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[Eremochloa. 
Glume I orbicular-ovate or lanceolate flat edges incurved pectinate 
with scabrid processes; glume II oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
thin, 3-nerved; glume III oblong, male; glume IV smaller. Species 
9, tropical Asia and Australia. 
(i) E. malayana Ridl. Mat. hi. 155. 
Leaves distichous at base, linear acute flat, 15 in. long, 18 in. 
wide, hairy. Culms slender, 10 in. long, hairy. Racemes 2 in. long, 
with 12 to 25 spikelets. Nodes ciliate purple. Spikelets oblong 
blunt, -I in. long, bristles on edge, strong, purple. Glume I strongly 
ribbed, appressed, hairy. Hab. Open sandy spots. Kedah, Peak; 
Yan. Setul, Sandy heaths (Ridley). 
10. EULALIA, Kunth. 
Creeping ascending or tufted grasses. Leaves narrow. Racemes 
I to 6, yellow-brown or purplish. Spikelets all alike in pairs, i 
sessile, i pedicelled. Florets 2, lower reduced to a scale or absent 
upper bisexual. Glumes equal membranous to coriaceous . Glume 
I flattened or shallow, concave, keeled; glume II i- to 3-nerved; 
glume III muticous sometimes suppressed; glume IV awned. 
Species 25, Old World. 
Tall erect plant; racemes 3 to 8, white; leaves long, 
flaccid.(i) E. lanipes 
Erect slender plant; racemes 4, white-silky; leaves . _ 
very narrow pungent . . . . • . (2) E. Milsumi 
Dwarf plant, long-creeping; racemes 4, golden-brown; 
leaves 3 in. long, narrow . . . . • (s) E. Rldleyi 
Dwarf plant, shortly creeping; raceme solitary, golden 
brown; leaves short, i in. long, broader . . . (4) E. prcemorsa 
(1) E. lanipes Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vii. 56 . 
Tufted plant, base of leaves white-woolly. Leaves linear 
acuminate, 20 in. long, ‘2 in. wide, base and ligule white silky. 
Culms 20 in. long. Racemes 3 to 8, densely white hairy; pedicels 
and outer glumes hairy. Glumes I and II lanceolate narrow thin, 
glume III lanceolate sparse hairy; glume IV narrow. Awn 7 in. 
long. Grain ellipsoid beaked. Hah. Mountains, Kedah Peak at 
4000 ft. altitude (Robinson). 
(2) E. Milsumi Ridl. (Fig. 222, p. 197.) 
Tufted grass over i ft. tall, stems wiry slender. Leaves crowded 
above base, linear acuminate pungent, 3 in. long, -05 in. wide, 
glabrous except for a few long white hairs at the base and mouth 
of sheath, no ligule. Racemes i to 4, white silky, 3 in. long, crowded 
at the end of a long slender peduncle 6 in. long wdth 2 or 3 short, 
distant leaves; rachis of raceme terete, fringed with white silky 
hairs, joints tufted, silky white. Spikelets, i sessile, i articulate 
on a silky fringed pedicel. Glumes I to III lanceolate narrow^ white 
hairy, awned from below the tip. Glume IV very short hyaline 
bifid, lobes acuminate, awn *5 in. long. Stamens 3, yellow; stigmas 
