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Lower floret male, upper hermaphrodite or female. Awn of the flowering glume 

 terminal between the two lobes. Nothing appears to be known regarding its value 

 for fodder. 



TRIBE X. CHLOBIDEJE. 



53. SCHCENEFELDIA, Kunth. Contains a single species con- 

 fined to tropical Africa and the drier portions of N.-W. India. 



S. gracilis, Kunth.* {Plate LXIV.) Syn. — S. pallida, Edgew. ; 

 S. ramosa, Trin. 



Annual. Stems many. Leaves narrow. Spikes long, solitary or 2-4 

 together at the top of the stem. Awns of the flowering glumes long 

 and slender, often becoming curved. Whole plant of a pale straw colour. 



Grows in dry sandy ground in N.-W. India, also in the ravines bord- 

 ering the Jumna and Chambal rivers. 



54. CYNODON, Pers. This genus contains four species including 

 the widely spread and well known dub. They all occur in Australia, 

 two of them being confined to that country. The genus is distinguished 

 by the following characters : — Spikes 2-6, slender, proceeding from the 

 summit of the peduncle. Spikelets small, 1-flowered, without awns, sessile 

 along one side of the simple spike-like branches of the panicle. Eachilla 

 produced beyond the floret into a small point or bristle. The Cynodons 

 have a superficial resemblance to some of the digitate -spiked species of 

 Panicum, but differ from them by the spikelets being arranged singly 

 and not in pairs on the rachis. 



C. Dactylon, Pers., (Plate XXXIII.)f Syn.-~C. stellatus, Willd. ; 

 Panicum Dactylon, Linn. ; Digitaria Dactylon, Scop. ; Paspalum Dac- 

 tylon,T>.G. Vern. — General: Dub; Trans-Indus: Bardwa (Stewart) ; 

 Punjab : Khabbar (Stewart), khabbal (Central and Western Punjab), 

 talla and tilla (S.-W. and W. Punjab), dubra (Karnal) ; Rajpdtana: 

 Dob (Ajmere), nili dub (Merwara) ; Bundelkhand : Duba ; N.-W. Prov. 

 and Oudh : Kali ghds (Doab), ram ghds (Bhira) ; Cent. Prov. : Dhupsa 

 (Seoni), haridli (Chanda) ; Marathi : Durva, harala, haryeli (Dymock) 

 Chutia Nagpur : Dhobi-ghds (Santal); Bengal: Doorba (Roxb.) 

 Teling: Qhericha (Roxb.) ; Tamil: Arugam-pilla (Roxb.) ; Madras 

 Haridli. 



Perennial, glaucous. Stems prostrate, creeping and rooting from 

 many nodes. Leaves short. Flowering stems ascending. Panicle of 

 3-5 slender spikes, each l-l^ inches long. Spikelets less than a line 

 long ; outer glumes nearly equal, open, narrow and pointed ; flowering 

 glumes rather larger and much broader, becoming hardened when in fruit, 

 smooth on the sides, rather rough on the keel and edges. 



* See Plate E., Fig. 26, of present Volume, 

 t Sec also Plate E., Fig. 27. 



