The purpose of this note is to supplement certain data wanting in the paper by Ayyangar and Ponnaiya (1941) which have led to some misreading of their paper. The statements by these authors that (p. 17) "The Para-sorghums are distinguished...........and the reduced number of chromosomes being 2n10 as against 2n20 in the latter"; the subsequent inclusion of S. nitidum in the list of species and with regard to the location (p. 21) "the species is found in the Western Ghats of South India at elevations of 1000 to 7000 ft." have led Garber (1950) to read that the authors found S. nitidum also to have 2n 10 chromosomes and to state that "no other collector has reported this species from Western India" and "Unfortunately efforts to get a collection of S. nitidum from Western India have been unsuccessful".
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