1220 Inscription at Oomgd. [Dec. 



pubemli attenuato brevi, panicula erecta patente nodis pilosis ceterum 

 glabris ramis ramosis ramulis pedunculisve brevibus flexuosis apice in 

 receptaculum incrassatis, locustis solitariis bifloris, uno neutro altero £ ; 

 in receptaculo stipitatis pilis sericcis glumis 3-plo longioribus, involucra- 

 tis caducis, glumis 2 herbaceis ellipticis obtusis 2-5-nervis dorso longe 

 seviceo pilosis, floris neutri palea unica hyalina apice ciliolata acuta, 2 

 nervia floris $ paleis lucidis acutis, exteriore alterum arete involvente 

 interioris marginibus hyalinis lodiculis minimis, stam 3, antheris fulvis, 

 ovario compresso conico in stylum attenuato styli ramis apice fulvo — bar- 

 batis, achenio nigrescente. 



This differs from all the true Sacchara in habit as well as having 

 solitary not twin locustae, it has much more the general appearance of 

 some of the smaller species of Raphis. 



Andropogon orthos (Schult and Kunth. p. 499.) 

 A. Strictus, Roxb. 



My specimens are a little more glaucous than the Indian ones, but I 

 can perceive no other difference. 



Cyperaceae. 



Cyperus effusus. — Kunth, p. 47. 



Cyperus Jimenicus. — Kunth, p. 24. 



Inscription at Oomgd, and Notes on the same, by Capt. Kittoe, 

 6tk Recjt. N. I. 



In the August No. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society I gave 

 an account of the temple of Oomga and other objects in the vicinity : 

 through the assistance ofHeerammd Pundit of the Benares College, and 

 of a clever young brahmun student Ramnath, I am now enabled to lay be- 

 fore my readers a Deva Nagree transcript of the inscription at that place, 

 together with an abridged translation or summary, embodying the 

 pith of the document, which (though little differing in style from 

 others found in similar localities) is still not without interest ; for if we 

 are to believe Bhyrub, Indra's poet Laureate, a brahmun by name 

 Junardhun (whose verses are pronounced to be of a superior stamp 

 and are certainly very florid), this chief and his predecessors must have 

 been powerful. We have a long list of thirteen generations and the 

 date of the last, Sumvut 1 196, A. D. 1439, or 408 years ago, allowing 



