Eragmtis, 0. Stapf.] CLXxiir. ouamine.e. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



I m., ovate, acute ; palea with rather narrow scabrid keels. Anthers Jj in. long. 

 Wain almost Jj in., elongate ovoid or ellipsoid, almost terete.— The materials for 

 10)8 species consist of only two specimens, one from Thwaites (C.P. 60), with leaves 

 ^-/iD.eoDvoIute, erecto-patent; the other, from Walker, with much loncjer flat or 

 wbronvolute leaves 8-10 in. long. 



31. E. brachyphylla, Slajf; perennial leaves 2|-4 in. linear 

 Pucate glabrous above, spikelots i-f in. oblong to linear about 20-fld., 

 fmptygls. subeqnal. E. hifaria, Wafl. Gat. n. 3827 A. E. E. bifaria, /3. 

 Jinor, IVtght & Am. in WiglU Cat. n. 1773 C. & Herb. n. 3528, 33-56. 



U ^^^""^'^^ ^0^*- ea; WalL Cat. I.e. A. P. bifaria, Vahl, & P. coroman- 

 ^Jlma, Roth, ex Wight Cat. n. 1773b. 



hnSSt ^^"^^ ^^^ ^^*^ Central Provinces, southward to the Nilghiris, Wight, 



^^^5^^em densely tufted, 10-18 in., slender. Leaves coriaceous, acute, rarely flat 

 rfiffhtlv ^"* ^^^^' Spi^e^ 3-G iu., slender. Spihelets close-set, usually secuud, 

 Reeled • t?"!^''^^'^^^' olive-green ; empty gls. up to ^\ in., I acute, acutely 

 l?el sf>al I ^^' dorsally rounded; fig, gls. up to ^V i"-, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 <?rain 1 1 -^ ^^^^^^' ^**^ ^'P; ^^^^^ o^ P^^^^^''^ narrow, scabrid. Anthers ^2 >°- 



coarsely V?** /"'' ®"^^^b' ellipsoid, obscurely triijuetrous, almost terete, epicarp 



INDETERJirXABLK SPECIES RECORDED AS INDIAN. 



yeue'^T-T/ ^^^'"^- ^y^^ ^'*«-'"- 26G. Poa cernua, WnUh in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl 

 ^-•eonhnis,i^ee.e..Si.u,?. ^.c.2G3. 



MVazOSTACHYA, HooA*. / 



fe^^MOfl^^^^ P^^ennial glabrous grass. Leaves very long, flat. SpiKr- 

 Pedicefa "' ■ ' ^^^^"^^^^^ ^^ the short branchlets ot a narrow elongate panicle, 

 i'^intedaffk u ^^ ^^® b^^*^; rachilla stout, flexuous, 7iaked, at length 

 ^•^Qnded t ^,^.^^^ ^^^^ bet^veeu the fl. gls. Glumes coriaceous, dorsally 



*^^ate oL^^. .^ ^^O' small, ovate, 1-nerved, keeled, long-awned ; fig. gls. 

 - • ' ^»iSDidi,+^u, „-._.. . , , .. , 1 - -iaceous, as long 



^^^ cnsn*l + 1 ^ small, ovate, i-nervea, ivcciea. iuug-a->vu< 



aaits'ei x\ ^^ acumfnate, keeled, S-nerved ; palea coriace 

 '^^ mimi+^ ^^.*^*^^^^^^'^^^'^^c^^«*^ together stout scabrid-ciliate. 



Lodicules 



/ r^i.v ' ^Wiquely cnneate retuse. Stamens 3, anthers very small. 



^^^<^ry p^nK ' obliquely cnneate, reUise. 

 ''^'^'"oi ?' '^>'^.^'^ "^'ited at the very 



very base, stigmas long penicillate. 



jHo8f,pl^"^'^^,.^^^^^^ obtuse, subterete, scutoUum V^r^^.—EragrosHs, Sect, 

 '^^'ya, Benth. in Journ., Linn. Hoc, xix. (1881) 117. 



f'- xirT/^.^V*"^' ^^"'^^•- f- Er;.grostis Wij,^htiana, Rmih. hi IIoolc. Ic. 

 n^ wZlf}'^^^- Leptochloa Wightiana, Kces ex. Stexd. ,^pu. (rram. 

 f^tnca -J;, *^«'- "■ 1"'57. Dinebra verticiHata, Wli//it ex M'"^?- /•/;• 

 /.r. '^'^tans, Jfam. in TTa//. Cat. n. 3823.— Eragrost. athne, II <(//. 



^'»A8SBfc4'''^';«^™i>ER BUNDS, JlcnUton, Oriffdh,&c, S. India? 7/^/-A. H7;,/./. 



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