314 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eragrostis, 0. Stapf. 



From the UPPER GANGRTIC PLAIN, Moradabacl, Thomson, to SIKKTM, BEHAU, 

 CHITTAGONG, ARRACAN and BURMA. CENTRAL PROVINCES & CHOTA NAGPOKF 

 Clarke. 



Stems in small or large tufts, 4-18 in. high, geniculately ascending from a 

 nodose branched stock, base clothed with short hard shenths. Leaves linear, spreading 

 horizontally, more or less convolute, finely acuminate, glabrous, sometimes flat and 

 in. broad, quite smooth, glaucous ; sheath rather tight, smooth, bearded below the 

 month ; ligule very short. Panicle 2-6 in. by -f in. broad, sometimes very 

 narrowly pyramii al, white, branches hispid; gls. I and II subequal ; flg. gls. 

 jL in., membranous, nerves prominent. Anthers T T n in. Grain shortly ovoid, -Jj in. 

 Dwarf states 2-3 in. high occur; and tall ones 2-3 ft. high from the Sikkim Terai 

 and Arracan, with leaves ^ in. broad and a long lax narrow panicle 6 in. long. 



** Panicle open or more or less contracted or spiciform ; margins of Jig. 

 gh. eciliate. 



4. XS. aspera, Nees FL Afr. Austr. 408; annual, panicle large 

 thyrsiform, at length expanding, branches and. pedicels long, spikelets 

 linear-oblong \ by -^ irj. er< ct 4-16-fJd., empty gls. subequal, flg. gle. 

 obtuse nerves prominent, keels of palea scaberulous, stamens 3. Lisbon in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 336. E. tenella, Nees in WicjU 

 Cat. n. 1783 (non Linn, nee Benth.). E. paniculata, Steud. tfyn. Grain. 

 278. Poa appera, Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. 32. P. paniculata, Rojcb. FL Ind. 

 i. 340. Eragrostis, Wall. Cat. n. 3841. 



SOUTHERN INDIA ; Dindygul, Wight. BANGALORR, Puckle (Tc. in Herb. New}, 

 N. and S. CON CAN, Lis 1 oa. DISTRIB. Afr. trop. 14e of France. 



Stem with the long panicle 2-4 ft., stout, subereot, branched, smooth. Leaves 

 818 in., flat, keeled, smooth ; sheath villoui-ly bearded ; lignle of long hairs. 

 Panicle 10-20 in. by 4-6 broad, oblong to obovate-oblong, rachis scaberulous, 

 bearded at the nodes with long white hairs ; branches solitary or pseudo-whorled, 

 capillary, divided from the base or nearly so, suberect ; pedicels much longer than 

 the small, rather scattered spikelets. Fig. gh. hardly T ^in.; palea obscurely 

 3-lobed, lobes very obtuse, keels scabrid. Anthers ~ in. Grain subglobose, 

 about Jjy in. Panicle quite unlike that of any other Indian species. 



5. E. ciliaris, Link Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 192; annual, panicle 

 spiciform rarely open, branches and pedicels very short glabrous, spike- 

 lets about -YQ in. long and broad 6-12-fld strongly compressed, empty gls. 

 snbequal acute, flg. gls. wide!} 7 spreading mucronulate, lateral nerves^ 

 submarghral, keels of palea very long-ciliate, stamens 3. 



PLAINS of N. and S. INDIA (not in Ceylon). DISTRIB. Reg. trop. 



Stem 1-2 ft., procumbent below and geniculately ascending, slender. Leaves 

 very narrow, flat; mouths of sheath with very long hairs. Panicle 3-6 in., inter- 

 rupted or lobed be'ow, appealing hairy from the long cilia of the palra, branches 

 very short (except var. Clarkei) divided from the base, glabrous; nodes of glabrous 

 rachis naked. Spikelets very pale, as broad as long, much compressed ; flg. yls. 

 subhyaline, scaberulous, often slightly recurved and elegantly distichous ; rachilla 

 of spikelet persistent. Anthers T ^ in. Grain elongate ovoid, about -^ in. 



Var. ciliaris proper, Stapf ; panicle spiciform more or less lobed or interrupted. 

 E. ciliaris, Boisv. Fl. Orient, v. 582; Baker AY. Maitrit. 456; Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 37, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 62; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 169 ; Lisboa in Jo-urn. 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 386 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 532. E. lobata, 

 Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 396. E. lepidn, Hochst. ex A. 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abys*. ii. 424. E. plumosa, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 582 (excl. St/n.} ; 

 Benth. H. Hovak. 431. E. pulchella, Par/, in Hook. Niger Flor. 186. Mega- 



