Eragrostis, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 325 



Cat. Punjab. PL 169 ; Dutkie Grass. N.W. Ind. 37, Fodd. Grass. N. In A. 

 62, t. 40 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 583 ; Lisbon in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. vii. (1893) 387. Poa cynosuroides, Eetz. Obs. iv. 20; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 333 ; Del Fl. JEgypt. 159, t. 10 ; Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 236 ; Kunth JSnum. 

 PI i. 227. Leptochloa bipinnata, Hochst. in Flora, xxxviii. (1855) 422. 

 Briza bipiiinata, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 875. Cynosurus duros, Forsk. Fl. 

 JRgypt. Arab. 71. Dactylis interrupta, Herb. Rottl. Uniola bipinnata, 

 Linn. Sp. PL Ed. 11. 104. Bragrost. affine & Eragrostoides, Wall Cat. 

 n. 3821, 5016. 



PLAINS of INDIA, from Peshawar and Sind to Burma and southward, in moist 

 places. (Not in Ceylon). DISTRIB. Westward to Syria and N. Africa. 



Rootstock stout, creeping ; stolons very stout clothed with shining sheaths ; 

 stems 1-3 ft., tufted, smooth, erect, stout. Leaves many, basal fascicled, very long, 

 rigid, long acuminate tips filiform, margins hispid ; mouth of sheath with long hairs ; 

 ligule 0. Panicle 6-18 in. by 1 rarely 2 in. broad, strict, erect, narrowly pyramidal 

 or columnar, often interrupted ; rachis puberulou^, branches -1 in., very many 

 crowded ; branchlets rigid, glabrous or hispidulous, spreading. Spikelets unilateral, 

 2 -seriate and crowded, defiVxed, pale brown, rather shining; internodes of rachilla 

 very short; gl. T -J^ in. ; II about T ^ in., obtuse ; flg. gls. y^-- rj in., coriaceous ; palea 

 i-i shorter than its gl., rather coriaceous, keels minutely scabrid. Stamens 3, 

 anthers -J-g- in. Grain less than T \j in., obliquely ovoid, laterally compressed, 

 obscurely trigonous. 



C. Sect. IV. PLAGIOSTACHYA, Benth. Spikelets secund distichously 

 spreading in a long simple slender terminal spike. 



* Keels of palea distinctly winged. 



25. E. leioptera, Stapf. ; perennial, leaves convolute wiry, spikelets 

 tj | in. oblong compressed 10-20-fld., glumes tumid, I ^ in. acute, wings 

 of keels of palea y^ in. broad eciliate. 



KHASIA HJLLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Stems 1-2 ft., densely tufted, erect, very slender, strict. Leaves 8-12 in., 

 glabrous, stout, terete, pungent ; sheaths short. Spike 6-10 in., erect, strict ; 

 rachis angular, smooth. Spikelets not crowded, suberect ; empty glumes T \ in. 

 subequal, or I shorter; I acutely keeled; II dorsally rounded; flg. gls. broadly 

 ovate, obtuse or subacute, -^ in. ; wings of palea hyaline. Anthers about ^ in. 

 long. The moro tumid glumes at once distinguish this from E. bifaria. 



26. E. bifaria, Wight ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II. i. 562, Syn. Gram. 264, 

 Suppl. 282 ; perennial, leaves flat or complicate and keeled, spikelets f- 

 in. ovate-oblong rarely linear much compressed 6-40-fld., wings of keels 

 of pftlea about T ^ in. broad ciliate. Wall. Cat. n. 3827 B. 0. ; Wight Gat. 

 n. 1773; ? Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. #00.. vii. (1893) 387. 

 E. thraulostachys, K. Schum. ined. Poa bifaria, Vahl Symb. ii. 19 ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 331 ; Kunth Eevis. Gram. i. 334, t. 80, Enum. PI. i. 327, Suppl. 

 282. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, &c. DISTRIB. Africa trop. 



Stein. 1-3 ft., densely tufied, erect, simple, subcompressed, glabrous, base clothed 

 with the soft fibres of old sheaths. Leaves 2-2% in., linear, wiry, sometimes J in. 

 broad, flt-xuous, acute, rigid, smooth ; sheaths scaberulous, keeled ; ligule a ciliate 

 line. Spike 10-12 in., ovate to oblong and 15-20-fld., rarely linear flexuous and up 

 to 40-fld., erect, rachis smooth, subcompressed. Spikelets spreading, lower fewer- 

 fld., olrve-grey or -green; gl. I very acute or acuminate; II almost T \- in., keel 

 very stout, rounded ; flg. gls. i in., broadly ovate, subacuminate, keel scaberulous 

 above, nerves faint. Stamens 3, anthers Jg- in. 



