639 



(28) A. SCANDENS. fEoxl.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 268. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 301. 



Spec. Chab. Culms long, branched, creeping or climbing over 

 busies, long-rooted from the joints, smooth and deeply grooved on 

 one side, flower-bearing extremities erect, 1-^2-feet long : nodes 

 woolly : leaves sometimes a little hairy above : spikes 3 — 6, 

 terminal, short pedioelled, sub-panicled : flowers in approximate 

 pairs, one hermaphrodite, sessile, the other male and pedioelled: 

 glumes lanceolate, hairy. 



Seccan, common. Bengal. Peninsula. 



(29) A. njCTravATTJS. (Ret%.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. v. 21. 



Spec. Ghak. Culms flliform, 2-feet, branched^ leafy, : leaves 

 linear, radical ones many, culm ones few : spikes many on a long 

 filiform, peduncle sub-digitate : flowers twin, hairy, bearded at the 

 base, female pedicelled awned, male sessile, mutio': calyx in both 

 1-glnmed, obtuse : awn long-twisted, geniculate. 



Tranquebar. 



(30) A. STEicTxrs. fBoxb.j 

 Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 260. 



Spec. Chab. Culm straight, 1 — 2-feetj branched above, glabrous, 

 nodes bearded : leaves slender, ciliated at the base : spikes fascicled 

 on a long common peduncle,. 3 — 6 : rhachis hairy : glumes of both 

 florets scrobiculate on both sides at the apex : awn long flexuose. 



Mountainous localities. 



(31) A. EUDis. (Nees.) 

 Ident. Nees Ms. (under Batratherum). — Steudel 1. c. p. 383. 



Spec. Chab. Nodes bearded: leaves ovate-lanceolate, fiiiely 

 acuminated, above together with the sheaths ciliated, stifle, hirsute 

 from tubercles : spikes 2 — 3, somewhat digitately packed together, 

 peduncled, loosely few-flowered : rhachis pubescently scabrous, 

 scattered towards the tops of the joints with a few bristles : glumes 

 oblong-lanceolate, acutish, finely scabrous, lower one coarsely muri- 

 cated towards the quadiifarioua apex, upper one bristly ciliated 

 before the apex, muticous. 



Silhet. 



