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Syst. i, 274.— Tetrapogon triangularis, Hochst. PI. Arab. Schweinf. No. 967 

 (ex Hook. f.). 



Description : Cke. ii, 1033. 



Locality: Sind : Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi (Stocks). — Gujarat: 

 Surat, on the city walls (Dalzell).— Khandesh : W. Khandesh (Blatter!).— 

 Deccan : Bijapur (Woodrow). — 5. M. Country : Badatni Fort (Bhide !). 



Distribution : Rajputana, W. Peninsula, S. India, Arabia, Abyssinia. 



4. Chloris villosa. Pers. Syn. i (1805), 87; Kunth Enum. PI. i, 267, Suppl. 

 217, t. 16, i. 3; Jaub. & Sp. 111. PI. Or. iv, 40, t. 327; Coss. & Dur. Fl. 

 Alger. 87 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 167 ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 291 ; Cke. ii, 

 1034.— Chloris tetrapogon, Beauv. Agrost. (1812), 158.— Tetrapogon villosus, 

 Desf. Fl. Atlant. ii, 388, t. 255 ; Trin. Fund. Agrost. 760; Eoiss. Fl. Or. v, 

 555 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 33, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 55, t. 68. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1034. 



Locality: Sind: Gharo (Blatter &McCann D655 !).— Gujarat : Ahmedabad 

 (Sedgwick !).— 5. M. Country: Sluavar, on dry bunds, 2,000 ft., rainfall 

 35 inches (Sedgwick 3095!) ; Yelvigi, 2,000 ft., rainfall 30 inches (Sedgwick 

 1923 !). 



Distribution : Punjab, Rajputana, W. Peninsula, westwards to the Canaries. 



5. Ctrioris virgata. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i (1797), 203; Trin. Gram. Unifl. 136; 

 Doellin Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, iii ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 291 ; Achariyar South 

 Ind. Grass. (1921), 260 ; Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 968 —Rabdochloa 

 virgata, Beauv. Agrost. 84.— Chloris compressa, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. (1813), 

 94; Nees Agrost. Bras. 421, Fl. Afr. Austr. 240 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 204.— 

 C. caudata, Trin. ex Bunge Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 70.— C. cryptostachys, Steud. 

 in Schmidt Fl. Cap. Virid. 148.- C. decora, Nees in Herb. Royle ; Steud. 1. 

 c. 205.— C. elegans, Kunth Enum. PI. i, 264. — C. meccana, Hochst. & Steud. 

 ex Schult. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hal. (1843) 7 ; Steud. 1. c. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v, 

 544 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 33.— C. montana, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. 

 (1868), 84, Abhandl. 300; Duthie 1. c. (non Roxb.).— C. pallida, Link 

 Hort. Berol. i, 56, ii, 223.— C. penicillata, Hort. ex Nees 1. c. {non Poir.) — 

 C. polydactyla, Durand Diss. Chlorid. '1808), 14, 22; Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 12, 

 t. 9 {non Sw.).— C. telrastachys, Hack. mss. (ex Herb. Duthie).— Heterolepis 

 elegans, Ehrt. ex Boiss. L c. 



Vern. Names : Kharrut (Sind), Sikaliu, Gadhiu (Surat), Fulkalu (Dohad), 

 Faliu (Broach), Khariu (Charodi), Gonde gavat (Deccan), Ganjali hullu 

 ( Karnatik ) . 



Description : A tufted leafy annual grass, 30-60 cm. high. Stems some- 

 what flattened, erect, leafy at the base, occasionally with creeping stems 

 rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades rather narrow, linear flat, acute, 

 glabrous when old, with scattered long hairs in the leaves of young branches, 

 5-25 ^nd even 40 cm. long, 3 mm. or less broad. Sheaths glabrous, compressed, 

 upper ones somewhat inflated, margins thin and membranous, mouth of 

 sheath bearded with long hairs in the leaves of young branches, quite glabrous 

 when old and in flower-bearing branches. Ligule a thin, narrow, mem- 

 branous ridge. Spikes 6-15, erect, crowded at the end of the peduncle, 

 2-5-6 cm. long, rhachis fine, angular, scaberulous on the edges. Spikelets 

 about 2*5 mm. long excluding the awns, 2-awned, short-stalked, consisting 

 of 4 glumes. Lower involucral glume slender, subulate, glabrous, with the 

 keel glaberulous, 1-nerved, about half the upper; upper involucral glume 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2-fid at the apex, glabrous except the scaberulous keel, 

 nerve produced between the lobes into a scaberulous awn. Lower floral glume 

 oblong-ovate, cymbiform and rather deep, bifid at the apex and awned in the 

 sinus, margins slightly ciliate up to about the middle and then closely ciliate 

 with long hairs almost to but not to the tip, awn about 6 mm. long, bearded 

 at base, on each side of the dorsal nerve there is a shallow groove with short 

 scattered appressed hairs. Pale much narrower and rather shorter, often 

 reduplicate, toothed or notched. Rhachilla somewhat adnate to lower floral 

 glume, shortly produced, bearing a curious semitubular or bucciniform trun- 

 cate glume with 2 minute auricles at tip and an awn 8 mm. long. Grain 

 fusiform, sometimes slightly curved, pericarp loose. 



Locality: Gujarat: Sungiri (Gammie 16585!); Perim Island, Gulf of 

 Cambay (Blatter 3816! 3820 \). -Khandesh : Bor, Bori River (Blatter & 



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