NOTES ON GRASSES GROWING IN CEYLON, 



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En. p. 372. C. P. 916. I found this fine tall oat-like grass 

 near Baker's Farm in Nuwara Eliya in April, 1879. 



169. Eriachne triseta, N. ab Es., Steud. Syn. Gram, 

 p. 237. Megalaclme zeylanica, Thw. En. p. 372. 0. P. 3,247. 

 Airopsis triseta, Nees. Aristida biflora, Moon, Cat. p. 9 ? Pini- 

 tuttiri, Sinhalese. This grass is very abundant in the Cinnamon 

 Gardens, Colombo, and is always in flower. It is a miserable, 

 wiry, withered-looking grass and grows in dense tufts. No 

 animal will touch it ; it is a wretched, worthless weed. 



170. Uralepis fusca, Steud. Tridens indicus, N. ab Es. 

 MSS. This rare grass was found by the late Dr. Gardner at 

 Elephant Pass in the Northern Province. Specimens of it 

 were sent by me to the Peradeniya Herbarium in December, 

 1863, collected near Colombo, I think. 



171. Pommsreulla. CORNUCOPIA, Linn, fil. Rox, Cor. 

 Plants, 2. No. 131. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 331, Moon Cat. p. 7. 

 Referring to this No., Dr. Trimen has kindly added the 

 following note : — " I suspect an error on Moon's part. There 

 is a small grass from ' Jaffna? Moon' in the herbarium here 

 (C. P. 3,250), which may be the plant meant, but it is not 

 Ponimereulla." This accounts for the fact that C. P. 3,250 is 

 not given for any plant in Enumeratio. 



172. Poa annua, Linn. This is one of the most common 

 of English grasses. Dr. Thwaites gives it as common on road- 

 sides at Nuwara Eliya, but thinks it is possibly an introduced 

 plant. It is so very plentiful in various parts of Dimbula, and 

 especially on the banks of streams not near cultivation, that it 

 looks very like a native plant, but its immense power of spread- 

 ing in England is well known, and it may after all be an 

 escape from packets of English seeds. 



173. Eragrostis bifaria, W. and A. E. secunda, N. ab 

 Es. Poa bifaria, Vahl. Rox. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 331. A tall grass 

 with long narrow terminal spikes having sessile, alternate, 



