghat (Gammie 929 !) ; Deolali (Blatter & Hallberg A316 \) ; 

 Chattarshinii Hill, Poona (Ezekiel !) ; Pashan (Gammie!).-^. M. Country ; 

 Black soil fields E. of Hubli (Sedgwick & Bell 5295!); Yelvigi (Sedgwick 

 2085!). 



Distribution : W. India and Deccan. 



Uses : A smaller yielder and an inferior fodder plant than A laxum. See 

 W. Burns Bull. 78, Dept. Agric. Bombay, p. 11. 



2. Iseiletna laxam, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 682 ; Hook. f. F.B.I, vii, 218; 

 Cke. ii, 996. For synonyms see Hook. f. 1. c 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Gujarat: Red upland near Talod (Sedgwick!). — Khandesh : 

 Bor, Bori River (Blatter & Hallberg 4429 !) ; Toner, Tapti bank (Blatter & 

 Hallberg 5167!); Dadgaum (McCann A322 \).—Konkan : Sion (McCann 

 3668!) ; Thana (McCann 8728 !) ; Parsik Hill (McCann A321 !) ; Bhandup, 

 rice field (McCann A323 !) ; Trombay (McCann A324 X).— Deccan : Grasslands 

 between Mahableshwar and Panchgani (Sedgwick & Bell 4742!) ; Nasik 

 (Bourke !) ; Lohagad, half way up (McCann A320!); Poona (Jacquemont 

 439).— S.M. Country: Dastikop (Sedgwick 2059!); Dharwar (Sedgwick 

 1826!); Belgaum (Ritchie 799).— Kanara : Halval (Talbot 2087 1} ; Sirsi 

 (Kulkarni!). 



Distribution : Upper Gangetic Plain, Orissa, Deccan, W. Peninsula. 



Uses : Considered to be the best fodder grass in Central and S. India. 



3. IseHema Wightii, Anders, in Nov. Act. Soc. Se. Upsala ser. 3, 2 (1858), 251; 

 Hack. Monogr. Androp. 679; Hook. f. F.B.I. vii r 218; Cke. ii. 996. For 

 synonyms see Hackel and Hook. f. 11. cc. 



Vern. Names: Mabid (Dohad), Moshi (Surat), Gandhi ^Charodi), Gandheli 

 (Panch Mahals), Sona, Tambrut, Tambit, Gondval, Gamsi, Mussau (ex Burns). 



Description : Cke. I.e. 



Locality : Gujarat : Kharaghoda (Saxton 503C ! ) ; in a very marshy valley 

 between Wastrapurand Tbaltij (Sedgwick 322L) ; Morvi,Kathiawar (Woodrow).— 

 Khandesh: Antroli, Bori River (Blatter & Hallberg 5150 \).— Deccan : Panch- 

 gani (Blatter & Hallberg B1294!); Poona (Woodrow).— 5. M. Country : 

 Kunnur (Sedgwick & Bell 4922 !) ; Rhanibennur (Bhide !) ; Haveri (Talbot 

 2254!); Dharwar (Nana A325 1). ; Belgaum (Woodrow).— Kanara : Halyal 

 (Talbot 2143!). 



Distribution : Throughout India. 



Uses : A fair fodder. 



40. Thkmeda, Forsk. ; Cke. ii. 992. 



Species about 16, in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, 

 chiefly Indo-Malayan. 



Cooke describes 4 species : T. imberbis, T. Cooke, T. ciliata, Hack., 

 T. cymbarza, Hack., and T. tremula, Hack. Following the laws of priority we 

 have to substitute for the first two : T. triandra, Forsk.. and T. quadrivalvis* 

 O. Kuntze. 



I. Involucral spikelets truly vertieillate 



1. Involucral spikelets glabrous or more or 



less irregularly beset with tubercle-based 



hairs ... ... .,. I. T. triandra. 



2. Involucral spikelets always with a row of 



stiff bristles along the flexures near the 

 tips, the bristles arising from coarse pale 

 tubercles 

 II. Involucral spikelets in closely superposed 

 pairs 

 1. Inflorescence a decompound thyrsiform 

 panicle. Lower involucral glume of 

 bisexual spikelets not channelled ... 3. T. cymbaria. 



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2. T. quadrivalvis. 



