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munmona (Patiala Hills), murmuru (E. Punjab) ; Rajputana : Gaudn 

 ( Jeypur), bhankta (Ajmere), bonta (Mount Abu) ; N.-Wi Prov. : Baru 

 (General), bhajura (Etawah), bhahjura (Allababad) ; Bundelkhand : 

 Bhahgri or bhahjuri and send (Banda) ; Cent. Prov. : Gugar-gadi and 

 kattingiya sufed (Chanda), bhus-jari (Seoni) ; Bengal: Durhi ghds 

 (Santalj, goroma (Roxb.) ; Teling : Pootstrangali (Roxb.). 



Perennial. Stems creeping or scandent, often reddish coloured, lower 

 parts naked. Flowering branches erect, one to several feet high. Leaves 

 somewhat bifarious, backwardly hispid. Spikelets in a large leafy panicle ; 

 bracts boa,t-shaped, with an awn-like point, enclosing three sets of florets ; 

 the central branch contains a fertile awned floret with a male floret on 

 one side of it; the lateral branches consist of sterile rudimentary florets 

 supported by flattened pedicels. «"► ' / " 



Very common all over the plains of N.-W. India and at low elevations 



on the Himalaya. In hedges and bushy places it usually assumes a 



climbing habit. In forest land it often constitutes a large portion of 



the under-growth. It is considered to be a fairly good fodder grass, and 



\is readily eaten by cattle when young. 



SERIES B. POAOEJE. 

 TRIBE VII. PHALARIDE-E. 



44. PHALARIS, Linn. Two out of the nine or ten described species are 

 found it Upper India, but neither of them possess any appreciable value as fodder 

 plants. The spikelets are densely packed in an oval spikelike panicle. The two infe- 

 rior glumes remain persistent under the joint ; they are longer than the other glumes, 

 and are furnished with a more or less broadly winged keel. P. minor, Retz., is a 

 common weed on cultivated land in the plains, and up to about 4,000 feet on the 

 Himalaya. P. paradoxa, Linn, f., has been recorded from Lahore by Stewart, but I 

 have seen no specimens. P. canariensis, Linn., (Canary grass,) and P. arundinacea, 

 Linn., are introductions. 



45. CRYPSIS, Ait. Contains a single species inhabiting S. Eu- 

 rope, N. Africa, and N.-W. India. It is a small annual grass with 

 prostrate stiff brittle branches. The spikelets are in dense heads, which 

 are surrounded by 2-3 sheathing bracts. It has four glumes (none below 

 the joint as in Phalaris), and two stamens. 



C. aculeata, Ait. (Plate LXII.)* Syn. — Schcenus aculeatus, Linn. ; 

 Anthoxanthum aculeatum, Linn. ; Phleum schcenoides, Jacq. ; Antitragus 



* See also Plate D., Fig. 21, of present Volume. 



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