31-i CLXxin. ORAMiNE-E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eragrosti8, 0. Stapf. 



From the Uppfr Gangrtic Plain, Morndabnd, Thomson^ to Sikkim, BEHiK. 

 CiiiTTAGONa, Arracan and BuKMA, Central PROVINCES & Chota NAoroHF, 

 Clarke. 



Stems in small or large tufts, 4-18 in. lii^^, geniculate!}' ascending from a 

 nodose branched stock, base clothed with short hard sheaths. Leaves linear, spreading 

 horizontally, more or less convolute, finely acuminate, glabrous, sometimes fliit and { 

 in. broad, quite smooth, glaucous ; sheath rather tight, smooth, bearded below the 

 month ; Hgule very short. Panicle 2-6 in. by ^-^ in. broad, sometimes very 

 narrowly pyramidal, white, branches hispid; gls. I and II subequal ; ng. ^'8- 

 ^L in., nu-mbranou*--, nerves prominent. Anthers -^^ in. Grain shortly ovoid, ^j »"•_ 

 Dwarf states 2-3 in. high occur; and tail ones 2-3 ft. high from the Sikkim Terai 

 and Arracan, with leaves i in. broad and a long lax narrow panicle 6 in. long. 



** Panicle o_pen or more or less contracted or spicSform ; margins ofjl^. 

 gls, eciliate. 



4. E. aspera, Nees PI, Afr. Austr, 408; annual, panicle large 

 ihyrsiform, at length expanding, branches and pedicels long, spikelets 

 linear-oblong \ by i^\yi. enct 4-16-tld., empty gb. sabequal, flg- S'^ 

 obtuse reives prominent, keels of palea scaberulous, stamens 3. Lishoa m 

 Journ. BomK Nat. Hist Hoc, vii. (1893) 336. E. tenella, Nees in TJ^^'^f 

 Cat. n. 1783 {non Linn, nee IJeufh,). E. panicnlata, Steiid. Syn. Grani 

 278. Poa apppra, Jacq. Ilort, Vind. iii. 32. P. paniculata, Eod'b, Fl i^^- 

 i. 310.— Eragrobtis, Wall, Cat. n. 3841. 



?oiTTHERN India ; Dindygul, Wight, Bangalore, Puckle (7c. in Herl. l^^l 

 N. and S. Concan, Zfs'oa.— Distrib. Afr. trop. Isle of France. 



Stem with the long panicle 2-4 ft., stont, suhcrect, branched, smooth. Leaves 

 8-18 in., fljit, keeled, smooth ; sheath vill.)u>ly herded ; lignle of htug h''>'*«- 

 Panicle 10-20 in. by 4-6 broad, oblong to obovate-oblong, rachis scaberulous 

 bearded at the nodes with long white hairs; branches solitary or pseudo-vvnorlt'i^'^ 

 capillary, divided from the ba=;e or nearly so, suberect ; pedicels much longer tua» 

 the small, rather scattered spikelets. Fig. gls, hardly V.t"^-' 1"*^^^'^ ^^fl^^V 

 3-lobrd, lobes very obtuse, keels scabrid. Anthers -^^ in. Grain subglobos , 

 about y^y in.— Panicle quite unlike that of any other Indian species. 



5. E. ciliaris, PAnJc Enum, ITort. Berol. i. 192; annual, panicle 



flpiciform rarely open, branches and pedicels very short glabrous, ^P^^^ 

 lets about Vo i"- long and broad 6-12-fid s-trongly compreseed, ^"^P^^^ g 

 subequal acute, fig. gls. widely ppreading mncronulate, lateral nerv ^ 

 Bubmarginal, keels of palea vcrylong-ciliate, stamens 3. 



Plains (»f N. and S. India (not in Ceylon).— Distrib. Keg. trop. 

 ^tein 1-^2 ft., jiiorumbent below and geniculately ascending, slender, r ^^, 

 very narrow. Hat ; mouths of slicath with very lonu' hairs. Panicle 3-6 in-j " 



(1831) 396. E. k'P'J". ^°i In) 



Rich. Tent. Fl. Ahys-i. ii. 424. E. pluniosa, Boiss. FL Orient, v. 582 'ef*-?;,,^. 

 Benth. fl Uovsk. 431. E. pulchella, Pari, in Hook. Niger Flor. IsS- ^ "* 



