80 INDIAN FOREST MEMOIRS. 



Lower sheaths are longer, upper sheaths are shorter than the proper internodes. 

 Lamm*. Of uppermost leaf of flowering culm from mucroniform, 0-25 in. long, to linear, 14 in. 



long and 0-25 in. wide. 



Of lower leaves, attains a length of 6 ft. and width of 1 in. Colour dark green, midrib 

 white. 



Greatest width usually about the middle. Apex long acuminate, base narrow ana flat- 

 In basal leaves midrib occupies \, or less, of the width of lamina at base. 



Margin scabrid except at extreme base. 



Bulbous hairs scattered chiefly on upper surface towards the apex. 



Densely bearded above immediately behind the ligule. 

 Liguie. Membranous, rounded, up to 0-25 in. high. 



Ciliate and minutely silky dorsally. 

 intiorescence. Spikelets in pairs, one pedicelled and one sessile on the capillary iointed branches and 



branchlets of a terminal panicle. 



Primary rachis yellow, sulcate, hairy on ridges, bearded at nodes. 



Primary branches sub-verticillate. 



Flowering 'panicle 9 in. to 2 ft. long, narrow, lanceolate to sub-cylindric ; branches 

 horizontal or slightly ascending, simple, or sometimes branched at base; colour purplish- 

 brown. 



Fruiting panicle purple, branches closely adpressed to rachis and very fragile. 



spikeiet*. Awnless, oblong, 0-08 to 0-13 in. long. 



Sessile and pedicelled similar, each one-flowered and $ . 



Pedicelled spikelet at length falling from the pedicel, sessile falling with the attached 



pedicel and joint of axis. The pedicelled spikelets usually fall first and the sessile follow 



later. 



Joint of axis 3-gonous, sparsely hairy on angles, | to 1\ the sessile spikelet but usually 



shorter than to subequal the spikelet. 



Pedicels glabrous or hairy on margins, \ to f sessile spikelet. Majority of pedicels 

 shorter than to subequal the proper joint. 



Callus hairs stiff, usually purple, shorter or a little longer than the spikelet. 



Glume I. — Oblong to oblong-lanceolate, brown, coriaceous, apex sub-acute, obtuse or 

 minutely bi-dentate. 



With two lateral keels; 2 — 7 nerved. 



Margins inflexed, ciliate. 



Dorsally flat between the keels, hairy or smooth below, puberulous above._ 

 Villi not overtopping the glume. 

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