316 CLxxiii. aniMixE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eragrostis, 0. Stapf. 



fioutbwd.— Tiop. &S. Africa.— Subvar. ^. lasiayitha, Stapf; stem 2J ft. erect branched, 

 Bervosoffl. gls. ciliato. E. terebinthucoa, £^urz mss.— Pegu, A'uvs. Burma, CoZ?€!i. 

 — Subvar. 7. contracta^ Slapf; panicle compact spiciform lobed or interrupted, 

 branches very eliort. E. manyfalorica, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn, Gram. 265. E. 

 viscosa, )3. minor, Nees in Wight. Cat. n. 2359. ? E. visco^a, Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. i^/. 298. Poa iiicurva, ^eri. Tiottl. (in pari). — Deccan Peninsula. 



Yar. fcrti'icMZ/nts, Stapf ; stems 1-3 in, usually ascending from a prostrate base, 

 paulelo 1-1 i in. by 3-4 lines broad oblong to ovate-oblong ratber dense but not coin- 

 pact, racliis bearded or not, empty gl:^. subequ-*!, flg. ^\s. -^V i»v iiuthers yi^j-yio »ii' 

 or less, grain -^in, — From the Paujab to Behar and Central India. 



7. E. interrupta, Beauu. Af/rost. 71 (non Boem. ^' Seh. nee Trin)\ 



panicle very variable usually stiff interrupted, sjnkelets iV"i i^- ovate to 

 linear few or raany-tid., tig. gls. obtuse nerves slender, keels of palea 

 scaberulous, stamens 2, grain obovoid. 



Throughout India, BcRiiA, Ceylon.— Distrib. Mesopot., Afr. trop.^ 

 Very variable, ii'om 2-6 in. high with slender stems and ovate panicle to 3 ft. 

 high and branched with the stem as thick as a small goose-quill, and a panicle 1--^ *^- 

 long either contracted with appressed branches or interrupted with liiany tiew 

 of rather short spreading subwhorled branches, Spikelets usually very minute, froiu 

 2\y in. with 2-3 Hg. gls. to about -^ in. with many flg. gls., green or pale browu, rarelj 

 coloured. 



Var. Kocnigiiy Stapf; panic^le long narrow with sliort dense pseudowhorls, spiKc- 

 lets shortly pedicellcd usually 6-14-fid., flg. gls. 3V-2V i"- or less. E. Koeui?:ii, -^*'|*-' 

 Enum. Hort Ber^>l. n. 291; Sleud, Syn. Gram. 266. E. hapalantha, ^'^W^f 

 21 em, J cad. Fetersh. 6Vr. 71. i, (1839) 409 (t/i ;>ari). E. imuuti^oru. Pres I Mel. 

 JI(cnk. I. 274 {excl. Syn.) ; Lishoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat Hist. Soc. vii. (1893M»^ 

 K. mossulensis, Sieud. L c. 264. E. nutans, Nees. in Wight Cat n. 1776; btei^^- 

 Norn. Ed. 11. i. 563; Duthie Gras.f. N.W. hid. 38, Fodd. Grass. K Lid. 63, t. 7h; 

 Aifchis. Cat Panjib Ft 169; Lishoa I.e. 3S1 ; Boiss, Ft Orient, v. 5S3. 

 noihu, Steud. Syn. Gram. 2Cy7. E. stricta, Stexid. /. c, 264. E. verticillata^ > 

 in Wijht Cat. u. 1784. 

 385 



Roth 



J>t ^ „.. ^„ ^ _. 



Sp. 64 ; Roxh. Ft Ind. 335 (non i^efz.j.— EnigTostis," TTaiZ. Cat. n. 3850 A.D.E.'- 

 5005, 5006.— All ludi:.. Ceylon, Trimen. Eastwd. to Egypt. As. and ^^^- ^^% 

 Var. diarrhcna, Stapf; panicle long linear-oblonj^, branches 1-2 in. "i"^ J 





n. 3850 K. L., 5002, 5001. 



noidesA Hochstetteri, Sttud. Syu, Gram. 268. E. nutans, Thw. -E''^^"^- ^'- 7 '^j* 

 373 ; Trim. Cat. Cet/t Ft 109. Diplachne elongata & poa^formis, JIocL^t. ^^;|?^ ;.^^; 

 Z. c— Central India, eastwd. to Afr. trop., Clarke, JJuthic. Ceylon, ira^.^r, if^^ 

 iCl\ im (in part) 32od. ,_3i„. 



Var. fe/j2iu-5ima, Stapf ; panicle long loose narrow usually stift', branches •i-|'^^^^ 



teuella P, Roem. ^ Sch. Syst ii. 356. E. ienellu, Benth. i 



