Eragrostis, 0. Stapf.] olxxiii. graminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 317 



Austral, viii. 613 (»on Beauv.); Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ivd. 65, t. 78. E. tenellula, 

 Steud. Syn, Oram. 279. E. tenuissima, Schrad. ex Nees Fl. Afr. Ausi/r. 409, 410. 

 Poa japonioa, Thiinb. Fl. Jap. 31. . P. hyemalis, Lata, & speciosa, Herh. Harm ex 

 Wall. Cat. n. 3850 C. B. P. tenella, Br. Prodr. 181 {non Beauv.) ; Roxh. Fl. Itid. 

 i. 337, Ic. Pict. ined. t. 837. P. tenellula, Kunt?i Enum. PI. i. 338.~Eragrosti% 

 Wall. Cat. n. 3850 B. C. H. 5001 A— D.— Temp. & trop. Himal. from the Panjab 

 eastwd. and southwd. to Ceylon j ascends the Himalaya to 7000 ft. — Trop. As. 



Sect. IT. Pteroessa. RacMlla of spikelet tough, persistent ; flg. 

 glumes falling away from its base upwards. — Species 8-24. 



* Spikelets always flat, usually elliptic-ovate to oblong; lateral nerves 

 of flg. gls. very prominent, straight, almost percurrent; palese deciduous 

 with their glumes. 



8. E- amabilis, WigJit Sf Am. ex Nees in Sooh. Sr -Am. Sot. 

 Beech. Voy. 201 [excl. 8yn. Linn.) annual, panicle oblong or ovoid- 

 oblong open or contracted, branches solitary ramifying fiom near the 

 base, spikelets ^-J in. ovate rarely oblong or linear-oblong up to 50- 

 fld., empty gls. subequal acute 1-nerved, flg. gls. very close set dis- 

 tichously spreading broadly elliptic shortly acuminate, palea elliptic keels 

 winged scabrid. Wight Oat. n. 1777 ; Wall. Cat. n. 3838 ; Nees in Act. Acad. 

 Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 205. E. polymorpha, Trin. ex Steud. Nom. 

 Ed. II. i. 364, 562. B. rubens, Hochst. 6.v Miq. Analect. Bot. ii. 26; 

 Btsud. Sy». Oram. 265. B. nnioloides, Nees ex Steud. I.e. 264 ; T/nu. 

 Enum. Pi. Zeyl. 373 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109 ; Duthie Cfrass. N.W. Ind. 

 38, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 65 ; Aitchis. Oat. Panjab PI. 170 ; Lishda in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soe. vii. (1893) 383; Griseb. in Ooett. Nachr. 

 (1868) 76. Poa amabilis, Herb. Bottl. (non Linn.). P; multiflora, Boxh. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 338. P. polymorpha, Br. Prodr. 180. P. pseudamabilia, 

 Bo.vb. Ic. Pict. ined. t. 843. P. rubens, Lamk. Illustr. i. 184, t. 45, f. 2 | 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i. 335. P. unioloides, Betz. Obs. v. 19 ; JRoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 330 ; Kunth I. c. ; Orah. Oaf. Bomb. PI. 236. Briza rubra, LamTc. 

 ni. i. 187 ; Kunth I. c. 371. Uniola indica, Spreng. Syst. i. 349; Balz. 8f 

 Qibs. Bomb. Fl. 298. Megastachya polymorpha, Beauv. Agrost. 74. 



Plains op India and Lowek Himalaya, from Kashmir (ascending to 6000 

 ft.), eaatwd. to Burma and southwd. to Cetlok (OP. n. 930).— Distkib. As. trop. 



Stem 6-18 in., rather slender. Leaves usually short, flat ; mouth of sheaths 

 naked. Panicle 2-4 in., branches filiform, not very numerous or long, rachis and 

 noclea glabrous. Spilielets broiid or narrow, pule or purplish ; rachilla tough, iuter- 

 nodes very short, -j-J^ in. ; empty gls. ^V—V '"• 1-nerved ; flg. gls. nearly -jL in. long, 

 iimcronulate j palea ^-^ shorter than its gl. Stamens 3, anthers -rio-s'-u '"• Gram 

 obpToid or ellipsoid, laterally compressed, about J by |- in. 



** Spikelets usually linear or linear-oblong, less compressed and with 

 less prominent nerves than in * or if strongly compressed and nerved 

 then with persistent paleas. 



t Spikelets more or leas fascicled on the primary or secondary branches 

 or shortly pedicelled in narrower racemes. 



9. E. malayana, Stapf; annual, panicle ovoid, branches solitary 

 at length spreading flowering to the base, pedicels as long as the spike- 

 lets or shorter, spikelets ttt-j" i°- linear-oblong 10-30-fld., rachilla almost 

 straight internodes very short, gls. all broad closely imbricate; sides 



