Eragmtis, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J, D. Hooker.) 313 



plamose. Grain minute, globose oblong ovoid or obovoid, free in the gl 

 ana paJea.-Speciea about 100, of warm countries. 



bvn c ^'^^^^ ^"d African species of tliis very difficult genus have been studied 



re H + ^^' ^^ ^^ ^^°^" ^ ^^^'*^ *'^^ classification and diagnoses of the Indian. With 

 j]^^^/" ^^ ^***^hsynonyniy, and the citation of authorities, we have together eii- 

 ^•voured to determine these ; but from the wnntof nnthentically named specimens 

 ^jj'^ *P*^*^^^s described by Roxburgh (under Fon) and by older authors, and of 

 e enumerated in more recent works, we cannot hope to have attained complete 

 '•ecuracy in these respects.— J^. D. //. 



1^93 ^P^''^^^*^ pauicled; panicle open contracted or spiciform.— Si^ecies 



r 



brpnr ^' C)ataclastos. Rachilla of spikelets more or less jointed, and 

 eaKing up from aboVe downwards.— Species 1-7. 



ciliate^^^^ ^i>^'^i/o;'?«, 7^achis bearded at the nodes; margins of jig. glumes 



subclavate, 

 keels of 



Bpikeletf" P^^f^***®Sj Stapf-, pereunial, panicle compact su 

 Pilea }c^r ** ?"r^"i'V^ in. 11- or fewer ri<i., fig. gls. mucronate, kccis ^ 

 478 n°t,- -Dacbylis phleoides, Klem ex Stewl. Norn, Ed. IL i. 

 Era^r^;; .'^^^^^;*^es & spicata, Ilerh. Ilegne ex WalL GaL n. 5015.- 

 ^ragrostoides. Wall I c. 



Southern- Immi n 



^eattTLl ^ ^v' ^^^^^'b' tufted, erect or geniculately ascending, very slender. 



1788; sTS'lj acuminate, keels of pale 

 ^teiid Z r tT-^"'.^^'^^"- ^■^*>5; Dal::. ^' G//j 



I.: '^-^-C. Po;i r^l !*,.+„ r> 1 7.^/ -r 1 ■ o. 



'ts gl. Anthers /^ in, Gnrin r^^-^^j in., elongate-ellipsoid. 



foffinarf ?*-?*,*^' -'^'f^s ^7ro?^. 7;ra.f. 512; perennial, panicle cylindric 

 Rl8. ciH-P.'h^'*^*^ vo-i in- or snuiller much compressed 6712-rid., flg. 



palea long-ciliate. IVu/ht Cat. p. 

 hs. Bomb. Fl. 298. E. rupestns, 

 ^••ncnrva;. "^^^f i'^tu, i?o.fft.' i'V. J« J. i. 334. P. cylindrica, //tv-& //|^/«e 

 m. t ft'?! ' ^°^^'- «-^' " "^/- tV(^. n. 5014. P. duplo-ciliaris, Boxh. Ic Ficf. 

 Bomb' ^"^Pestri.^, iPo^/i. 2S^or. JV. 6>. 71.— Eragrostid. Wall, l c 



, *W, 2-i f7 '^'''''- ^«^'''i" <^''i"^'- , , n , -n. 



*'■•' sheatlu ' '''■'-''-''^ or gouifulatelv ascondiii'r from " nodose base dot liod uiUi 



"" O"- convoin?"""^''- ^'''°''f« lincai-lauceolato, finulv aciuninafc. widely spiena.nj:, 

 ti,„ "'»''mte. r!i,„i.. 1 ! , , . .', - . .1. 1 _j,wi -l,)sc below 



/> lobed or f^J^' ^^^2'/ ; perennial, panicle elongate snbspiciforrn 

 T. •' % Rls oL^'^;'-' spikelets ,\-^ by .,V i"-, ^Hgbtly compressed 5-10- 

 ?"»4 P iSo^r'' ^^«^« of palea long-clfiate. E. cylindnca, AUch Cat. 



■ -^^y {non 5^e«cZ.).— Eragrostis, H^a/Z. Ca^. n. 5003 {m jiart). 



