PLANTS OF NORTHERN. 'GUJARAT-. 
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3!7._ Saccharin Linn. 
54$. Saccharin spontanenm Linn. F. B. I. VII, 118 : FI. Bomb. 
II, 948. 
Very common and conspicuous on sand. Flowers towards the end of 
the monsoon. 
543. Saccharin Muiija Roxb. FI. Ind. I, 246. (Determined at 
Kew.) 
S. arundinaceum Betz. var. ciliaris Brain, Beng. PI. 1189. 
A very common grass on sand, and a conspicuous feature of the 
landscape. Flowers after the monsoon has completely ceased, and 
throughout the early winter. 
Vern. * Sarkhat/ ' Hadol \ 
This is . the grass listed as Erianth<i& R-ivennae Beauv. in the Journal of the 
Bombay N. H. Soc. XXIII (1914), 113. 
The stalks are used to construct roofing for huts. In some places near 
Ahmedabad the clumps are iu straight lines, and seem, therefore, to have been planted. 
The species is, however, so universal on sand throughout our area that it can hardly he 
regarded otherwise than as a denizen. Large docks of munias feed on the silvery 
epikelets in the winter. 
318. Ophiurns Gaertn. 
544. Ophiurns corymbosus Gaertn. f. F. B. I. VII, 160 ; FI. Bomb. 
IJ 951. 
On black soil, Butea Savannah. Occasional. 
319. Rottboellia Linn. f. 
545. Rottboellia compressa Linn. f. F. B. I. VII, 153 ; FI. Bomb. 
II, 952. 
River beds ♦ in the sand area. Banks of the Kankaria tank, 
A hmedabad. 
546. Rottboellia exaltata Linn. f. F. B. I. VII, 156 ; FI. Bomb. II, 
955. 
Road side near Talod. Fields, Ahmedabad, occasional. 
330. Manisuris Sw. 
547. Manisuris granularis Linn. f. F. B. I. VII, 159 ; FI. Bomb. II, 
955. 
Red earth upland, Talod. Flowers monsoon. 
