“416 ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOTANY OF [ Graminee. 
Polypogon, of Agrostidee ; Microchloa, Cynodon, Dactyloctenium, Chloris, Leptochioa, 
Eleusine, Acrachne, and Dineba, Wall. Cat. 3814, of Chloride@; Brandtia, and Pomme- 
reula, of the Avenacee ; numerous species abundant in individuals of Eragrostis ; a 
.Centotheca, and Elytrophorus, of Festucaceé ; with several species of Bambusa, and one 
of Beesha. Of the tribe Rottboéliiacee, Oropetium, Ophiurus, Hemanthria, Mnesithea, 
Manisuris, and Ratzeburgia ; and, finally, of Andropogonee, Perotis, Zoysia, Dimeria, 
<Imperata, Saccharum, Pogonatherum, Erianthus, Anthistiria, Apluda, Raphis, Lepto- 
therium, Andropogon, Heteropogon, Bathratherum, Lepeocercis, Spodiopogon, Ischeamum, 
Apocopis, Meoschium, Arundinella, and Sorghum. 
The majority of these genera are Asiatic, and the greater number of their ‘Species 
are contained in, and some of them confined to, India; but some of the genera 
enumerated are as characteristic of other Floras, as Olyra, Chloris, Leptochloa, and 
Arundinaria, tropical American genera, but of which species are found in India. 
‘Spinifer, with several species on the coasts of New Holland, has one, 8. sguarrosus, on 
the coasts of India; as also Zoysia pungens, which is likewise found in similar situations 
near Port Jackson. Dimeria is another New Holland genus, of which Mr. Brown has 
‘a species from India. Centotheca lappacea, found in the islands of the Indian Ocean, 
and also in the Indian and Malayan Peninsula ; Elytrophorus articulatus, found in both 
Southern and Northern India, as well as in tropical Africa; Dactyloctenium egyptiacum, 
found also in Africa, and even America. 
Species of these several Indian genera are found in the northern, as in the 
southern parts of the country, especially in the rainy season ; but as these are too many 
for the whole to be enumerated, a few instances may be mentioned, as Coir gigantea, 
Paspalum scrobiculatum ; several species of Panicum, Echinochloa (Oplismenus) hispidula, 
Setaria Rottleri, Cenchrus echinoides and montanus, Aristida (Chaetaria) depressa, 
Eleusine indica, Chloris decora, Eragrostis verticillata and Cynosuroides, Hemanthria 
fasciculata, Mnesithea levis, Manisuris granularis ; Imperata Kenigii, found also in the 
West-Indies, Saccharum, Sara, and Moonja, Erianthus versicolor, Rhaphis muricata, 
_ Andropogon pertusus and Nardoides, Anthistiria arundinacea and ciliata, Apluda communis 
and microstachya, Bathratherum lanceolatum, Lepeocercis digitata, Spodiopogon laniger, 
Sorghum halipense. 
In the plains of Northern India there are a few species likewise found in European 
countries, or which belong to genera more like European than those enumerated above, 
as Phalaris minor, Vilfa (Sporobulus, R. Br.) pallida, and varieties; with V. diandra, and 
a species of Poa, P. hansiana, nob., at Hansi and Saharunpore ; and Cynodon Dactylon, 
Doob, of the natives, every where in the plains of India, as well as in the moun- 
tains, Among the cold weather cultivation of wheat and barley, two European species 
are very commonly found: one is Lolium temulentum, and the other Avena fatua. 
A few of these species of European genera are found in the plains of India, in the 
cold weather months, in the same way as we have seen to be the case with some other 
genera; so does the prevalence of moisture and equability of temperature in the rainy 
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