386 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



E. minutiflora, Presl. inRel. Haenk; Poa hijiora, Retz. Obs., V, 19; 

 Kuntli., Enutn., 1/363. Culm erect or ascending, striated, glabrous, 

 rather scabrous, 2 feet high or more. Sheaths lax. Ligula mem- 

 branaceous. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Panicle 

 narrow, dense, spike-like, very small, 12 inches long. Lower 

 branches alternate, upper verticillate. Spikelets very small, 3- 

 flowered. Glumes ovate, glabrous, one-nerved, flowering glume 

 3-nerved. 



Found growing in North Kanara. 

 Uses not known. 



E. viscosa, Trin. in Act Petrop., I, 397; Steud., Syn. PI. Glum., 

 I, 265; Dalz. and Gibs., Bomh. FL, 298; Poa viscosa, Retz. Obs., 

 IV, 20 ; Roxb., Fl. Ind., I, 337. 



Ver. Bhurhur, Bhurbusi, Ghikti, Blmlni, Chipal (Duthie). 

 Culm ascending, csespitose, 9-19 inches long, viscid. Sheaths 

 glabrous, mouth clothed with long white hairs, as also the ligula. 

 Leaves rather short, narrow, tapering to a point, usually glabrous. 

 Panicle linear, oblong or tbyrsiform, 2-5 inches long, branches short, 

 verticillate, spreading. Spikelets oblong, very shortly pedicelled, 

 6-20-flowered. Upper glume most frequently ciliated. 



The whole plant, especially the inflorescence, is covered with a 

 viscid substance having a balsamic odour. 



I have collected it in Chowpatty and Malabar Hill. Grows also 

 in the plains of Northern India on sandy soils, often accompanying 

 E. flumosa, and probably of equal value for fodder purposes. It is . 

 not found in Ceylon nor in Australia. 



E. aspera, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr., 408 ; Poa as^era^ Jacq., Host. Vind., 

 Ill, 56; Lam. 111., I, 185; Poa ^aniculata ? Roxb., Fl. Ind., I, 340. 

 Culm erect, smooth, round, 3-5 feet high. Sheaths covered with 

 long white hair at the mouth. Ligula ciliated. Leaves in the 

 specimens before me are 2-3 lines broad at the base, soon becoming 

 very narrow and pointed. Panicle very large, very ramous, branches 

 numerous, spreading, filiform, generally alternate, their insertions 

 covered with rather long white hairs. Spikelets linear, oblong, 1^ 

 lin. long, on very long peduncles, 8-10-flowered (Roxb.'s Poa pani- 

 culata, 4-16-flowered). Peduncles scabrous. Glumes acute, nearly 

 equal. Flowering glume distinctly 3-nerved. 



