92 INDIAN FOREST MEMOIRS. 



€l,lm - Erect, simple, slender, from 5 in. in height and almost filiform, in poorly nourished 



individuals, to 9J ft. high and 0-3 in. dia. 

 Solid, slightly fistular at base, smooth. 



Leaf insertions tumid, glabrous, or densely bearded with erect white hairs. 

 Leaf-sheath. Glabrous or glabrescent, ciliate or glabrous along the margin towards the apex. 



Usually longer than proper internode. 

 Lamina. Of uppermost leaf of flowering culm from mucroniform and 0-05 in. long to 6 in. long 



and 0-25 in. wide with greatest width in middle. 



Of lower leaves erect or arcuate and attains a length of 4 ft. and width of 11 in. 



Greatest width about the middle. 



Dark green, midrib white. 



Apex acuminate, narrowed towards the base where the midrib occupies almost the 

 entire width of the leaf. 



Smooth, but scabrid on margin and on one or more sub-marginal nerves above, especi- 

 ally towards the apex. 



White villous above on margins towards the base and behind the ligule. 

 Liguie. Rounded, truncate or two lobed. Attaining a height of 0-13 in. Ciliate. Dorsally 



silky. 

 inflorescence. Spikelets in pairs, both pedicelled (one pedicel long and one short), on the simple, or 



compound, subverticillate, capillary branches of a narrow, spiciform, terminal, panicle. 

 The upper spikelets in the racemes are sometimes solitary. 



Branches are tenacious and not jointed. 



Primary rachis sulcate, glabrous or scaberulous, sparsely villous at nodes with long 

 white hairs. 



Pedicels glabrous, scaberulous or pubescent, and with a few long white hairs towards 

 the base. 



Panicle from a little over 1 in. (in depauperate individuals) to 20 in. in length, not 

 exceeding 1 in. in width. 



Flowering panicle purple with the exserted stigmas, the callus-hairs being closely 

 adpressed to the axis, fruiting panicle silvery white with the wide-spreading callus-hairs, 

 spikelets. Not awned, lanceolate, 0-13 to 0-15 in. long (attaining 0-2 in. fide Hackel). 



Both spikelets of each pair similar, each one-flowered and $, and at length falling from 



the pedicel. 



Callus-hairs soft, white, 2 — 3 times as long as spikelet. 



Glume I. — Lanceolate, membranous, slightly thickened towards the hase, apex 

 hyaline, 3 — 9 nerved, none of the nerves extending to apex of 

 glume, margins incurved, ciliate above. 

 Dorsally villous with soft white hairs overtopping the glume by 1^ to 3 

 times the length of the glume. 

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