Eragrostis, 0. Stapf.l CLXXIII. GRAUIXE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 319 



Throughout INDIA, BURMA and CEYLON T (Wallich, G-ardner}. 



Stem tall, 1-3 ft., suberect from a spreading base, usually stout and branching, 

 but sometimes slender and short, smooth. Leaves few, short, smooth, flat or subcon- 

 volute; mouth of sheath bearded. Panicle nodding, branches rather distant, spread- 

 ing, ramifying from above the base, sometimes abbreviated arid the spikelets 

 clustered on the rachis, rachis glabrous. Spikelets purplish or green ; empty gls. 

 ^g- in. ; fig. gls. yiV in., lateral nerves slender ; internotles of rachilla yy^Fo ^ n - '> 

 palea rather shorter than its gls. Stamens 3, anthers about -% in. Gram oblong, 

 sV b y To-A in. 



12. E. elongrata, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 3, t. 3 ; perennial, panicle very 

 variable, branches usually simple, spikelets very shortly pedicelled rather 

 crowded subparallel linear - ~ in. 10-25-fld., rachilla rather stout, empty 

 gls. ovate-lanceolate acute, J 1-nerfed, II 1-3-nerved, flg. gls. ovate- 

 lanceolate very acute nearly flat, keel almost straight, palea strongly 

 curved, keels very stout scabrid. E. bahiensis, Hance in Journ. Linn. 

 Sac. xiii. (1873) 136; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76 (non Sckrad.). E. 

 Brownearia, Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 905. 

 E. Brownii, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 396 ; Bteiid. Syn. 'Gram. 279 ; Thwaite* 

 Enum. PL Zeyl. 373 ; Trim. t Cat. Gey 1. PL 109 ; Benth. FL Hough. 432, FL 

 Austral, vii. 646 (in part}. E. Cumingii, Steud. I. c. 266. E. interrupta, 

 Steud. L c. 279 (non Beauv.). E. orientalis, Nees in Nov. Act. 1. c. 206 ; Thw. 

 I.e. 373; Trim. I.e. 109. E. pubescent, Steud. I.e. E. Willdenoviana, 

 Nees in Hook, fy Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 252. E. zeylanica, Nees <$f Mey. in 

 Nov. Act. 1. c. 204 ; Thwaites 1. n. ; Trim. I. c\ Poa Brownei, Jltmth lie via. 

 Gram. i. 112, Enum. PL i. 333. P P. dependens, Hornem. Enum, Hort. 

 Hafn. Suppl. 2. P. elongata, Willd.Enum. Hort* Berol. i. 108; Kunth 



Enum. i. 384. P. interrupta & polyniorpha, Br. Prodr. 180. P. pulchella, 

 Wall. mss. Megastachya elongata & polymorpha, Beauv. Agrost. 74, 167. 



Eragrost. Wall. Cat. n. 3836, 3845 (in part). 



LOWKR BENGAL, CHITTAGONG, BURMA, the NICOBAR ISLDS., and CEYLON (C.P- 

 931, 3047, 3251). DISTEIB. Asia trop., Malaya, Australia, N. Caledon. 



Stems tufted, stiff, tall or short, stout or slender, simple or branched. Leaves 

 narrow, strict, flat or convolute ; mouth of sheath bearded. Panicle oblong or ovate, 

 with solitary distant spreading filiform branches, or from the shortening of these 

 subspicifonn, rachis glabrous. Spikelets acute, dark brown or reddish; gl. I -Jg 

 -Jg- in.) II -jL in.; flg. gl.*. usually -^V in., firm, lateral nerves rather prominent; 

 rachilla rather stout, internodes Jy in. ; palea \- A shorter than its gl. Anthers 

 T737i~o\y i n - m tne Indian specimens. Grain ovoid to subglobose, J- in. 



tf Spikelets not fasciclc.l, usually more or less divaricate when ripe, s 



Spikelets T V~i in. broad; flg. gls. broad, more or less obtuse, -i^~^u\. 

 long, lateral nerves strong. Annuals. 



13. E. barbulata. Staff. ; leaf-margins eglandular, panicle oblong 

 very loose, branches solitary, pedicels very slander, spikelets few g-f in. 

 ovate-oblong, or linear narrowed upwards 10-25-fld., empty gls. subequal 

 ovate obtuse, rachilla stout nodes bearded, fl. gls. close-set very broadly 

 ovate obtuse, palea broadly ovate persistent keels scabrid, grain subglobose. 



Eragrostis, Wall.\Cat. n, 3839. 



LOWER BrmiA; road to the Petroleum Wells, Wallich. 



Annual, erect, 3-4 ft. high, branched. Leaves 12-18 in., up to in. broad, 

 usually very narrow, subconvolute, and sheaths pubescent or villous below the 

 middle. Panicle 6-12 in.j nodes of rachis woolly at the axils; branches very 



