May 31, 1928] Revision of the Flora of the Bombay Presidency 636 



Hallberg4583 !) ; Panchgani (Hallberg!).— S. M. Country: Dharwar (Sedg- 

 wick 2032 !, Woodrow) ; Gokak (Shevade !) ; Badami (Woodrow).— Kanara : 

 Halyal (Talbot 2294 !) ; Kulgi (Talbot 2434 !). 

 Distribution : Tropical Africa, Madagascar, throughout India to Java. 



44. Eriochloa, H. B. & K. ; Cke. ii, 944. 



Species about 25. — In the warm parts of the whole world. 

 Cooke describes one species : E. polystachya, H. B. & K. which name has 

 to cede to E. ramosa, O. Kuntze. 



1. Eriochloa ramosa, O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PL ii, 775 ; Hack, in Bull. Acad. 

 Int. Bot. xvi, 19 ; Merrill in Philipp. Journ. Sc. i, Suppl. 348 ; Stapf in Pram 

 FL Trop. Afr. ix, 498 ; Haines in Bot. Bihar & Orissa 1006.— E. annul at a f 

 Kunth Rev. Gram, i, 30, and Enum. i, 73 ; Duthie List Grass. N. W. Ind. 2 ; 

 Beuth FL Hongk. 409 ; Hack, in Engl. Jahrb. vi r 233.— £". polystachya, Duthie, 

 111. Indig. Fodd. Grass. Ind. t. 41 ; Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 2 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I. 

 vii, 20 ; Cke. ii, 944 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvi, 320 {non H. B. 

 & K. !).— Milium ramosum, Retz. Obs. vi (1791), 22 ; Roxb. FL Ind. i, 317 ; 

 Griff. Notul. iii, 15 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 139, f. 60.— Agrostis ramosa, Poir. EncycL 

 Suppl. i, 257 —Pas p alum annul atum, Fluegge Monogr. Pasp. 133 ; Trin Sp„ 

 Gram. Ic. t, 133. — Helopus Icevis, Trin. ex Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii, 49, fig. 

 k,—H. annulatus, Steud. Syn. Glum, i, 99 {non Nees) ,—Pipatherum annulatum, 

 Presl, Rel. Haenk i, 221 {non Raddi). 



Note.— Masaja Honda in his Revisio Graminum Japoniee (Bot. Mag. Tokyo 

 37 (1923), 113-124) is of opinion that Eriochloa ramosa, O. Kuntze, has to be 

 partly emended and changed to the new species Eriochloa Hackelii. Details 

 are wanting to form an opinion on this point. 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Sind : Umerkot, in a garden (Sabnis B718!); Jamesabad, on 

 banks of a watercourse (Sabnis B967 !) ; Bughar, Indus River (Blatter & 

 McCann D691 !) ; Tatta, Kullan Kote Lake (Blatter & McCann D692 !) ; Tatta 

 (Blatter & McCann D693 !).— Gujarat : Ahmedabad (Gammie 16408!).— 

 Konkan: Bassein (Bhide !) ; Antop Hill (McCann 3613!) ; Alibag, rice field 

 (Ezekiel, !) ; Bandra, on walls and in ditches (McCann !) ; Bombay (Hallberg 

 A141 !) ; Bombay, near Mahim (Woodrow, Lisboa) ; Bhandup, in an old 

 distillery compound, in a ditch (Hallberg A19 !). — 5. M. Country : Shiggaon, 

 elevation 2,000 ft., rainfall 34 inches (Sedgwick 2356!); Kunnur, elevation 

 2,000 ft., rainfall 35 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4937!) ; Ranibenur (Bhide!) ; 

 Dharwar (Sedgwick !).— Kanara : Halyal (Talbot !). 



Distribution : Tropics of the Old World, introduced into Ascension Island, 

 St. Helena, Cuba. 



45. Brachiaria Griseb. in Ledeb. FL Ross, iv, 469 ; Stapf in Prain FL 

 Trop. Afr. ix, 505. 



(Sect. Brachiaria and part of sect. Paspaloidecs of Panicum of the F.B.I.). 



Perennial or annual. Leaf-blades linear to Lanceolate, usually flat ; 

 ligules reduced to a narrow ciliate or ciliolate rim. Racemes usually subsessile 

 and solitary on a common axis, sometimes bare at the base owing to the 

 arrest of spikelets, rarely truly peduncled and panicled, simple or compound 

 near the base, rarely to or beyoud the middle ; rhachis filiform, triquetrous 

 or more or less flattened and herbaceous with a wavy or zig-zag midrib, 

 which projects as a mostly acute keel on the face ; pedicels solitary or in 

 pairs, alternately to the right and the left of the facial angle or the midrib, if 

 solitary all short or very short, if paired, the primary slightly to very much 

 longer ; spikelets closely appressed, always biseriatein the plane, but frequent- 

 ly becoming 1-seriate by the dovetailing of the alternate spikelets of the closely 

 approximate ranks, more or less contiguous with their sides or imbricate, form- 

 ing dense, spike-like racemes, or distant by almost their own length or more, 

 glabrous or hairy. Spikelets more or less elliptic or oblong, more or less flat- 

 tened or slightly depressed, convex on the base, falling entire from the pedicels. 

 1-2-, rarely more-nate, secund and adaxial (with lower involucral glume towards 

 the axis and the convex side of the upper floral glume away from the axis) > 

 closely appres?ed to and 2-seriate on the triquetrous or flat rhachis of spiciform 

 racemes ; lo'3?e i floret male or barren with a usually well -developed pale, very 



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