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rainfall 28 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4915 !) ; Badami (Talbot 2927 !) ; Haveri 

 (Talbot 2179 !} ; Belgaum (Ritchie). 

 Distribution : W. Peninsula, tropical Africa. 



17. Eragrostis brachyphylla, Stapf in Hook. f. F.B.I, vii, 327 ; Haines Bot. 

 Bihar & Orissa (1924), 961. 



Description : Perennial. Stem erect, slender, 25-45 cm. high, from a tuft of 

 old fibrous leaf-sheaths. Leaves nearly all radical, 5-10 cm. long, 2*5 mm. 

 broad, coriaceous, linear, flat or conduplicate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous 

 above. Spikes 7-20 cm. long, slender. Spikelets 6-18 mm. long, close-set, 

 linear or linear-oblong, secund, 2-seriate, slightly compressed, olive-green, 

 about 20-flowered, lenticular in section. Glumes closely imbricate, involucral 

 ones subequal, up to 2 mm. long, lower one acute, acutely keeled, upper 

 obtuse, dorsally rounded. Flowering glumes up to 2*5 mm. long, rather 

 turgidly broadly ovate (when unfolded) with rounded tip or obtuse, lateral 

 nerves very weak, midrib microscopically scabrid. Pale as large, somewhat 

 obovate, concave towards rhachilla, keels scabrid, narrow. Grain very small, 

 shortly ellipsoid, obscurely trigonous, epicarp coarsely reticulate. 



Locality: Gujarat: Sevalia (Chibber !).— 5. M, Country: Badami Fort 

 (Bhide I) . 



Distribution : Bihar, Central Provinces, W. Peninsula. 



82. Halopyrum, Stapf ; Cke. ii, 1029. 



Species 1. — Coasts of India and Ceylon, Arabia, tropical Africa. 



1. Halopyrum mucronatum, Stapf in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2448 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, 

 vii, 328 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v, 299 ; Cke. ii, 1029.— Brizopyrum mucronatum, 

 Nees in Wall. Cat. no. 8898.— Desmazeria unioloides, Defl. Voy. Yemen 220.— 

 Eragrostis mucronata. Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109 {non Roem. & Schult.). — 

 Triticumrepens, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 376.— Aeluro pus, Aitchis, Cat. Panj. 

 PI. 169.— Eragrostis sp. Sect. Sclerostachya, Benth. in Gen. PL iii, 1187. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1029. 



Locality: Sind: Clifton, near Karachi (Sabnis B796 !) ; Manora Island, 

 Karachi Harbour (Sabnis B832 !). — Gujarat : Porbandar (Bhide ! Bhiva). 



83. Diplachne, P. Beauv.; Cke. ii, 1030. 

 Species about 20. — Warm regions.— Only 1 species in the Presidency. 



1. Diplachne fusca, Beauv. Agrost. (1812), 163 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 561 ; Hook, 

 f. F.B.I, vii, 329 ; Trim. FL Ceyl. v, 299 ; Cke. ii, 1030 ; Haines Bot. Bihar 

 & Orissa (1924), 962.— Festuca fusca, Linn. Sp. PI. 109 ; Del. FL d'Egypt. 24, 

 t. xi, f. l. — Uralepis fusca, Steud. Syn. Gram. 247. — Diplachne indica, 

 Spreng. Syst. i, 351. — Tridens indicus, Nees in Wight Cat. No. 1794. — Festuca 

 indica, Retz. Obs. iv, 21 ; Kunth Enum. 412.— Eragrostis procera, Steud. I.e. 

 266.— Poa procera, Roxb. Fl. lnd. i, 322. — Urolepis Drummondii, Steud. I.e. — 

 Triodia ambigua, R. Br. Prodr. 183. — Bromus polystachios, Forsk. FL Aeg.— 

 Arab. 23. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1030. 



Locality : Sind: Tatta, Kullan Kote Lake (Blatter & McCann D639!).— 

 Konkan : Parsik, side of railway line (McCann A24 !) ; Bassein (Bhide !) ; 

 Sion (McCann 5238 !) ; Alibag, rice fields near salt marshes (Ezekiel !) ; Lower 

 Parel (Blatter 4283!); Antop Hill (McCann 3614!); Mahim to Matunga 

 (McCann 5139!); Matunga, near Bombay, in rice fields (Woodrow 10).— 

 Kanara : Near Karwar, maritime marsh (Sedgwick & Bell 5095 !). 



Distribution : Upper Gangetic Plain, Bengal, Orissa, W. Peninsula, Ceylon, 

 Egypt, tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



84. Leptochloa. P. Beauv. 



Annual grasses. Leaves flat or involute. Spikelets very minul.e, com- 

 pressed, 1 -many-flowered, sessile or shortly pedicelled, alternate and 

 unilaterally 2-seriate on the very slender spiciform branches of a lax panicle, 

 sessile or minutely pedicelled, not jointed at the base ; rhachilla jointed at the 

 base and beneath each glume, produced between each glume and often beyond 

 the terminal. Glumes usually 2 (sometimes 1-) -many-flowering, membranous. 



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