1216 BENGAL PLANTS. rArundinella. 
Chota Nagpur, seatlse N. Bengal, Duars. 
stout, perennial gras 
2674. ARUNDINELLA WALLICHII istic’ ,F. BLL viii 75. Panicum 
strictum F, I. i, 803. 
Chota Nagpur; N. Bengal. 
A stout, erect, perennial grass, 1-3 feet high. Beng. 
Ganga bena. 
2675. ARUNDINELLA CLARKE! Hook. f.; F. B, I. vii. 75. 
N. Bengal, Duars. 
A tall, stout grass, 6-8 feet high. 
1094. Eriachne KR. Br. 
Slender, erect, tufted, usually perennial grasses, with fibrous 
roots ; leaves very narrow, margins convolute. Spikelets panicled, 
laterally Gg 2-flowered ; flowers both perfect, not articu- 
late on the pedicels; rachilla 0. Glwmes 4; I. and IL. empty, 
chartaceous, lanceolate, many-veined, coh hee distant ; 
III. and IV. equal and similar, narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, 
villous, ending above in an awn and below in a long, villous, acute 
us, articulate at base of glume II.; palea as long as glume, 
coriaceous and villous, margins seventy incurved, ending in two 
iverging awns; lodicules minute, eis: truncate, emarginate ; 
stamens 3; anthers minute, didymous; ovary NArrOW } styles 
rine their bases distant; stigmas peatala ate with simple hairs. 
ear, narrowed to the acute base, plano-convex, with a 
ney ike the flattened face, firmly enclosed in the thickened 
glume and palea 
2676. Eguonsn PALLESCENS R, Br.; F. B. I. vii. 269. 
ittagong. 
A rigid, densely tufted grass; stems 1-2 feet high. 
1095. Avena Linn. 
Annual or perennial grasses; leaves flat. Spikelets paniculate, 
terete or laterally compressed, 2- or more-flowered, not articulate 
on their pedicels; rachilla articulate at the base. Gluwmes 4, dor- 
sally rounded ; I. and II. empty, unequal, thin, persistent, awnless ; 
nies uae bisexual or the uppermost male or neuter, 
, dorsally awned, awn geniculate, column twisted ; palea 
2-keeled ; brad 2; stamens 3; ovary hairy at the apex; 
styles very short; stigmas penicillate with simple hairs. @rain 
fusiform, furrowed. 
