316 



If the name be correct, then it is both an erect tree and a climber, 

 and will include our U volubile, p 242. 



NOTE. The Concan name of Ficus cordifolia is " Ashta." 



CLIV. ERIOCAULACE.E, p 279. 

 1. ERIOCAULON, Linn. 



8. E RIVULARE. This name having been preoccupied by Don, 

 the species here described has been named E dalzellii by Koernicke, 

 in the 26th vol. of the Linn sea. 



9. E ROUXIANUM, Steudel, Syn. ii, 270. Cespitose ; root 

 fibrous; stem very short; leaves linear-lanceolate, 9 to 11 -nerved, 

 rather obtuse at the apex, subpellucid, 1 to 1 1 inch long, twice the 

 length of the tumid sheaths, which are rather membranous and 

 white at the apex ; heads about 2 lines in breadth, snow-white, 

 villous, a little shorter than the involucre. The specimens were 

 collected by Polydore Roux, near Bombay. 



10. E HETEROLEPIS, Steudel loc. cit. 271. Cespitose; root 

 fibrous ; stem very short; leaves-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 9 to 11- 

 nerved, scarcely one inch long ; sheaths short, tumid, membranous, 

 divided at the apex ; bracts of the involucre in 2 series, scarious, the 

 outer ones oblong-lanceolate, deciduous ; interior ovate-obtuse, 

 much shorter than the flower-heads ; floral bracts cuneate ovate, 

 ciliated at the apex. Bombay, P. Roux. 



CLVII. GRAMINE^l. 

 3. PANICUM, Linn., p 290. 



8. P INTERRUPTUM, Willd. sp. i, 351. Culm under the water, 

 floating, thick, ascending, several feet high ; sheaths longer than 

 the joints, smooth; leaves smooth, narrow ; raceme spike-like, 

 slender ; cylindric, erect, 4 to 8 inches long ; florets small, green 

 and smooth, on short pedicels, crowded all round the rachis, 

 oblong, glumes 5 to 7-nerved, lower one subrotund and perfoliate ; 

 neuter floret with 2 palese. A very large Grass, clothing the margins 

 of tanks throughout the Concan ; anthers purple, long exserted. 

 Supposed by Nees to be identical with P inundatum, Kunth. 



Section FESTUCACE.E, p 297. 

 21 A, ELYTROPHORUS, Beauv. 



1. E ARTICULATUS, Beauv. Agr. t. 14, fig. 2. Root fibrous ; 

 culms cespitose, simple, 3 to 8 inches high ; leaves flat, elongated, 



