BOMBA Y GRASSES. 



It is a permanent resident, breeding pretty nearly all the ; 

 through, but April and May are the months when most eggs are to 

 he found. The eggs, three in number, are deposited in a slight 

 depression on the ground; they are of the usual shape peculiar In 

 the Grouse family, long and cylindrical, ecmalhy blunt at both ends , 

 in colour they are greenish or greyish -white, or even light olive- 

 brown, thickly streaked, blotched, and spotted, equally over the 

 whole surface, with darker or lighter shades of olive-brown, and with 

 pale underlying clouds of very pale inky-purple. 



They average I '45 inches in length by about \'0o in breadth. 



BOMBAY GRASSES. 



By Dr. J. C. Lisboa, F.L.S. 



PART III. 



(Continued from p. 232, Vol. V.) 

 (Read at the Society's Meeting on 18th February 1890.) 



Setaria, Beaur. 



S. glauca, Beauv., Agrckst. 51; Kunth. Enum. I. 149; Dalz. and 

 Gibs., Bomb. FL 293, 



Vera. Berdi, Gub, Bandra, Kangni, Pingi-natcln. 



Common in Guzerat, Toona, Nassick, Tanna, and all over India. Is 

 a fairly good fodder grass, the seeds of which were used as food 

 during the famine time. 



A slender email variety is found all over Bombay, with yellow 

 awn-like hairs surrounding the spikelets. It never grows large like 

 the larger form of the type species. It is named at Mahableshwar 

 and Poona "Kolara/' Dalz. and Gib. Bomb. FL, and resembles 

 Setaria purpurascens, Humb. and Kunth. 



S. vtrticiUnta, Beauv., 51; Kunth. Enum. I. 152; Dalz. and Gibs., 

 Bomb. FL 294. 



Vern. Lapti, Chirchira, Dora byara (Roxb.) 



Found all over the plains and ghats, and eaten by cattle when 

 young. The grain is used by the poorer classes as an article of food. 



>S'. intermedia, R, and S. Syst. II. 189 ; Kunth. Enum. I. 150. 



Vera. Landgar, Ohiriya-chana. 



