289 



s pikelets alternate, subdistichous, round, acute, the female at the 

 base ; stigmas 3 ; fruit trigonal ovate, beaked, rough. Mahableshwur. 



15. ERIOPHORUM, Linn. 



I. E COMOSUM, Wall. Cat. 3446. Root fibrous; culms 

 cespitose, erect, 6 to 1 2 inches high, round, trigonal above, smooth ; 

 leaves rigid, narrow, keeled, folded, 3-cornered at the apex, rough 

 on the margin, twice as long as the culm ; involucre very long, 

 about 5-leaved ; corymb supra-decompound, umbellate ; scales 

 ovate-oblong, mucronate, one-nerved, somewhat keeled and convex. 

 In ravines in the Western Deccan, near Joonere ; a native also 

 of Nepal. 



CLVII, GRAMINE^E. 



Section. PHALARIDE^E. 

 1. COIX, Linn. 



1. C LACHRYMA, Linn. sp. 1378. A tall, coarse Grass, grow- 

 ing in watery places ; leaves broad, flat, and glabrous ; culm 

 full of pith, half round above ; spikes fascicled and peduncled at 

 the apex of the branchlets ; flowers monoecious, the male loosely 

 spiked, rising out of an ovate, inflated, coriaceous involucre, open 

 at the apex, and which afterwards becomes bony ; female flowers 

 enclosed within the involucre, which hardens over the subi-lobose 

 seed. These hardened involucres are called Job's tears. JSyn. C 

 arundinacea, Lam. Encycl. iii, 422 ; Lithagrostis lachryma, Jobi. 

 Gaert. Fr. i, 7, t. I,/. 10. 



2. C BARBATA, Roxb. Roots annual ; culms erect, cernuous 

 at the apex, branched, jointed, smooth, sulcated, not piped, 3 to 6 

 feet high, and as thick as a common quill ; leaves sheathing, 2 to 

 3 feet long, narrow, keeled ; margins armed with small prickles, 

 and clothed with numerous stiff, white hairs ; mouths of the sheaths 

 slightly bearded ; spikes numerous, pedicelled, terminal, and from 

 the exterior axils forming a large linear panicle, collected in fasci- 

 cles of from 2 to 6 on a common peduncle ; involucre of one hard, 

 glossy valve, allowing free egress to the n:ale spike, and enclosing 

 the female flower. On the high hills around Jooneer. 



Section. PANICE^E. 

 2. UROCHLOA, Beauv. 



1. U CIMICINA, Kunth. Gram, i, 31 ; and ii, 1. 103. Culms erect 

 or ascending; sheaths with scattered hairs ; leaves lanceolate, from 

 37 c 



