$66 Graminece. [Eriachne. 



tracted, subsecund, quite smooth, branches rather distant, 

 erect, solitary, filiform, few-fid. ; spikelets |—§ in. long, sub- 

 erect, oblong, 4-5-fld., upper fl. often imperfect, green, pedicels 

 long or short, capillary, callus short and rhachilla bearded ; 

 glumes I and II unequal, glabrous, I lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1-3-veined, II much longer, narrowly oblong, acute, 3-5- 

 veined, aristulate, fig. glumes narrowly oblong, scaberulous, 

 about ^ in. long, strongly many-veined, tip 2-fid, lobes subu- 

 late, subaristulate, awn dorsal from about the middle of the 

 glume, and as long to twice as long as the glume, rarely 

 longer, column slightly twisted, palea narrow, keels shortly 

 pectinately ciliate, tip 2-toothed ; lodicules cuneately quadrate, 

 truncate, retuse; grain free within the glume, linear-oblong, 

 pubescent, top villous. 



Montane region. Nuwara Eliya, Horton Plains, &c. Spikelets pale 

 green. 



Himalaya and Nilgiri Mts. 



In some Indian specimens the leaves are broader, with the sheaths 

 hairy, the panicles up to 16 in. long, and the glumes smooth or pubescent. 

 I have not seen ripe grain in the Ceylon specimens ; it is sulcate in 

 Indian. 



50. ERIACHNE, Br. 



Slender, erect, tufted, usually perennial grasses, roots 

 fibrous; 1. very narrow, margins convolute; spikelets panicled, 

 laterally compressed, 2-fld. (fl. both perfect), not articulate on 

 the pedicels, rhachilla o; glumes 4, I and II empty, charta- 

 ceous, lanceolate, many-veined, persistent, bases distant, III 

 and IV equal and similar, narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, 

 villous, ending above (in the Ceylon species) in a long rigid 

 awn, and below in a long villous acute callus, which is arti- 

 culate at base of glume II, palea as long as glume, like it 

 coriaceous and villous, margins strongly incurved ending in 

 two rigid diverging awns ; lodicules very minute, oblong, 

 truncate, emarginate; stam. 3, anth. minute, didymous ; ov. 

 narrow, styles short, bases distant, stigmas penicillate, of 

 simple hairs ; grain linear, narrowed to the acute base, plano- 

 convex with a keel on the flattened face, firmly enclosed in 

 the thickened glume and palea. — Sp. 20; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. triseta, NeesexSteud. Syn. Gram. 237 (1854). Pini tuttiri, S. 



,: Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108. Aristida biflora, Moon, Cat. 9. Megalachne 

 zeylanica, Thw. Enum. 372, 444. C. P. 3247. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 269. i 



; .Perennial ; stems erect, 1^-2 ft. high, from a hard root- 

 stppk with long stout simple wiry flexuous roots, simple or; 



