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Krer (Mount Abu); Bundelkhand: Gdndli and gondii (Lalitpur); 

 Cent. Prov : Chota kusal, Uyun gadi } and tarn (Chanda), ckota kusal 

 (Seoni), Tcaudi (Balaghat) ; Berar : Sona-jhara. 



Stems 2-3 feet, erect, smooth at the nodes. Leaves narrow, hairy, the 

 sheaths ciliate at the mouth. Spikes usually several, clustered at the 

 summit of the peduncle, slender, 3-4 inches long. Rachis of spikes and 

 the pedicels clothed with white silky hairs. 



Plentiful in Rajputaua, Bundelkhand and the Central Provinces, and 

 extending to Queensland. It is said to afford excellent fodder for cattle 

 when young, afterwards becoming coarse and more suitable for thatching 

 purposes. 



P. eriopoda, Hance. Syn. — Spodiopogon angustifolius, Trin. ; S. 

 laniger, Nees ; Andropogon involutus, Steud.; A. notopogon. Nees. Vern.—~ 

 General: Bhdba r ; Ponjab: Bhabar (Salt Range and Himalaya), 

 munji and baggar (Stewart), babbar (Sir W. Davies) ; N.-W. Prov. and 

 Oudh : Banhas (Gorakhpur), ban hush and baib (Bhira) ; bdmoth (H amir- 

 pur ) ; Bengal: Babui (Chutia Nagpur), bachkron (Santal) ; Cent. 

 Prov. : Nulka gadi (Chanda), som (Balaghat). 



Stems 1J feet or more, base bulb-like and covered with woolly pubes- 

 cence. Leaves narrow, with involute edges, strong and firm. Spikes- 

 lets in pairs, imbricate, one sessile and the other stalked, both of them 

 hermaphrodite. 



This grass yields a well known and excellent material for cordage, 



and is now also largely used in the manufacture .of paper. It is eaten 



by cattle when young. 



P. nuda, Trin. Syn. — P. imberbis, Nees ; Leptatherum Royleanum, Nees. 

 Lower ranges of Himalaya, occasionally extending to the plains. 



28- POGONATHERUM, Beauv. P. saccliaroideum, Beauv., is plenti- 

 ful on the Himalaya at low elevations ; it occurs also on rocky hills in other parts of 

 India. It is an ornamental grass with slender branches bearing simple spikes 

 The second glume is awned as well as the flowering glume. The Santali name for 

 this grass, in Chutia Nagpur, is luhui. 



29. DIMERIA, B. Br. Species about 10, extending from tropical Asia to 

 Australia. They are annual grasses with very slender spikes, narrow and rather 

 rigid outer glumes, and only two stamens. B. ornithopoda, Trin. occurs in the 

 Central Provinces, and is known, in the Chanda Division, under the name of " kore 

 gadi." 



30. ARTHRAXON, Beauv. Contains about 10 species, of which 

 one occurs in hilly parts of N.-W. India. In general appearance they 

 resemble Pollinia, but in this genus one spikelet of each pair is reduced 

 to a rudimentary stalk. 



A. Ciliare, Beauv. Syn. — Batratherum echinatum, Nees ; Andropogon 



