322 cLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Uragrostis, 0. Stapf. 



below the panicle as in JB. tenella var. viscosa, with certain forms of which P. 

 Sottleri has much in common. The persistent raehilla with deciduous glomes of 

 E. Sottleri are as in S. minor, as aie the scabrid not ciliate keels of the palea. 



18. E. Willdenoviana, Nees in Wight Gat. n. 1779 (non in Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cwr. xix. Swppl. i. (1843) 205) ; leaf-margins rarely glandalar, panicle 

 short ovate stifE open, branches solitary capillary, pedicels short, spikeleta 

 ^-^ in. hy -^ in. linear pale up to 25-fld., empty gls. very unequal, I minute 

 hyaline nerveless, fl. gls. broadly elliptic acute, palea oblong persistent, 

 grain truncate at both ends dorsally grooved. E. poaeoides. Trim. Gat. 

 Ceyl. PI. 109 ; Herh. Ind. Or. S. f. & T. (the Garnatie plant). Poa 

 glabra & Isevis, Eottl. mss. p P. polymorpha, Koen. ex Bottl. in Schrift. 

 Naturf. Fr. Berl. iv. (1803) 194.— Bragrostis, Wall. Gat. n. 3848. 



Mysoeb, Sottler, Set/ne ; Dindygul, Wight. Cetlon ; Trincomalee, Olenie 

 (C.P. 3944). 



Annual. Stems 4-18 in., very slender, smooth, rigid, erect or geniculately 

 ascending. Leaves short, flat, narrow, erect, rather rigid; mouth of sheath naked. 

 Panicle 1-3 in., branches spreading when ripe, ramif^ying from near the base; 

 pedicels (except sometimes the terminal) shorter tlian the spikelets. Spiheleis olive- 

 grey or greenish : gl. T ^'g-jV in ; II ovate, acute, -^\ in., l-nerved j flg. gls. ^j—^ in., 

 lateral nerves strong ; palea i— i shorter than its gl., keels scaberulous. Stamens 3, 

 anthers about yi^ in. Grain oblong, ^^ - ^^ in., dorsally flattened and grooved. — 

 This may prove to be E. polymorpha, Roem, Sf Sch. S^si. ii. 575. Rottler's specimen 

 was named P. polymorpha, but that name was crossed out and replaced by P. glabra. 

 Nob B. WillAenovia/na, Nees in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. (of China) is 

 M. elongata. 



XX- Panicle very loose, ramifications very slender often fleseuous or flaccid ; 

 lateral nerves of fig. gls. usually faint. — Leaves eglandular. 



19. E. tenuifolia, Sochst. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) i. Intell. 20, name 

 only ; ex Steud. 8yn. Gram. 268 ; perennial, panicle oblong to ovate very 

 open, rachis glabrous, branches solitary or 2-nate distant, spikelets ^-yV in. 

 by ^ in. linear 5-15-fld., empty gls. very unequal, I minute hyaline, raehilla 

 tough, fl. gls. ovate acute, subacute or apioulate, palea \ shorter than its 

 gl. strongly curved persistent, grain obovate-oblong. E. coUocarpa, K. 

 Schwm. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Deutsrh-Ost. Afr. 0. 114. ?E. mucronata, 

 Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 577. E. parviglumis, Sochst. ex Steud. I. c. 267. 

 Poa tenuifolia, A. Rich. Tent. JFl. Ahyss. ii. 425. 



NiLGHiKi Hills, Sohenacker. BsLaAUM, Sitchie ; Satpnra Hills, Thompson. 

 — DiSTEIB. Africa trop. 



Stem 2-3 ft., erect, slender, branched. I/eaves long, very narrow; month of 

 sheath naked. Panicle 3-8 in. ; branches ramifying from near the base and braneli- 

 lets rather distant, spreading, filiform, stiff, shorter than in E. nigra. Spikelets 

 olive-grey; gl. I LyVo l'""^ nerveless; II remote from I, about -^ in., ovate, sub- 

 acute, nerveless or faintly l-nerved ; flg. gls. Jj in., keels of palea scabrid. Stamens 3, 

 anthers .^ in. Gram ^ in., slightly compressed, dorsally grooved. 



20. E. papposa, Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 564 ; perennial, panicle ovoid 

 very delicate lax open sparingly branched, rachis glabrous, branches 

 solitary rarely 2-nate brauchlets stifi divaricate, pedicels long capillary, 

 spikelets ^ in. linear 7-23-fld., empty gls. subequal or I shorter hyaline, 

 raehilla tough, fig. gls. broadly ovate margins above hyaline, palea obtuse 

 denticulate persistent, grain obovoid. Willk. & Lange Prodr. FL Kispan. 

 i, 83 ; Griseb. in Goett. Naohr, (1868) 75. E. atro-virens, Lange in Koebj. 



