614 



(5) E. TiscosA. (Trin.J 



Ident. Trinius 1. c— Dalz. 1. c. p. 298. 



Syn. Poa riparia, Willd. — P. -viscosa, Roxb. 



Spec. Chae. Culms narrow and with the leaves glabrous: 

 panicle thyrsiform, contracted, elongated, with the branches very 

 short and compound : spikelets oblong, very shortly pedioelled, 

 6 — 20-flowered, lower valve most frequently ciliated. 



Malabar hill, Bombay. Peninsula. Bengal. It is covered with 

 a viscid resinous substance, having a balsamic odour. 



(6) E. BEFAEIA. (Vahl.J 



Ident. Tahl. symb. II. 19 (under Poa). 



Syn. Poa bifaria, Roxb. 



Migrm).- Kunth. gram. I. t. 80. 



Spec. Chae. Culms erect, simple, slender, 1 — 2-feet: leaves 

 keeled and folded, stiff, glaucescent, glabrous : sheaths keeled : 

 spike straight, simple, unilateral, distichous : spikelets sessile, 

 alternate, Unear-lanceolate, compressed: lower ones 4 — 11, upper 

 15 — 17-fl.owered. 



Mountains and dry localities. 



(7) E. CEETACEA. fNeeB and Am.) 



Ident. Uees and Arn. MS. — Steudel 1. c. p. 264. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot of long fibres, turfy: culms erect, low, 

 compressed : leaves narrow, folded : spike simple, rigid, waved, 

 margined : spikelets secund, distichous, incumbent, 4-flowered, sub- 

 oval, convex at both ends, almost cartilaginous : gliunes equal, 

 2-fiirrowed at the keel : lower valve ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved. 



Madras. 



(8) E. PTJNCTATA. (Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. sp. I. 395 (under Poa). 



Syn. Poa punctata, Rexb. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, simple: leaves small, glabrous: sheaths 

 bearded at the mouth : rays of the oblong panicle simple, expanded : 

 lower ones verticilled: spikelets rather remote, linear, 12 — 14- 

 flowered : seed oblique, oblong. 



Bengal, in tufts on pasture ground. 



