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Cultivated; native of S. E. Asia. 
var. bicolor Hr.ck. Sorghum bicolor H. S. 704. 
v. Kala deodhan . 
Cultivated ; native of India. 
VAR. Roxburgh!! Hack. Sorghum saccharatum H. S. 704. 
v. Sada deodhan , 
Cultivated ; native of India. 
* Andropogon halepensis Brot. ; B. P. ii. 1204. A. miliformis H. S. 
708. 
v. Kala mucha. 
Hedges, river banks and waste places, occasional ; perhaps only 
a casual in our area. 
* Andropogon s^uarrosus Linn, f, ; B. P. ii. 1204. A. muricatus 
H. S. 706. 
v. Bena ) khas khas. 
In low moist ground, general ; sometimes planted deliberately in 
our area, e.g. in cleanings in the North-Western Sundribuns. 
* Andropogon aciculatus Retz ; B. P. ii. 1205. Chrysopogon acicu - 
laris H. S. 704. 
v. Chora kanta. 
In barren ground, everywhere. 
Andropogon coiltortus Linn.; B. P. ii. 1205. Heteropogon contortus 
H. S. 706. 
In newly laid down pastures about Calcutta, very rare, Thi s 
species, though so common in most of the dry parts of India, is not 
recorded from our area by Voigt ; the writer has only met with it 
on three or four occasions, always among the grasses that appear on 
plots of land that have been dug over and then left bare. It rarely 
persists for more than a couple of seasons and is undoubtedly only a 
casual in our area. 
* Andropogon caricosus Linn. ; B. P. ii. 1205. Lipeocercis serrata H, 
S. 705. Heteropogon tenellus H. S. 706. Andropogon binatus 
H. S. 708. 
v. Detara ) detta . 
In the drier parts of the Hughli district and also in sandy places 
in the North-Western Sundribuns about Canning Town, but always 
rare. 
* Andropogon ammlatns Forsk. ; B. P. ii. 1205. 
A. scandens H, S. 707. 
v. Loari. 
