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Perennial. Stems suberect, branched, 3-4 feet high, smooth as also are the leaves. 

 Panicles ovate ; branches slender, verticillate. Outer glumes of perfect floret purplish, 

 on one of which is a shallow pit. 



It is found in localities similar to where A. annulatus grows, but is not in such 

 abundance. Roxburgh says that it is found thinly scattered on rather elevated spots 

 over Bengal. 



A. intermedins, B. Br. Syn — A. fascicularis, Thw. Fern.— Cent. Pro V. : 

 Kasi gadi, kachi gadi, and malar (Chanda) ; Berar : Khar jliara. 



A tall rather coarse-looking grass with thick fibrous roots and long narrow leaves. 

 It resembles A. Ischcemum and A. pertusus in general appearance, but the panicles 

 are more elongated and much more loose. 



Var. punctatus. Vern.— Cent. Pro v. : Kodajohor (Seoni). 



Outer glumes indented with a dorsal pit as in A. pertusus. It occurs in the hilly 

 parts of Northern In&ia, and is abundant on the Himalaya up to moderate elevations. 

 The Seoni specimens have three shallow pits on the outer glumes of the sterile 

 florets, and one deep pit on the glumes of the hermaphrodite floret. 



A. Ischsemum, Linn. (Plate XXII.)* Vern. — Trans-Indus : Tur- 

 murgah (Col. Strong) ; Punjab : Palwan (Rawal Pindi), phalwdn (Bar), 

 palwdn (E. Punjab), palwal (S. E. corner of Punjab); Rajputana : 

 Bharo-lheru (Jeypur) ; N.-W. Prov. : Jarga (Aligarh and Muttra), 

 janewa (Allahabad). 



Perennial. Root creeping. Stems erect, simple or with few branches ; 

 nodes smooth or clothed with very short hairs. Spikes 5-10, in fas- 

 cicles, usually with a reddish tinge; rachis and pedicels of male spike - 

 lets clothed with white hairs. Outer glumes of hermaphrodite spikelets 

 acute. Flowering glume reduced to a slender twisted and bent awn about 

 three times as long as the spikelet. Very similar in general appear- 

 ance to A. pertusus and A. annulatus ; from the former it differs by the 

 absence of the pit on the back of the outer glumes, and from the latter 

 in having the outer glumes narrower and acute. 



This species is common in the plains of Northern India, and is gener- 

 ally considered to be a good fodder grass. 



A. lancifolius, Trin. Syn — Batratherum molle, Nees. 



A small species, often only of annual duration. Stems decumbent, 1-1 £ feet, 

 smooth except at the nodes. Leaves broadly ovate lanceolate with cordate amplexi- 

 caul base, acuminate, softly hairy ; sheaths inflated. Spikes |-| inch long, 2-5 to* 

 gether at the summit of slender capillary peduncles ; nodes of rachis hairy. The 

 flowering glume is furnished with a slender black awn bent below the middle, twice 

 as long as the spikelets. 



Hilly parts of Northern India. As this grass usually occurs on rocky ground, and 

 often in more or less inaccessible positions, it is not well adapted for grazing pur- 

 poses, though its nutritive properties may very possibly be of equal value to those of 

 the more commonly utilized species of Andropogon. 



A. laniger, Desf. (Plate XXIII.) Syn.— A. Iwarancusa, Roxb. (in 



part); A. Oliverii, Bois. ; Cymbopogon laniger, Desf. Vern. — Trans- 



• See also Plate C, Fig. 14, of present Volume. 



