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Karar-gandhel-dungarTco (Jeypur) ; Bundelkhand : Muse!, musidl, and 

 machauri (Lalitpur) ; Cent. Prov. : Masdn, manchi-malwa and ma- 

 Iwajari (Chanda), masdn, tihha-lodan and gonda (Nagpur), ghorayal 

 (Seoni). 



Annual. Stems numerous, suberect or prostrate, l-2£ feet. Leaves 

 rather short ; blades of upper ones much reduced, ciliate at the mouth 

 of the inflated sheaths. Panicles slender; clusters of spikelets termi- 

 nal and axillary, rather distant. Bracts longer than the spikelets, mem- 

 branous at the edges, and usually with the remnant of the blade which 

 is ciliate at the base. Pedicels with tufts of hairs at the base. Herma- 

 phrodite florets with long slender twisted and slightly bent awns. 



Common in the plains of Northern India on low-lying land where the 

 soil is good. In Bundelkhand this grass is abundant and largely used 

 as fodder, and is prized above all other kinds. It is sweet scented when 

 fresh. Mr. Coldstream says that it is very common in the Hissar bir 

 swamps, in good land ; and that where it will grow wheat will grow. It 

 is both grazed and stacked, and is much eaten by buffaloes. 



I. Wightii, Anders. Syn. — Anthistiria Wightii, Nees. ; A. Bladhii, 

 Wight; A.prostrata, Trin. Vern. — Punjab : Ganni (Gujranwala, Shah- 

 pur and Lahore); N.-W. Prov.: Gandel (Aligarh) ; Cent. Prov.: 

 Ghor-masdn, musdn and pulsu-malwa-gadi (Chanda), musdn (Bala- 

 ghat). 



Very similar to the preceding species, but usually more diffuse and 

 often quite prostrate, The clusters of spikelets are smaller, and usually 

 more exserted from the bracts ; and the keel and edges of the bracts are 

 studded with papillose excrescences. 



Plains of Northern India on low lying or swampy ground. In Bundel- 

 khand and the Central Provinces it is frequently the prevailing grass on 

 the black soil, its reddish coloured stems and spikelets rendering it a 

 conspicuous object from a considerable distance. Its value as fodder 

 is probably equal to that of /. laxum. 



43- APLUDA, Linn.* There are 2 species, both of them occurring 

 in India. The arrangement of the spikelets is rather peculiar and some- 

 what puzzling. Each cluster contains a triple branch of spikelets en- 

 closed in a sheathing bract ; the central sessile branch is composed of a 

 fertile floret with a male floret below it, and on either side are two flat- 

 tened pedicels, each bearing a rudimentary or barren spikelet. 



A. aristata, Linn. (Plate XXIX). Syn. — A. rostrata, Nees. Vern. 

 — General: Gandhi; Punjab: Ganni (Lahore), santhran (Kangra), 



« See Plate D. , Fig. 20, of present Volume. 



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