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Hallberg 4425 !) ; Toranmal, S. B. slope (McCaan A194 \).—Konkan : Lower 

 Parel (Blatter 4279!), very common in Bombay Isl. (McCann !) ; Parsik, 

 railway line (McCann A195 !).— Deccan : Abundant on old walls of houses 

 in Poona (Achariyar) ; Mangiri, near Poona (Gammie 15342!) ; Katraj Ghat 

 (Garamie 1042 !) ; Gangapur (Blatter & Hallberg 4574 !) ; Igatpuri (Blatter & 

 Hallberg 5118 !, 5145 !) ; Lina Hill, Nasik Dist. (Blatter & Hallberg A190 !) ; 

 Sholapur (D'Almeida A193!).— 5. M. Country: Hnbli 2,000 ft., rainfall 

 30 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4219!) ; Dharwar, 2,500 ft., rainfall 34 inches 

 (Sedgwick 1818!). 



Distribution: Kashmir (Ladak), Rajputana, Gangetic Plain, Bihar, Burma, 

 W. Peninsula, Central & S. India, westward to Algeria; Mongolia, tropical 

 and S. Africa and America. 



6. Chloris barbata, Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. i (1797), 200 ; Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 10, t. 

 8; Kunth Enum. PI. i, 264, Suppl. 209; Trin. Diss. \, 232, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 

 306 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 421 ; Steud. S)m. Gram. 204 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 331 ; 

 Grah. Cat. 234; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 167; Dnthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 33, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. S3, t. 34 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii (1893), 

 367 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 539 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 429, Fl. Austral, vii, 613 

 {excl. syn. decora) ; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras, ii, iii, 67 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 

 292; Prain Beng. PI. 1227; Watt. Diet. Econ. Prod, ii, 269; Cke. ii, 1035; 

 Achariyar South Ind. Grass. (1921), 264 ; Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 

 969.— Andropogon barbatus, Linn. PI. Jam. Pugill. 30, Mantiss. ii, 302. - 

 Rheede Hort. Malab. xii, t. 51. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1035. 



Locality : Sind: Mirpur Sakro (Blatter & McCann D656 !); Tatta (Blatter & 

 McCann Y>§S7\).—Khandesh : Nim, Tapti bank (Blatter & Hallberg 5399 !) ; to 

 Naradana (Blatter & Hallberg 5163 !, 5182 !); Umalla, Tapti bank (Blatter & 

 Hallberg A188 \).—Konkan : Parel, very common in Bombay Island (McCann 

 5381 !); Sion (McCann 5220 !, 5245 !).— Deccan: Chattarshinji Hill, Poona 

 (Ezekiel !); Jeur, Ahmednagar Dist. (Woodrow !). — S.M. Country : Dharwar 

 Dist., 2,000 ft., rainfall 35 inches (Sedgwick 1962 !); Haveri (Talbot 2215 !).— 

 Kanara : Kulgi (Talbot 2311 !); Yellapore (Talbot 1524 !). 



Distribution : Tropics generally. 



7. Chloris montana, Roxb. Fl. Ind, i, 329 ; Kunth Enum. PL i, 265 ; 

 Spreng. Neue Entdeck. iii, 127; Steud. Syn. Gram. 204; Lisboa in Journ. 

 Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii (1893), 369; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 292; Achariyar 

 S. Ind. Grass. (1921), 270 ; Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 969. — C. decora, 

 Thw. Enum 371 {excl. syn.). — C. barbata var. decora, Trim. Cat. Ceyl, PI. 

 109. 



Description : Perennial. Stems erect, tufted geniculately ascending from a 

 creeping base, rooting at the nodes, quite glabrous, 10 cm. to 1-2 m. high. 

 Leaf-blades narrow-linear, finely acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous, 

 folded flat inwards, 10-20 cm. long, 1*5-3 mm. broad ; sheaths shorter than the 

 internodes, flat, compressed, glabrous, with a few hairs or none at the mouth 

 and with membranous margins, uppermost sheath spathiform, enclosing the 

 inflorescence when young ; ligule a thin ridge of short hairs densely arranged. 

 Nodes glabrous, dark-ringed. Spikes 2-6, very rarely up to 9, 2*5-7'5 cm. 

 long, connate at the base, erect and never spreading. Peduncle slender, long, 

 glabrous, but copiously pubescent just below the base of the connate spikes ; 

 rhachis angular, slender, scabrid. Spikelets about 3 mm. long excluding the 

 awns, short-pedicelled, unilateral, biseriate, thin, slender, 1-flowered, pale or 

 purple tinged, disarticulating above the 2 lower empty glumes which persist 

 on the rhachis, generally 4-, rarely 3- or 5-awned, awns pale or purple, 3-5 

 mm. long ; pedicel short, angular, scaberulous with a few pilose hairs ; 

 rhachilla produced, but is shorter than the flowering glume. Glumes usually 6, 

 very rarely 5 or 7. Lower involucral glume hyaline, awnless, white or lightly 

 purplish, about 1*5 mm. long, lanceolate, finely acuminate, 1-nerved, and with 

 a scabrid keel ; upper twice as long as the lower, hyaline, oblong-lanceolate, 

 finely acuminate or obtuse and shortly awned, 1-nerved. Lower floral glume 

 broadly oblong, chartaceous, 3- nerved, bearded with long hairs along the 

 margins from a little above the base and with a tuft of hairs at the base, awned at 

 the apex; upper floral glume much smaller, cuneate, conduplicate, awned from 



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