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Spec. Chak. Culm decumbent at the base, rooting, branches 

 erect, glabrous : leaves ovate-lanceolate, semi-sagittate with, a cordate 

 base : spikes sub-secund : spikelets twin, bearded at the base : outer 

 glumes transversely wrinkled : hermaphrodite floret awned. 



Bengal, in newly formed pastures. 



(20) A. coBDATiEoxius. (BtmA.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. o. p. 376. 



Syn. Ischoemum conjugatum, Roxb. I. c. p. 321. 



Spec. Chab. Culm branched, creeping at the base, filiform : 

 sheaths glabrous : leaves short, acute, broad-cordate at the base : 

 spikes connate on a clavate peduncle : rhachis hairy, jointed, flowers 

 in pairs 4 — 8 on a single spike, one sessile the other sub-sessile : 

 glumes of either floret flat, woolly : sessile, floret awned. 



Pasture lands near Calcutta. 



(21) A. GEHTCULATtrs. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 322 (under Isehsemum). 



Spec. Chaji. Culms geniculate; creeping, rooting, smooth : leaves 

 small, ensiform: spikes conjugate, closely approximated: rhachis 

 jointed, flexuose, angles acute, hairy: outer glume of the sessile 

 floret famished at the apex on both sides with hard serrulated 

 crests, inner one crested at the back below the apex : glumes of the 

 pedieelled floret boat-shaped, mucronate or somewhat awned below 

 the crested apex : outer paleae of the fertile floret 2-cleft, awned. 



Bengal. 



(22) A. ASTHENOS. CSteud.j 



Ident. Steudel 1. c._ p. 377. 



Syn. Isehsemum tenellum, Roxh. I. c. p. 323, 



Spec. Chae. Culm weak, branched at the base, creeping : 

 branches erect, joints bearded : leaves linear, hairy at the base and 

 at the mouths of the sheaths : outer glume of the sessile floret 

 truncated, rest all cuspidate : hermaphrodite flower awned. 



Bengal. 



(23) A. CoTiRTALEENSis. (Stevd.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. e. p. 377. 



Syn. Apocopis "Wightii,, Nees Ms. 



Spec. Chae. Spikes twin, secund-flowered or solitaiy in four 

 rows : spikelets awned : lower glume obcordate. 



Courtallum. 



