58. EuLALiA.] 139. GRAMINEM. 



Ovary minute. Styles slender free to base. Ped. spkt. gl. i 7-9- 

 nerved as in sessile spkt. ; ii 3 (-5) -nerved Avith broadly inflexed 

 hyaline margins, not keeled dorsally ; iii and palea as in sessile spikelet ; 

 iv 0, lodicules 2 obcuneate, slightly cupular. 



Singbhum, elev. 2500 ft. Clarice (No. 20551) ! Fl. Oct.-Nov. 



2. E. argentea, Brongn. Sj^n. Pollinia argentea, Trin. 



A tall slender grass 4-5 ft. high, Avith flat leaves 1-2 ft. long by 

 •1--25" broad and long and brown shortly racemed or sub-digitate spikes 

 mostly 4-7" long of sub-secund 3-gonous sessile and pedicelled spike- 

 lets •14-- 10" long, the sessile spkt. being a little longer than the pedi- 

 celled. Gl. i linear-oblong, brown, 2-keeled, narrowly truncate, 

 villous, edges inflexed, dorsally flattened ; iv with two very slender 

 hyaline lobes, and a long awn, -0" long. 



Open forest on dry and stony soils. Champaran ! Throuo^hout Cbota Najjpur, 

 a very common grass in open Sal forests on the hills ! Santal Parg. 1 Sambalpur ! 

 Probably in all districts except, perhaps, the moister eastern ones. FL, Fr. Oct.- 

 Jan. Perennial or perhaps sometimes annual (the rootstock usually has buds, but 

 not always). 



Rootstock very short with many stems. Stems and sheaths shining. L. with 

 scattered long soft hairs towards base, tip tiliform. Rhachis and pedicels with 

 long white hairs. Gl, ii as long as i, polished keeled acuminate to narrowly 

 truncate tip, margins sparsely ciliate ; iii as long lanceolate hyaline; iv "07" cleft 

 half waj' down, narrow, hj^aline. 



3. E. Cumingii, comb. nov. Syn. Pollinia Cumingii, Nees; Lopud 



dumbu, K. 

 Stems very slender, many from a stout stoloniferous horizontal 

 rootstock. Leaves short flat narroAV. Spikelets sessile and pedicelled 

 •1" long in slender, rarely more than 2 brown or yellow-brown spikes 

 1-3-5" long, densely covered with brown hairs. 



On damp soil, sites of deserted villages, etc. Parneah, Kuig ! Ranchi, Clarke ! 

 Singbhum! Hazaribagh, C/arAe ! Fl.^ Fr. Oct.-Nov. 



L. 3-4" by l-'l?", glabrous, ligule short truncate glabrous. Rhachis and 

 pedicels compressed with long brown hairs on the edges. Spikes sometimes 3-4. 

 Spkts. subterete with short blunt hairj' callus. Gl. i involute oblong truncate 

 brown-hairy, 2-nerved or nerveless, tip shortly ciliate ; ii very slightly longer, 

 broadlj-- truncate less hairy, keel sometimes said to be shortly awned (F.B.I. ; 

 there hardly is any keel in my specimens) ; iii absent ; i v reduced to a long bent awn 

 (in our specimens) 2-3 times length of spkt., sometimes narrow with subulate 

 lobes (in up-country specimens) . 



This is a good fodder grass. 



59. PULICULUM, Stapf. 



Closely allied to Eulalia but annual. Gl. i as long as ii narrowly 

 truncate or bicuspidate, keels usually villous ; ii of sessile spkts. 

 awned ; iii or its palea present, palea short broad, ovate. 



1. P. articulata, Stapf. Syn. Eulalia concinna, Xees ; Pollinia arti- 

 culata, Tri7t. 

 An erect tufted grass, sometimes very slender about 4-10" high or 

 somewhat stouter and up to 3 ft., A\ith filiform leaves and numerous 

 grey-brown spikes 1-2-5" long in a dense contracted raceme. Stem 

 and leaf-sheaths glabrous. Spikelets sessile and xjedicelled or (var. 



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