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INDIAN FOREST MEMOIRS. 



Pedicelled 

 Spikelet. 



Hispidly ciliate dorsally on keel towards the apex or almost glabrous. 

 Often scaberulous dorsally on nerves and minutely pubescent with 



adpressed hairs dorsally near margin. 

 Apex sub-truncate or two dentate. 



Glume //-—Laterally compressed, broader than I, obtusely keeled, sub-coriaceous, 



three nerved. 

 Margins broad, hyaline, membranous, ciliate or not. 

 Very variable as regards its hairiness. Sometimes almost glabrous, at 



other times hispidly ciliate dorsally on keel with long white or 



rufous hairs more or less from base to apex. 

 Sometimes also pubescent, or minutely villous, dorsally on keel and on 



lateral nerves. 

 Awned, awn 0-1 — 0-25 in. long. 

 Apex entire or two lobed. 



Glume ///.—From ^ to subequal II, linear, hyaline, ciliate, enerved or indistinctly 



1—3 or more nerved. 

 Apex obtuse. 



Glume IV.- -The narrow 3 nerved base of an awn. 



Basal half or frds hyaline, membranous, upper portion chartaceous. 



Awn geniculate 0-40 — 0-7 in. long including the twisted column. 



(Attains 1-3 in. fide F. B. I.) Margins ciliate or not. 

 Apex entire or two lobed. 



Pale. — Sometimes present, very narrow, 0-05 in. long. 

 Lodicules. — Two, cuneate, glabrous. 



Anthers. — Three, 0-07 to 0-13 in. long, yellow or purple. 



Stigmas. — Two, 0-06 — 0-08 in. long, laterally exserted at base of spikelet. Yellow. 



Dorsally compressed, subequal the sessile spikelet. 



Pedicel is less than half the sessile spikelet, usually about ^rd the spikelet, and is* 

 densely ciliate on two margins with stiff rufous (or white, fide F. B. I.) hairs, the upper of 

 which are shorter than to subequal the spikelet. 



Glume /.—Lanceolate, membranous, 5—7 nerved. Minutely pubescent with ad- 

 pressed hairs dorsally, especially towards the apex, or almost 

 glabrous. Sometimes ciliate dorsally on midrib and on marginal 

 nerves, especially towards the apex. Acute or shortly awned. 



Glume II. — Subequal I, 3 nerved, margins incurved, long ciliate, apex acute or 



mucronate, glabrous dorsally. 

 Glumes III and IV. — Linear, hyaline, ciliate, enerved or indistinctly nerved. 

 Pale. — Sometimes present, as in sessile spikelet, but slightly longer, very narrow. 



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