NOTES ON GRASSES GROWING IN CEYLON, 15 



Es. This is a tall broad-leaved grass, with panicles from one 

 to two feet long, having long narrow divisions and spicules. 

 It is quite common in the edges of jungle near Colombo, and 

 elsewhere in the 'Western Province. 



1 88 . Ely trophorus articulatus, Beauv. Dactylis spicata, 

 Willd. This is a very common plant in rice fields and looks a 

 good deal like one of the Setarias at a distance. 



J 89. Tiupogon zeylanicus, N. ab Es. Found in the more 

 elevated parts of the Central Province. I have seen only a 

 dried specimen of this plant. 



190. Centotheca lappacea, Desv. Cenchrus lappaceus, 

 Linn. Melica diandra, Rox. Fl. Ind. 1, p. 327. Poa malaba- 

 rica, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 11. fig, 2. but not of Lioneus, which is 

 Panicum nodosum. There are several other synonyms given 

 for this plant in Kunth, En. 1, p. 366. This is a very abundant 

 grass in the same places as Lophatherum gracile. It is a native 

 of a great part of Asia, of some of the South Sea Is lauds, and 

 of Australia. Plants of it growing near Colombo have their 

 flower-spikes often metamorphosed into leaves. 



191. Brachypodium sylvaticum, R. and S. B. Nepalense, 

 N. ab Es. Found in the more elevated parts of the Island. 

 6i In woods, hedges, and thickets throughout Europe and 

 Central and Eussian Asia, except the extreme north; com- 

 mon in England and Ireland ; more scarce in the Scotch 

 Highlands." Bentham's Handbook of the British Flora, p. 

 987. 



192. Streptogyne crinita, Beauv. Found in the Matale 

 district by the late Dr. Gardner. I have seen only a dried 

 specimen of it. Dr. Trimen states that it is found in the 

 forest at the Henaratgoda gardens. 



For a more complete list of the following bamboos, 

 indigenous and introduced, than I possessed, I am indebted to 

 Mr, Morris. 



