Ctf. SCLERIA PERGRACILIS, Kunth. 



F. B I. vi. 685; B.P. 1 132. 



A tufted sedge, up to 15 inches. Stem slender, tri- 

 gonous. Leaves as long as stem. Spikelets 

 clustered in a long slender spike. Clusters of 

 2-5 spikelets, distant. Nut tuberculated, tri- 

 gonous. Common on the Raipur and Jubbulpore 

 Farms. 



The whole plant is lemon-scented. 



56. SCLERIA TESSELLATA, Willd, 



F. B. I. vi. 686; B. P. 1133; F. B. P. ii. 903. 



A slender tufted leafy perennial sedge, up to 2 feet. 

 Stem trigonous. Leaves broad with cutting edges, 

 scahrid. Spikelets soli^-ary or clustered on thei 

 branches of a terminal panicle. Nut globose, 

 bonelike; disk salver-shaped, 3-lobed. 



57. ScLERIA ANNULARIS, Kunth. 



F. B. L vi 687; F B. P. ii. Q03. 



A slender annual sparingly hairy sedge, up to j8 

 inches. Stem trigonous. Spikelets in axillary 

 and terminal panicles. Leaves narrow, long, 

 Cutting. Bracts conspicuous, scabrid. Nut 

 very srriooth, white, shining, disk reddish-brown, 

 cup-like. 



IIL— GRAMINE^\ 



58. Paspalum scrobiculatum, Linn. 



F. B. L vii. to; B. P. 1182; F B. P. ii. 943. 



Annual erect tufted grass, 2-3 feet. Leaves long, erect 

 or nearly so. Ligule membranous. Peduncle; 

 long slender. Spikes 2-6 sp'reading. Spikelets 

 sessile, roundish, usually in two rows. Cultivated 

 for its grain. Also founid wield in wet land. 



Vern. Kodo, Kodra. 



S9i Digitaria sanguinalis. Scop. var. ciliaris, Prain. 



B. P. 1181 ; F. B P. ii. 940-, Paspalum sanguinale^ 



var, ciliare, F. B I. vii. 15. 

 Annual or perennial grass, up to 3 feet high. Erect 



from a creeping, br.inching base. Leaves variable^ 



flat. ^ Ligule hairv. Peduncle long, slender. 



Rachis zig-zag. Spikes arising from one point. 



Spikelets oblong, hairy, adpressed to raehis* 



Common. 

 Vern. Kai, Mukar. 

 Liked most by cattle when dry/ 



