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awned : stigmas plumose, often denticulate with simple hairs : 

 scales 2, obsoletely 2 — 3-lobed at the apex, free : stamens 1 — 3 : 

 stigmas villous, thick, violet : caryopsis free. 



(1) S. SPONTANETTM. fLvUn.J 



Idmt. Eoxh. flor. Ind. I. p. 235. 



8yn. S. biflorum, Forsh. — Imperata spontanea, Trin. 



Spec. Chab. Culm 1 — 12-feet, smooth, full of pith : leaves 

 narrow-convolute, much acuminated to a very flue point; panicle 

 elongated, close or spreading : branches half verticelled and spiked, 

 joints and pedicels clothed with long white silky hairs : glumes 

 acuminated, half the length of the hairs of thejbase, the upper 

 one finely fringed : spikelets 1 -flowered, twin, One sessile neuter, 

 the other pediceUed and hermaphrodite : neuter spikelets without 

 palese : paleae of hermaphrodite flower fringed. 



Banks of the Decean rivers. Bengal. Peninsula. 



(2) S. SAEA. (Roxh.j 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 244. 



Spec. Chab. Culm er;eot, 8 — 16-feet, often the thickness of a 

 finger at the base : leaves flat, narrow, upper ones shorter, broader, 

 attenuated from the base to the apex into a very thin stiff acumen, 

 concave, all aculeated at the margin : sheaths fasciculately hairy at 

 the throat : rays of the dense panicle alternate, upper ones sub-ver- 

 ticelled, triquetrous, ramifications decompound, bristles stiff, long, 

 white, covered with the 2-valved calyx : flowers twin, one sessile, 

 corolla 3-valved, fimbriate. 



Near Calcutta. 



(3) 8. ETrscTJM. fBoxb.J 



Idmt. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 236. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, 5 — 8-feet, pilose at the apex : sheaths 

 pilose at the margin : leaves sub-lancfeolate, glabrous : rays of the 

 erect linear panicle verticelled, compound: glumes ciliate at the 

 margin : wool of the base short, spare : coroUas 3-valved. 



Bengal, in damp places. 



(4) 8. sEMinECTJMBEirs. (Eoxb. J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 236. 



Spec. Chae. Culm procumbent at the base, rooting, erect up- 

 wards, 8 — 1 6-feet, glutinous : leaves narrow, channelled, very 



