ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



CEYLON BRANCH. 



GRAMINEiE OR GRASSES 

 INDIGENOUS TO, OR GROWING IN CEYLON, 



As given in the Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylanice, pp. 3o6 to 376 

 and Addenda, with notes on them, especially those 

 useful as fodder plants or otherwise, 



By W. Ferguson, F.L.S. 



Bead at the General Meeting, Asiatic Society, September llth, 1879. 



[Continued from Journal, Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 

 for 1880, p. 90.] 



138. Imperata arundinacea, Cyvill. I. cylindrica, Beauv. 

 Lagurus cylindricus, Linn, is the large European form of 

 this plant ; Sir W. Munro, Lin. Jl. 6, p. 48. This has a 

 large number of Botanical names and has been described by 

 several authors. It is the famous Hook of the Sinhalese, 

 the Lalang of Java, Weri of Amboina, Alaag-alang of the 

 Malays, and is well known as a great pest in some places. 

 It is common in Ceylon from the sea-coast up to several 

 thousand feet elevation, and in consequence of the great depth 

 to which its underground stems extend, is most difficult to 

 eradicate once it gets into a coffee estate or other cultivated 

 ground. On some of the cocoanut estates beyond Negombo, 



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