Mragrostis, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. graminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



J in., ovate, acute ; palea with rather narrow scabrid keels. Anthers -^ in. long. 

 Qrain almost -^ in., plongate ovoid or ellipsoid, almost terete. — The materials for 

 this species consist of only two specimens, one from Thwaites (O.P. 60), with leaves 

 6-7 in. convolute, erecto-patent; the other, from Walker, with much longer flat or 

 subconvolute leaves 8-10 in. long. 



31. E. brachypbylla, Stapf;. perennial leaves 24-4 in. linear 

 plicate glabrous above, spikelets ^-^ in. oblong to linear about 20-fld., 

 empty gls. subequal. E. bifaria, Wall. Oat. n. 3827 A. E. E. bifaria, /3. 

 minor, Wight & Am. in Wight Oat. n. 1773 C. & Eerh. n. 3528, 3356. 

 Poa secunda, Boxb. ex Wall. Oat. I. c. A. P. bifaria, Vahl, & P. coroman- 

 delina, Both, ex Wight Oat. n. 1773b. 



From Behab and the Centeal Provinces, southward to the Nilghiris, Wight, 

 Perrottet. 



Stem densely tufted, 10-18 in., slender. Leaves coriaceous, acute, rarely flat 

 and -f^ in. broad. SpiJces 3-6 in., slender. Spikelets close-set, usually secund, 

 slightly compressed, olive-green j empty gla. up to -^ in., I acute, acutely 

 keeled ; II obtuse, dorsally rounded ; flg. gls. up to -^ in., broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 keel scaberulous below the tip; keels of palea narrow, scabrid. Anthers -j'j in. 

 Orain -^tj-^b '■'•> shortly ellipsoid, obscurely triquetrous, almost terete, epioarp 

 coarsely reticulate. 



INDETERMINABLE SPECIES KECOBDED AS INDIAN. 



E . cernna, Steud. Syn. Gram. 266. Poa cernna, Willd.in Oes, Naturf. Fr. Serl- 

 Neue Schrift. iv. (1803) 182. 



E. confinis, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 265. 



105. nXVRXOSTACHYA, Hook. f. 



A tall stout perennial glabrous grass. Leaves very long, flat. Spime- 

 lets 4-20-fld., raoemed on the short brancblets of a narrow elongate panicle, 

 pedicels jointed at the base; raohilla stout, flexuous, naked, at length 

 jointed at the base and between the fl. gls. Qlumes coriaceous, dorsally 

 rounded, I and II very small, ovate, 1-nerved, keeled, long-awned ; flg. gls. 

 ovate, cuspidately acuminate, keeled, 3-nerved ; palea coriaceous, as long 

 as its gl., tip 2-toothed, keels close together stout scabrid-ciliate. Lodicules 

 very minute, obliquely cuneate; retuse. Stamens 3, anthers very small. 

 Ovary globose, styles united at the very base, stigmas long penicillate. 

 Grain obliquely ovoid, obtuse, subterete, scutellum large. — Eragrostis, Sect. 

 Myriostachya, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 117. 



ni. Wig'Iltiana, Sook.f. Eragrostis Wigbtiana, Benth. in HooJc. Ic. 

 PI. xiv. 62, t. 1381. Leptochloa Wightiana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Oram. 

 209 ; Wight Cat. n. 1757. Dinebra verticillata, Wight ex Steud. I. c. 

 Pestuca natans. Earn, in Wall. Cat. n. 3823.— Bragrost. affine. Wall. 

 I.e. 



Marshes ill the SundeebdndS, Bamilton, Griffith, &c. S. India? Herb. Wight. 

 TuNASsEmM, Heifer. . 



Stem 6-10 ft., densely tufted, erect from a stout sheathed sometimes floating 

 rootstock with long branching roots, as thick as the thumb at the base, smooth, 

 simple or sparingly branched. Leaves several feet long, up to i in. broad, linear, 

 finely acuminate, quite smooth ; sheath very long, narrower than the blade, of lower 

 leaves broad and compressed ; ligule 0. Panicle 1-2 ft. by 2-3 in. broad ; rachis 

 quite smooth ; branches 1-li in., very many, crowded fascicled and whorled erecto- 



