Ei'agrosUs, 0. Sfcapf.l clxxiii. qeaminbj;, (J. D. Hooker.) 31 9 



Throughout India, BitrMa and CKYLO>f {Wallich, O-ardner). 



Stem tall, 1-3 ft., suberect from a spreading base, usually stout and branchino-, 

 but sometimes slender and short, smooth. Leaves fevr^ short, smooth, flat or subooii- 

 volute J mouth of sheath bearded. Panicle nodding, branches rather distant, spread- 

 ing, ramifying from above the base, sometimes abbreviated and the spikelets 

 clustered on the raehis, raohis glabrous. Spikelets purplish or green; emptygls. 

 jL-in. s fig. gls. tV-^i- iu-. lateral nerves slender i internodes of rachilla yV^yV '"• ! 

 palca rather shorter than its gig. Stamens 3, anthers about •j'j in. Grain oblong, 

 ■s\ by rV-ik in- 



12. E. elong'Stta, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 3, t. 3 ; perennial, panicle very 

 variable, brancheB usually simple, spikelets very shortly pedicelled rather 

 crowded aubparallel linear J-J^ in. 10-25-fld., rachilla rather stout, empty 

 gls. ovate-lanceolate acute, I 1-nerved, II 1-3-nerved, flg. gls. ovate- 

 lanceolate very acute nearly flat, keel almost straight, palea strongly 

 curved, keels very stout scabrid. E. bahiensis, Hance in Journ. lAvn. 

 Soc. xiii. (1873) 136; Griseh. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76 {non. Schrad.). E. 

 Browneana, Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Swppl. i. (1843) ?05. 

 B. Brownii, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 396 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 279 ; Thwaiiei 

 Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 373; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109 ; Benth. Fl. Songk. 432, Fl. 

 Austral, vii. 646 {in part). E. Oumingii, Steud. I. o. 266. E. interrupta, 

 Steud. I. c. 279 {non Beauv.). E. orientalis, Nees in Nov. Act. I. o. 206 ; The. 

 I.e. 373; Trim. I.e. 109. E. pubescens, Steud. I.e. E. Willdenoviana, 

 Neee in Hook. 8f Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 262. E. zeylanica, Nees Sf Mey. in 

 Nov. Act. I. c. 204 ; Thwaites I. c. ; Trim. I. c. Poa Brownei, Kunth Revis. 

 Qram. i. 112, Enum. PL i. 333. ? P. dependens, Hornem. Enum. Hort. 

 Mafn. Swppl. 2. P. elongata, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 108; Kunth 

 Enum. i. 384. P. interrupta & polymorpha, Br. Prodr. 180. P. pulchella, 

 Wall. mss. Megastachya elongata & polymorphaj Beauv. Agrost. 74, 167. 

 — Eragrost. Wall. Cat. n. 3836, 3845 {in pari). 



LowEE Bekgai, Chittagong, Bubma, the Nicobar Isxds., and Cetlon (O.P. 

 931, 3047, 3251). — Disteib. Asia trop., Malaya, Australia, N. Caledon. 



Stems tufted, stiff, tall or short, stout or slender, simple or branohed. Leaves 

 narrow, strict, flat or convolute ; mouih of sheath bearded. Panicle oblong or ovate, 

 with solitary distant spreading filiform branches, or from the shortening of these 

 subspiciform, raehis glabrous. Spiielets acute, dark brown or reddish; gl. 1 -^\- 

 tV in. ; II -jV in.; flg. gls. usually -j'^ in., firm, lateral nerves rather prominent; 

 rachilla rather stout, internodes ^L in. ; palea ^-^ shorter than its gl. Anthers 

 lirr'ea '"■ '1 tl"! Indian specimens. Grain ovoid to subglobose, -^^ in. 



tf Spikelets not fascicled, usually more or less divaricate when ripe. 



§ Spikelets j-^—k in. hroad ; Jig. f/ls. broad, more or less obtuse, tV-to ^^■ 

 long, lateral nerves strong. — Annuals. 



13. E. barbulata, Stapf. ; leaf-margins eglandular, panicle oblong 

 very loose, branches solitary, pedicels very slender, spikelets few ^-f in. 

 dVate-oblong or linear narrowed upwards 10-25-fld., empty gls. snbequal 

 ovate obtuse, rachilla stout nodes bearded, fl. gls. close-set very broadly 

 ovate obtuse, palea broadly ovate persistent keels scabrid, grain subglobose. 

 -Eragrostis, Wall. Cat. n. 3839. 



Lower Bpema ; road to the Petroleum Wells, WallicTi. 



Annual, erect, 3-4 ft. high, branchi-d. Leaves 12-18 in., up to i in. broad, 

 usually very narrow, subeonvolute, and sheaths pubescent or villous below the 

 middle. Panicle 6-12 in.; nodes of raehis woolly at the axils; branches very 



