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unequal, 3-neived. One of the commonest Grasses about culti- 

 vated fields. Syn. Panicum colonum, Linn. sp. 84; P tetrasta- 

 chyon, Forsk. Descr. 19. 



3. O Crusgalli, Kunth. Gram, i, 44. — A delicate, rather 

 rare species ; culms filiform, creeping at the base, above nearly 

 erect; leaves soft, downy; spikes compound, alternate, secund ; 

 flowers imbricated in 2 rows ; glumes and outer palea of the neuter 

 floret hispid, awned, or mucronate. Syn. Panicum crus-corvi, and 

 P crus-galli, Linn. sp. 83, 84. Our specimens were found near Surat. 



4. O Stagninus, Kunth. Gram, i, 44. — Culms 1 to 4 feet high, 

 ascending ; leaves soft and smooth ; mouth only of the sheaths 

 ciliate ; spike compound, erect ; partial ones alternate ; spikelets 

 ovate-oblong, tubercled, bristly and ciliate ; lower glume ovate- 

 elliptic, acute ; a half shorter than the flower ; upper one awned. 

 Syn. Panicum stagninum, Willd. sp. i, 337. Generally found in 

 wet, cultivated ground, and about ditches. 



6. O Lanceolatus, Kunth. Gram i, 45. — Culms creeping and 

 branched, with their extremities suberect; leaves lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, undulated, about 4 inclies long and nearly 1 broad, very 

 unecjual-sided ; mouths of the sheaths bearded ; pp,nicle terminal, 

 naked, consisting of distant-spreading spikes ; florets sessile, soli- 

 tary, subtended by a few long hairs ; lower glume narrow, ending 

 in a long, purple awn ; upper broader, oblong and mucronate. About 

 the foot of the Ghauts, under the shade of trees ; Kineshwur. Syn. 

 Panicum lanceolatum, Retz., and P aristatum, Retz. Obs. iv, 17. 



6. ARUiNDINELLA, Raddi. 



1. A Tenella, Nees (?). — Six inches to 1| foot high; culms 

 geveral, from the same root ; sheaths about 1 inch long, ciliate along 

 the margins ; leaves few, 1 to 3 inches long, and 3 to 9 lines broad 

 in the middle, very tender, a little narrowed at the base, and acumi- 

 nate at the apex, sprinkled on both sides with a few slender, stiff" 

 hairs ; flowers in a panicle of the most delicate and slender kind ; 

 pedicels long, capillary, solitary or more frequently twin on the 

 branches of the panicle ; spikelets 2-flowered, lower flower barren, 

 the upper fertile ; glumes lanceolate acuminate, unequal, the upper 

 larger, with a long acumen, and minutely bifid at the apex, with 3 

 to 5 green veins clothed with hairs rising from papilH ; palese of 

 the lower flower membranous, and, like the glumes of the upper 

 flower, much smaller, of a dark-brown colour, membranous, scabrous 

 at the apex, and with 2 tufts of bristly hairs at the base ; the lower 

 palesE bifid at the apex, and furnished with a long, bent awn. One 

 of the commonest Grasses at Mahableshwur, under the shade of the 

 shrubs and trees. 



