635 



sessile, hermaphrodite, diandrous, quite glabrous : corolla termi- 

 nated by a long awn. 



Pasture lands near Calcutta. Mahableshwur. 



(12) A. TEmENTATirs. (Rosoh.) 



Eoxb. 1. c. p. 257. 



Spec. Chae. Culms slender, erect: leaves small: spikes terminal, 

 twin, hirsute : flowers geminate, one sessile, both hermaphrodite : 

 glumes hirsute, outer ones cuneate, truncated, 3-toothed : corolla 

 4-valved, outer one 2-Gleft, awned. 



Coromandel. 



(13) A. siMiiiiMus. (SteiM.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 373. 



Syn. IschsBmum scrobiculatum, W. and A. ex Nees Mas. 



Spec. Chae. Creeping : culms slender, elongated : leaves linear- 

 lanceoFate, pubescent, bearded at the base : spike 2-cleft : spikelets 

 ovate : lower glume convex, sub-veutricose, very smooth at the 

 base for a short way, striated towards the apex and* surrounded 

 with a marginal wing, apex obtuse, 2-cleft, all the margins hooded 

 and bent inwards, upper one acuminate, bidenticulate, slightly 

 bristly : bristle of the floret twice longer than the spikelet : rhachis 

 on both sides flattened, broadish, alternately half-forked, twin- 

 flowered : joints and pedicels grey-ciliated. 



Peninsula. 



.(14) A. AEifoinAinjs. f Nees. J 



Ident. Nees Act. N. C. xvii. suppl. I. 195 (under Meoschium). 

 —Steudel 1. c. p. 375. 



Spec Chae. . Culm low, branched and with the leaves glabrous : 

 leaves linear : sheaths ventricose, especially the upper ones and 

 these furnished with a small leaf: spikes twin, short, rhachis and 

 pedicels ciliated : lower glume of the ovate-oblong sessile spikelet 

 transversely wrinkled from the base to the middle, cartilaginous, 

 glabrous : pedicelled spikelet hemiologamous, muticous. 



Peninsula. 



(15) A. Towe Doi^e. fSteud.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 375. 



Syn. Moeschium Royleanum, Nees M»8. 



