BOMBAY GRASSES. 365 



here, that so far as the ratio of the nutrients are concerned, oatmeal 

 is an almost perfectly adjusted food. (See food-grains of India by 

 Church.) 



Tristachia, Nees. 



T. Stochsii, Boiss. This is mentioned by Boissier as occurring in 

 Sind and Baluchistan, not seen by me. Its spikelets are congested 

 in threes at the ends of the panicle branchlets. Each spikelet is two- 

 flowered, the lower male and the upper either hermaphrodite or 

 female. 



CHLORIDE. 



ScHCENEFELDiA, Kuiitli., Bev, Oram, 



S. Gracilis, Kunth., Eum., PI. I., 258 ; S. ramosa, Trin., Spec. 

 Gram., t. 359 ; S. pallida, Edgew., Asiatic Journal, 1552, p. 183. 



Annual, cespitose, and branched from the base, glabrous, 7-8 

 inches high. Sheath and leaves ciliolate at the margins. Leaves 

 linear, ending in a rather long point. Spikes long, solitary, terminal, 

 2-3 together, secund, densely flowered, 2-3 inches long, spikelets 

 subsessile, one-Howered, in two rows. Lower two glumes empty, 

 persistent, unequal, the lower a little shorter, the 3rd emarginate, 

 bifid, villous, shorter than the first, with a long, more or lees bent, 

 awn ; the fourth or the flowering glume rather shorter than the 

 third linear, lanceolate. 



The whole plant is glaucous and looks very pretty with its slender 

 spikes and their long awns. It is rare, scattered all over India, in 

 Banda and dry sandy ground in North-Western India, also in the 

 ravines bordering the Jumna and Chambal rivers. This grass, the 

 only species of the genus SchcBtiefeldia, grows also in Senegambia, 

 Nubia, and the Cape Verde Islands. My specimens are from Mahim, 

 and Bodeli Guzerat. Nothing appears to be known regarding its uses. 



Cynodon, Pers. 



C. Bactylon, Pers; Kunth. Bnum., I., 259; Dalz. and Gibs., Bom. 

 Flora., 297 ; Panicum dactylon^ Linn., Sp. ; Digitaria Stolonifera, 

 Schrad., Fl. Germ., t. 3, fig. 9; Beauv. Agrost.,t. ix., fig. I. ; Sibth., 

 Fl. Gr., t. 60. 



Ver. Doorba or Duuva of the Hindus, sacred to Ganesh, 

 Harala or Haryeli of the Bombay people, Gericha of the Teling 



