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lower ones rooting : lower sheaths hairy, upper glabrous, ciliated at 

 the edges only, closely involying the culm, throat ciliated : ligula 

 ciliated : leaves as if petioled, flat, bearded with long hairs at the 

 base, rest glabrous, very scabrous, serrulate at the margin : panicles 

 sub-decompound, seound, branches seound, racemose or solitary, 

 sessilo or 1 — 2-pedicelled : rhachis scabrous-angular, rhachUla sca- 

 brous-pubescent : spikelets solitary, aU short-pedicelled, joiated at 

 the apex of the pedicel, 2-flowered : glumes 2, outer very small, 

 ovate, membranaceous at the apex, lower one ovate, acute, 3 — 5- 

 nerved, hairy externally : male or neutral floret 2 — valved; outer 

 valvelet a little longer than the lower glume, 3 -nerved, ciliated, 

 apex and margin hyaline acutish, inner one hyahne, oblong, 2- 

 nerved, valvelets of the hermaphrodite shining, obtuse, very 

 smooth. 



Near Movai, Eauda district. 



(43) P. XETFLORirM:. fEdgew.J 



Ident. Edgew. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Annual, creeping, softly pubescent : culms decum- 

 bent, half-terete, pubescent : sheaths lax : ligula short ciliated : 

 leaves oblong-linear, sub-cordate at the base, shortly acuminated at 

 the apex : panicle few-branched, tomentose, racemes straight, sub- 

 alternate, diverging : rhachis and rhachiUa excavated, back tomen- 

 tose, angles scabrous, pedicels hairy, bristles few, fulcrate : spikelets 

 twin or solitary, one sub-sessile, broadly ovate, acute, 3 -flowered, 

 (seldom 2-flowered) : glumes 2, outer one somewhat decurrent, 

 obscurely 3-nerved, inner one broadly ovate, 5-nerved : flowers 2 

 (or one) neutral, male flower between the neutral, lower flower 

 neutral, 1- rarely 2-valved, outer valvelet 5-nerved, acute, inner 

 one oblong, margin involute, 2-toothed : valvelets of the hermaph- 

 rodite flower wrinkled, outer one concave, 3-nerved. 



Stony places near Banda. 



(44) P. MAifGALOKictrsr. fSteudel.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 78. 



Spbc. Chae. Culm erect, branched at the base, rooting, quite 

 glabrous : knots thickened : leaves glaucescent, sub-cordate at the 

 base, and with a few scattered hairs, lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 scabrous at the edges : panicle erect, spreading, rays fascicled and 

 solitary, branched, erect-patent : small rays more or less flexuose, 

 1 — 2-spieulate : spikelets ovate : lower glume exceeding half the 

 spikelet, 3-nerved, upper equalling the neutral and hernjaphrodite 

 floret. 



Near Mahgalore. 



