Eragrostis. ] Graminee. 339 
Grain obovoid; stam. 2; leaf-sheaths not cili- 
ate at mouth; panicle long; often inter- 
rupted; glumes I and II subequal . . 2, E,, JAPONICA. 
Spikelets $ in. long; panicle 4-6 in. long . . 2a. E. aspera. 
Inflorescence spiciform : 
Margins of flowering glumes ciliate; flower- 
ing glumes acuminate . : : : 5. 2D. El.  CLEAT A, 
Margins of flowering glumes without cilia; 
palea with long cilia : : ; ; . 2c. Ez CrerARis. 
Page 290.— 
1. E. tenella R. & S. 
Add Syn.: 
E. amabilis Merr. Int. Rumph. p. 95 (1917) non W. & A. 
Page 291.—For E. tenella var. viscosa Stapf read: 
1a. E. viscosa Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., sér. 6, I, p. 397 
(1831); Haines Bot. Bih. and Or. p. 957 (1924). 
As E. tenella, but panicle more cylindric with short spread- 
ing branches, glandular and odorous; spikelets much larger, 
brown; gls. I and II subequal; keel of palea rigidly ciliate. 
Common by roadsides, etc., up to 5000 ft. Fls. all the year. 
Also in India. 
For E. interrupta Beauv. read: 
2. E. japonica Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., sér. 6, I, p. 405 
(1831); Merr. Sp. Blanc. p. 73 (1918). Poa japonica Thunb. FI. Jap. 
p. 31 (1784). Eragrostis interrupta Beauv. Agrost. p. 71 (1812). 
2a. E. aspeRA Nees in Linnza VII, p. 408 (1832); Stapf, in FI. 
Brit. Ind. VII, p. 314 (1897); Cooke Fl. Bomb. II, p.-1023 (1908). 
Poa aspera Jacq. Hort. Vindob. III, p. 32 t. 56 (1776). 
Ceylon (Cooke). 
Tropics of the Old World. 
2b. E. ciliata Nees Agrost. Bras. p. 512 (1833); Stapf, 1. c. 
p- 313. Poa ciliata. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 82 (1814) nomen; FI. Ind. 
I, p. 334 (1820). P. rupestris Roth, Nov. Sp. p. 71 (1821). 
Perennial; stems tufted, about 3 ft. high, erect or ascend- 
ing; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, up to 
+ in. broad; leaf-sheaths ciliate at the mouth; panicle spici- 
form, compact, about 3 in. long; spikelets about 4 in., com- 
pressed, 6-12-flowered; glumes acuminate, ciliate; grain 
ovoid or ellipsoid. 
Dry country; rather rare. Middeniya; near Mullaitivu. Fls. March. 
Also in India and Cochin-china. 
2c. E. ciliaris Link Enum. Hort. Berol. I, p. 192 (1821); Stapf, 
l. c. p. 314. Poa ciliaris Linn. Syst. -Nat., ed. X, p. 875 (1759). ?P. 
riparia Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. N. Schrift. IV, p. 185 (1803). 
Part V. 
