ISrayrostis, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 317 



Austral, viii. 6 J3 (non Beauv.) ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ivd. 65, t. 78. E. tenellula, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 279. E. tenuissiraa, Schrad. ex Nees FL Afr. Austr. 409, 410. 

 Pou japoniea, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 31. P. hyemalis, Laka, & Speciosa, Herb. Ham. ex 

 1\'ali. Cat. n. 3850 C. B. P. tenella, Br. Prodr. 181 (non Beauv.) ; Roxb. FL Ind. 

 i. 337, Ic. Pict. ined. t. 837. P., tenellula, Kunth Enum. PL i. 338. Eragrostis 

 Wall.. Cat. n. 3850 B. C. H. 5001 A D. Temp. & trop. Himaf. from the Punjab 

 eastwd. and southwd. to Ceylon; ascends the Himalaya to 7000 ft. Trop. As. 



Sect. IT. PTEROESSA. Rachilla of spikelet tough, persistent ; flg. 

 glumes falling away from its base upwards. Species 8-24. 



* Spikelets always flat, usually elliptic-ovate to oblong; lateral nerves 

 of flg. gls. very prominent, straight, almost percurrent ; paleas deciduous 

 with their glumes. 



8. 2. amabilis, Wight fy Am. ex Nees in Hook, fy Am. Sot. 

 Beerh. Voy. 251 (excl. Syn. Linn.} annual, panicle oblong or ovoid- 

 oblong open or contracted, branches solitary ramifying from near the 

 base, spikelets -5 in. ovate rarely oblong or linear-oblong up to 50- 

 fld., empty gls. subequal acute 1-nerved, flg. gls. very close set dis- 

 tichously spreading broadly elliptic shortly acuminate, palea elliptic keels 

 winged scabrid. Wight Gat. n. 1777 ; Wall.'. Cat. n. 3838 ; Nees in Act. Acad. 

 Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 205. E. polymorpha, Trin. ex Steud. Nbm. 

 Ed. II. i. 364, 562. E. rubens, Hochst. ex Miq. Analect. Bot. ii. 26 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 265. E. unioloides, Nees ex Steud. I.e. 264 ; Thw. 

 Enum. PL Zeyl. 373 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Pi. 109 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 38, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 65; AitcJiis. Cat. Punjab PI. 170; Lisboa in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 383; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. 

 (1868) 76. Poa amabilis, Herb. Uottl. (non Linn.}. P. multiflora, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 338. P. polymorpha, Br. Prodr. 180. P. psendam.abilis, 

 Roxb. Ic. Pict. ined. t. 843. P. rubens, Lamk. Illustr. i. 184, t. 45, f. 2 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PL i. 335. P. unioloides, Eetz. Obs. v. 19 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 330; Kunth I.e.; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 236. Briza ruhra, Lanik. 

 III. i. 187; Kunth I.e. 371. Uniola indica, Spreng. Syst. i. 349; Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 298. Megastachya polymorpha, Beauv. Agrost. 74. 



PLAINS OF INDIA and LOWER HIMALAYA, from Kashmir (ascending to 6000 

 ft.), eastwd. to Burma and southwd. to CEYLON (CP. u. 930). DISTRIB. As. trop. 



Stem 6-18 in., rather slender. Leaves usually short, flat; mouth of sheaths 

 naked. Panicle 2-4 in., branches filiform, not very numerous or long, rachis and 

 nodes glabrous. Spikelets broad or narrow, pale or purplish ; rachilla tough, iuter- 

 uodes very short, ^-^ in.; empty gls. -^-^ in. 1-nerved ; flg. gls. nearly T ^ i n . long, 

 mucronulate ; palea -J shorter than its gl. Stamens 3, anthers TSO"^ uu Grain 

 obovoid or ellipsoid, laterally compressed, about ^ by i in. 



* Spikelets usually linear or liuear-oblong, less compressed and with 

 less' prominent nerves than in *, or if strongly compressed and nerved 

 then with persistent puleas. 



- t Spikelets more or less fascicled on the primary or secondary branches 

 or shortly pedicelled in narrower racemes. 



9. X*. malayana, Stapf; annual, panicle ovoid, branches solitary 

 at length spreading flowering to the base, pedicels as long as the spike- 

 lets or shorter, spikelets T V~5 in. linear-oblong 10-30-fld., rachilla almost 

 straight internodes very short, gls. all broad closely imbricate, sides 



