139. GBAMINEM. [58. Eulalta. 



1. P. saccharoideum, Beauv. Bonga-carec', *S^. 



A tufted much branched and very leafy elegant grass 1-2 ft. high 

 with firm or almost woody polished slender stems from a perennial 

 rootstock. Leaves 1-2-5" long only, linear, bearded at the base and 

 margins of sheaths. Spikes -7-2" long, terminating all the branches, 

 each spikelet with 2 long fine scaberulous awns -6-1" long. 



Very common and sub-gregarions along- banks ovevlianging- streams and water- 

 courses, and on cool sides of high hills. Purneah, Kurz ! All districts of Chota 

 Nagpur ! ascending to top of Parasnath, Clarice, etc. ! Pari, Walsh ! FL, Fr. all 

 c.s. and h.s. 



Nodes of stem glabrous or bearded. L. •!" broad or less, acuminate. Hhachis 

 of spikes compressed and pedicel bearded. Sessile spkt. gl. i narrow-oblong, 

 broadest above, faintly 2-4i-nerved, tip bearded; ii largest conduplicate "l", 

 l-nerved,keel pi-oduced into a long awn, tip densely ciliate ; iii sometimes absent ; 

 palea of iv broadly ovate-oblong much exceeding the minute ovary. Pedicelled 

 spkt. about two-thirds to three-fourths as long as sessile. 



58. EULALIA, Kuyith. 



Perennial Avitli simple erect or ascending stems and leaf blades 

 convolute when young, then flat, usually narrow and gradually 

 passing into the sheath. Spikelets all alike or nearly so (rarely E. 

 Clarkei, heterogamous and pedicelled, narrower, and then palea short 

 broad and ciliate), 2-nate, one sessile, the other pedicelled, on the 

 articulate fragile rhachis of 2-nate, digitate or fascicled spikes. Gls. i 

 and ii equal or somewhat unequal, rigidly membranous to coriaceous ; 

 i dorsally flattened or shallowly concave (never grooved), more or less 

 2-keeled with infiexed margins ; ii l-.3-nerved, keeled ; iii empty, 

 sometimes much reduced, muticous, hyaline ; iv very short, 2-lobed 

 (2-toothed only in fastigiata)* awned, palea small or 0. Lodicules 

 small, cuneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas linear, laterally exserted. 

 Grain oblong, hilum basal, punctiform. 



A. Gls. i and ii subequal, acute or narrowly truncate : — 



Sess. and ped. spkts. dissimilar. •2" long 1. ClarA-ei. 



Sess. and ped. spkts. similar, •14-'16" long . ... 2. argentea. 



B. Gls. i and ii somewhat unequal, ii broadly truncate . ■ .3. Cuminqii, 



1. E. Clarkei, Haines. Syn. Erianthus fastigiatus, Beng. PL (part). 



Nodes densely bearded with long silky hairs. Leaves glabrous 

 (only one on the specimen below the panicle). Panicle of fascicled 

 branches 2-5-4" long, joints of rhachis and pedicels -1" villous, pedicel 

 compressed somewhat channelled and translucent in centre. 

 Spikelets paired, sessile and pedicelled, -2" long. Sess. spkt. with 

 short thick callus, dorsally flattened with keel of gl. ii fitting between 

 rhachis and pedicel. Gl. i oblong-lanceolate acute or subacuminate, 

 back distinctly 3-nerved, 2-keeled, margins 1-nerved narrowly infiexed 

 nearly to the base, keels hispid ; ii cymbiform aristulate, nerves 3 

 green, margins very hyaline ciliate ; iii lanceolate hyaline subobtuse ; 

 iv reduced to the slightly expanded 2-iid -1" long base of the -5" long 

 microscopically scaberulous awn ; palea broadly oblong, very short 

 •04" with long cilia on its rounded apex, 2-sexual. Anthers linear -1". 



* E.faiffifiiafa, comh. noc. See Sacchanini. 



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