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(1) E. mjTANs. {Retz.J 



Eetz. obs. iv. 19 (under Poa.)— Dalz. 1. c. p. 297. 



Syn. Poa nutans, Roxh. I. c. p. 335. 



Spec. Chae. Cnlm erect, smooth, 3 — 5-feet: leaves narrow- 

 elongated, rough : panicle linear, contracted, 1 — 2-feet, rays fili- 

 form, solitary, twin or several, approximated, adpressed : spikelets 

 8 — 14-fl.owered, pedioelled : seed oblOng. 



la water-holes in Gujarat. Coromandel. Bengal. 



(2) E. ciUATA. (Nees.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 265. 



Syn. Poa cUiaris, Roxl. 1. c. p. 



Spec. Chae. Culms erect, rigid, smooth, 1 — 2-feet: leaves 

 pubescent at the mouth of the sheaths : panicle columnar, 2 — 4- 

 inches, hairy at the insertion of the branches : spikelets 6 — 12- 

 flowered, outer valve 3-nerved, cuspidate, margins ciliated : seed 

 obovate-globose, smooth, dark-coloured. 



Domus. Dry barren ground in the Peninsula. 



(3) E. CTNOsuEomEs. (Reti.J 



Ident. Retz. obs. iv. 20 (under Poa). 



Syn. Briza bipinnata, Linn. — TJniola bipinnata, Linn. — Poa 

 cynosuroides, Roxh. 



Spec Chae. Eoot creeping : culm stout, reed-like, clothed at 

 the base with withered sheaths : leaves rigid, flat, or the younger 

 root ones convolute, elongated, nearly a foot long : raceme compound, 

 close, elongated, branches scattered, dense, racemose : spikelets ses- 

 sile, secund, distichous, 9 — 50-flowered : florets lanceolate, ovate, 

 shining. 



Peninsula. Bengal, in diy barren ground. 



(4) E. MULirFLOEA. (Triu.) 



Ident. Trinius in Act. Petrop. vi. 401. 



Syn. Poa multiflora, Roxb. 



Spec. Chae. Culm sub-erect, round, smooth, 6 — 18-inches : 

 leaves short : mouths of the sheaths a little hairy: panicle much 

 longer than the rest of the plant, oblong : branches fuiform, short, 

 drooping, simple : spikelets pedicelled, very long, linear, crowded, 

 60 — 70-flowered, smooth : glumes obtuse. 



Gogo on the Kattywar coast. Bengal. 



