322 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eragrostis, 0. Stapf. 



below the panicle as in J&. tenella var. viscosa, with certain forms of which P. 

 Eottleri has much in common. The persistent rachilla with deciduous glumes of 

 E. Eottleri are as in E. minor, as are the scabrid not ciliate keels of the palea. 



18. E. Willdenoviana, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1779 (non in Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 205); leaf-margins rarely glandular, panicle 

 short ovate stiff open, branches solitary capillary, pedicels short, spikelets 

 -i in. by -^ in. linear pale up to 25-fld., empty gls. very unequal, l" minute 

 hyaline nerveless, fl. gls. broadly elliptic acute, palea oblong persistent, 

 grain truncate at both, ends dorsal ly grooved. E. poaeoides, Trim. Cat. 

 Ceyl. PI. 109; Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. (the Carnatic plant). Poa 

 glabra & laevis, Bottl. mss. ? P. polymorpha, Koen. ex Eottl. in Schrift. 

 Naturf. Fr. Berl. iv. (1803) 194. Eragrostis, Wall. Cat. n. 3848. 



MYSORE, Rottler, Eeyne ; Dindygul, Wight. CEYLON ; Trincomalee, Glenie 

 (C.P. 3944). 



Annual. Stems 4-18 in., very slender, smooth, rigid, erect or geniculately 

 ascending. Leaves short, flat, narrow, erect, rather rigid ; mouth of sheath naked. 

 Panicle 1-3 in., branches spreading when ripe, ramifying from near the base; 

 pedicels (except sometimes the terminal) shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets olive- 

 grey or greenish : gl. I -^j-re ^ n '> H ovate, acute, -% in., 1-nerved; flg. gls. y^-^V in., 



lateral nerves strong ; palea 4- shorter than its gl., keels scaberulous. Stamens 3, 

 anthers about T ^j in. Grain oblong, -sj~oo m -> dorsally flattened and grooved. 

 This may prove to be E. polymorpha, Roem. fy Sch. Syst. ii. 575. Rottler's specimen 

 was named P. polymorpha, but that name was crossed out and replaced by P. glabra, 

 Nob. E. Willdenoviana, Nees in Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. (of China) is 

 E. elongata. 



JJ. Panicle very loose, ramifications very slender often flexuous or flaccid ; 

 lateral nerves of jig. gls. usually faint. Leaves eglandular. 



19. E. tenuifolia,.jEbcA. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) i. Intell. 20, name 

 only; ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 268 ; perennial, panicle oblong to ovate very 

 open, rachis glabrous, branches solitary or 2-nate distant, spikelets * j- 1 ^ in. 

 by in. linear 5-15-fld., empty gls. very unequal, I minute hyaline, rachilla 

 tough, fl. gls. ovate acute, subacute or apiculate, palea ^ shorter than its 

 gl. strongly curved persistent, grain obovate-oblong. E. collocarpa, K. 

 Sclium. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Deutsch-Ost. Afr. C. 114. ?E. mucronata, 

 Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 577. E. parviglumis, Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 267. 

 Poa tenuifolia, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 425. 



NILGHIEI HILLS, Hohenacker. BELGAUM, Ritchie; Satpura Hills, Thompson. 

 D IST RIB. Africa trop. 



Stem 2-3 ft., erect, slender, branched. Leaves long, very narrow; mouth of 

 sheath naked. Panicle 3-S in. ; branches ramifying from near the base and branch - 

 lets rather distant, spreading, filiform, stiff, shorter than in E. nigra. Spikelet* 

 olive-grey; gl. 1 1 1 --^ line nerveless; II remote from I, about -J^ in., ovate, sub- 

 acute, nerveless or taintly 1-nerved ; flg. gls. ^ in., keels of palea scabrid. Stamens 3, 

 anthers ^ in. Grain ^ in., slightly compressed, dorsally grooved. 



20. E. papposa, Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 564 ; perennial, panicle ovoid 

 very delicate lax open sparingly branched, rachis glabrous, branches 

 solitary rarely 2-nate branchlets stiff divaricate, pedicels long capillary, 

 spikelets - in. linear 7-23-fld., empty gls. subequal or I shorter hyaline, 

 rachilla tough, flg. gls. broadly ovate margins above hyaline, palea obtuse 

 denticulate persistent, grain obovoid. Willk. & Lange Prodr. FL. Hi span. 

 i,83; Griseb. in *Goett. Nadir. (1868) -75. E. atro-virens, Lange in Koebj . 



