611 



Syn. PommereuUia monoica, Eoth. iV. pi. ep. 33. 



Spec. Chak. Culms ceespitose, filiform, 4— '5-iiiches, knots 

 bearded : leaves short, rigid, folded, convolute at the apex, mucro- 

 nate : raceme short, erect : spikelets secund, short : awns dark- 

 coloured. 



Common in barren places in the Concan and Decoan. 



SECT. VIII. AVEHTACEja. 



Inflorescence panicled : spikelets 2-many-flowered : terminal 

 floret often abortive : glumes large more or less surrounding the 

 spikelets, with the lower valve chartaceo-membranaceous or scarious 

 and rather stiff, the former awned in many, awn dorsal or rising 

 beneath the apex and twisting : valve usually 2-cleffc at the apex 

 or bristle-bearing. 



GENUS XXXII. AIKA. 



Vplandpta Dig'yiiia, Sex: Syst: 



Geit. Cha£. Spikelets hermaphrodite, 2- seldom 3-flowered: 

 glumes 2, nearly equal, keeled, equalling or exceeding the florets : 

 valves 2, herbaceous, lower sometimes awned above l£e base or at 

 the back, sometimes entire at the apex, 2-cleft or 4-toothed : scales 

 two, membranaceous : stamens 3 : ovary glabrous : stigmas sub- 

 sessile, terminal, plumose : caryopsis glabrous. 



(1) A. MADERiSPATANA. (Nees.J 



Bent. Nees MS.— Steudel 1. c. p. 221. 



Spec. Chas. Leaves bristly scabrous : panicle narrow : glumes 

 twice longer than the florets, above and with the florets dotted and 

 scabrous : awn inserted near the base, not exceeding the glumes : 

 lower valves entire. 



Madras. 



(2) A. FJUFOBMis. (Koen.J 

 Ident. Eoenig in Boxb. 1. c. p. 326. 



Spec. Chae. Erect, 1-foot: culms naked: leaves ensiform, 

 small: panicles oblong, compound: racemes simple, filiform, 

 expanded, secund, alternate : flowers in a double row : calyx 

 2-flowered, large. 



Peninsula, in moist pastures. Bengal. 



