3& Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXXIII, No. I [Sept. 30, I92&. 



1. Sacciolepis indica, Chase in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, xxi (1908), 8 ; Haines: 

 B'ot. Bihar & Orissa 990.— Panicum indicum, Linn. Mant. ii, 1F4 ; Retz. Obs. 

 iii, 9 ; Kunth Enum. PL. i, 133 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 84 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 285 ; 

 Benth.. FI. Hongk 413, Fl. Austral, vii, 480 ; Hook. f. F. B. I. vii, 41 

 {partim, excl. aliqndbws syn.). — Hymenachne indica, Biihse ex Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii, 458. 



Description ; A slender grass, 15-60 cm. high. Leaves Mnear-acuminate,. 

 5-13 cm. long, up to 4- mm. wide,, glabrous or hirsute, base narrow ; sheath not 

 auricled. Panicle spiciform, oblong or cylindrie. dense-flowered, green or 

 slightly purplish, 1-5 em. long by about 4 mm. diam.., branches very short. 

 Spikelets longer than their pedicels, 2-2-5 mm. long, crowded, ovoid, acute or 

 acuminate, straight or curved, shortly or hispidly hairy, or glabrous. Lower 

 involucral glume ovate, \-\ of the lower floral glume, lanceolate from a broadl 

 base, acute, 3-nerved ; upper usually subcymbiform, curved, obtuse, 7-11- 

 nerved, 2*5 mm. long. Lower floral glume as long as the upper involucral 

 glume, broadly ovate, obtuse, 9-nerved, pale minute ; upper narrowly ellipsoid, 

 very acute, white, smooth, polished, sides overlapping the margins of the- 

 similar pale, base obtuse, mucronulate with remains of the rhachilla. 



Note'.— Stapf has separated Panicum angustum, Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic t. 334 

 from Panicum indicum, Linn, as conceived by Hook. f., and named it Saccio- 

 lepis angusta. In his opinion the various varieties given in the F.B.I, are mostly 

 referable to 5". angusta, Stapf. 



5. indica is not a well-defined species. It appears to pass insensibly into .S*. 

 myosuroides and 5. interrupta. According to Hook, f., the former differs in 

 its caudiform spike and more minute rounded spikelets, the latter in its stouter 

 habit. 



Haines thinks it is better to confine S. indica to those specimens with hairy 

 spikelets. We have not followed him in this. 



Locality r S. M. Country : Khanapur, elevation 2,50ft ft., rainfall 70 inches. 

 (Sedgwick 3080 !>; Castle Rock (Bhide !),— Kanara : Tank near Yellapore- 

 ('Talbot!); Kulgi (Talbot 2291 !> : Siddhapur to Sirsi (Hallberg & McCann. 

 A118 !) ; Karwar (Talbot 1297 !, Hallberg & McCann A116 !}. 



Distribution : Tropical Asia and Australia. 



2. Sacciolepis myosuroides,, Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa 990.— Panicum 

 myosuroides, R.. Br. Prodr. (1810), 189; Kunth Enum. PL i, 77 ; Steud Syn. 

 Gram. 56; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii, 480 {excl. syn. angustum) ; Duthie Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 11; Hook, f., F.B.I, vii., 42; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v, 148 ; Prain 

 Beng. PL 1175; Cke ii, 934.— P. curvatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 286 (mon Linn.). 



Description : Cke. E.c. 



Locality: Konkan .- Savant vadi (Woodrow); AHbag (Lisboa). — We have 

 mot seen any specimen. 

 Distribution : India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, China, Australia. 



3. Sacciolepis interrupta, Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 757 ; Haines Bot. 

 Bihar & Orissa 991.— Panicum interruptum, Willd. Sp. PI. i, 341 ; Kunth 

 Enum. i, 87; Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 51 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 286 ; Griff. Notul. 

 iii, 26, and Ic. PI Asiat. t. 139, fig. 221, t. 146, fig. 2 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 316 ; Steud. Syn. PL Glum, i, 66 ; Hook. f.F.B.I. vii, 40 ; Stapf in Dyer Fl. 

 Cap. vii, 413.— P uliginoswm, Roth Nov. PL Sp. 50. — P. inundatum, Kunth 

 Rev. Gram, i, 34, and Enum. i, 88 ; Steud. I.e. 66.— Hymenacnne interrupta r 

 Biihse in Miq. PI. Juugh i, 377 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 458 ; Steud. I.e. 10L— 

 P. indicum, Hack, in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v, 210 {non Linn.). 



Description : Cke. I.e. 



Very variable in size and shape, especially the panicle which varies a good 

 dleal as to colour. 



Locality: Sind : (Woodrow teste Cooke). — Konkan: Bassein, tank (Burns! )r 

 Wada, tank (Ryan 453!); Nagotna (Gammie 16074!) ; Borivli-Kanary, in water 

 (McCann AI20!); Bhivandi (Chibber !) ; Vihar (Sabnis.!); Gokura Creek, 

 Bassein (Garade 1708!) ; Virar, on bank of a tank (McCann 9583 !) ; PanveB 

 (Woodrow) ; Vengurla (Woodrow) ; margins of tanks throughout the Konkan 

 (Dal'zell & Gibson).— Deccan : Tingerwadi, Igatpuri (Blatter & Hallberg 

 3825!).— 5. M. Country: Tadas, tanks (Sedgwick & Bell 4916 !) ; Londa, in 

 water (Gammie 15854!) ; Hulkop (Sedgwick ^& Bell3174!) ; Belgaum (Herb- 



