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the truncate tip, embracing glumes v and vi ; glume v cuneate or subglobose, 

 small, enclosing the still smaller or minute glume vi, both awned. Pale 

 oblong, a little smaller than its glume, folded along the margins. Stamens 3, 

 anthers pale yellow. Styles white with purple stigmas. Lodicules narrowly 

 cuneate. 



Locality : Deccan ; Nasik (Lisboa). 



Distribution : Upper and Lower Gangetic Plain, southward to Ceylon, 

 Coromandel Coast. 



8. Cbloris quinquesetica, Bhide in Journ. & Proc. As. Soc. Beng. (new series) 

 viii (1912), 311. 



Description : A glabrous, perennial grass, creeping and rooting at the 

 lower nodes and there forming small tufts of leaves and an erect flowering 

 stem 60 cm. high ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-15 cm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, 

 sparsely, delicately long-ciliate when young, ultimately glabrous, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, truncate at the base, margins minutely scabrid ; ligule a narrow 

 fimbriate membrane. Spikes 5-18, 2'5-5 cm. long, crowded in a very short 

 racemose fascicle the branches of which are often decurrent into the peduncle 

 for a short distance and form ridges on it which are also studded with stray 

 spikelets. Peduncle below the spikes and the rhachises hairy. Spikelets 8 mm. 

 long including the awns. Glumes?: i and ir empty, iii flowering, awned, 

 paleate, iv-vii barren, epaleate, gradually smaller and rounder, all awned. 

 Lower involucral glume 15 mm. long, elliptic-lanceolate, membranous, 

 strongly 1-nerved, slightly oblique : upper \\ times as long as the lower, 

 elliptic-oblong, membranous, shortly mucronate, strongly 1-nerved. Lower 

 floral glume without the awn as long as the upper involucral, elliptic-obovate, 

 cuneate, coriaceous, 3-nerved, and with a dorsoterminal awn 5 mm. long, 

 lateral nerves densely bearded with long white hairs nearly from the base. 

 Pale as long as the glume but narrower, slightly hairy at the back, very shortly 

 2-fid at the apex, 2-keeled, keels minutely ciliate. Stamens 3, styles 2, stigmas 

 plumose. Grain plano-convex or trigonous. Lodicules minute. 



Locality ; Sind : Jamesabad, in fields (Sabnis B1116 !). — Gujarat : Bhuj, 

 Bhodir Maka, Cutch (Blatter 3748!); Runn of Cutch (Blatter 3732!).— 

 Konkan : Versova (McCann A185 !) ; Papadi, Bassein, growing on the bunds 

 of rice fields, in semi-salt land (Bhide!); Colaba, near a swamp, on 

 rocks, very common (McCann A198 ! 5 A199 !, A200 \).—Kanara -■ Karwar, on 

 red mud near the shore (Hallberg & McCann A197 ! ) . 



Distribution : So far endemic. 



9. Chloris gayana, Kunth. Rev. Gram, i, 89, 293, t. 58, Enum. i, 267, Suppl. 

 216 ; Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 240 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum, i, 207 ; Oliv. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. 29, 174 ; Durand & Schinz Consp. Fi. Afr. v, 861. — C. abyssinica, 

 Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii, 406; Engl. Hochgebirgs Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. 132 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii, App. ii, 32 ; Durand & Schinz 

 Consp. 1. c. 860. — C. glabrata, Anderss. in Peters Reise Mossamb. Bot. 557. 



Popular Name : Rhodes Grass. 



Description: Perennial or annual, 0'6-l*2 m. high ; culms erect or geni- 

 culately ascending, or prostrate at the base, simple or branched, often emitting 

 fascicles of barren shoots or short runners from the lower nodes, often robust, 

 3-9-noded, compressed below, glabrous, smooth, upper internodes usually 

 exserted; sheaths glabrous or sparingly hairy near the mouth, smooth, the lower 

 strongly compressed, keeled, keels sometimes scabrid, the uppermost some- 

 times tumid ; ligules membranous, very short, long-hairy ; blades linear, long- 

 tapering to a fine point, 15-more than 30 cm. by 6-8 mm. when expanded, flat 

 or folded, glabrous or hirsute near the base, green, smooth below, rough above 

 on the margins. Spikes 6-15, umbelled, sessile, suberect, rarely spreading, 

 6-10 cm. long, greenish or brownish ; rhachis scabrid ; spikelets 3 mm. long, 

 3-4-flowered, shortly 2-awned, glumes very unequal, the lower involucral 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, subhyaline, 1-1*5 mm. long, the upper oblong, obtuse, 

 mucronate, 2-3 mm. long, firmer, scaberulous ; lower floral glume oblong, sub- 

 obtuse or acute, minutely 2-toothed, ciliolate along the marginal nerves 

 and shortly bearded below 7 the tips or only finely bearded or almost glabrous, 

 with a (sometimes minutely hairy) groove on each face ; awn as long or slightly 



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