322 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eragrostis^ 0. Stapf. 



below the panicle as in .E. teneXla var. viscosa, with certain forma of wliicb P. 

 Eottleri has much in common. The persistent rachilla with deciduous glumes of 

 E. Botileri are as in E, minor, as arc the scabrid not ciliate keels of the palea. 



18. E. Willdenoviana, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1779 (non in Nov. Ad 

 Nat Ctcr. xix. Suppl i. (1843) 205) ; leaf-margins rarely glandular, panicle 

 abort ovate stiff open, branches solitary capillary, pedicels short, spikelets 

 ^-|- in. by -^ in. linear pale up to 25-fld., empty gls. very unequal, I minute 

 hyaline nerveless, fl, gls. broadly elliptic acute, palea oblong persistent, 

 grain truncate at both ends dorsally grooved. E. poaeoides, Trmi. ttit. 

 CeyL FL 109; Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. (the Carmdic V^^''^\ \^^^ 

 glabra & laevis, RottL mss, ? P. polymorpha, Koen. ex RottL in Schrift. 

 Natiirf, Fr. BerL iv. (1803) 194.— Eragrostis, Wa/l. Cat n. 3848. 



Mysore, Eotthr, Eej/ne; Diudygul, Wir/ht. Ceylon ; Trincomalee, GJeiue 

 (C.P. 3944). ... 



Annual. Siems 4-18 in,, very slender, smooth, rigid, erect or geniculate^v 

 ascending. Leaves short, flat, narrow, erect, rather rigid; mouth of sheath n^se 

 Panicle 1-3 in., branches spreading when ripe, ramifying from near the ba>e, 

 pedicels (except sometimes the terminal) shorter than the spikelets. Spi/^^^ts o ne- 

 grey or greenish : gl. I -5V-3V ^^ 5 H ovate, acute, -^-^ in., l-nerved; flg- gl^- tV"3o ^"-^ 

 lateral nerves strong ; pulea ^-i shorter than its gU, keels scaberulous. Stamens j^ 

 anthers about ^1^ in. Grain oblong, gW-J^ in., dorsally flattened and grooved. 

 This may prove to be E. polymorpha, Roem, Sf Sch, S^sL ii. 575. Rottlcr s f pec>i"e|i 

 was named P. polt/morpha^ but that name was crossed out and replaced by ■'*• ^;^ ' / 

 Nob. E. Willdenoviana, Nees in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. (of China; 

 F, elongata. 



. Panicle very loose, ramifications very slender often Jlexuous orjiacci , 



++ 

 ++ 



lateral nerves of fig, gh. usually faint. — Leaves eglandular. 



Ilochst. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) i. Intell 20, name 



only; ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 268; perennial, panicle oblong to ^^^^^^J^n 

 open, rachis glabrous, branches solitary or 2-nate distant, spikelets , ^? -jIj^ 

 by i in. linear 5-15-fld., empty gls. very unequal, I minute hyaline, rac^ ^^ 

 tough, fl. gls. ovate acute, subacute or apiculate, palea ^ shorter tna ^ 

 gl. strongly curved persistent, grain obovate-oblong. B. collocarpa, ■ 

 Schum. in Engl Pflanzenw. Deittsrh-Ost. Afr. C. ill. ?B. i^^f^^^'y 

 Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 577. B. parviglumis, Hoclist. ex Steud, Lc.^^- 



Poa tenuifolia, A. Rich. Tent. EL Abyss, ii. 425. 



NiLGHiKi Hills, Hohenucker. Belgaum, Eitchie ; Satpura Hills, Thowp-^o . 

 — DiSTuiB. Africa trop. .^^ of 



Stem 2-3 ft., erect, slender, branched. Zmves long, very narrow; "'^^,^^^^1,, 

 Hheath naked. Panicle S~] in. ; branches ramifviug from near the base &nah.^^^ 

 lets ratht-r distant, spreading, filiform, stiti; shorter tliMU in E^ nigra. *^P' ^^^^ 

 olive-grey; gl. I tL-VTr lino nervdess; II remote from 1, about ^'j !"'* ^^Lj^n^S. 

 acute, ULTvt'less or tuintly l-nerved ; flg. gls. -^^ in., keels of palea scabnd. ^ 

 anthers -^^5 in. Gram ^\, in., slightly compressed, dorsally grooved. 



id 



very 



solita 

 ypikel 

 rachil 



denticulate persistent, grain obovoi'i Wiltk. & Jjanne Prodr. i 

 i. 83; Griseh. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 75. E. atro-virens, U^^'9^ 



