y 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



in., ovate, acute ; palea with rather narrow scabrid keels. Anthers ^ in. long. 

 Grain almost J T in., elongate ovoid or ellipsoid, almost terete. The materials for 

 this species consist of only two specimens, one from Thwaites (C.P. 60), with leaves 

 6-7 in. convolute, erecto-patent; the other, from Walker, with much longer flat or 

 subcon volute leaves 8-10 in. long. 



31. E. brachyphylla, Stapf \ perennial leaves 2|-4 in. linear 

 plicate glabrous above, spikelets ^-f in. oblong to linear about 20-fld., 

 empty gls. subequal. E. bifaria, Wall. Gat. n. 3827 A. B. E. bifaria, /3. 

 minor, Wight & Am. in Wiglit Gat. n. 1773 0. & Herb. n. 3528, 3356. 

 Poa secunda, Eoxb. ex Wall. Gat. I.e. A. P. bifaria, Vahl, & P. coroman- 

 delina, Roth, ex Wight Gat. n. 1773b. 



From BEHAR and the CENTRAL PROVINCES, southward to the Nilghiris, Wight, 

 Perrottet. 



Stem densely tufted, 10-18 in., slender. Leaves coriaceous, acute, rarely flat 

 and T \j in. broad. Spikes 3-6 in., slender. Spikelets close-set, usually secund, 

 slightly compressed, olive-green ; empty gls. up to -fa in., I acute, acutely 

 keeled ; II obtuse, dorsally rounded ; flg. gls. up to fa in., broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 keel scaberulous below the tip; keels of palea narrow, scabrid. Anthers ^ 2 in. 

 Grain ^ ~za i n -> shortly ellipsoid, obscurely triquetrous, almost terete, epioarp 

 coarsely reticulate. 



INDETERMINABLE SPECIES RECORDED AS INDIAN. 



E. cernua, Steud. Syn. Gram. 266. Poa cernua, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. BerL 

 Neue Schrift. iv. (1803) 182. 



E. confinis, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 265. 



105. MYRIOSTACHYA, Hook. f. 



A tall stout perennial glabrous grass. Leaves very long, flat. Spine- 

 lets 4-20- nd., racemed on the short branchlets of a narrow elongate panicle, 

 pedicels jointed at the base; rachilla stout, flexuous, naked, at length 

 jointed at the base and between the fl. gls. Glumes coriaceous, dorsally 

 rounded, I and II very small, ovate, 1-nerved, keeled, long-awned ; flg. gls. 

 ovate, cuspidately acuminate, keeled, 3-nerved ; palea coriaceous, as long 

 as its gl., tip 2-toothed, keels close together stout scabrid-ciliate. Lodicules 

 very minute, obliquely cuneate, retuse. Stamens 3, anthers very small. 

 Ovary globose, styles united at the very base, stigmas long penicillate. 

 Grain obliquely ovoid, obtuse, subterete, scutellum large. Eragrostis, Sect. 

 Myriostachya, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 117. 



M. Wightiana, Hook.f. Eragrostis Wightiana, Benfh. in Hook. Ic. 

 PI. xiv. 62, t. 1381. Leptochloa Wightiana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 209 ; Wight Cat. n. 1757. Dinebra verticillata, Wight ex Steud. I. c. 

 Festuca natans, Ham. in Wall. Cat. n. 3823. Eragrost. affine, Wall. 

 I.e. 



Marshes in the SUNDERBUNDS, Hamilton, Griffith, &c. S. INDIA? Herb. Wight. 

 TfiNASSEBiM, Heifer. 



Stem 6-10 ft., densely tufted, erect from a stout sheathed sometimes floating 

 rootstock with long branching roots, as thick as the thumb at the base, smooth, 

 simple or sparingly branched. Leaves several feet long, up to \ in. broad, linear, 

 finely acuminate, quite smooth ; sheath very long, narrower than the blade, of lower 

 leaves broad and compressed ; ligule 0. Panicle 1-2 ft. by 2-3 in. broad ; rachis 

 quite smooth ; branches 1-1 in., very many, crowded fascicled and whorled erecto- 



