1190 BENGAL PLANTS. [Erianthus. 
2584. Errantuus Fasticiatus Nees; F. B. I. vii. 125. 
Chota Nagpur; N. Bengal, nn ; Gitiieoons 
An erect ihe ; stems 2-8 fee 
1068. Pollinia Trin. 
Annual or perennial grasses; leaves usually narrow. Spikelets 
2-nate, a sessile and pedicelled, rarely both pedicelled, 1-flowered, 
or the sessile 2-flowered, arranged on more or less hirsute or silky 
spikes, with articulate, more or less fragile rachis, the internodes 
and pedicels usually slender; callus short, bearded ; — solitary 
or 2-nate, a ae racemed or fascicled. Glumes 4; I. an 
subequal, chartac or coriaceous; I. dorsally ni or concave, 
Bie convex, site incurved or inflexed, 2-keeled or winged 
a as long as I., eee acuminate, keeled, 1-3- 
senile’ ae hyaline, paleate o IV. hyaline, 2-cleft, awned 
in the sinus, awn slender, eid pre n; palea very short ; lodt- 
castes yen! truncate ; stamens 3, ie 2, linear; styles short; 
ong, very narrow. Grain oblong. 
Leaf-base not conspicuously constricted above the sheath :— 
Stems erect ; glume I. as long as glume II. :— 
Glu .articulata. 
-argentea. 
ne 
Glume IT, of sessile spikelets not awned 
tems decumbent below; glume I. shorter than glume II. . _Cumingii. 
h 
Leaf-base conspicuously constricted and Te ipatioled above the shea 
ciliata. 
2585. PoLuInia ARTICULATA Trin.; F. B. I. vii. 109. 
Chota Nagpur ; Behar ; W. Bengal; N. Bengal; E. 
Ben singh. 
gal, Mymen 
An erect, batted ¢ grass, 1-2 feet high. 
2586. PoLiinia ARGENTEA Trin.; F. B. I. vii. 111. Andropogon 
tristachyus 6. 
Chota Nappa: Behar ; W. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
An erect, tufted grass, 2-3 feet ate 
2587. Potir1a Cuminen Nees; F. B. I. vii. 114. 
N. Bengal, Duars; Ghai es 
A pa tufted grass. 
2588, POoLLINIA CILIATA ee i B. I, vii. 116. 
Chota Nagpur 
A oe as repre grass. 
