Em-jmlis^ 0. Sta[>f.] clxxiii. Grx^usz.-^^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



319 



Throughout India, Burma and Cetlox [JFalHch, Gardner). 



Stem tall, 1-3 ft., suberect from a spreadinj^ base, usually stont and hraucKIu;:;, 

 out sometimes slender and rihort, smooth. LertJJes few, short, smooth, fiat or suhcon- 

 yniute; mouth of sheath bearded. Panicle nodding, branches rather dlstint, spread- 

 ^T% raniifvino^ from above the base, sometimes abbreviated and the spikelets 

 omstered on the raeliis, racliis p^labrous. Spikelets purplish or green; empty gN. 

 25 m.; ti^. gls. ^^^-^^- in., lateral nerves slender ; internodes of rachilla yV^^V ^"- ' 

 pdea riither shorter than its crls. Stamens 3, anthers about ^V »»• Gram^obloir^, 



12. E. elongrata, Jacq. Edog. Gram, 3, t, 3 ; perennial, panicle very 

 variable, branches usnallv simnh^. snikelets verv shortlv riedicelleJ rather 



very acute nearly flat, keel almost straight, palea strongly 



ft"^^' is^fcis very stont scabrid. li, bahiens^s, Jianre in jonrn. utnn, 

 e^^- :sui. (1873) 136; Gri^eh, in GoetL Nachr. (1868) 76 [non Schrad,). E. 

 ^rowneana, JVees ni. Xnl^ 4nf \-r,i /7>/v viv .^//n»/. \. (\M?^\ ?U.\ 



^' Brownii. AWo 



Nov, Act, Xat, Gur, xix. SuppL i. (1843) 



W i^f. Ze^Z. 373 ; Trim, 

 ^;^^^';a . vii. 646 {in part), 



U 373 ; Trim, " ^ 



E. orientalis, Nees in Nov. Act, L c. 206 ; Thv\ 



E. Willdenoviana. 



L r, 109. E. pubescens, Steud. L c. 



Y, *^ ^'^^'^- ^' -Ir;?. 7?o^ Beec/(. Vo?/. 252. E. zeyknica, Nee.^ 4^ -V^/A ^?'- 



G '' '/• ^ ^* 204 ; Tlncailes I. r. ; Tn'm. L c. Poa Brownei. A'lC.if/i liens, 



IfT'o ■^^"^' -^^^^^^'^ P/. i. 333. ? P. depeiidonp, Ifornem. Eniniu llort. 



'Vn.buppl 2. p. elongata, WiUd.Enmn, Hort. Berol i. 108; Knuih 



irjf • ^' ^84. P. interrupta & pcdymurpha, 7?r. Prodr, 180. P. pxili-helin, 



i. m?s, Mepastachya elon^ata & polymorpha, Beauv. AgrosL 74, liu . 



^^^erost. Wall Cat. n. 3836, 3845 (.'n /a^'«. 



&31 SV^^'^^^' CniTTAeoNG, Burma, the Nkobar TsLrs.. and Ceyion (C.P. 



V. ^'»f2o^)— DisTRiB. Asia trop., Malayn, Australia, X. C:ih-don. 

 Harrow f •' ^^^^' ^^^^ or short, stont or slender, simple or branched. Leaver 

 iritii PoA ' ^^*^ ^^ convolute ; mouih of sheath bearded. Panicle oblor.g or ovate, 

 BubsniHf ^*'^^*^='^* spreading filiform branches, or from the shortening of these 

 iVin it"*^*^'^^^^ glabrous. SpUceUis acute, dark brown or reddish; gl. I irr 

 f^hilla t J^ "^- ' H' gl^. usually ^V in., firm, lateral nerves rather prommeMt ; 



T,.->_, • . stout, iiitcruodos 

 " "5 in. ,n the Indian si^eeimens. 



5 J >"• 



palea ^-J shorter than its gl. 

 Grain ovoid to subglobose, -j^ ' 



>(«f //?/-,< 



■^'.^ lU. 



" Spikelets not fasciclea, usually more or less divaricate when ripe, 

 'eii! fc^'^'^f'* iV-i in. hroad- flq. qh. hroail, more or /ess obtuse, ^-^6^n. 



*fry Wl ^*'***^^**a' St<^pf-\ leaf-margins eglandular, panicle oblon- 

 <'^ate-oW. '"^^'•■^^^^ solitary, i-edicels verv blender, spikelets tew 3-5 h.- 

 ovate oh?"^ ^'' linear narrowed upwards' 10-25-fld., empty gls. s-ibequul 

 ''^ateol.tl '^^^^illa stout nodes bearded, ti. gls. close-set very broadly 

 ^Era J:f-^' ^J}^^^ broadly ovate persistent keels scabrid, gram subglobose. 



Aniulf ^^^^lA ; road to the Petroleum Wells, WalUch. , . , i 



■>"j V m"-"'' ^-^ ^■'^- l"Sl'. branched. Leaves 12-18 in., n? fo i in. bron.l. 

 touUi'' vy narrow c.a. ...i..i.. ..a -v , ^;.. «.,K^cn^nf or vdlous below the 



*^'tldl,. 



. narrow, snbconvolute, and sheaths pubescent 

 '^'^^^ C-12 in.; nodes of rachis woolly at the 



axils; branches very 



