483 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 {May 31, 1929. 



3. Sporobolus indicus, R. Br. Prodr. (1810), 170 ; Link Hort. Reg. Berol. i, 87 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i, 211 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass N. Ind. 49 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I. 

 vii, 248 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v, 261 ; Prain Beng. PL 1213 ; Cke. ii, 1018; Haines 

 Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 97^.— Agrostis indica, Linn. Sp. PL 63.— 

 A. elongata, Lamk. 111. i, U2.—A. tenacissima, Jacq. Collect, i, 85, Ic. Rar. 3, 

 t. 16 {excl. syn.) .—Sporobolus tenacissimus , Beauv. Agrost. 26 ; Duthie Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 49.- Vilfa capensis & elongata, Beauv. Agrost. 16 ; Trin. 

 Gram. Diss, i, 154 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 159. -V. exilis, Trin. in Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb. ser. 6, Sc. Nat. ii (1840), 89.— V. indica, Trin. ex Steud. Norn. ed. ii, 

 ii, 767, Syn. Gram. 162.— V. tenacissima, H.B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i, 138 ; 

 Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 60. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1018. 



Locality : Deccan : Chattarshinji Hill, Poona (Ezekiel !) ; Lina Hill, Nasik 

 Dist. (Blatter A59 !) ; Kolhapur (Woodrow).— Kanara : Castle Rock 1,600 ft., 

 rainfall 250 inches (Sedgwick 2851 !). 



Distribution : Most warm countries. 



4. Sporobolus minutiilorus, Link Hort. Reg. Berol. i (1827), 88; Kunth 

 Enum. PL i, 214 \ Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 248 ; Cke. ii, 1019.— Vilfa minutiflora, 

 Trin. Gram. Diss, i, 158 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 158.— V. Capillans, W. & A. ex 

 Wight Cat. No. 2036 (non Miq.). — V. mangalorica, Hochst. ex Miq. Anal. Bot. 

 ii, 24; Steud. I.e. 158— V. tenuissima, Schult. Mant. ii, 47.—Panicum 

 tenuissimum, Mart, ex Schrank in Denkschr. Bot. Ger. Regensb. ii (1822), 26. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1019. 



Locality : Konkan : Bombay Island, very common (McCann 4296 !, 3635 !), 

 Parel (Woodrow) ; Mulgaum (McCann 3660 !).— Kanara : Dandeli, 2000 ft., 

 rainfall 100 inches (Sedgwick and Bell 4220 !) ; Kumpta (Chibber !). 



Distribution .* W. Peninsula. 



5. Sporobolus ioclados, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. (1841), 161 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I. 

 vii, 249 ; Cke. ii, 1019. 



Description : Cke. I.e. 

 Locality : Sind (Stocks). 

 Distribution : S. Africa. 



6. Sporobolus virginicus, Kunth Rev. Gram, i, 67, Enum. PL i, 210, Suppl. 

 167 ; Hook. f, in F.B.I, vii, 249.— Agrostis virginica Linn, Sp. PJ. 63 ; Labill. 

 PL Nov. HolL i, 20, t. 23.-^4. barbata, Pers. Syn. i, 75.— A. lateralis, Lamk 

 111. 161. — A. pungens, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 64 —Podosemum virginicum, Link 

 Euum. Hort. Berol. i, 85.— Vilfa virginica, Beauv. Agrost. 16 ; Trin. Diss, i, 

 155 ; Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 48 ; Baker Fl. Mauritius 449.— V. barbata, Beauv. I.e.— 

 V. littoralis, Beauv. I.e.— Sporobolus littoralis, Kunth 11. cc. 68, 213. 



Description : Perennial. Stems erect or ascending from a decumbent woody 

 creeping base, branched, hard and often tortuous at the base, 15-30 cm. high. 

 Leaves strict, close-set, distichous, erecto-patent, 2*5-7*5 cm. long or more, 

 narrow and almost terete for the involute margins, pungent, very pale, glabr- 

 ous or scaberulous above, striate ; sheaths terete, short or long ; ligule of long 

 soft hairs. Panicle 2*5-10 cm. long, elongate, narrow, subspiciform, interrupt- 

 ed, very pale ; branches very short. Spikelets 2*5-2 mm. long, very shortly 

 pedicelled, crowded. Glumes 3, all 1-nerved, keels glabrous or obscurely 

 scabrid towards the tip. Involucral glumes oblong-lanceolate, acute, the lower 

 shorter than the upper. Pale oblong, narrowly truncate. Grain broadly obovoid, 

 with a pericarp loosened if moistened. 



Locality : Gujarat : Porbandar (Chibber !). Chibber was the first to find this 

 species on the shores of continental India. 



Distribution : India, Ceylon, westward to Africa and America, eastward to 

 Australia. 



7. Sporobolus glaucifolius, Hochst. in Flora xxv, pt. 1 (1842), Beibl. 133 

 {nomen nudum) ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 250 ; Cke, ii, 1019.— Vilfa glaucifolia, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 154.— V. scabrifolia, Hochst. ex Edgew. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. vi (1862), 196 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab, PL 165.— Agrostis barbata, 0, sene. 



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