316 



If the name be correct, then it is both an erect tree and a climber, 

 and will include our U volubile, p 242. 



Note. — The Concan name of Ficus cordifolia is " Ashta." 



CLIV. ERIOCAULACEtE, p 279. 

 1. ERIOCAULON, Linn. 



8. E RivuLARE, — This name having been preoccupied by Don, 

 the species here described has been named E dalzellii by Koernicke, 

 in the 26th vol. of the Linnsea. 



9. E RouxiANUM, Steudel, Syn. ii, 270. — Cespitose ; root 

 fibrous; stem very short; leaves linear-lanceolate, 9 to II -nerved, 



. rather obtuse at the apex, subpellucid, 1 to 1 g inch long, twice the 

 length of the tumid sheaths, which are rather membraneus and 

 white at the apex ; heads about 2 hnes in breadth, snow-white, 

 villous, a little shorter than the involucre. The specimens were 

 collected by Polydore Roux, near Bombay. 



ID. E Heterolepis, Steudel loc. cit. 271. — Cespitose; root 

 fibrous ; stem very short; leaves-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 9 to 11- 

 nerved, scarcely one inch long ; sheaths short, tumid, membranous, 

 divided at the apex ; bracts of the involucre in 2 series, scarious, the 

 outer ones oblong-lanceolate, deciduous ; interior ovate-obtuse, 

 much shorter than the flower-heads ; floral bracts cuneate ovate, 

 ciliated at the apex. Bombay, P. Roux. 



CLVII. GRAMINE^. 



3. PANICUM, Linn., p 290. 



8. P Interruptdm, Willd. sp. i, 351. — Culm under the water, 

 floating, thick, ascending, several feet high ; sheaths longer than 

 the joints, smooth; leaves smooth, narrow ; raceme spike-like, 

 slender ; cylindric, erect, 4 to 8 inches long ; florets small, green 

 and smooth, on short pedicels, crowded all round the rachis, 

 oblong, glumes 5 to 7-nerved, lower one subrotund and perfoliate ; 

 neuter floret with 2 paleee. A very large Grass, clothing the margins 

 of tanks throughout the Concan ; anthers purple, long exserted. 

 Supposed by Nees to be identical with P inundatum,.Kunth. 



Section Festucace^, p 297. 



21a, ELYTROPHORUS, Beauv. 



1. E Articulatus, Beauv. Agr. ^ 14, ^^. 2. — Root fibrous; 

 culms cespitose, simple, 3 to 8 inches high ; leaves flat, elongated. 



