Echinochloa.] clxiil gramine^. 223 
River. Selangor, Rawang (Kloss); Kwala Lumpur; Ginting 
Sempah (Hume). Penang, Waterfall Gardens (Curtis). Distrib. 
All warm countries. 
var. frumcntacemn Roxb. Cultivated as a grain in India, occa¬ 
sionally occurs in cultivations. It is called Padi Burong by the 
Malays (a name also applied to a form of rice). 
36 . ERIOCHLOA, H. B. K. 
Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves thin, ligule a ring of 
hairs. Racemes panicled, branches of panicle and rachis slender, 
slightly flattened. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate acute, silky, articulate 
on slender pedicels, usually in pairs; pedicels thickened at the tip. 
Glume I a minute cup-shaped rim on the top of the pedicel; glume II 
lanceolate membranous; glume III resembling II; glume IV equal 
to it. Species 25 ; warm parts of the world. 
(i) E. annulata Kiinth. Enum. Rev. Gram. i. 30. E. poly- 
stachya Diithie. III. Indig. Grasses Ind. t. 41; Hook. fil. F.B.I. vii. 
29; Ridl. Mat. iii. 127 (not of H. B. K.). 
A tall, rather weak leafy grass, 2 ft. tall, geniculate. Leaves 
6 to 8 in. long, •! in. wide, sparsely hairy. Panicle 2 to 6 in. long, 
branches numerous, spreading. Spikelets *125 in. long, lanceolate 
acute, white silky; when paired, lower pedicel short, upper longer 
than spikelet. Glumes II and III silky, green or purplish. Hab. 
Waste ground, not very abundant. Johor, Batu Pahat. Malacca, 
Bulau Jawa (Griffith). Selangor, Petaling; Old Fort, Kwala 
Selangor. Bindings. Perak, Sitiawan (Ridley). Distrib. Tropical 
Asia and Africa, a weed in Cuba and St. Helena. 
37 . ALLOTEROPSIS, Presl. 
Slender perennial grasses. Panicle of a few slender branches. 
Spikelets 2-flowered, awned, ovate to elliptic. Glume I short 
ovate or lanceolate; glume II larger lanceolate; glume III narrower 
thinner, shorter; glume IV sub-coriaceous, awned. Species 5. 
Warm parts of the Old World. 
(i) A. cimicina Staff. FI. Trop. Africa ix. 487. Coridochloa 
cimicina Nces, Edinb. Phil. Journ. xv. 381. Axonopus cimicinus 
Beam. Agrost. 12; Ridl. Mat. iii. 145. 
Culms tufted, i to 4 ft. tall, decumbent and geniculate at base. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, amplexicaul, 1-5 to 3 in. long, -2 to 75 in. 
wide, edges ciliate, ligule a ring of hairs, sheaths ciliate. Panicle 
of siib-whorled branches, slender, 4 in. long. Rachis angled slender. 
Glume I lanceolate half as long as glume III; glume II lanceolate, 
fringed on both sides with long pinkish bristles. Awn short slender 
pale. Hab. Waste ground, usually in damp spots. Singapore, 
Tanglin, Botanic Gardens; Indigo fields behind Tyershall (Hullett); 
Tana Merah Besar (Burkill). Penang, Waterfall Gardens (Burkill); 
Telok Bahang (Curtis). Distrib. Indo-Malaya and China. 
This grass when dry has a pleasant smell of new-mown hay. 
