298 Graminece. [Eragrostis. 



leaves have sometimes glandular margins, and the axils of the branches 

 of the panicle are often more or less bearded and glandular. 



11. E. coromandeliana, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb.Vl. i. 415 

 (1831). 



Poa coromandeliana, Keen, ex Rottb.; Roth, Nov. PI .Sp. 71. C. P. 

 60 (partim). 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 326 (partim). 



Perennial, densely tufted; stems 12-30 in., slender or 

 rather stout ; 1. 1-6 in., filiform or setaceous, convolute, 

 spreading and recurved, smooth, puberulous above, glaucous, 

 sheaths short, mouth glabrous, auricles o, ligule a narrow- 

 ridge ; spike 4-8 in., sometimes interrupted, rhachis slender, 

 terete, smooth ; spikelets close-set, erecto-patent, \-\ by 

 yz-to in., 10-30-fld., oblong to linear-oblong, very pale olive- 

 grey or whitish; glumes rather turgid, I and II subequal, 

 I acutely keeled, II obtusely keeled, fig. glumes very broadly 

 ovate, up to T \ in. long, acute or subacute, veins faint, keels 

 smooth or faintly scabrid, palea almost as long as the glume, 

 keels very narrowly winged, scabrid; stam. 3, anth. ^o in. ; 

 grain -go~^o in., shortly ellipsoid, obtusely trigonous, epicarp 

 loosely reticulate. 



Central Province, Dambulla (Thwaites), Rata patana, and Kandan 

 Korale (Nevill). 



Behar, Rajpootana, and southward to Burma. 



12. E. secunda, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 264(1854). 



E. bifaria, Thw. Enum. 373 (excl. syn.) (partim). C. P. 60 (partim). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 326 (partim). 



Perennial; stems 12-20 in., densely tufted; 1. 6-7 in., more 

 or less rigid, convolute, filiform, wiry, glabrous, smooth, 

 sheaths short, glabrous, auricles small, ciliate with long 

 flexuous hairs; spike 3-5 in., rhachis terete, smooth, 

 glabrous ; spikelets ^-^ in. long, turgid but compressed, ovate, 

 10-12-fld., dusky olive-green, not shining; glumes I and II 

 obscurely 3-veined, I ovate-oblong, obtuse, II broadly ovate, 

 subacute, fig. glumes turgid, rather coriaceous, orbicular- 

 ovate, acute, palea as long as the glume, narrowly winged, 

 wing scaberulous ; grain oblong-ovoid, striate. 



Montane zone, ascending to 5000 ft. Galagama (Gardner), patanas 

 of the Uva Prov. near Bandarawela (Pearson). 

 Endemic. 



13. E. Walkeri, Stapf. 



E. bifaria, Thw. Enum. 373 (excl. syn.) (partim). C. P. 60 (partim). 



Perennial, densely tufted ; stems 2-2§ ft, as slender as a 

 sparrow's quill; 1. 12-18 in., flat, up to \ in. broad, or convo- 

 lute, puberulous above, veins strong, sheaths up to 4 in. long, 



