Eragrodis, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. gramine^e. (J. D. Hooker.) ^25 



Ca<^ Pa«>5. PZ. 169 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 37, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 9fll. -wionof^- -^- C'Hewi^. V. 683; Lishoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist, 

 m n, f,'^^- ^^^ cjnosuroides, Betz. Obs. iv. 20; Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 

 W ; ooi' r -^^^yP*- 159, t. 10 : Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 236 : Kuntli Enum. 



lata, Hochst 

 Nat. V. 875. 



3821 



Serb. Mottl. TJnioIa bipinnata, 

 [Rne & Eraerostoides. Wall. Cat. 



I 



places rv f • i?^^' ^''*^™ Peshawar aud Siutl to Burma and southward, in moist 

 j2;,;J/^^,^^° ^^y'<5Q).— DiSTKiB. westward to Syria aud N. Africa. 



«Wmsl.3ft/f ' ^^^^P"*^' ®t^^oiis very stout clothed with shining sheaths; 

 ^*d lonrr ' . ^^' smooth, erect, stout. Leaves mauy, basal fascicled, veiy long, 

 liffDl^ n ^o^Tl"^^® t^ips filiform, marmns hispid : mouth of sheath with long hairs ; 



'«y short IT •' ^eflexed, pale brown, rather shining; internodes of rachilla 

 H sWter thL^i''' '}^ ""^^"^ tV 5n., obtuse ; flg. gis. J^-J^ in., coriaceous ; palea 

 anthers a, . "^''^ gl-> rather coriaceous, keels minutely scabrid. Stamens 3, 

 ^cureljr'trilon ^^^^* ^^'^^ ^^^'**" *'^ ^"•' obliquely ovoid, laterally compressed, 



Wdinl*^^' ■^T" -^^^^lOSTACUYA, Benth. Spikeleta secund distichously 

 , ^ in a long simple slender terminal spike. 



^Seels of palea distinctly winged. 



Hin oblJ****^*®'*' '^^^^/- ; perennial, leaves convolute wiry, spikeleta 

 "^Msof n f ^"'"pressed iO-20-ad., glumes tumid, I ^i in. acute, mngs 



paiea ^i_ m. broad eciliate. 



Leaves 8-12 in., 

 erect, strict ; 



**'"»us 8to»f V "^"^sely tufted, erect, very slender, strict. Le 



''*'■'* «ngular *^' f""8'^'»t; sheaths short. Spike 6-10 in., .;.ev., = , 



"Sial or T ^^^^^'^- Spikelets not crowded, suberect; empty glumes j\ m. 

 r*'*'. obtusp „ u ^^ ' ^ acutely keeled; II dorsally rounded; fig. gls. broadly 

 ^i-Uetn. ,''^'^^'^> Tff in-; win^s of palea hyaline. Anthers about xV >"• 



ore tumid glumes at once distinguish this from E. bifaria. 



^"Ppl 282^***'**' ^^^^^ «•» Steud. Norn. Ed. II. i. 562, Syn. Gram. 264, 

 '"■ "''ate-ohl P^^'^^'^ial, leaves flat or complicate and keeled, spikelets f-f 

 °^ Pilea ahn ?^/^^^^3^ linear much comm-essed 6-40-fld., wings of keels 

 S- 1773 • Ir-'^h '^- ^'•oad ciliate. Wall. Cat. n. 3827 B. 0. ; Wight Cat. 

 !:tWlJ,,^l'^''« in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Histr^c. vii. (1893) 387. 



hi Symb. ii. 19 ; Boxb. 

 Enum. PI. i. 327, Suppl. 



Dkcc 



^..^*«'« 1-3 f. ^^^'-"^s^'i-A, Hej/ne,&c.—DisTRiB. Africa trop. 

 C'"'«soft fih, ''"^^''y tufted, erect, simple, subcompres^ed, Kl'ibrous. base clothed 

 lOfl^'^uoug f °^ °''l sheaths, ieave. 2-2^ in., linear, wiry, sometimes | in. 

 r- 'VfceloLio-^'^' '•'8>''. smooth; sheaths scaberulous, keeled; l.gule a c. hate 

 V^K ereoT '?•' ^'^'^^^ to oblong aud 15-20.fld., rarely linear flexuous and up 

 w:°''»Hrev n/"'''"' '»'o°th, subcompressed. Spikelels spreading, lower fewer- 

 i^'^^nt. rounH"^''^; &»• I very acute or acuminate; II almost ^^^ in., keel 

 "■ •serves fai„, 'o*^- gl*- ^ i°-. broadly ovate, subacuminate, keel scaberulous 



faint \t ^ o * '°-' ^'■°''' 

 "*• S^aweHi 3, anthers ^V 



m. 



