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filiform, digitate, terminal, expanded, hairy at the base : flowers 

 sessile in a double row • glumes unequal, inner one 3 — 4-times 

 longer, shortly awned : fertile floret single, lower valves awned 

 below the apex and with a rudimentary pedicel. 



Hedges and thickets in the Peninsula,. and Central India. 



GENUS XXyjI. LEPTOCHLOA. 



Vviandvia Dl^ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Leptos slender, and Chloa grass. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes racemosely arranged: spifcelets unilateral, 

 sessile, 2-many-flowered, distichous : glumes 2, keeled, usually 

 shorter than the flowers, mutioous : valves 2, lower one 3-nerved, 

 keeled, muticous, mucronate or awned, upper one shorter, 2-keeled : 

 awn straight, not jointed : stigmas penicill£form : scales 2, glabrous : 

 caryopsis oblong. 



{\J L. CAiTciNA. (Kunth.) 



Ident. Kunth. Gram. I. 91.— Dalz. 1. O; p. 296. 



Syn. Eleusine calycina, Roxh. 



Spec. Chae. Culms 2-feet, very leafy : leaves slightly hairy : 

 panicle linear, composed of many sessile, expanding, alternate, 

 secund, short spikes : spikelets on the underside : calyx 3-flowered : 

 glumes equal, twice the length, of the flowers, ending in a long 

 sharp dagger. 



Banks of the Taptee above Surat. Peninsula. 



(2) L. CoEOitorDELUfA. (Steudel.) 

 Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 209. 



Spec Chah. Culm thin, simple : leaves lanceolate, acute, 

 scabrous : sheaths slightly scabrous, hairy from scattered glands : 

 Ugula scarcely any : rays of the panicle erect, filiform, solitary, 

 alternate or twin, opposite : spikelets very thin, very shortly pedi- 

 ceUed, somewhat 2-flowered, very small : glumes unequal, shorter 

 than the florets, acute: valves stifl&sh, muticous, 1 -nerved, rather 

 obtuse. 



Coromandel. 



(3) L. VEETICILIATA. (Kwith.) 



Idmt. Kunth Enum. pi. I. p. 272.— Steudel I. c. 210. 



