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mouth : leaves lanceolate, small, acute, striated, glabrous : raceme 

 compound, racemules alternate, few-flowered, intervals storter, 

 erect, or adpressed to tie rhachis : spikelets small : glumes nearly- 

 equal, ovate, acute, bright green at the back, whitish at the margin, 

 twice shorter than the oblong, very smooth hermaphrodite one. 



Neilgherries. 



(53) C. KuNiHiAinnB:. ( W. and A.) 



Ident. "Wight and Amott in Herb. "Wight. — ^Steudel 1. c. 96. 



Spec. Chas. Culm creeping : leaves ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 cordate and with the sheaths tuberculated and hirsute : ligula 

 bristly : panicle small, oval, stiff : branchlets alternate, 4 — 5, 

 patent, somewhat 6-flowered: two lower pedicels somewhat 2- 

 flowered, two upper ones 1 -flowered : spikelets very small, ovate, 

 monoecious, lower floret hermaphrodite — male, smooth, upper one 

 stalked, female, hairy : glumes exceeding the florets, hirsute from 

 tubercles towards the apex. 



Peninsula. 



(64) P. .sftTTATTTM:. (Nees.) 



Ident. Wees Ms. — Steudel 1. c. p. 98. 



.Syn. P. patens, Roxb. I. c. 305. 



Spec Cttap, Culm branched, creeping : sheaths ciliated at the 

 margins : leaves cordate-ovate, cuspidate, puberulous : panicle short, 

 oval, somewhat decompound, rhachis and branchlets stiffish, gla- 

 brous, the latter with yellow scars, fasciculately branched from the 

 base : glumes and florets equal, lower florets male, 2-valved, upper 

 hermaphrodite, hispidulous at the back. 



Shady pasture ground. 



(55) P. EoxBUEGHii. fSpreng.J , 



Ident. Spreng. Syst. I. 320. 



Syn. P. tenellum, Roxb. I. o. 306. — ^P. trypheron, Schult. Mant. 

 II. 24ti. 



Spec. Chae. Culm branched, rooting at the knots, ascending: 

 leaves cordate at the base, elongated, softly hairy : panicles oblong, 

 branches expanded, capillary : spikelets solitary, remote, small, 

 oval : valvelets secund : seed oval, glabrous, 5-nerved. 



Pasture ground and borders of cultivation. 



(56) P. SEEEDXAITIM. (Roxb.) 



ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 307. 



