638 



(24) A. MOLLicoMtrs. fKwnth.j 



Ident. Kunth Gram. I. t. 96.— Dak. 1. c. p. 301.— Steudel 

 1. c. p. 379. 



Spec. Chab. Culm and brandies grooved, apex and upper nodes 

 villous : leaves linear, flat, roughish : sheaths keeled, smooth : 

 spikes terminal, digitate, 2 — 4 : spikelets in four rows, clothed with 

 silky hairs : hermaphrodite florets long-awned, sterile ones pedi- 

 celled and mutic : rhachis and pedicels hairy on one side, awn 

 rough, spirally twisted. 



Near Surat. 



(25) A. BLABHn. (Betz.) 

 Ident. Eetz. obs. II. 27. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 259. 



Seec. Chab. Culm erect, branched, nodes villous-bearded : Hgula 

 membranaceous, shortly hairy : leaves flat, sparingly hairy, especially 

 at the mouths of the sheaths : spikes 3 — 8, collected together, fasci- 

 culately sub-alternate, lower ones short-peduncled : joints and 

 pedicel of the neuter spikelet hairy at the margins, uppermost hairs 

 longer : inner glume of the sessile spikelet elliptic, obtuse, slightly 

 hirsute, upper 3-nerved, glabrous : awn 4 times longer than its own 

 spikelet, scattered below with short, above with long hairs : lower 

 spikelet similar to the upper. 



Bengal, in hedges and road-sides. • 



(26) A. BiFOVEOiATTTS. fStmd.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 380. 



Syn. A. scrobiculatus, Neea Mss. (not Delile). 



Spec. Chab. Culm branched, apex tapering, nodes bearded : 

 spikes fascicled, rhachis ciliated, bearded below the spikelets, the 

 latter coloured ciUolate, male coarsely 2 — 3-fov6olate at the back. 



Peninsula. 



(27) A. LAlfCEOLATOS. (Roxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 257. 



Syn. Batratherum lanceolatum, Nees in Ed. P. J. 1835, p. 181. 



Spec. Chab. — Culms ascending from rooting joints :, leaves^ lanceo- 

 late, cordate, stem-clasping, bristly-cUiate : spikes in twos or fours, 

 peduncled: joints and pedicels somewhat woolly: flower sessile 

 awned: outer glume sharply pectinate-serrulate, smooth at the 

 back : beard of the joints of the rhachis long. 



Coromandel. 



