BOMBAY GRASSES. 357 



Fig. 4. Lotongus parthenope, Weymer, ^,p. 354. 



„ 5. „ „ „ 9, p. 354. 



„ 6. Ismene fergusonii, n. sp., $ , p, 345. 



„ 7. Padraona p)'Ocles,n. s,^., ^^ p. 353. 



„ 8. „ „ ,, 9 5 p. 353. 



„ 9. Pamphila dimila, Moore, $ , p. 355, 



BOMBAY GRASSES. 



By Dr. J. C. Lisboa, F.L.S. 



PART V. 



{Continued from Vol. VI., p. 219.) 



[Read before the Bombay Natural History Society, 



on 29th September, 1892.) 



AGROSTIDE^. 



Aristida, Linn. 



A. dejpressa,* Retz., Obs., IV, 22 ; Dalz. and Gibs., Bomb. 

 Flora, 295 ; A. vulgaris, Trin., Bupr. Stipce, 131. 



Ver. — Mothi burri, Longi-kussal, Lani, Rampla; (Telingi name) 

 Nalli-pootiki (Roxb.). Common all over the Presidency, especially 

 in dry places, widely spread over tropical and sub-tropical Asia and 

 Africa, and the South Mediterranean region and in Australia. 

 Cattle do not eat it. Some reports from Guzarat and Poena say 

 that it is of little value as fodder grass, others state that it is eaten 

 when young. Stewart describes it as a favourite fodder for cattle 

 in the Punjab. Symond says that it is a troublesome grass, which 

 cattle will not eat. Coldstream states that it is grazed (when young), 

 but is too short and light to stack, that it covers the Hissar bir in 

 vast sheets, is too fine to cut with a scythe, but is nutritious and 

 particularly relished by cattle. This opinion is not borne out by 

 reports from other parts of India. 



A. hystrix, Linn., fil. Dalz. and Gibs., Bomb, FL, 295. 



* This and the following grasses are minutely described at the suggestion 

 of friends. 



