s, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GBAMIKEJ&. (J. D. Hooker.) 315 



stachya ciliaris, Beauv. Agrost. 74. Eragrostis, Wall. Cat. u. 5009, 5003 (in 

 part). N. India from the Pan jab to Burma. Westwd. to trop. Africa and America. 



Var. brachystachya, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 582 ; panicle short compact eylindric. 

 E. nrabica, Jaub. jjr Spach III. PL Orient, iv. 31, t. 322. E. riparia, Nees in 

 Herb. Royle. Upper Gangetic Plain, Scind & the Concan.' Arabia, Afr. trop. 



Var. ClarTcei, Stapf; panicle open as in E. tenella. Delhi, Clarke. 



0. E. tenella,. R-oem. fy Sch. Syst. ii. 576 (excl. /3) (non aliorum] 

 panicle variable, spikelets -5-$ in. by % in. broad or less, not strongly 

 compressed 3-9-fld., empty gls. subequal or unequal, flg. gls. oblique not 

 mucronate lateral nerves remote from the margins, keels of palea usually 

 obscurely ciliate, stamens 3, grain ovoid. 



Throughout INDIA, in the plains and lower hills, from the PANJAB to MALACCA 

 and CKYLOV. The NICOBAR ISLDS. DISTRIB. Trop. Asia, Africa. 



Very variable, from 6 18 in. high, stems usually slender, many from the root and 

 densely tufted. Leaves narrow. Panicle 28 iu. long, contracted or spreading, 

 pale green or purplish, excessively branched, oblong ovate or cylindric, never with 

 the long interrupted rachis and pseudo-verticil late branches of JS. interrupta. 



Var. plumosa, Stapf; panicle open often flexuoua' branches capillary nodes 

 bearded, spikelets -^-^ in. long- or short-pedicelled 3-9-fld., empty gls. unequal 

 I --i shorter than II, rachilla suharticulate, tig. gls. ^ in., anthers very minute, 

 grain ovoid about J- s in. K. despiciens, Schult. Mant. ii. 318. E. elegantula, 

 Nees 0., Wight Cat. n. 1781b. K. laxa, Baker Fl. Maurit. 456. E. plumosa. Link 

 Enum. Hort. Bcrol. i. 192 (non Bouts.) ; Wight Cat. n. 1786 ; Thw. Enum. PI Zeyl. 

 373; Trim. Cat. Gey I. PL 109; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 38, Fodd. Grass. 

 N. In<L 6t, t. 38,77 ; Aitchis. Cat. 1'anjab PL 17 J; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 H'^t. Soc.y'ii. (1893) 3S5. K. tenella, Roem. fy Sch. I.e. ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 266. 

 Poa amabilis, Linn. Sp. PI. 08. P. capillaris, Roxb. lc. Pict. ined. t. 8*7. P. 

 despiciens, Link Enum. Hort. Jlerol. \. 88. P. hirsuta. Herb. Until. P. plumosa, 

 Retz. Obs. iv. 20; Kunth Enum. PL i. 338; Roxb. FL Ind. \. 337. P. tenella, 

 Linn. 1. c. 69. Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 47, f. 3); Ruiz. Obs. v. 19; Kunth Rev. 



Gram. ii. 467, t. 147, Enum. PL i. 338, Suppl. 294. Eragrostis, Wail. Cat. n. 

 5007. Throughout India, Burma & Ceylon (C.P. 926, 70). 



Var. riparia, Stapf; panicle contracted very narrow flaccid, rachis glabrous, 

 branches subfiliform or capillary, spikelets as in var. plumosa, empty gls. unequal 



I = i shorter than II, flg. gls. -^V in., anthers about y, 1 ^ in., grain Jj in. ovoid. K. 

 plumosu (in part} Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. (CP. 927, 928). E. riparia, Steud. Syn. 



Gram. 265 ; Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1787 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 38. E. 



ciliaris, j8, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 397. E. plumosa, var. 



raaritiina, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109 (CP. 927). Poa incurva, Herb. Rottl. (in 

 part}. P. riparia, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Btrl. N. Schrift. iv. (Ib03) 185. 



P. setacea & laevis, Herb. Pot.tl. P. teuella, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 337; Grah. Cat. 



Bomb. PL 236. Eragrost. Wall. Cat. n. 5011. Lower Bengal, and southwd. 



Laccadive Islds. CEYLON (C P. 927, 928). 



Var. viscosa, Stapf ; stem and rachis of panicle b ; -low viscid, panicle stiff stouter 



with firmer more strongly nerved glumes than in vars. plumosa & riparia, oblong to 



linear open contracted or compact, branches filiform often very short, nodes glabrous 



or obscurely bearded, spikelets few-16-fld. often purplish, empty gls. subequal or I 



slightly shorter, fl. gls aV'T's " K > nthers about -^^ in., grain ovoid ^-^ 5 in. Sub- 



var. a, nperfa, Stapf; panicle oblong or pyramidal open, branche-s distinctly 



lengthened. E. viscosa, Trin. in Hem. Acad. Petersb. Srr. VI. i. (1831) 397 ; 



Wight Cat. n. 1785 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 386. 



Poa ciliaris, Roxb. Ic. pict. ined. t. 832, 856. Herb. Madr. Wall. Cat. n. 5U08 A. 



P. glmiuosa, Herb. Roxb. P. plumosa & malabarica, Herb. Het/ne ev Wall. Cat. n. 



500S C. D. E. P. Telphulia, Herb. Hm. ex Wall. Cat. n. 5008 'B. P. viscosa, Retz. 



Obs. iv. 20 ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. i. 336 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 236 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 



336. Eragrost. Wall. Cat. n. 5008, 5010. From the Gangetic Plains & Bombay 



