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Ver. Poi, Poke, Moti chava, Ghota loniya and Loniya, Konee 

 (Bengal, Roxb.). 



Culm slightly decumbent at the base, ascending 1-2 ft. high, 

 ramous, round, smooth, glabrous. Mouth of the sheath bearded. 

 Ligula very small. Leaves short, linear, lanceolate. Panicle ovate, 

 oblong, half the length of the plant or longer, dense, erect, ramous ; 

 branches filiform, short, horizontal, fascicled below, solitary above. 

 Pedicels long, very slender. Spikelets flat, ovate, 16-20 flowered, 

 white or with a bluish-purple tinge. Flowering glume 3-nerved, 

 nerves distinct. Grain oblong and smooth. Common in India, up 

 to 5,000 feet on the Himalaya, usually on wet ground. Also in 

 Ceylon. When growing on the banks of streams or on wet places, it 

 is a very handsome grass. Graham in his Catalogue Bombay 

 Plants, p. 236, calls it "the most elegant of all the grasses.*^ 

 Report from Shapur says that it is used there as good grass for 

 horses and cattle. 



E. elegantula, Nees, Steud. Syn. PL Glum., I, 266; Poa elegantula, 

 Kunth., Enum., PI., I, 346 ; Poa elegans, Roxb., Fl. Ind., T, 339. 



Ver. Todha, Asara, Chota Asara, Kaluargi. 



Culm erect, simple, round, ascending, 1-4 feet high. Sheath 

 glabrous, except at the mouth. Leaves few, short, glabrous. 

 Panicle oblong, nodding; branches solitary, rather distant, adpressed. 

 Spikelets pedicelled, 8-12 flowered, linear, of a purplish colour. 

 Flowering glume 3-nerved, nerves distinct. Grain globular, smooth 

 and brown. 



A very elegant tall species, found in wet ground in Salsette, 

 Khandeish and Poona. Also not uncommon in the plains of North- 

 West India. It is eaten by cattle either fresh or dry. From Poona 

 it is reported " to be good fodder but rare.'' 



E, mucronata, Roth., Nov. PI., Sp., 92, Sub. Poa ; Steud., Syn. 

 PI. Glum., I. 267. 



Culm in the specimens seen l|-2 feet high, slender, smooth, 

 striated, the middle stria or line is deeper, glabrous. Ligula 

 minute, ciliated. Sheath glabrous, generally shorter than the inter- 

 nodes. Leaves narrow, ending in a fine point, glabrous, 6-8 inches 

 long. Panicle 4-5 inches long, racemose. Pedicels filiform, equal to, 

 shorter or longer than, the spikelets. Spikelets 2-3 lin. loiig^ 9-13- 



