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pedicels clothed with white hairs. Flowering glume of fertile spikelet 

 reduced to a slender bent awn. 



Plentiful in certain parts of Northern India, and at low elevations on 

 the Himalaya. It is largely used for fodder in Rajputana, Bundelkhand 

 and in the Central Provinces, where it is abundant in company with 

 Heteropogon contortus, Andropogon muricatus, and Iseilema laxum (mu&el), 

 usually on low-lying swampy ground. It is not considered to be a 

 very good fodder grass either for grazing or stacking. In Rajput- 

 ana it usually forms the roof portion of the stacks composed of musel 

 and spear-grass. It_Jg_jouch ...used for thatching and sometimes for 

 tatties. A fragrant oil, known as rusa ha telj is extracted, and is used 

 as a remedy for rheumatism, and from the roots a drug is prepared 

 and employed in cases of intermittent fever. For further informa- 

 tion, see Dr. Dymock's " Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India," 

 p. 847. 



A. tropicus, Spreng. Syn. — Holeus fulvus, R. Br. ; Sorghum fulmm, Beauv. ; 

 S. muticum, Nees. Vem. — Oudh : Hutia (Kheri). 



A tall rather slender grass. Stems densely hairy at the nodes. Leaves narrow, 

 scabrous. Panicle loose, 4-8 inches. Hairs of pedicels and spikelets of a rich brown 

 colour. Sessile spikelets black and shining when ripe. 



Hilly parts of Northern India. It is occasionally used as fodder. 



39. CHRYSOPOGON, Trin. This genus, which consists of about 

 20 species distributed over tropical and temperate regions, is distin- 

 guished by having the spikelets in threes terminating the filiform jointed 

 branchlets of the panicle, the central one being sessile and fertile, and 

 the lateral stalked and sterile, with occasionally 1-3 additional pairs of 

 spikelets below the terminal triplets. 



C. aeiculatus, Trin. Syn. — Andropogon aciculatus, Retz. ; A. acicularis, 

 Kunth ; jRkapMs trivialis, Lour. Vem. — Bengal : Chora-hdnta (Roxb.). 



Perennial, caespitose. Stems prostrate, creeping, and much branched below. 

 Leaves with long sheaths and shortish blades. Panicles narrow, compact ; pedicels 

 hairy. 



Plains of Northern India, on wet barren soil. This grass is of little or no use as 

 fodder. 



- — CL eceraleus, Nees. (Plate LX.) Syn.—Rhaphis coerulea } Nees. 

 Vem. — Punjab : Dhaulian (Himalaya), hhar (Salt Kange) ; N.-W. 

 Prov. : Dhaula (Siwalik Range), ghweia (Kumaun) ; Bundelkhand : 

 Tigri; Cent. Prov.: Pdlla paggar gadi (Chanda); Berar: Jhingra- 

 ka-jhara, and Midi. 



Perennial, casspitose. Leaves glaucous, long and narrow, hispid. 

 Panicle loose. Spikelets on long filiform peduncles, usually of a bluish 



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