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the apex. The _fourth glume_ is very minute, awned and is borne by a rachilla produced to half the length of the third glume. This grass is fairly common and grows in all situations and in all sorts of soils. _Distribution._--This occurs all over the Presidency in the plains. =Chloris tenella, _Roxb._= This grass is a very slender annual with weak stems, branched from the base, 10 to 18 inches long. The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous, compressed and keeled. The _ligule_ is a truncate membrane. The _nodes_ are glabrous. The _leaf-blade_ is linear to linear-lanceolate, flaccid, finely acuminate with the margin more or less ciliate towards the base, 3 to 8 inches long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch wide. The _spikes_ are solitary, erect. 1 to 2-1/2 inches long. [Illustration: Fig. 197.--Chloris tenella. 1. A portion of the spike; 2. a spikelet; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. the glumes in regular order beginning with the first; 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a and 9b. are the palea of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and the seventh glumes, respectively; 5b. grain.] The _spikelets_ are large about 1/4 inch long cuneate and bifarious. There are usually five to six _glumes_ (and rarely up to eight). The _first glume_ is ovate-lanceolate, acute and hyaline, 1-nerved. The _second glume_ is a little longer and broader than the first glume, 1-nerved and this mid-nerve produced into a very short awn. The _third glume_ is as long as the second or longer, coriaceous, obovate and truncate at the top, 3-nerved and the marginal nerves distant from the margin, keel and the lateral nerves villous to about three-fourths their length, scabrid at the apex close to the truncate margin, paleate; _palea_ is elliptic, with ciliate margins, callus is densely villous. The _fourth glume_ is nearly half or a little more than half of the third glume, narrower, paleate; _palea_ is elliptic. The succeeding glumes _fifth_ to the _eighth_ are similar to the fourth in shape but they get smaller and smaller and the last glume is epaleate. The third glume is usually grain bearing, but rarely the fourth also may contain a grain, the remaining glumes being sterile. Grain is oblong, lenticular, brownish. This grass is widely spread in the Ceded districts and appears to be a good fodder grass. _Distribution._--Southern India, Rajputana, Scind and Khandeish. =Chloris virgata, _Sw._= This grass seems to be a perennial. The stems are somewhat flattened, erect, tu
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