584 GRAMiNiLffi E^agrosti», 



rachide non flexuosa, glumelia ovato-oblonga oblusa elevalim ner- 

 vosa, caryopside oblonga acuta Q.Poa interrupta Lam. III. I, 185.— 

 Kunth Gram. tab. 188. — Er. diandra Roxb. — Er. Namaqiiensis 

 Nees Agr. Gap. p. 408. — Er. diplachnoides Steud. Gram. 268. — 

 Er. Mossulensis Sleud. Gr. 264, — Diplachne pooeformis, D. eloiin 

 gata et Catabrosa micrantha Hochst. in Ky. et Schimp. exs. Nub. et 

 Abyss. 



Hab in aretiosis Egypti superioris ad Syenem (Ehrb ! Bpiss!) Thebas (Kral \ 

 Letl) Kenneli (Fig.), Assyria ad Mossul (Ky. 434 M), Babylonia ad Bagdad 

 (Noe'l62! et 1223!), SusianA ad Quv.Ghyrsan (Haussk!),Belutschia(Aitch!). 



Bipedalis, panicula semipedalis vel pedalis stricta ramis inferioribus 1-2- 



{)ollicaribus vel brevissimis ; flosculi eis E. pilosce et j^gyptiacai breviores et 

 ere minores. 



Ar. Geogr. Japonia, India, Nubia, Abyssinia, Senegalia, Madagascaria» 

 P. B. Spei. 



11. E. caelachyrum (Benth. in Hook. Ic. XIV, p. 50. tab. 1368) 

 annua glabra, culmis pluribus humilibus lateralibus prostratis vel 

 ascendentibus, foliis brevibus planis latiusculis acutis, spicis ad culmi 

 apicem 3-4 confertis subsessilibus, spiculis secus spicam distichis 

 8ubsessilibus3-4-floriscompressis,glumis ovalis obtusis prominenter 

 trinerviis, caryopside suborbiculata a dorso cronipressa valde rugosl 

 antice concava O- Eleusine brevifolia Hochst et St. in Sched. — 

 CcBlachyrum brevifolium Nees Linn. XVI, p. 221. 



Hab. in littore .^gjrptiaco inter Koeseir et Ras Benass (Schweinf !), 



Facies omnlno Eleusines. €1. Bentham hano piantam irtter Eragrosttde& 

 inserendo secutus sum. 



Ar. Geogr. Nubia, Arabia subtropica prope Djedda(Schimp! Zohrab!). 



* * Glumella 5-plurinervia (Except. Scleropoce species noniiulloe 

 glumelia 3-l-nervi& donalse). 



NELICA (L. Geo. 82). 



Spiculae a latere compressae 2-5-flor?p Flosculi inferiores 1-2 fer- 

 tiles hermaphroditi, superiores 1-vel 2 steriles tabescentes in corpus- 

 culum lurbinatum vel oblongo-cylindricum imbricati. Glumai mem- 

 branacecT concavae flosculis sequales vel subbreviores. Glumella et 

 palea muticte illa subcartilaginea coiicava dorso 5-plurinervia, palea 

 minor bicarinala apice bidentala. Squamulae binse carnosfe. Stamina 

 tria. Slyli bini lerminales stigmatibus ramose plumosis ad basin llos- 

 culi emergentibus. Caryopsis oblonga subconvexa macula hllari lineari 

 longiludiiiali notata. — Herbie perennes. — Genus flosculorum neu- 

 irorum conformatioue nolabile. 



