655 



(9) S. EHOPiNQmna;. fSteud.J 



Rent. Steudel 1. c. p. 406. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, 4-feet : leaves long-sheatlied, very 

 narrow, half -tapering -convolute, channelled, scabrous at the 

 margin, nearly ec[ualling the culm : top of the sheath enlarged, 

 embracing the base of the panicle, terminating in a leaf equalling 

 it : panicle spicately branched, narrow, rays solitary, twin or tern, 

 few-flowered : florets alternately twin, one sessile, the other pedi- 

 celled, beset at the base with very thin silky hairs : glumes ovate- 

 lanceolate, ventricosely gibbous at the base : valves very thin, 

 almost equalling the glumes : anthers orange. 



Coromandel. 



(10) S. AEiOTDnrACEirM. (Ret%.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. iv. p. 14. 



Syn. S. Benghalense, iJefe. 



Spec. Ckxr. Culm thick, 10-feet : leaves broad verticelled, 

 somewhat adpressed : rays of the packed panicle verticelled, tri- 

 angular, straight, stiffish, divided: calyces furnished with long 

 hairs r corollas 2 — 3-valved, polygamous, point from the entire 

 very short apex not exceeding the glumes. 



Bengal. 



