5' 



2—4 short. Spikelets clustered, with a few 

 solitary ones. Nut ^ glume, trigonous, slightly 

 striated. Lowest glumes distichous. Found on 

 Ramtek Hill. 



SCIRPUS LITTERALIS, SchrUd. 



F. B. I. vi; 659 ; B. P. 1159; F. B. P, ii. 894. 



Large perennial sedge, up to 3 feet high. Rhizome 

 stout. Roots red. Stem spongy, trigonous above. 

 Sheaths open. Inflorescence a lateral, com- 

 pound, umbel. Stem projecting beyond umbel. 

 Spikelets large, red-brown, in drooping umbels. 

 Bristles up to 7, plumose. Nut smooth, brown* 

 apiculate. Common on the nallah banks on 

 Hoshangabad Farm, 



Thysanolena Agrostis, Nees. 



F. B. L vii. 61 ; B. P. 1172 ; F. B. P. ii. 1006. 



Tall perennial leafy grass, up to 9 feet high. Steni 

 solid. Leaves very large, flat, harsh. Mouth of 

 sheath bearded. Ligule ciliate. Nodes glab- 

 tous, Peduncle exserted. Inflorescence a large, 

 soft, panicle. Rachilla shortly produced. Spike- 

 lets small, covered with white hairs. Usually 

 found near running water. Pachmarhi and 

 Chhindwara. Frequently grown in shrubberies. 



Cham^ Raphis spinescens, Poir, , 



F. B. I. vii. 62 ; B, P. 1171 ; F. B. P. ii. 922. 

 Floating perennial grass, up to 2 feet long, rooting 

 at the nodes. Leaves flat Margins finely 

 toothed. . Sheathes loose. Ligule membranous. 

 Nodes finely hairly. Peduncle slender, far 

 exserted. Inflorescence a few branched panicle. 

 Branches angular, rough, produced into an 

 awn-like bristle beyond uppermost spikslet. 

 Spikelets harshly hairy. Glume I small. Awn 

 rough. A fldating grass in tanks near Ramtek. 



Spodiopogon albidus, Benth. 



F.B. I. yii. ib8; F. B. P. ii. 947. 



Tufted annual much branched leafy grass, up to 

 4 feet. Leaves long, flat, with a few long hairs; 

 above, distinctly stalked. Ligule membranous. 

 Nodes glabrous. Pedunclfe exserted, Panicle 

 narrow. Rachis fragile, finely hairy, Spikelet!=! 

 alikei 2-flowered. Only eollected at Pachmarhi, 



