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spreading subwhorled branches (either long narrow with sziort dense suberect 

 or erecto-patent pseudo-whorls or long effuse or contracted with solitary or 

 2-3-nate branches, simple or if branched the whorl rarely overtopped by 1 or 2 

 branches, ultimate branches not divaricate or long loose narrow, usually stiff, 

 branches pseudo-whorled, spreading, ramified from the base, brancblets and 

 pedicels divaricate- or long linear-oblong, branches up to 5 cm. long, hardly 

 whorled, simple at the base, etc.). Spikelets usually very minute, from 

 1-6 mm. long, ovate to linear, few- to many-flowered. Flowering glumes 

 obtuse, nerves slender, green or pale brown, rarely coloured, keels of pale 

 scaberulous or smooth. Stamens 2. Grain obovoid. 



Locality: Sind : Pad-Idan (Sabnis B513!); Mirpurkhas, fallow fields 

 (Sabnis B1175 !) ; Jamesabad (Sabnis B1164 !) ; Ganja Hill, near Hyderabad 

 (Sabnis B996 !) ; Bhagar, Indus River (Blatter & McCann D650 !).— Gujarat : 

 In water holes (Dalzell & Gibson) ; Dangs, 800 ft., rainfall 100 inches 

 (Sedgwick & Bell 5392 !) ; Surat (Gammie 16436 !, Woodrow, Cooke) ; Kabir- 

 wad, Broach Dist. (Chibber!); Nadiad (Chibber!); road to Lasandra 

 (Chibber !).— Khandesh : Tapti, Bhusawal, N. E. (Blatter & Hallberg 4437 !) ; 

 Bor, Tapti Isl., sand and mud (Blatter & Hallberg 5475!) ; Nim, Tapti, left 

 bank (Blatter & Hallberg 5221 !) ; Amalner, Bori River (Blatter & Hallberg 

 4433 !); Muravat, Tapti bank (Blatter & Hallberg 5151 !, 5205!) ; Bor (Blatter 

 & Hallberg 5488 !) ; Chanseli Hill, northern slope (McCann 9986!) ; Umalla, 

 Tapti bank (Blatter & Hallberg 5214!); Toramnal (McCann 9976 !, 9995 !) .— 

 Konkan : Tisgaon, near Kalyan (Garade !) ; Borivli to Kenery Caves (McCann 

 9989!); Vihar Lake (McCann 9996!); Pen (McCann 8556!); Kase Dohan, 

 Thana Dist. (Ryan 1920 !) ; Ghatkoper, Horse-shoe Valley (McCann 9994!) ; 

 Parel (McCann 5417!); Sion (McCann 5246!); Bassein (Lisboa) ; Thana 

 (Lisboa) ; Alibag, rocky river bed (Ezekiel !) —Deccan : Bhowdan, near Poona 

 (Woodrow) ; Bahuli, 14 miles N.W. of Poona (Woodrow) ; Ganeshkhind 

 Botanic Gardens (Gammie!); Trimbak (Chibber!); Dhond, along river 

 (Bhide 1349!) ; Barsi River (Gammie 15766 !) ; Khandala, very common in 

 fields (McCann 9998!); Khandala to Karjat (Blatter & Hallberg 5322!) 

 Igatpuri (Blatter & Hallberg 5193 !) ; Bairawadi, Purandhar (McCann 5056 !) 

 Tangawadi, Igatpuri (Blatter & Hallberg 3834 !) ; Lohagad (McCann 9987 !) 

 Vaslang, Sholapur (D' Almeida 9980 !).— S. M. Country : Margin of tanks, 

 Yelvigi, 1,800 ft., rainfall 28 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 3612 !) ; Dharwar, 2,400 

 ft., rainfall 34 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 4975 !) ; Dastikop, 2 500 ft., rainfall 

 35 inches (Sedgwick 2135 \).—Kanara : Halyal, 1,800 ft. (Talbot 2100!); 

 Kincholi (Talbot 944 !) ; Castle Rock, on banks of a tank (McCann 9993 !). 



Distribution : India, Ceylon, tropical Asia and Africa. 



7. Eragrostis unioloides, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 264 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 

 109; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 38; Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 65; Aitchis. Cat. Panj. 

 PI. 170; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. His<- Soc. viii (1S93), 363; Griseb. in 

 Goett. Nachr. (1868), 76 —Poa unioloides Retz. Obs. v, 19 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 

 330 ; Kunth Enum. PL i, 335 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 236.— P. multiflora, Roxb. 

 FJ. Ind. i, 338.— P. polymorpha, R. Br. Prodr. 180. -P. rubeus, Lamk. Illustr. 

 i, 184, t. 45, f. 2 ; Kunth I.e. 335. —Eragrostis amabilis, Wight & Arn. ex Nees 

 in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 251 (non Linn.); Nees in Act. Acad. Nat. 

 Cur. xix, Suppl. i (1843), 205; Stapf in Hook. f. F.B.I, vii, 317; Cke. ii, 1025; 

 Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1922), 958.— £". polymorpha, Trin. ex Steud. Norn. 

 ed. ii, i, 364, 562. — E. rubeus, Hochst. ex Miq. Anal. Bot. ii, 26 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram 265.— Briza rubra, Lamk. Illustr. i, 187 ; Kunth I.e. 371. — Uniola indica, 

 Spreng. Syst. i, 349 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 298.— Megastachya polymorpha, 

 Beauv. Agrost. 74. 



Mr. Hubbard of Kew has helped us with regard to the synonymy of this 

 species, He says in a letter : ' The combination E amabilis, Wight & Arn. is 

 based on Poa amabilis, Linn, but the majority of the references, the description 

 and the specimens refer to a different plant which has for a long time been 

 known under this name. It cannot, however, be called E. amabilis, Wight & 

 Arn. and the next name for it is Eragrostis unioloides, Nees {Poa unioloides, 

 Retz.). The fact that the name £. amabilis has been applied to a different 

 species might be used as additional justification for rejecting it.' 



Description : Cke. ii, 1025. 



Locality : Sind : Mirpur Sakro (Blatter & McCann D651 !).— Konkan ; Penn 

 (Bhide!, McCann!); very common in the Bombay and Salsette Islands 

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