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erecto-patent, 2'5-3-5 cm. long with rigid tips, base and mouth of sheath 

 with very long cilia. Panicles dense, cylindric or oblong, 7-13 cm. long and 

 up to 3*5 cm. broad. Branches very numerous, more or less spreading, equal, 

 sometimes opposite or 2-nate, but never in interrupted whorls as in E. inter- 

 rupta ; rhachis usually glabrous, rarely obscurely bearded at the nodes. Spike- 

 lets 5-20-flowered, often purplish, usually about 3 mm. long ; rhachilla readily 

 breaking up. Involucral glumes nearly equal or the lower very slightly shorter 

 than the upper. Floral glumes broadly ellipsoid, obtuse or rounded, with the 

 keel minutely scaberulous. Pale nearly as long as the glume, rigidly ciliate on 

 the keels. Grain pale brown, polished, about 0'5 mm. long. 



Locality: Gujarat : Junagad, Kathiawar (Blatter 3282 !, 3791 !).- Khandesh: 

 Bor, Bori River (Blatter & Hallberg 4430 !) ; Amalner, Bori River (Blatter & 

 Hallberg 5113!) ; Nim, Tapti bank (Blatter & Hallberg 3829 !) ; Dadgaum 

 (McCann All \).—Konkan : Malabar Hill, Bambay.— Deccan . Khandala ; 

 Panchgani (Blatter & Hallberg B1280!).— S. M. Cuntry : Dastikop fields, 

 2,500 ft. rainfall 35 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 1898 ! ).— Kanara : Sulgeri, 

 500 ft., rainfall 200 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4250 !) ; Birchy (Talbot 2102 !). 



Distribution : From the Gangetic Plain southward, Ceylon, tropical and 

 S. Africa. 



6. Eragrostis interrupta, Beauv. Agrost. (1812), 71 (non Roem. & Schult. neque 

 Trin.) ; Stapf in Hook, f . F.B.I, vii, 316 ; Cke. ii, 1024 ; Haines Bot. 

 Bihar & Orissa (1924), 957.— Poa interrupta, Lamk. iii, i, 185; Poir. Encycl. 

 v, 87 ; Heyne ex Roth Nov. Sp. 67 ; Koen. ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 335.— Poa 

 Kcsnigii, Kunth Enum. PI. i, 346. — Eragrostis Kcsnigii, Link Enum, Hort. 

 Berol. ii, 294 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 266.— Eragrostis interrupta, Beauv. var. 

 Kcsnigii, Stapf in Hook. f. F.B.I, vii, 316 ; Cke. ii ; 1024 ; Haines Bot. Bihar & 

 Orissa (1924), 957.— E. hapalantha, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. vi, i 

 (1839), 409 {partim).—E. minutiflora, Presl. Rel. Haenk. i, 274 {excl. syn.) ; 

 Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. ( 1893), 386.— E. mossulensis, Steud- 

 Syn. Gram. 264.— E. nutans, Nees in Wight Cat. no. 1776 ; Steud. Nom. 

 ed. ii, i, 563 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 38, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 63, t, 76; Aitchis, Cat. Panjab PI. 169; Lisboa 1. c. 381; Boiss. Fl. 

 Or. v, 583.— E. Rothii, Steud. Syn. Gram. 267. -E. stricta. Steud. I.e. 264.— 

 E. verticillata, Nees in Wight Cat. no. 1784.— Poa nutans, Koen. ex Roth Nov. 

 Sp. 64; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 335 {non Retz.).— Poa diarrhena, Schult. Mant. 616.- 

 Eragrostis diarrhena, Steud. Syn. Gram. 266. — E. interrupta, var. diarr- 

 hena Stapf 1. c.—Poa diandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 336 {non Br.).— Eragrostis 

 diandra, Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 169 {non Steud.) ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 37 .—Diplachne elongata, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 268.— Eragrostis 

 diplachnoides , Steud. 1. c — Eragrostis interrupta. var. dipiachnoides, Stapf 

 1. c.-E. caudata, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. 264 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 37.— 

 E. japonica, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. vi, i. (1831), A05.-E. tenella B. 

 Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii, 356.— £. tenella, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 431, Fl. 

 Austral, viii, 643 {non Beauv.) ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 65, t. 

 78.— E. tenellula, Steud. Syn. Gram. 279.— E. tenuissima, Schrad. ex Nees 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 409, 410.— E. interrupta, var. tenuissima, Stapf I.e. ; Sedgwick 

 and Saxton in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. vi, 219 ; Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924) 

 958.— Poa Japonica, Thumb. Fl. Jap. 31.— P. tenella, R. Br. Prodr. 181 

 {non Beauv.) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind, i, 337.— P. tenellulla, Kunth Enum. PI. i, 

 338. 



We have examined a great number of specimens from all parts of the 

 Presidency. Most of them cannot be classed under any of the 4 varieties 

 mentioned by Stapf. If we wanted to classify them we would have to greatly 

 multiply the number of varieties which could not be satisfactory neither irom a 

 theoretical nor practical point of view. Cooke puts the Bombay material 

 under E. interrupta, var. Koenigii, Stapf. But then he has seen only one 

 specimen from Surat. We have dropped all the varieties as can be seen from 

 the above synonymy. The following description comprises them all. 



Description: A very variable slender grass from 5-90 cm., annual or 

 perennial. Stems smooth and polished, tufted, geniculate and ascending from 

 the base, branched or not, nodes glabrous. Leaves slender, up to about 25 cm. 

 long, narrow, flat, glabrous ; sheaths glabrous, close ; ligule a fimbriate 

 membrane. Panicle exceedingly variable, up to 60 cm. long, either contracted 

 with appressed branches or interrupted with many tiers of rather short 



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