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Ql, PENNISETUM PEDICELLATUM, Trin, 



F. B. I. vii. 86; B. P. 1169; F. B. P. ii. 916. 



Annual freely branching, erect grass, up to 3 feet 

 Stem leafy. Leaves broad. Peduncle shortly 

 exserted. Inflorescence spike-like with dense soft 

 purple bristles. Bristles silky below the middle. 

 Common in wet places. 



92. Cenchrus cathartigus, Delile. 



F. B. I vii 90; F.B. P. ii. 918. 



Short annual grass branching from base, 6-12 inches 

 hieh. Leaves rough flat. Ligule a ring of hairs. 

 Nodes glabrous. Peduncle exserted. Inflores- 

 cence spike-like. Rachis twisted like a cork- 

 screw. Bristles ultimately becoming black. 



On the sandy shore of Tawa river, Hoshangabad. 



93. Leersia hexandra, Sw. 



F. B. I. vii. 94; B. P. 1185 ; F.B. P. ii. 1042. 



Annual erect grass, 2 feet high. Leaves narrow, 

 Ligule membranous. Nodes finely hairy. Peduncle 

 long. Spikes ascending, approximate. Stamens 

 6. A rice-like grass. 



On edge of tanks and wet places. 



94. Hygrorhiza aristata, Nees. 



F. B. I. vii. 94; B. P. 1185; F. B. P. ii. 1041. 



A perennial glabrous floating grass, up to 3 feet 

 long, with feathery roots at the nodes. Leaves 

 short, broad, rough on upper surface, waxy beneath. 

 Sheaths loose, auricled at mouth. Ligule a narrow 

 membrane. Peduncle enclosed. Panicle short. 

 Spikelets narrow, long, awned. 



A floating grass in tanks at Raipur. 



93. Tragus racemosus, Scop, 



F. B. I. vii. 97 ; B. P. 1 186 ; F. B. P. ii. 1014. 



Perennial deflexed leafy grass 4-8 inches high. 

 Leaves small, flat, margins ciliate with white 

 hairs. Ligule hairy. Nodes glabrous. Peduncle 

 shortly exserted. Inflorescence spike-like. Spike- 

 lets in pairs, crowded, looking li«e one spikelet. 

 Nerves with rigid curved bristles. Common in 

 stony places. t 



