BOMBAY OBASSES, 385 



flowered. Flowering glume obtuse or slightly emarginate and 

 shortly mucronate. 



Specimens received from Halyal, North Kanara, where it is found 

 on road sides and in open places. 



Uses not mentioned. 



E. jplumosa, Trin., Var. a, In Act. Petrop., 6, 1, 398 ; Poa plumosa, 

 Reta. Obs., IV, 20; Roxb., Fl. Ind., I, 338 ; Tsjama-pulu, XII, t. 41. 



Ver. Dhane, Chirika-khet, Chirika-hajro, Bharhhuri, Bharbusi, 

 Bara Churbhura. 



Annual, culms many, filiform, ramous, smooth, round, glabrous, 

 erect, from 1-2 feet high. Leaves linear-acute. Sheaths pilose at 

 the mouth. Panicle ovate-oblong or somewhat pyramidal, difiuse. 

 Branches many, ramous, alternate, horizontal, with a few short hairs 

 at the axils. Spikelets minute, lax, pedicelled, dependent, from 4 to 

 7- flowered. Pedicels much longer than the spikelets. Outer glume 

 smooth, glabrous. Flowering glume obliquely truncate, with hairs 

 on the dorsum. Palea ciliate with spreading hairs, seed oblong, 

 smooth, brown. Is common in Bombay, Konkan, and along the 

 coast, in the plains of Northern India, especially on the sandy soils ; 

 it is also abundant on saline usar soil in company with the usar 

 grass {8'porobolus orientalis). It is also said to be common in Ceylon, 

 in the warmer parts of the island. The panicles of this grass pre- 

 sent various forms ; they are in some varieties so narrow and con- 

 tracted as hardly to be distinguished from E. ciliaris, Link. In 

 . Allahabad it grows well along with dub and makes useful light hay 

 for mixing with coarser hay eaten both by horses and cattle. In 

 Ajmere it is also considered to be a good fodder grass. In 

 Bombay it is eaten by cattle when young. 



E. stenophylla, Hochst., Steud., Syn. PI. Glum., I, 266. 



Annual, culm erect, striated, glabrous, 1^ feet and more. 

 Sheaths striated, pilose at the mouth. Ligula almost none. Leaves 

 very narrow, linear, glabrous. Panicle erect, contracted, 4-5 inches 

 long. Branches numerous, erect, fascicled. Spikelets linear, 12-20- 

 flowered, ash-coloured. Flowering glume very narrow, minutely 

 serrulate. 



Specimens received from various parts of the Konkan and Kanara. 

 Uses not known. 



