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2. E CILIATA, Nees. Culms erect, rigid, smooth, 1 to 2 feet 

 high ; leaves pubescent at the mouth of the sheaths : panicle 

 columnar, 2 to 4 inches high, hairy at the insertion of the branches ; 

 spikelets 6 to 12-flowered; exterior valve 3-nerved, cuspidate, with 

 ciliated margins ; seed obovate-globose, smooth, dark-coloured. Poa 

 ciliata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 336. At Domus. The panicle is much 

 more like a spike, and resembles Dactylis lagopodioides. 



3. E CYNOSUROIDES, Retz. Root creeping ; culm stout, reed- 

 like, clothed at the base with withered sheaths ; leaves rigid, flat, 

 or the younger root ones convolute elongated, 4 to 8 inches or a 

 foot long ; raceme compound, close, elongated, the branches 

 scattered, dense racemose ; spikelets sessile, secund, distichous, 

 9 to 50-flowered ; florets lanceolate, ovate, shining. Syn. Poa 

 cynosuroides, Retz. Obs. iv, 20; Briza bipinnata, Linn. 



4. E MULTIFLORA, Trinius in Act. Petropol. vi, i, 401. Culm 

 suberect, round, smooth, 6 to 1 8 inches long ; leaves short ; mouths 

 of the sheaths a little hairy ; panicle much longer than the rest of 

 the plant, oblong ; branches filiform, short, drooping, simple ; 

 spikelets pedicelled, very long, linear, crowded, 50 to 70-flowered, 

 smooth ; glumes obtuse. Near Gogo, on the Kattywar Coast. 

 Syn. Poa multiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 338. 



5. E VISCOSA, Trin. loc. cit. Leaves narrow, and with the 

 leaves glabrous ; panicle thyrsiform, contracted, elongated, with the 

 branches very short and compound ; spikelets oblong, very shortly- 

 pedicelled, 6 to 20-flowered, lower valve most frequently ciliated. 

 Syn. Poa riparia, Willd. Malabar Hill. It is covered with a 

 viscid, resinous substance, having a balsamic odour. 



20. UNIOLA, Linn. 



1. U INDICA, Sprengel. Culm decumbent at the base, branch- 

 ed, ascending, 1 to 2 feet hiafh, round and smooth ; leaves glau- 

 cous, rather short ; mouth of the sheaths bearded ; panicle ovate- 

 oblong, half the length of the plant; branches short, simple horizon- 

 tal, fascicled below, solitary above; spikelets long-pedicelled, 16 to 

 20-flowered, with a bluish-purple tinge, ovate. Syn. Poa unio- 

 loides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 339. 



21. DACTYLTS, Linn. 



1. D LAGOPODIOTDES, Linn. Culm ascending; branches sim- 

 ple, short ; leaves short, lanceolate, from a broad base, rigid, 

 convolute and pungent at the apex, glaucous ; spike terminal, ovoid 

 or subrotund, white, dense ; spikelets about 4-flowered. Common 



