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Eragrostis. } GRAMINE 4. 1219 
In most of the provinces. 
A tall, stout, ES grass. Hind. Nal. 
2681/2. Var, cincta Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 805. 
ndribun 
A tall, nek perennial grass. Beng. Narkul, Hind, nal, 
1100. Triraphis R. Br. 
A tall, perennial, leafy grass ; leaves long, flat. Spikelets small, 
4-8-flowered, in an effuse, decompound panicle, lowest flowerin 
glume sometimes glabrous, epaleate, neuter; rachilla sho a 
bearded below the flowering glumes, jointed at the base above the 
neuter glume when present and between the flowering glumes. 
Glumes all membranous; I. and II. unequal, empty, lanceolate, 
l-nerved; flowering glumes elongate, subulate, more or less 
recurved, ending in a very slender tip, with 2 tn Bee points and 
a scabrid, interposed awn, 3-nerved, lateral nerves submarginal, 
penicillate with sre is airs; palea oblong, keels scaberulous ; 
lodicules 2, obovate eate; stamens 3; anthers long, linear ; 
ovary shortly cgi ae: gett terminal ; stigmas feathery. 
Grain linear, een loose in the 
82. Trirap MADAGASCARIENSIS Hook. f.; Neyraudia mada- 
parece BoE. i. B05. 
. Bengal, * Chitta agong. 
A tall, ee léady grass, 6-15 feet high. 
1101. Eragrostis Beauv. 
Annual or perennial, usually slender, glabrous grasses; stem 
erect or ascending ; leaves narrow. Spikelet s many-flowered, in 
Open or contracted pare rarely spicate, on a simple, terminal 
rachis, not pb at the base, strongly Bip compressed, 
i Ovate-oblong or linear; ae produced and articulate or not 
between the glumes, but never hein the na one. Glum 
many, closely, distichously imbricate, thin, dorsally tad a or 
keeled, awn 0; I. and II. much “hg pis than the spikelet, empty, 
I. rarely 3-veined, eine deciduous; flowering glumes 3-veined, 
lateral veins not reaching the mid-vein ; callus 0; palea deciduous 
with the glume or persistent on the rachilla, keels smooth, scabri 
or ciliate; lodicules 2, minute or 0; stamens 1-3; anthers 
ve 
long or alideb: styles distinct ; stigmas penicillate, laterally ex- 
serted. Grain very minute, free in the glume and palea, 
