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without a callosity, lower 2— nerved, nerves as if approximated 

 into one-, obtuse : scales 2, small : ovary glabrous : stigmas plumose : 

 caryopsis free, in a loosening glassy pericarp. 



(1) V. CoROMANBEMAifA. fBemw.J 

 Ident. Beauv. Agrost. 16. 



Syn, Agrostis Coromandeliana, Ret%. — Sporobolus Coroman- 

 delianus, Zunth. 



Mngram. Trin. Ic. 1. 1. 11. 



_ Spec. Chae. Culms 4 — 8-inches : panicle vertioeUed, branches 

 simple, secund : inner glume as long as the palese, outer one minute : 

 ligula hairy: leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed-acuminate, serrate- 

 ciliated at the margins. 



Pasture ground in the Peninsula, 



(2) V. BiANBEA. (Trin.) 



Idmt. Trin. Agrost. I. 38. 



Syn. Agrostis diandra, ijefe. — Roxb. I. o. p. 317. 



Spec. Chab. Culm thin, simple, sheaths a half shorter than the 

 intemodes, more or less hairy at the margins : ligula very short, 

 ciliate : leaves linear, compressed : juba contracted : lower rays 

 more or less naked, upper ones flor&erous from the base : lower 

 glume more than twice shorter than the valves^ 



Moist pastures near Calcutta. Western coast. 



(3) V. OEEENTAus. fNees.J 



Idmt. Nees Agrost. Bras. p. 393, (under Agrostis.) 



Syn. Agrostis tenacissima, Roxb. — A. orientalis, Neei. — A. 

 elongata, Roth. 



Spec. Chab. Root somewhat creeping : culm flagelliferous at 

 the base, ascending, slightly branched : ligula very short, ciliated : 

 leaves roUed inwards on the culms of the short branches, distichous, 

 shorter, recurved: rays of the spike-formed juba 3 — 4, flower- 

 bearing from the base. 



Pasture grounds. 



(4) V. SEsricuLATA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees Ms. — Steudel 1. o. p. 156. 



Spirc. CH.i.11. Culm fasciculately branched, geniculate: leaves 



