372 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Orient, a drawing of a species which they state grows in Poona 

 "circa urbem Poona inter muscos supra arbores at saxa legit 

 Jacquemont." 



Dlnebra, Jacq^. Fragom. 



D. arahica, Beauv., XXVI., fig. 2. Dinehra ^gyptiaca, Jacq., 

 JFragon X. 121 ; Leptochloa arahica, Kunth, Enum.jl., 271., Eleusine 

 calycina, Roxb., Fl. Ind., I., 346. 



Yer. Baria, KaU-kauliy Bara sarpot ; Waddata-tolea, Jaddee 

 (Roxb.). 



Culm decumbent or erect, 1-3 feet high, leafy at the base. 

 Leaves flat, thinly sprinkled with hairs. Panicle erect, from 8-12 

 inches long, composed of numerous short, alternate, secund, sessile 

 spikes, at first erect, and reddish when young, then reflexed. 

 Spikelets 3-flowered in two rows ; flowers hermaphrodite. The two 

 outer glumes empty, nearly equal, persistent, narrow, keeled^ 

 accuminate and produced almost into a short awn. Flowering 

 glume shorter, hyaline, obtuse, 1 -nerved. No awn. 



This elegant and ornamental grass is very common in Khandeish ; 

 also in the Punjab, Rajputana, and in the Central Provinces and in 

 Bundelkund, also in Arabia, Egypt and Senegambia. It is said to 

 be introduced in Ceylon. Reports from Kandeish and Poona say 

 that it is good fodder for grazing and perhaps for stacking. Report 

 from Nirgudi (Poona) " good fodder, especially for milk cows." This 

 grass is annual, and during the rainy season is sold along with other 

 fodder grasses. Mr. Duthie thinks that " it is probably nutritious, 

 but being only an annual and not plentiful, it does not take a high 

 place as a fodder grass." Dalz. and Gibs in Bomh. Fl., p. 297, say 

 "it is common in Sind, where it is called Bruh, and it is a favourite 

 food of buffaloes." 



Leptochloa, Beauv. Agrost. 



L. Ohinensis, Nees, Agrost. Bras,, 432; Steud., Syn. PL Glum., 

 I., 209; L. tenerrima, Roen and Schult ; Poa decipiens, Stend., 

 Synop. PI. Glum., I., 279. 



Ver. Ohenhel, Jhira, Phulkia, 



Culm creeping and rooting from the flower nodes, then ascending 

 2-3 ft., ramous, usually slender, glabrous. Sheaths compressed. 



