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FOKEST TREES, &<% 



Roompoot miniah — the dhoop grass, a creeping 

 grass known over all India, as one of the best for 

 horses. 



Ronmpnot siitra — silk gras^; a ven delicate gross 

 abbnt $} inches high, long- slender roots, small bunch 

 of seeds at top. 



Roompoot mhiiuh jantait — male miniah grass, a 

 delicate grass, grows on plains, seed-vessels light and 

 elegant, height 1$ foot. 



Roompoot mums — grows in tufts; called sweet grass 

 from ils having a sweet smell when dried; length 10 

 or 11 inches, cattle not very fond of it. It is scarce; 

 ii runs along the ground, roots slender. 



Roompoot rotftn — rattan gross, a roars.- running 

 s:t-'<S r s, >nhltng t!ie trohong. It is a climber too, 

 and is tronhlesome in plantations. 



Tumttckttte — vulg : love-grass ; a strong-rooted 

 grass, grows about a foot and a half high, in small 

 bundles. Hoars seeds which attach themselves obsti- 

 nately to the legs of animals and to the clothes of the 

 pedestrian; if is dithVnlt to eradicate it from the soil. 



Roompoot ehor Uik — duck-tail grass, about 5 

 inches high, in bunches. The ends are bent back, 

 hence the name j dark-green leaf, slender roots. 



Roompoot hulliah — ginger grass; so called on ae- 

 < vi"jt of its thick, bulbous roots resembling ginger. 

 The stem is strong with spiky straggling leaves; 

 grows a hi utt two feet high. 



Roompoot sarang boah/a — is an exceedingly 

 strong-rooted runner which grows best in sandy 

 ground and chokes all other plants of feeble growth, 

 impeding even the young cocoauut tree. It might 

 prove useful in binding together shifting sands. 



Roompoot kamman — the sensitive plant — is here a 

 rank and destructive weed, and should be speedil} 



