Eragrostis, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. GHAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 315 



Btachya ciliaris, Beauv. Agrosi. 74.— Eragrostis, Wall. Cat. a. 5009, 5003 {in 

 part).~^'S. IndiHfrom tbe Panjab to Barma. — Westwd. to trop. Africa and America. 



Var. Irachystaohya, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 582 j panicle short compact cvlindrie. 

 E. arabica, Jaub. Sf Spach III. Fl. Orient, iv. 31, t. 322. E. riparla, Nees in 

 Herb. Soyle. — Upper Gangetic Plain, Scind & the Concan. — Arabia, Afr. trop. 



Var. Clarkei, Sbapf ; panicle open as in E. tenella. — Dullii, Clarice. 



6. E. tenella, Boem, ^ Sch. Syst, ii. 576 (exol. j3) (non aliorum) ; 

 panicle variable, sijikelets -}g-^ in. by aV in. broad or less, not strongly 

 compressed 3-9-fld., empty gls. subequal or unequal, fig. gls. obliqtie not 

 mucronate lateral nerves remote from the margins, keels of pilea usually 

 obscurely ciliate, stamens 3, grain ovoid. 



Throughout India, in the plains and lower hills, from the Panjab to Malacca 

 and Oevlon. The Njcobab Islds. — Disibib. Trop. Asia, Africa. 



Very variable, from d-lsin. high, stems usually slender, many from the rootand 

 densely tufted. Leaves narrow. Panicle 2-8 iu. long, contracted or spreading, 

 pale green or purplish, excessively branched, oblong ovate or cyliudric, never with 

 the long interrupted rachis and pseudo-verticillate branches of A", interrapta. 



Var. plumosa^ Stapf; p-.inicle open often flexuous branches capillary nodes 

 bearded, spikelets ^^ - \ in. long- or short-pedicelled 3-9-fld., empty gls. unequal 

 I ^-1 shorter than II, rachiUa snbarticulate, tig. gls. -f^ in., anthers very minute, 

 grain ovoid about J^ in. B. despiciens, Schult. Mant. ii. 318. E. elegantula, 

 Sees B., Wight Oat. n. 1781b. K. laxa. Baker Fl. Maurit. 456. E. plamosa, Link 

 Mnitm.hort. Berol. i. 192 (mon Boiss.); Wight Cat. n. 17S6; Thw. Enuw. H. Zeyl. 

 373; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109; Duthie &rj,ss. N.W. Ind. 38, Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 61, t. 38, 77 ; Aitchis. Cat. Vanjab PL 17o; Zisboa in Journ. Bomb. Wat. 

 Mist. Soc. vii. (1893) 3«5. E. tenelln, Soem. ^ Sch. I. c. ; Steni. Syn. Gram. 266. 

 Poa amabilis, Linn. Sp. Fl. 68. P. capillaria, Uomb. Ic. Pict. ined. t. 837. P. 

 despiciens, Linlc Enum. Uort. Berol. i. 88. P. hirsuta. Herb. Jiottl. P. plumosa, 

 Retz. Obs. iv. 20; Eunth Enum. PI. i. 338; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 337. P. tenella, 

 Linn. I. i: 69. Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 47, f. 3); Meiz. Obs. v. 19; Kunth Rev. 

 Gram. ii. 467, t. 147, Enum. Fl. i. 338, Sujypl. 294.— Eragrostis, Wall. Cat. n. 

 5007.— Throughout India, Burma & Ceylon (C.P. 926, 70). 



Var. riparia, Stapf; panicle contracted very narrow flaccid, rachis glabroas, 

 branches subfiliform or capillary, spikelcts as in var. plumosa, empty gls. unequal 

 I = ^ shorter than II, flg. gls. ■j'g- in., anthers about -j-J^ in., grain Jj in. ovoid. E. 

 plamosa {in <part) T/iw. Enum. Fl. Zeyl. (CP. 927, 928). B. riparia, Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 265; Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1787; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 38. B. 

 ciliaris, ;8, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 397. E. plumosa, var. 

 maritima. Trim, Cat. Ceyl. Fl. 109 (CP. 927). Poa incurva. Herb. Roltl. (in 

 part). P. riparia, Willd. in Ges. Nalurf. Fr. Btrl. N. Schrift. iv. (Ib03) 185. 

 P. setacea & laevis. Herb. Ifoltl. V. tenella, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 337; Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. Fl. 236. — Eragrost. Wall. Cat. u. 5011. — Lower Bengal, and southwd. 

 Laccadive Islds. Ceyion (CP. 927, 928). 



Var. viscosa, Stapf; stem and rachis of panicle b;low viscid, panicle stiff stouter 

 with firmer more strongly nerved glumes than in vars. plumosa & riparia, oblong to 

 linear open contracted or compact, branches filiform often very short, nodes glabrous 

 or obscurely bearded, spikelets few-16-fld. often purplish, empty gls. subequal or I 

 slightly shorter, fl. gls -jV-tV '"■> anthers about .j-^ in., grain ovoid a'o— V in.— Sub- 

 \m: a, ayerta, Stapf ;" panicle oblong or pyramidal open, branches distinctly 

 lengthened. E. viscosa, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser, VI. i. (1831) 397 ; 

 Wight Cat. n. 1785 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 386. 

 Poa ciliaris, Roxb. Ic. pict. ined. t. 832, 856. Herb. Madr. Wall. Cat. n. 5U08 A. 

 P. glutinosa, Herb. Roxb. P. plumosa & malabarica, Herb. Heyne ec Wall. Cat. n. 

 500s C. D. E. P. Telphulia, Herb. Hum. ex Wall. Cat. n. 5008 B. P. viscosa, Retz. 

 Obs. iv. 20 ; Roxb. Fl. lad. i. 336 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Fl. 236 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 

 336.— Eragrost. Wall. Cat. n. 5008, 5010.— From the Gangetic Plains & Bombay 



