382 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Cav. Ic, t. 93. E.parvijiora, Trin., Mem. Acad. Peiersb., 1831, 411. 



Ver. Burwai, Chiriaha-dana, Kutaki. 



Annual Culms slender, ascending, 1-2 ft. higli. Leaves flat, 

 narrow, linear, acuminate. 



Sheaths shortly pilose at the mouth. Panicle 6 in. to 1 ft. long j 

 branches numerous, capillary, at first appressed, afterwards (when 

 in fruit) spreading. Pedicels longer than the spikelets. Spikelets 

 minute, 2-4 lin. long, narrow, linear, the lower ones in verticels^ 

 6-11 flowered, often tinged with purple. Glumes thin, keeled, 

 the lateral nerves obscure. Flowering glume glabrous. Palea 

 obscurely ciliate. Grain ovoid, oblong. 



Grows in West Khandeish, Poona and Nassick, also " in the plains 

 of Northern India, usually in damp and swampy ground, where it is 

 relished by bufialoes.'^ In Khandeish, Poona, Nassick, and Ajmere, 

 and in Australia, it is considered to be a good fodder grass. This 

 grass is also very common in Ceylon. 



E. megastachya, Link., Hort., I., 185; E. major, Host. Gram., IV. 

 t. 24. Megastachya Eragrostis, Beauv., Agrost., 14. Poa megasta- 

 chya, Koel., Gram., 181. 



Ver. Ban Pohe, Phole (Goaname), Pohe, Eaodia, Chiriyahe chaolay 

 (Royle). 



Annual, culms ascending or erect. Sheaths glabrous, at the 

 mouth pilose. Leaves narrow linear. Panicle large, ovate-oblong, 

 inferior branches pilose at their origin. Pedicels shorter than the 

 spikelets. Spikelets large, flat, linear oblong, solitary or in clusters, 

 15-20 flowered. Flowering glume shortly mucronate; lateral nerves 

 prominent. 



Common all over the Bombay Presidency and the plains of North- 

 ern India, up to 5,000 feet on the Himalaya. Mr. Duthie states that 

 it is used more or less as fodder, but in this Presidency it is not used 

 as such. 



E. tremula, Hochst., Herb. Poa tremula^ Lain, 111., L, 185. P. 

 multifiora, Roxb., Fl. Ind.f I., 139; Eragrostis multijlora, Dalz. and 

 Gibs., Bomh. Fl, 298. 



Ver. Chiraka, ChiriJca ket, Chiriha chauvalia, Kalunji (Royle). 

 Annual, culm suberect, round, smooth, 6-18 inches high or higher. 

 Sheaths sparsely pilose at the margins and the mouth. Ligula very 



