BOMB A Y GRASSES. ' 387 



Rare in India. Is distributed throughout tropical Africa and 

 South Africa, Abyssinia, and the Isle de France. My specimens are 

 from North Kauara. 



Uses not known. 



E. 2^oaeoides, 'Besi\i\.,t. XIY, ^g. 11; Roem. and Schult., 11, 

 574; Poa eragrostis, Linn., Sp. 100. 



Ver. Sul 



Fibrous root. Stem erect or ascending, ramous, ^-2 feet high or 

 higher. Sheaths glabrous or minutely pilose, lanceolate, acute. 

 Panicle not large ; branches expanding, solitary or two together, 

 with or without hairs at their origin. Spikelets linear-lanceolate, 

 8-20-flowered. Glumes obtuse. Flowering glume with prominent 

 lateral nerve. 



My specimens are from Nassick, where it grows in khar lands and 

 has to be weeded out or it destroys fehe rice plant. 



Grows also in the plains of Northern India and up to 8,000 feet 

 on the Himalaya. 



Uses not known. 



E. hifaria, W. and A. ; Steud., Syn. PI. Glum., I, 264 ; E, secunda, 

 Nees, mpt: Poa hifaria,Ya}i\., Symb., II, 19; Roxb., Fl. Ind., I, 333. 



Ver. Chiraka, Punya-sufed, and Chota hlankta, Moi, Wooda- 

 tallum (Roxb.) 



Culmserect, simple, wiry, glabrous, 1-2 feet high. Sheaths keeled. 

 Leaves narrow, carinate, complicate, rigid, glaucous, glabrous. 

 Spike simple, terminal, straight, 4-8 inches long. Spikelets sessile, 

 alternate, linear-lanceolate, compressed, secund, in two rows, upper 

 many flowered, the lower ones 4-6-flowered. In Poona, Bhusawa], 

 Pachora and in other dry places. Said to be used as a good fodder 

 in Poona. In Bhusawal it is not known as fodder. This species 

 grows also in sandy and rocky ground in North- West India, com- 

 mon in Rajputana. At Ajmere it is considered to be a good fodder 

 grass, and is eaten by cattle on Mount Abu. It is not reported 

 from Australia. In Ceylon is not uncommon up to an elevation 

 of 5,000 feet. 



It has a close affinity to E. coromandeliana, Trin., found growing 

 in Coromandel. 



E. cynosuroides, Roen. and Schult., Syst., II, 577; Dalz. and Gibs., 



