380 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Inflorescence a green cylindrical spike 1-6 inches long, consisting 

 of numerous small, flat, few-flowered (3-7 flowered) sessile spikelets, 

 disposed in dense globular clusters, crowded so as to form one con- 

 tinuous spike or the lower clusters, distant. The inflorescence is 

 often shortly branched at the base. The outer glumes two, mem- 

 branous, narrow-keeled, shortly awned or pointed, subequal, 

 about one line long, without the awn. Flowering glumes 3-nerved, 

 tapering into awns, which are as long or longer than the glume. 

 Palea folded, with two dorsal wings. Stamen one. Grain smooth. 



It is common all over India, Australia and Africa. It grows near 

 water-courses and in rice fields, looks something like Setaria 

 s'picafa, at a little distance. 



Uses not known. 



Eragrostis, Beauv. 



E. ciliaris, Link.; Foa ciliaris, Linn.; P. ciliata, Roxb., Flor. 

 Ind., I., 336. 



Ver. Undar—puncho, Tor Qhandhol (Campbell). 

 Annual, culms erect, rigid, pi-ocumbent below, three inches to 

 one foot high, leaves narrow, linear, pubescent at the insertion into 

 the sheath. 



Panicle narrow, spike-like, occasionally branched from below. 

 Spikelets 5 — 8, sometimes more, flowered. Glumes acute. 

 Flowering glume distinctly 3-nerved, cuspidate-ciliate at the 

 margins. Palea with long, white, stifi" hairs. Seed obovate, 

 globose, smooth, dark coloured. 



Grows all over India and in Arabia in sandy soil. Common in 

 Poona, Damaum, Domus, Guzerat, &c., 



E. brachystachya, E. Arabica, .Jaub. and Spach. t. 322. This is 

 a variety of the last and grows in the same localities. The inflores- 

 cence consists of a dense cylindrical spike, resembling that of 

 Mluro'pus lagojpoioides. 



I have gathered specimens, some very small, not longer than one 

 inch, on the polo ground, Poona. 

 It is eaten by cattle. 



E. tenella, Beauv. Benth., Fl. Eonk., 431 ; Foa tenella, Linn., 

 R. Br. Frod., 181 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind., I., 337. 



