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galensis, Pers. Syn. i, 76.— A. littoralis |3, Lamk. iii, 161 ; Poir. Encycl. SuppL 

 i, 251. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1019. 



Locality: Sind: Mirpurkhas (Bhide !), fallow fields {Sabnis B1191 !) ; 

 Jacobabad (Bhide!); Magarpir, near Karachi (Sabnis B224!); Karachi 

 (Woodrovv 18).— Gujarat : Porbandar (Woodrow 21 !) ; road to Gogha (Chib- 

 ber !) ; dry rice fields, Chandola, Ahmedabad (Sedgwick !').— Konkan : 

 Bombay fore shore (Sedgwick 2568 !) ; Sion (McCann 3677 \).-S. M. Country : 

 Khanapur, 2,500 ft., rainfall 60 inches (Sedgwick 3011 !). 



Distribution : Panjab, Sind, tropical Africa. 



8. Sporobolus tremulus, Kunth Rev. Gram, i, 67, Enum. PL i, 210, Suppl. 166 ; 

 Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 250; Sedgwick & Saxton in Rec. Bot. Surv. India vi, 

 219 ; Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 974.— Agrostis tremula, Willd. Sp. PL 

 i, 372 {excl. syn.).— A. juncea, Lamk. Encycl. i, 60, 111. t. 41, f. 2. — A. tena- 

 cissima. Roxb. PI. Ind. i, 316 {excl. syn.).— Vilfa tremula, Trin. Diss, i, 155.— 

 V. geniculata, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 156. — V. orientalis, Wight Cat. 

 No. 1745 (Partim). — Sporobolus geniculatus , Nees ex Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PL 

 165.— 5. orientalis, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 108 (non Kth.). 



Description : A small grass, 2*5-30 cm. high, erect or prostrate, wiry, strict, 

 often tufted, from a hard, knotted, stoloniferous stock ; stolons 15-45 cm. long, 

 stout or slender, leafy, flexuous. Leaves short, 1-5 cm. long, rigid, subulate or 

 filiform, flat or convolute, pungent, narrowed from the usually hairy base to 

 the tip, margins smooth. Ligule a few hairs. Panicle narrow, 2*5-10 cm. 

 long, subspiciform sometimes longer, flexuous and interrupted, with erect 

 branches, rarely a few spreading. Spikelets crowded, 1-5 mm. long, articulate 

 on very short pedicels half their own length or less, very pale ; rhachilla 

 readily disarticulate above the lowest glumes and these also separately falling. 

 Glumes all 1-nerved. Lower involucral glume about -| of the floral glume, 

 lanceolate ; upper involucral glume and floral glume subequal. Pale as long 

 as its glume. Stamens 3. Grain oblong. 



Locality : Gujarat : Sides of the Chandola Tank which are submerged in 

 the monsoon (Sedgwick \).—S. M. Country : Kunnur, margins of tanks, 

 2,000 ft,, rainfall 35 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4936 !) ; Marrikop, margins of 

 tanks, W. of Dharwar, 1,800 ft., rainfall 35 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4495 !) ; 

 Ranibennur, grassy plains near water (Bhide !). 



Distribution : India, Ceylon, Burma, Tonkin, Cambodia. 



9. Sporobolus orientalis, Kunth Enum. PL i (1833), 211 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 PI. 295 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 251 ; Cke. ii, 1020 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 49 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 263.— Agrostis orientalis, Nees Agrost. Bras. 393 {excl. 

 syn. Roxb.).— A tenacissima, Linn. f. Suppl. 107 {excl. syn. Jacq.).— A. elon- 

 gata, Roth Nov. Sp. PL 41.— Vii fa orientalis, Nees ex Trin. in Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb. ser. vi. Sc. Nat. ii (1840), 65; Steud. Syn. Gram. 156.— V. diandra, 

 Trin. Diss, i, 154 {excl. syn. Retz.).— Sporobolus 'humifusus, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. 

 PL 108 {non Kunth). 



Description : Cke. ii, 1020. 



Locality : Gujarat : Prantij Taluka, low grounds liable to inundation 

 (Sedgwick !) ; Karie Roa, Cutch (Blatter 3771 !) ; Umrat, on salt land (Wood- 

 row V).— Konkan : Bassein (McCann 4481 !).— Kanara : Karwar, borders of rice 

 fields (Talbot 1531!). 



Distribution : Punjab, W. Peninsula, Ceylon. 



10. Sporobolus piliferus, Kunth Enum. PL i (1883), 211; Hook. f. in F.B.I, 

 vii, 251 ; Cke. ii, 1020.- Vii fa pilifera, Trin. Diss, i, 157, ii, 23, Sp. Gram. Ic. t, 

 58.— Sporobolus ciliatus, Munro in Herb. Ind. Or. Hook, f . & T. ex Hook f . in 

 F.B.I, vii, 251* Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 29 {non Vilfa ciliata, Presl.).— Tria- 

 chyrum nilagiricum, Steud. in Hohen. PL Ind. Or. no. 931. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1020. 



Locality: Deccan : Panchgani, Tableland, 4,300 ft., rainfall 60 inches 

 (Sedgwick & Bell 4693!, Blatter & Hallberg B1319 !, B1320 !, McCann!).— 

 S. M. Country : Dharwar (Bhide !) ; Belgaum (Ritchie 836). 



Distribution : W. Himalaya, Khasia Hills, Nilgiris, W. Peninsula, Malacca. 



