603 



Spec. Chae. Leaves convolute : panicle lax, nodding : spikelets 

 pale, homogamous, 2-flowered : glumes twice shorter than the 

 floret. 



CourtaUum. 



(2) A. BENeHAiENSis. (Nees.) 

 Ident. Nees 1. c— Steudel 1. c. 



Anmdo Bengalensis, Ret%. — Roxl. l. c. p. 348. — Donax 

 Bengalensis, Beam. 



Spec. Chae._ Cuhn thick, leafy, 6— 10-feet, flstular: leaves 

 glabrous, flat, distichous, ensiform : panicle much branched, erect, 

 2-feet: rays half-verticelled, uneijual, branched: spikelets 3 — 4- 

 flo-wered : glumes equal, one floret sessile : lower valve subulate- 

 alternate, 3-nerved. 



Peninsula. Bengal. 



(3) A. BiFAEiA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Nees 1. c. — Steudel 1. c. 



Syn. Anmdo bifaria, JRetz. — Roxb. I. c. p. 347. 



Spec. Chab. Cuhn thick, very leafy: sheaths close, striated, 

 glabrous, covering the culm : Hgula very short, semi-lunax : leaves 

 distichous, flat, spreading, linear-lanceolate, attenuated and very 

 acute, thichish, firm, hispid at the edges : panicle oblong, con- 

 tracted, dense, erect : spikelets 3-flowered : glumes lanceolate- 

 linear, acuminate, nearly equalling the florets : lowest florets short- 

 pediceUed : lower valve lanceolate, 3-nerved, nerves running out 

 into an acumen. 



Circars. Bengal. 



(4) A. TEJTELLA. f Wight Sf Am. J 

 Ident. W. and A. in Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves narrow-linear, at length folded upon them- 

 selves, equalling the culm, striated, sparingly hairy above : panicle 

 dense : spikelets homogamous, 2-flowered : glumes acute, three 

 times shorter than the floret. 



Peninsula. 



SECT. VII. miiORiiii:^. 



Spikes or racemes distichous-secund, seldom solitary : spikelets 

 seldom 1, usually many-flowered, upper florets vrithering: glumes 

 two, persistent on the rhachis : valves 2, usually stififer, lower one 

 seldom muticous at the apex, commonly with one or several bristles. 



