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(Bhide!); Poona (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona !) ; Deolali (Blatter A107!); 

 Shoiapur (D'Almeida A108 ! , A109 !).—£. M. Country. S. W. of Dharwar, 

 elevation 1,800 ft., rainfall 90 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4437 !) ; Dharwar, 

 under trees on black soil, elevation 2,400 ft., rainfall 34 inches (Sedgwick 2882 !). 

 Distribution : Plains of India, Ceylon, Tropics generally, subtropical 

 America, also tropical Arabia and the Mascarenes. 



2. Urochloa setigera, Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 598 ; Haines in Bot. 

 Bihar & Orissa 1003. — Panicum setigerum, Retz. Obs. iv, 15 ; Roxb. FL Ind. 

 i, 299 ; Kunth Enum. i, 90 (excl. syn. nonnullis) ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 37 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v, 141 ; Cke. ii, 933.— P. affine, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv, 273 

 (ex Kunth). 



Description : Cke, ii, 933, under Panicum setigerum. 



Locality : Sind : Mirpur Sakro (Blatter & McCann D609 !); Gharo (Blatter 

 & McCann D610 \) -Gujarat : Rajkot, Kathiawar (Woodrow 45 teste Cooke!).— 

 Khandesh : Dhulia (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona \).—Konkan : Bassein (Paranjpe !). 

 —Deccan : Ganeshkhind Bot. Gardens (Herb. Econ. Boc. Poona!); Mangiri 

 Farm, 11 miles S. E. of Poona (Herb. Econ. Bot. Poona !). 



Distribution : India, Ceylon, Mauritius, tropical and S. Africa. 



Note : We do not think there, is any good reason for retaining Hook, f.'s 

 var. tomentosa which was also mentioned by Cke. 1. c. We refer to the note 

 given above after the general characteristics of the genus and add what Stapf 

 says with regard to this species in particular : ' The African specimens have 

 glabrous spikelets. In India, however, the pubescent form appears to be pre- 

 valent.' 



3. Urochloa maratbensis, Henr. in Mededeel. Rijks Herb. 43 (1922), 1-3, pi. 1. 

 — Panicum marathense , Henr. in Herb. Lugd. Bat. 



Distribution : Annual, dwarf and robust, glaucous, branching from the 

 lower geniculations. Stems low, striate, quite glabrous, few-noded, nodes 

 pubescent. Leaf-sheaths terete or slightly compressed, striate, lower ones gap- 

 ing, upper ones tight, shorter than the internodes, hirsute with bulbous-based 

 hairs. Ligule very short, covered with long hairs. Blade cordate at the base ; 

 linear-lanceolate, gradually acutate, more or less 3 cm. long, 5-7 mm. broad, 

 Sat, on both sides but especially on the upper sparingly covered with spreading 

 bulbous-based hairs, margin thickened, distinctly undulate, fimbriate with long 

 tubercular hairs. Racemes 2-3, distant from each other more or less lcm., 

 2 cm. long, stout, erect-patulous or finally reflexed ; rhachis subtrigcnous, 

 pilose at the base, more than twice as narrow as the spikelets slightly undulate, 

 the angles scaberulous, otherwise glabrous, giving off solitary pedicels. Spike- 

 lets biseriate, broadly elliptic, very acute, 4 mm. long, anteriorly almost flat, 

 posteriorly very convex, green, glabrous. Involucral glumes very unequal. 

 Lower almost i of the spikelet, subobtuse, 5-nerved, upper as long as the 

 spikelet, very acute, distinctly 7-9-nerved. Lower floral glume equal in 

 shape to the upper involucral glume, flat, 5-nerved, glabrous on the back 

 tubercular-echinulate near the margin, except near the tip and base, paleate 

 Upper floral glume shorter than the preceding glumes, elliptic with a 

 rounded tip, rigid, opaque, brown-straw-coloured, rugulose, long caudate, 5- 

 nerved, bullate below. 



Locality : S. M. Country and N. Kanara (A, P. Young ex Henrard). We 

 have not seen the specimen. 



Distribution : So far endemic. 



Note : Henrard has a variety from the same localities : var. Velutina, which 

 differs from the type by the densely pubescent spikelets. What we said in a 

 note under the previous species can be applied here. 



4. Urochioa Helopus, Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 595 ; Haines in Bot. 

 Bihar & Orissa 1002.— U. pubescens, Kunth Rev. Gram, i, 31, Enum. PI. i, 

 74. — U. panicoides, Schult. Mant. ii, 595 (non Beauv. ).— Panicum Helopus, 

 Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii, 84 ; Panic. Gen. 150, et Gram. Ic. et 

 Descr. ii, t. 183 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 117 ; Steud. Syn. PL Glum, i, 57 ; Duthie 

 List Grass. N. W. Ind. 4, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 8.— P. Helopus var. glabrescens> 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost.— Afr. C. 101 ; Stapf in Dyer Fl. Cap. vii, 392.— 

 P.hirsutum, Koen. ex Roxb. FL Ind, i, 300. — P. Kcsnigii, Spreng. Syst. i, 

 311.— P. hochstelterianum, A. Rich. Tent. FL Abyss, ii, 369. — P. geminatum 

 Hochst. ex A. Rich. I.e. (non Forsk.). — P. controversion, Steud. Syn. PI- 



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