376 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Azores Taiti, Guadaloupe, &c. It is a somewliat coarse grass, but 

 tlie reports received are favourable to its being good fodder grass. 

 It is eaten by cattle and horses. Is reckoned to be a good fodder in 

 Australia in the United States of America, where it is known as 

 yard grass, crow's foot, crah grass ^ and loire grass. Professor Phares 

 gayg; — «« It grows in rich cultivated ground and produces immense 

 quantity of seeds. It is very nutritious, and good for grazing, 

 soiling, and hay. The succulent lower part of the stems covered 

 with the sheaths of the leaves renders it difficult to cure well, for 

 which several days are required. It may be cut two or three times, 

 and yields a large quantity of hay.' ^ See Report on the Agricultural 

 Grasses of the United States. See also Duthie. 



Dr. Roxburgh says that the cattle are not fond of it ; this remark 

 may, however, apply, according to Duthie, to the Bengal form, 

 which the nature of the climate would render more rank and 

 unpalatable. Mr. W. Ferguson of Ceylon also writes: — "It is so 

 coarse that cattle scarcely ever touch it. It is a most troublesome 

 weed on road-sides, and will spring up from its roots after being cut 

 •down several times." 



E. verticillata, Roxb., Fl. Ind., I., 346 ; Cynosurus verticillatus, 

 8eptoGhloa verticillata, Kunth., Enum., I., 272. 

 Yern. Chihhhe or Kuri-Ohinhe, Kanjsif Jama. 

 Culm erect, smooth, 1 — 4 feet high, terete glabrous. Sheaths 

 loose flattened. Leaves bifarious, flat. Panicle consists of 6 — 12 

 or more sessile secund spikes 1 — 3 in. long, the upper ones almost 

 dio-itate, the lower ones distant or verticelled. Spikelets 2 — 3 lines 

 long, numerous, impricate, in two rows, 8 — 12 flowered. Outer 

 •empty glumes small and narrow. Flowering glume broad, 3-nerved, 

 and ending into a short mucro or point. Seed oblong, enclosed in 

 a rugose pericarp. 



It is a rare grass, though widely spread over India, and Africa, 

 Australia, &c. It is considered to be a good fodder grass. I have 

 before me specimens of this grass received from Bengal and North- 

 West Provinces — none from this Presidency. 



jE;. mwcrowaf a, Willd., Enum., 1029; Stend., Syru PI, Glum., I., 



112. 



Vern. Gondi-N'atchni, Katali, Gondival ( Poena names) . 



