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Locality: Sind : Tatta, Tombs (Blatter & McCann D679 ! ) . — Gujarat : 

 Ahmedabad, waste ground (Sedgwick !) ; Domas, near Surat (Graham) ; 

 Rajkot, Kathiawar (Woodrow).— Khandesh : Bor, Tapti bank (Blatter & Hall- 

 berg 5467 !).— Konkan : Salsette (Graham). — Deccan : Poona (Woodrow!, 

 Jacquemont 386); Chattarshinji Hill, Poona (Bhide!); Bijapur (Cooke, 

 Woodrow).— S. M. Country: Dharwar (Sedgwick & Bell 4145!); Mallapur 

 Hill, Bagalkot (Paranjpe !) ; Gokak (Shevade !) ; Badami (Woodrow !). 



Distribution : Most warm countries. 



76. Latipes, Kunth. 



1. Latipes senegalensis, Kunth Rev. Gram, i, (1829), 261, t. 42 ; Enum. PI. i, 

 171, Suppl. 125 , Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 13, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 22 ; Hook, 

 f. in F.B.I, vii, 97 ; Cke. ii, 1015.— Lappago Latipes, Steud. Syn. Gram. 112.— 

 Tragus senegalensis, J. Gay ex Kunth Enum. PI. i, 171. 



Description : Cke, ii, 1015. 



Locality : Sind : (Woodrow !) ; Karachi (Burns !) ; 20 miles N. of Karachi 

 (Woodrow) ; Jamadar ka Landa, near Karachi (Stocks 1186). 



Distribution : Baluchistan, Arabia, Abyssinia, Senegal. 



77. Perotis £ Ait. ; Cke. ii, 1016. 



Species 2 or 3.— Tropics of the Old World and subtropical Australia. 



1. Perotis latifolia, Ait. Hort. Kew i (1789), 85 ; Beauv. Agrost. t. 4, f . 9 , 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 239 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 237 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 296 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 13 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 479 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 

 98; Cke. ii, 1016; Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 978.— For synonyms 

 see Hook. f. I.e. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1016. 



Locality : Gujarat : Baroda (Cooke) ; Surat (Lisboa) ; Domas near Surat 

 (Dalzell & Gibson) ; Daman, on sand hill (Bhide!) ; Ahmedabad (Saxton 

 1052!); Balsar (Herb. S. X. C. !).— Konkan : Juvem (McCann 4312!) 

 Versova (McCann 4204 !) ; Alibag, sandy shore (Ezekiel !) ; Bassein (Bhide ! 

 Mai wan (Woodrow).— 5". M. Country: Mallapur Hill, Bagalkot (Paranjpe !) 

 Gokak (Shevade!) ; Badami (Bhide!, Cooke, Woodrow) ; Londa (Bhiva!) 

 Gokak Falls (Sedgwick \).—Kanara : Kalanudi (Sedgwick & Bell 4287!) 

 Karwar (Talbot 1068 !, McCann !) ; Honore (Talbot 1068 !). 



Usually growing on sandy shores. It is easily recognized by its purplish 

 squirrel-tail-like inflorescence. 



Distribution : More or less throughout India, Ceylon, S. Africa. 



78. Osterdamia, Neck. Elem. Bot. iii (1790), 218. 

 (Zoysia, Wild. (1801) ; Cke. ii, 1016). 



Species about 10, tropical Asia to Australia and New Zealand, Mauritius ; in 

 Japan alone there are 7 species (See : Honda Masaji Revisio Gram. Japoniae 

 i, in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 37 (1923), 113-124. 



1. Osterdamia Matrella, O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. PI. ii (1891), 781; Hitchcock Genera 

 of Grass. Unit. St. in Unit. St. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772 (1920), 166. -Agrostis 

 matrella, Linn. Mant. ii, 185: Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 317.— Matrella juncea, Pers. 

 Syn. PI. i (1805), 73. -Zoysia pungens, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue 

 Schrift. iii (1801), 441; Br. Prodr. x, 208; Beauv. Agrost. i, t. 4, f. 1 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 478 ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 99 ; Cke\ ii, 1016 ; Haines Bot. 

 Bihar & Orissa (1924), 979. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1016. 



Locality : Gujarat : Daman, on sand hills (Herb. Econ. Bot. !, Lisboa).— 

 Konkan : Alibag, sandy shore (Ezekiel !) ; Juvem (McCann 4314 !) ; Bombay, 

 Walkeshwar, seashore, rocks (Sabnis !) ; Marine Lines (Hall berg 9873!); 

 Versova, marsh (McCann 9875 \).—Kanara : Karwar (Talbot 1531 !, McCann !). 



Distribution : Tropical Asia. 



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