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Annual, glabrous. Stems erect, 1-3 feet high, smooth and polished. 

 Leaves long and flat. Panicle erect, 6-12 inches, contracted ; lower 

 branches often distant, two or more proceeding from the same level and 

 giving the panicle a verticellate appearance. Spikelets small, quite 

 smooth, often deeply tinged with red. 



Plains of Northern India in heavy retentive soils. It is not consid- 

 ered a first class fodder grass, but cattle eat it readily when other better 

 kinds have failed. 



E. pilosa, Beauv. Syn. — E. verticellata, R. & S. ; Poapilosa, Linn.; 

 P. verticellata, Cav. Vern. — Punjab: Nika sdhwah (Multan), gddar 

 ppunch (Hissar) ; N.-W. Prov. : Chiriya Tea ddna (Allahabad) ; Rajput- 

 ana: Palichhi (Ajmere) ; Cent. Prov. : KutaTci. 



Annual. Stems slender. Leaves flat, linear acuminate ; mouth of 

 sheaths pilose. Panicle much branched ; branches at first appressed, 

 afterwards spreading, the lower ones in verticels. Pedicels usually 

 longer than the spikelets. Spikelets minute, narrow, linear, loose, 5-11- 

 flowered, often tinged with purple. 



Common in the plains of Northern India, usually in damp or swampy 

 ground where it is relished by buffaloes. Mr. Symonds says that cattle 

 eat it readily, and that it would make good hay. Mr. Lowrie tells me 

 that at Ajmere it is considered to be a good fodder grass, and that the 

 seeds are eaten. In Australia it is said to be very productive as a 

 pasture grass. 



E. plumosa, Link. {Plates XXXVIII. and LXXVII.) Syn.—Poa 

 plumosa, Retz. Vern. — Punjab: Budhan and palinji (E. Punjab); 

 Rajputana: Ghiri ka Met (Ajmere), chiri ko bajro (Jeypur) ; N.-W. 

 Prov. and Oddh : Bara bhurbhura and bharbhuri (Doab), bholoni and 

 jhusa (Allahabad), galgala (Lucknow); Bdndelkhand : Phularwa (Ban- 

 da); Cent. Prov. : Bharbhuri bara and sipar gadi (Chanda), bharbusi 

 (Balaghat), pithi (Nagpur), safed bhurki (Seoni). 



Annual. Stems erect or ascending. Leaves linear acuminate. Pan- 

 icle oblong or somewhat pyramidal; branches slender, spreading, ciliate 

 at the axils. Pedicels longer than the spikelets. Spikelets very nu- 

 merous, small, lax, 5-7-flowered; axis articulate. Flowering glume 

 obliquely truncate at the apex. Pales ciliate with stiff spreading hairs. 

 This species varies very much both as to stature and in the form of the 

 panicle. Some specimens have their panicles so narrow and contracted 

 as to be hardly distinguishable from E. ciliaris, Link. 



Common in the plains of Northern India especially on sandy soils. 

 It is also abundant on saline usar soil in company with the usar grass 

 (Sporobolus orientalis). Capt. Wingate tells me that at Allahabad it 





