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margins serrulate : flowers pamicled : branohlets sub-verticelled : 

 spikelets solitary, racemed : pedicels pubescent : florets pale-purple, 

 smootb : glumes unequal, lower smaller, ovate-acuminate, strongly 

 3-nerved, upper acuminate, 5-nerved, twice the length.: lower 

 paleae of upper flower slightly 2-cleft, with a short twisted awn. 



Mahableshwur. 



(12) A. GiGANTEA. {Bah.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culms er«ct, round, smooth, 6-feet, thicMsh at the 

 base, branched at aU the lower joints : nodes much swollen, covered 

 by the tomentose base of the sheaths, which are ciliated along the 

 margins and about half the length of the joints : leaves finely 

 attenuated to a point, scabrous and deeply striated above, sparingly 

 hairy : panicle very delicate and large : pedicels solitary or paired, 

 very slender, scabtous : flowers similar to the preceding. 



Foot of the Ghauts, Kineshwur. 



(13) A. sPicAiA. (Dah.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culms erect, 1-foot : leaves ensiform and, with ■ 

 the sheaths, clothed with stiff, spreading hairs : spike terminal, 

 cylindrio, densely flowered: lower glume herbaceo-membranous, 

 with 3 green veins, lanceolate, subulate, a little pilose, upper long- 

 attenuated and folded, and concealing within it the awn of the 

 hermaphrodite flower. 



Mahableshwur hills, common. 



GENTJS XV. MiaUELIA. 



Triandvia. Di^ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. iRaceme compound: spikelets twin or solitary, 

 homogamous or one incomplete, conforming, sub-sessile or one of 

 the twins pedicellate : glume single, adverse to the rhachis, mem- 

 branaceous, 3-nerved : lower floret neuter, 1-valved, 3-nerved, 

 larger than the glume, upper one hermaphrodite, sessUe, 2-valved : 

 lower valve embracing the upper, smooth, sending out an awn or 

 bristle, (geniculate below the middle,) from the short-toothed apex, 

 susceptible of twisting : upper one shorter, 2-nerved, smooth, back 

 flat, margins bent inwards, apex . entire : hypogynous scales 2, 

 small, somewhat fleshy, obovate : stamens 3 : ovary glabrous, styles 

 separated at the base, stigmas narrow : caxyopsis enclosed in stiffish 

 valves, free, oblong, smooth. 



