Eragrostis. | Graminez. 341 
fig. glumes, not produced beyond the uppermost gl.; gls. 
I and II unequal, 1-5-veined, 1-3-awned; lodicules 2; stam. 
3; grain linear-oblong.—Sp. 40; temperate regions. 
B. uNnIoLoipes H. B. K. Nov. Gen. and Sp. I, p. 151 (1815); Hk. f. 
in Fl. Brit. Ind. VII, p. 357 (1897). Ceratochloa unioloides DC. Cat. 
Hort. Monsp. p. 92 (1813). B. Schraderit Kunth Ind. VII, p. 416 (1833). 
Annual, usually about 14 ft. high; lvs. about 6 in. long, 
0°15 in., broad, glabrous; panicles lax; spikelets very large, 
1 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, green. 
A weed of cultivated ground in the montane zone. Dimbula (1882) ; 
Nuvara Eliya (1925); Hakgala (1926). Fls. Nov.—Jan., May. 
A native of America, naturalised in the Himalayas. 
73c. Briza Linn. 
Annual or perennial grasses; spikelets many-fid., laterally 
compressed, nodding, ovate; rachilla jointed at the base; 
gls. I and II subequal, 3-5-veined, persistent; fig. gls. 5- or 
more-veined; palea hyaline, 2-veined; lodicules 2; stam. 3; 
grain ovoid.—Sp. about 10; Temperate regions. 
B. MINOR Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 70 (1753). 
Annual, up to 14 ft. high; Ivs. 2-8 in. long, acute, 
glabrous; panicles diffuse; spikelets at least ;, in. long, 
pale green. 
Upper montane zone; a weed in waste places. Ambevela (1919); 
Hakgala; Nuvara Eliya (1925). 
A native of Europe and N. Africa but now widely distributed. 
Page 308.—For Arundinaria Mich. read: 
Spikes panicled; buds solitary; leaf-sheaths. 
persistent ; bristles scabrous or setulose . 77. INDOCALAMUS. 
Spikes racemose; buds numerous; _leaf- 
sheaths deciduous; bristles smooth . . 77a, CHIMONOBAMBUSA. 
77. INDOCALAMUS Nakai. 
Nodes of branches distant; buds solitary; leaf-sheaths per- 
sistent: leaves tessellate; bristles at the mouth of leaf-sheath 
scabrous or sparingly setulose, brown or almost white; spike- 
lets in terminal panicles at the apices of leafy or leafless 
shoots; panicles bracteate or not; rachis articulate beneath 
the flowers; spikelets with 2 empty glumes at the base; fertile 
glumes more or less tessellate; stam. 3, anthers often 
coloured; stigmas 2, plumose.—Sp. 7; Tropical Asia. 
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