314 CLxxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eragrostis, 0. Stapf. 



From the Upper GiNaETic Plain, Moradabad, Thomson, to Sikkim, BEHiH, 

 CHITTAGON&, Abracan and Bdkma. Cbnteal Pbovinces & Chota Xaqpoee, 

 Clarice. 



Stems in small or large tufts, 4-18 in. high, geniculately ascending from a 

 nodose branched stock, base clothed with short hard sheaths. Leaves linear, spreading 

 horizontally, more or less convolute, finely acuminate, glabrous, sometimes flat and i 

 in. broad, quite smooth, glaucous ; sheath rather tight, smooth, bearded below the 

 mouth ; Ijgule very short. Panicle 2-6 in. by ^-| in. broad, sometimes very 

 narrowly pyramii'al, white, branches hispid; gls. I and II subequal; flg. gls. 

 -Jj in., membranou'=, nerves prominent. Anthers -f^ in. Grain shortly ovoid, Jj in. 

 — Dwarf states 2-3 in. high occur; and tall ones 2-3 ft. high from the Sikkim Terai 

 and Arracan, with leaves J in. broad and a long lax narrow panicle 6 in. long. 



** Panicle open or more or less contracted or spiciform ; margins of flg. 

 gls. eciliate. 



4. E. aspera, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 408; annnal, panicle large 

 thyrsiform, at length expanding, branches and pedicels long, spikelets 

 linear-oblong \ by ^-^ in. erect 4-16-fld., empty gls. subequal, flg. gh. 

 obtuse nerves prominent, keels of palea seabevulons, stamens 3. Lishoa in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Sac. vii. (1893) 386. E. tenella, Nees in Wight 

 Cat. n. 1783 (non Linn, nee Benth.). B. panioulata, Steud. Syn. Gram,. 

 278. Poa aspera, Jacq. Sort. Vind. iii. 32. P. paniculata, Rojcb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 340.— BragroBtis, Wall. Cat. n. 3841. 



SoUTHEKN India ; Dindygul, Wight. Bangalobe, Puckle {Ic. in Heri. Kew), 

 if. and S. Con can, lAsl-oa. — DiSTRiB. Afr. trop. Isle of France. 



Stem with the long panicle 2-4 ft., stout, subereot, bvauclied, smooth. Leaves 

 8-18 in., flat, keeled, smooth ; sheath villou!-ly bearded ; ligule of long hairs. 

 Panicle 10-20 in. by 4-6 broad, oblong to obovate-oblong, raehis scaberulous, 

 bearded at the nodes with long white hairs ; branches solitary or p^eudo-whorled, 

 capillary, divided from the base or nearly so, suberect ; pedicels much longer than 

 the small, rather scattered spikelets. Flg. gls. hardly Jjin.; palea obscurely 

 3-lobcd, lobes very obtuse, keels scabrid. Anthers -^ in. Grain subglobose, 

 about g^jj in. — Panicle quite Uinlike that of any other Indian species. 



5. £• ciliaris, Link Enum. Sort. Berol. i. 192; annual, panicle 

 spiciform rarely open, branches and pedicels very short glabrous, spike- 

 lets about -fo in. long and broad 6-12-fld ttrongly compressed, empty gls. 

 subequal acute, flg. gls. widely spreading mucronulate, lateral nerves 

 submarginal, keels of palea very long-ciliate, stamens 3. 



Plains of N. and S. India (not in Ceylon). — Disteie. Eeg. trop. 



Stem 1-2 ft,, procumbent below and geniculately ascending, slender. Leaves 

 very narrow, flat ; mouths of sheath with very long hairs. Panicle 3-6 in., inter- 

 rupted or lobed below, appeal ing hairy from the long cilia of the palea, branches 

 very short (except var. Ctarkei) divided from the base, glabrous; nodes of glabrous 

 raehis naked. Spilcelets very pale, as broad as long, much compressed ; flg. pla. 

 subhyalinc, scaberulous, often slightly recurved and elegantly distichous; rachilla 

 of spikelet persistent. Anthers -j-J^j in. Grain elongate ovoid, about .^ in. 



Var. ciliaris proper, Stapf; panicle spiciform move or less lobed or interrupted. 

 E. ciliaris, Boiss. Fl. Uriint. v. 582; JBaker Fl. Maurit. 456; Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 37, Podd. Grass. N. Ind. 62; Aitchis. Oat. Punjab. PI. 169 ; Lishoa in Journ. 

 Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 386 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 532. E. lobata, 

 Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 396. E. lepida, Hochst. ex A. 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 424. E. plumosa, Boiss. PI. Orient, v. 582 (excl. Si/n.) ; 

 Senth. tl. Ho?>.ai. 431. E. pulcbella. Pari, in Hook. Niger Flor. 186. Mega- 



