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Spec. Chae. Culm slender, glabrous : leaves linear, aeuminate, 

 scabrous, hairy above from tubercles : ligula truncated : spites race- 

 mosely compound, approximated at the tops of the branches, 

 short-peduncled, fascicled, solitary or twin, 2 — 3-merous : common 

 peduncle glabrous, very short, ■within the bract : bracts lanceolate- 

 acuminate, coarsely tubercled and bristly at the sides: pedicels 

 hairy : sessile floret linear, scabrous, bearded at the base and apex, 

 five times shorter than the awn : neuter ones subulate, scabrous, 

 scattered with bulbous bristlets. 



Near Calcutta. 



(39) A. PTrarcTATus. {Roxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 264. 



8yn. A. perfossus, Nees et Meyen. 



Spec. Chab. Culm decumbent at the base, then erect, simple, 

 2 — 4-feet, covered by the sheaths, filled with spongiose gluten: 

 leaves large, long, copious, scattered with long hairs at the base : 

 rays of the erect oblong panicle numerous, simple, erect, secund : 

 outer glumes of the hermaphrodite and neuter calyx sorobiculate : 

 awn long, flexuose. 



Mountainous localities. 



(40) A. pnMiLTJS. (Roxb.) 



Idmt. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 273. — ^Dalz. 1. c. p. 302. 



Spec. Chab. Culms branched, smooth, erect, 1-foot : leaves 

 rather small, particularly the floral ones, which are almost reduced 

 to sheaths': panicle composed of numerous axillary and terminal 

 conjugate hirsute secund spikes, elevated on slender, joined pedun- 

 cles, embraced by many delicate ohafiy bracts at the base : flowers 

 in pairs on the joints of the hairy rhachis', one sessile bi-sexual, the 

 other peduncled and male : glumes of hermaphrodite flower cus- 

 pidate. 



About Surat. Coromandel. 



(41) A. coNTEOVEESTTS. f Steud.j 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 391. 



Syn. A. laxus, Roxb. I. c. p. 271. 



Spec. Chas. Eoot somewhat woody: culm declinate at the base, 

 rooting at the joints, rest erect, 1 — 15-feet, woody, glabrous : leaves 

 scabrous at the margin : rays of the loose ovate, nodding panicle 

 spreading, interstices woolly : raylets racemose, 4 — 6-spiked, pedi- 

 ceUed, rhachis jointed : flowers twin : awn twisted. 



Hedges and banks of watercourses. 



