617 



Syn. Poa Eoxburghiana, SohuU. — P. tortuosa, Spreng. 



Spec. Chae. Culm Bub-erect, flexuose, glabrous: leaves flat: 

 sheaths haity at the mouth : rays of the nodding, ovate, close- 

 packed, elongated panicle (usually exceeding half the plant in 

 length) solitary, alternate, somewhat horizontal, branched : gland 

 in each axU brown, hairy : spikelets lanceolate, 20-flowered : seed 

 brown. 



Eengal. 



(18) E. PASICtTLATA. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Boxb. 1. c. p. 340 (under Poa). 



Spec. Chae. Culm sub-erect, 2 — 4-feet : leaves long, very hairy 

 at the mouth of the- sheaths: rays of the oblong panicle very- 

 numerous, filiform, expanded, hairy at the insertions : spikelets 

 long-pediceUed, 4 — 16-flowered: glumes ciliated: outer valve 

 rounded at the apex, inner obsoletely ciliated at the back. 



Bengal. 



(19) E. Gangeiica. (Roxb.) 



Ideht. Eoxb. 1. e. p. 340 (under Poa). 



Spec, Chae. Culms turfy, numerous, branched, 1-foot: leaves 

 small, glabrous : rays of the ovate panicle, remote, alternate, some- 

 what diverging : spikelets linearj 30 — 40-flowered, acuminate, 

 glabrous : lower spikelets deciduous : glumes yellow, obtuse. 



Banks of the Ganges, not common. 



(20) E. NiGEA. (Neei.) 



Ident. Nees Ms. — Steudel 1. c. p. 267. 



Spec. Chae. — Culni erect : leaves flat, linear, and with the 

 sheaths glabrous : mouth of the sheaths naked or bearded : panicle 

 racemosely decompound, spreading : rays divided from the base, 

 flexuose, sub-capillary, smooth, lower ones almost opposite : axils 

 sparingly bearded : spikelets long-pediceUed, 4 — 8-flowered, leaden 

 brown : rhachiUa waved : glumes lanceolate, acuminate : lower 

 valve ovate, acutish, 3 -nerved, nerves scarcely prominent, upper 

 naked, shorter: caryopsis ovate, compressed and trigonous, trun- 

 cated, cremilate-striated, channelled behind. 



Peninsula. 



(21) E. ateopueptjeea. (Sochd.) 

 Hochst. 1. c, N. 938.— Steudel 1. c. p. 267. 



