Eragrostis, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. gramine.e. (J. D. Hooker.) 317 



Austral viii. 6J3 [non Beauv.) ; Duthic Fadd. Grass. N, Ivd. 65, t 78. E. tenellula, 

 SUud. Syn, Gram. 2/9. E. tenuissima, Schrad. ex Nees Ft. Afr, Austr. 409, 410. 

 Poa japouica, Thunh, Ft, Jap. 31. P. l.yemalis, Laka, & spcciosa, Herh, Ham. ex 

 Wall Cat n. 3850 C. B. l\ tenella, Br, Frodr, 181 {non Beauw) ; Roxh Ft. Ind, 

 \rij^^' -Pi'c^- i'^ed, t 837. P. tenellula, Knntk Eniim. PL i. 338.--Eragrostis 

 y^ ail Cat 11. 3850 B. C. H. 5001 A— D. -Temp. & trop. Hinia], from the Paiijab 

 eastwd. and southwd. to Ceyloii; ascends the Himalaya to 7000 ft.— Trop. As. 



Sect. IT. Pteroessa. BacMlla of spikelet tough, persistent; flg. 

 glumes falling away from its base upwards.— Species 8-24. 



f fl ^Pj'^^'^^s always flat, usually elliptic-ovate to oblong; lateral nerves 

 ng. gls. very prominent, straight, almost percurrent; palece deciduous 

 ^Ub their glumes. 



^ ^- ^- amabilis, Wight 8^^ Am. ex Nees in Hook 4' Am. Bot. 

 obi -~ - ' ^'^^ {excl. Si^n, Linn,) annual, panicle oblong or ovoid- 



g from near the 



Jblong open or contracted, branches solitary ramifying 

 jase, spikelets ^4 in. ovate rarely oblong or linear-oblong up to 50 

 tU ^"Jf'^y S^s. subequal acute l-uerved, flg. gls. very close set dis- 

 cnously spreading broadly elliptic shortly acuminate, palea elliptic keels 

 ^Pged 8cabnd. Wight Cat n. 1777 ; Wall. Cat n. 3838 ; Nees in Act. Acad, 

 pfjf'r ^^x- SuppL i. (1843) 205. E. polymorpha, Trin. €;c Steud. Norn. 



?/ J J* "^^i: '^^'^- E. rubens, ITochst. ex Miq. 



S 7;F;/?mm. 265. E. unioloides, Nees ex Stead. Ic. 264 ; T/nc. 



^ p//'n''^^- '-^'^ ' ^^'^■"^- C^^^' Oeyl iV. 109 ; Duf/ne Grass. N W. Lid. 

 JoJ t T ^' ^^' I'^^' 65; AHchis. Cat. Panjah PL 170; Lisboa in 



Analect. Bot. ii. 26 ; 



(186A"-R 4" ^^^- ^^''^- '5'or'. vii. (1893) 383; Gri^cb. in Goetl. Nachr. 

 f1 I 'r. \^^ amabilis, Ilerh. Rottl. {non Linn.). P. multiflora, Boxb. 

 hrhr n. •• ^- polyrnorpha, Br. Frodr. 180. P. pseudamabilis, 

 KuMv ^''*\T'-^- t. 8+3. P. vnbens, Lamk. Illmtr. i. I8i, t. 45, f. 2 ; 

 > :2 ^?i'"\^'^- i- 335. p. unioloides. lletz. Obs. v. 19 ; Iio.rh. FI. Ind. 

 nil \J^""B ^•^■; Orah. Cat. Bomh. IH. 236. Briza rubra, Laml. 

 fiibs i.l'} r/i^' ^•''- 371. Uniola indica, Sprem,. Syst. i. 349; Dah. .^■ 

 • »'J- -tl. 298, Megastachya polymorpha, Beauv. Agrod. 74. 



^■) eifsKvi^f \f^^^ '"""^ Lower Himalaya, from Kaslimir (iiscemliiig' to 6000 

 S<em fills ■'■'"'' ^"d soiitlnvd. to Ceylon (CP. ii. <J30).— Disirib. As. trop. 



law p ,'"•' '■''^'"^r slender. J.eave.^i usuully short, flat ; mouth of .shcatlis 

 "'• Panicle 2-4 ' ■ , , ■ ■ 



lodes very 



"'ncronul 



"'ovoid ov nil-,,, _•, ", " „-" - b'- .- — ■—•• 



P-OKt, lutcriilly conipres.sed, about J by 



le?g 

 the 



"f->"ti, Jatcr;illy conipres.sed, about J by 4 m. 



3 ^fom^'^^'^^" usually linear or liuear-obI:.ng, less compressed and wiUi 

 nwUk "^"^ nerves than in * or if strongly compressed and nerved 

 ""b persistent pileas. 



t Spikelet 



'^f shortly I r'"^^*^ or -ess fa.^cicled on the primary or secondary branches 



/ Peaicelled in narrower racemes. 



9 s* 



f^ •enjjth^!'^^^*"*' Stapf; annual, panicle ovoid, branches solitary 

 ^^ or shoH • ^ Howering to the base, pedicels as long as the spike- 



'^'^^ght int!"' ^t^^elets i^^-l in. linear-oblong 10-30-fld., rachilla almost 



""-ernodea very short, gls. all broad closely imbricate, sides 



