770 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXX111, No. 4 {Oct. 15, 1929. 



Tapti River (Hall berg A29 !) ; Porbandar (Bhide !) ; Dharasna (Chibber !) ; 

 road to Gola (Chibber!); Karie Roa, Cutch (Blatter 3770!, 3773 !) ; Kala, 

 Pachan Isl., Cutch (Blatter 3739 !) ; (Runn of Cutch Blatter 3730 !, 3731 !).— 

 Konkan: On the salt ground near the sea (Graham, Lisboa) ; Bandra, salt 

 marsh (Vakil A28 !) ; Penn (McCann A31!); Bassein Creek (Chibber!); 

 Nagaon, Sion, salt marsh (McCann 5240 !) ; Salsette (Wight 53). 



Distribution : Punjab, Sind, W. Peninsula, in salt ground, Ceylon, 

 Afghanistan, Persia, Caspian region, Arabia, Mediterranean region. 



101. Centotheca, Desv. ; Cke. ii t 1043. 



Species doubtfully 3. — Tropical Africa, Asia, Australia. — One species in the 

 Presidency. 



1. Centotheca lappacea, Desv. in Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. ii (1810), 189, et in 

 Journ. Bot. i (1813), 71 ; Cke. ii, 1043.— For synonyms refer to Hook. f. in 

 F.B.T. vii, 332. 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality : Konkan : Vetora (Sabnis 33564 !, 33727 \).—Kanara : Castle 

 Rock, evergreen forests, 1,600 ft., rainfall 250 inches (Sedgwick 2714 ! ; 

 Gammie 15693 !) ; Guddhalli, Karwar (Hallberg & McCann A25 !) , Katgal 

 (Hallberg & McCann A26 !) ; Devimani Ghat (Hallberg & McCann A27 !) ; on 

 a fern stem (Woodrow !). 



Distribution : Himalayas, Khasia Hills, Central India, Burma, W. Penin- 

 sula, Ceylon, Malaya, China, Polynesia, tropical Africa. 



TRIBE XVI. HORDE/E 



102. Lepturus, Br. ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 365. 



Small, slender grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 1-2-flowered, 

 sessile, solitary, half-immersed in hollows of the rhachis of a simple, terminal, 

 articulate or not-straight or incurved spike with the back of the lowest floral 

 glume opposite the rhachis ; rhachilla jointed. Glumes 3 or 4. Lower involucral 

 glume minute or 0, upper longer than the flowering glumes, linear, rigid, 

 acute, 5-nerved, erect or at length deflexed ; flowering glumes much shorter 

 than the upper involucral glume, hyaline ; pale 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, cuneate, 

 or lobed. Stamens 1-3. Ovary glabrous ; styles short, distant. Grain narrow 

 or oblong, glabrous, free. 



Species 6. —The Old World. —One species in the Presidency, new to it. 



1. Lepturus repens, R. Br. Prodr. (1810), 207 ; Brongn, in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 

 57, t. 16 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i, 463, Suppl. 374 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 357 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, vii, 668; Hook. i. in F.B.I, vii, 365.— Rotboellia repens, Forst. 

 Prodr. 9.—Monerma repens, Beauv. Agrost. 117 .—Lepturus aciculatus, Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 357. — Lolium Coelorachis, Forst. in Herb. Paris, Steud. Nom. ed. 

 ii, ii, 64. 



Description : A perennial grass. Stem elongate, woody, branched and 

 widely creeping below. Leaves 7 to 15 cm. long, 3-6 mm. broad, spreading or 

 erect, acuminate, glaucous ; sheaths glabrous or mouth ciliate ; ligule incons- 

 picuous. Spikes shortly peduncled, fragile. Spikelets 2-fid ; rhachilla elongate, 

 bearing an upper imperfect flower. Involucral glumes 1 (or 2 in the uppermost 

 spikelet) flat, rigid, 6-12 mm. long, closely appressed to the rhachis ; flowering 

 glume, much shorter than the involucral, elliptic, concave, 3-nerved. Pale 2- 

 keeled. Lodicules fleshy, obliquely truncate or 2-lobed, glabrous. Grain 

 oblong. 



Locality: Kanara : 4 miles from Halyal (Bhide). 



Distribution: N. Kanara, Ceylon, Malay and Pacific Islands, Australia. 



103. Triticum, Linn. 



* 1. Triticum sativum, Lam. Fl. Fr. ed. 1, iii (1778), 625. 



We are not in a position to discuss the many varieties or forms that are 

 cultivated in the Presidency. We refer to some literature which may help those 

 who wish to make further inquiries into this very complicated question. 



Hackel in Engler & Prantl. Pflanzenfam. ii, 80. 



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