Eragrostis, O. Stapf.] olxxiii. gbamineji. (J. D. Hooker.) 325 



Gat. Panjah. PI. 169 ; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 37, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 62, t., 40 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 583 ; lAsboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soo. vii. (1893) 387. Poa oynosuroides, Betz. Obs. iv. 20 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 

 333 ; Del. Fl. JEgypt. 159, t. 10 ; Qrah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 236 ; Kunth Fnum. 

 Fl. i. 227. Leptochloa bipinnata, Hochst. in Flora, xxxvjii. (1855) 422. 

 Briza bipiunata, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 875. Oynosurus dui;as, Forsh. Fl. 

 Mgypt. Arab. 71. Dactylis interrupta. Herb. Rottl. TJniola bipinnata, 

 Urm. 8p. PI. Fd. II. 104.— Bragrost. aflSne & Eragrostoides, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 3821, 5016. 



Plains of India, from Peshawar and Sind to Burma and southward, in moist 

 places. (Not in Ceylon). — Distrib. Westward to Syria and N. Africa. 



Sootstock stout, creeping ; stolons very stout clothed with shining sheaths ; 

 steins 1-3 ft., tufted, smooth, erect, stout. Leaves many, basal fascicled, very long, 

 rigid, long acuminate tips filiform, margins hispid ; mouth of sheath with long hairs ; 

 ligule 0. Fanicle 6-18 in. by 1 rarely 2 in. broad, strict, erect, narrowly pyramidal 

 or columnar, often interrupted ; rachis puberulou'i, branches J-1 in., very many 

 crowded ; branchlets rigid, glabrous or hia|)iduIons, spreading. Spiloelets unilateral, 

 2-Beriate and crowded, deSuxed, pale brown, rather shining ; interuodes of rachilla 

 very short; gl. I J^ in. ; II about ^j in., obtuse ; fig. gls. xs't^ •"■> coriaceous ; palea 

 \-^ sliorter than its gl., rather coriaceous, keels minutely scabrid. Stamens 3, 

 anthers -^-^ in. Grain less than j\; in., obliquely ovoid, laterally compressed, 

 obscurely trigonous. 



C. Sect. IV. PLA.GIOSTACHYA, Beutk. Spikelets secund distichouely 

 spreading in a long simple slender terminal spike. 



* Keels of palea distinctly winged. 



25. E- leioptera, Stapf. ; perennial, leaves convolute wiry, spikelets 

 l-\ in. oblong compressed 10-20-fld., glnmes tumid, 1 1* in- acute, wings 

 o£ keels of palea -^ in. broad eciliate. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft., Gnffith, &c. 



Stems 1-2 ft., densely tufted, erect, very slender, strict. Leaves 8-12 in., 

 glabrous, stout, terete, pungent ; sheaths short. Spike ,6-10 in., erect, strict ; 

 richis angular, smooth. Spikelets not crowded, suberect; empty glumes y\ in. 

 stibequal, or I shorter ; I acutely keeled ; II dorsally rounded ; flg. gls. broadly 

 ovate, obtuse or subacute, Jj in. ; wings of palea hyaline. Anthers about -^ in. 

 long.— The more tumid glumes at once distinguish this from B. bifaria. 



26. E. bifaria, Wight ex 8 tend. Nam. Ed. II. i. 562, 8yn. Oram. 264, 

 8v,ppl.2%2; perennial, leaves flat or complicate and keeled, spikelets ^-f 

 iu. ovate-oblong rarely linear mucb. comjjressed 6-40-fld., wings of keels 

 of palea about ^ in. broad ciliate. Wall. Cat. n. 3827 B. 0. ; Wight Cat. 

 u. 1773 ; ? Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 387. 

 E. thraulostachys, K. 8chum. ined. Poa bifaria, Vahl Symb. ii. 19 ; Boxb. 

 Fl. ind. i. 331 ; Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 334, t. 80, Enum. PI. i. 327, 8uppl. 

 282. 



Tlie Deocan Peninsula, Heyme, &c.— Distbib. Africa trop. 



Stem 1-3 ft, densely tufied, erect, simple, suboompressed, glabrous, base clothed 

 with the soft fibres of old sheaths. Leaves 2-2^ in., Imear, wiry, sometimes J m. 

 broad, flexuous, acute, rigid, smooth ; sheaths scaberulous, keeled ; ligule a ciliate 

 line. Spike 10-12 in., ovate to oblong and 15-20-fld., rarely linear flexuous and np 

 to 40-fld., erect, rachis smooth, suboompressed. Spikelets spreading, lower fewer- 

 fld., olive-grev or -green; gl I very acute or acnminate ; II almost tV'"-. fe«l 

 very stout! rounded ; flg. gls. i in., broadly ovate, subacuramate, keel scaberulous 

 above, nerves faint. Stamens 3, anthers ^ in. 



