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69. iELUROPUS, Trin. Contains 3 species, which extend from 

 the Mediterranean region to Arabia and Central Asia, and one of them 

 to the Punjab. They have creeping prostrate stems, and short rigid 

 often prickly leaves. The spikelets, which are many-flowered, are ar- 

 ranged in dense spike-like heads. The flowering glumes are broad at 

 the apex and mucronate. The Punjab representative, JE. littoralis, 

 Pari., var. repens, is characteristic of saline tracts in the Western parts 

 of the Province, where it appears to take the place of dub, which it 

 somewhat resembles in habit. 



70. POA, Linn. Species about 80, distributed over the cooler regions 

 of the world. On the Himalaya there are several species, including 

 some which are well-known in Europe and America as valuable fodder 

 plants. The spikelets are few-flowered and arranged in panicles, which 

 are usually lax. The flowering glumes are 5- or more-nerved, mem- 

 branous, keeled, and without awns. 



P. annua, Linn, Vern. — Bundelkhand : Chirua (Banda). 



A tufted annual, rarely exceeding one foot in height. Leaves flat 

 and flaccid. Panicle loose and spreading. Spikelets shortly stalked, 

 3-6-flowered ; rachis glabrous. 



Plains of N.-W. India, and up to 8 or 9,000 feet on the Himalaya. 

 It is a very nutritious grass, but the yield of foliage is too small to be 

 of much account. 



71. BROMUS, Linn. There are about 40 species, nearly all being 

 restricted to temperate parts of the world. Several kinds are found on 

 the Himalaya. The only species with which we are now concerned is 

 a fodder grass introduced from Australia under the name of " Prairie 

 grass," Bromus uniloides, H. B. & K. (Syn, — Ceratochloa uniloides, 

 Beauv.). 



Mueller describes it as one of the richest of all grasses, growing ex- 

 tensively and spreading readily from seed, particularly in fertile and 

 somewhat humid soils. It is not indigenous to Australia, having been 

 introduced into that country from America, where, especially in the 

 Southern States, it is much valued as a good winter grass, " affording 

 in the earlier months of spring a much-relished nutritious food as well 



as a good hay It withstands drought fairly well, but escapes the 



worst period of summer drought by ripening early in the season " (Dr. 

 G. Vasey, " Report on the Grasses of the South," U. S. A.) Other 

 names for this grass are — "Australian Oats," "Rescue grass," and 

 " Schader's Brome grass." 



The results of some trials made with this grass at Saharanpur showed 



