220 GramineCB. \Eremochloa. 



keels minutely scaberulous, obscurely winged on one margin 

 towards the tip, II ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, I -veined, 

 ciliate, tip terminating in a short flaccid ciliate awn, III and 

 its palea as in the sessile spikelet, empty or triandrous, IV 

 and its palea linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate with long hairs, 

 triandrous, awn o. 



Central and Uva Province, alt. 3000-4000 ft. Passalowa, Hakgala, 

 Welimoda. 



Central and Southern India, Burma, eastward to Australia and west- 

 ward to the Cape Verd Islds. 



I have described the spikelets from the Ceylon specimens at length, 

 as they differ somewhat from Indian and other specimens, in the venation 

 of glume I of the sessile and pedicelled spikelets, and in the curious 

 capillary awns terminating the apical teeth. 



34. ESEMOCHLOA, Biise. 

 Perennial grasses; 1. chiefly radical, exactly linear, obtuse, 

 flat, sheaths compressed ; infl. a solitary, elongate, curved, com- 

 pressed, glabrous spike, rhachis subfragile, internodes clavate, 

 compressed, hollow; spikelets solitary, secund, sessile, 2-fld., 

 closely imbricating, dorsally strongly compressed, deciduous 

 with the internode and the pedicelled or sessile rudiments of 

 an upper spikelet, awn o; glume I orbicular or ovate, flat, 

 margins narrowly incurved, pectinately armed with long 

 spreading upcurved spines, II oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, 3-veined, III and palea oblong, obtuse, male, IV 

 smaller, oblong, obtuse, bisexual, palea as long as the glume, 

 linear-oblong, truncate ; lodicules cuneate ; anth. narrow ; 

 styles and stigmas rather short; grain oval, plano-convex. — 

 Sp. 8 ; 5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Glume I 2- winged below the tip I.E. muricata. 



Glume I not or obscurely winged below the tip . . 2. E. ZEYLANICA. 



1. E. muricata, Hack. Monogr. Androfi. 262 (1889). 

 Ischamum pectinatum, Trin. ; Thw. Enum. 365 (excl. syn.) and 436. 

 C. P. 3848. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 140. 



Stems 6-8 in., ascending from a woody, creeping root- 

 stock, slender, strongly compressed, smooth, shining; 1. 3-12 

 by §— g- in., thinly coriaceous, smooth on both surfaces and on 

 the margins, striate, midrib and few veins very slender, 

 sheaths of lower 1. short, broad, equitant, of upper long, 

 strongly compressed, mouth not auricled, ligule a very short 

 eciliate membrane; spike up to 6 in. long, by \ in. across the 

 pale yellowish shining spikelets, curved, rhachis undulate, 

 internodes |-| the length of the spikelets ; glume I \ in. long, 



