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apex, shorter than the bristle, fastigiate, connivent : lower glume 

 clearly distant from the male floret, oblong, truncated, somewhat 

 convolute. 



Courtallum. 



(49) P. ELE9Aifs. (Bah.J 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 291, (under Isachne.) 



Spec. Chab. Culms 8-inches, geniculate below : sheaths ciliated 

 and with the apex bristly : leaves deeply striated, and minutely 

 serrulate on the margin : flowers panicled : panicle consisting of 

 slender, alternate, undulating branchlets : florets solitary, pedi- 

 oelledj globular : glumes green with red margins, tuberculated and 

 bristly, 2-flowered, both flowers perfect, plano-convex. 



Margins of rivulets in the Deccan. 



(50) P. NODIBAIIBAXTTM. (Hbchst.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 95. 



Sfec. Chae. Stem ascending, simple, glabrous, hairy at the 

 knots, bearded : sheaths striated, cUiate at the edges, rest glabrous : 

 margin of the ligula ciliated : leaves rounded and half stein-clasp- 

 ing at the base, lanceolate, acute, sparingly hairy or glabresoent : 

 panicle spreading, ovate : rays and radicles capillary, flexuose, 

 1-spiculate at the apex : spikelets glabrous : glumes and neuter 

 valvelets exceeding the smooth florets. 



NeUgherries". 



(51) P. METzn. fSoohstJ 



Ident. Hochst in Steudel 1. c. p. 95. 



Spec. Chae. Culm decumbent at the base, rooting, ascending, 

 simple, ptibescent at the somewhat tumid knots : sheaths striated 

 and with the leaves hairy : lig^a short, membranaceous, hairy : 

 leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, short-aqute at the apex, sub- 

 cordate and stem-clasping at the base, whitish at the margin : 

 panicle spreading, ovate, rays and radicles angled, hairy : spikelets 

 sessUe and pediceUed, glume and neuter floret hairy, hermaphrodite 

 glabrous. 



Neilgherries. 



(52) P. BB.ACHTGLT7ME. (Hochst.j 



Ident. Hochst in Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chak. Eoot fibrous: culm weak, simple, or branched, 

 glabrous, puberulous at the knots : sheaths striated, hairyish at the 



