362 159. GRAMINEX. 
Chefoo (Faber, 990! Forbes, 399). | Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
Kew. 
Japan. 
Searcely distinguishable from var. fasciculata. 
o. Rottboellia exaltata, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 114; Nees, in Nov. 
Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) p. 201; Hack. Mon. Androp. 
p. 293 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 156 ; A. Henry, in Trans. 
Asiat. Soc. Jap. xxiv. Suppl. (1896) p. 108. 
Stegosia cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 51. 
Foxren: Amoy (Hance, 1395 in parti: Formosa: Takow 
(A. Henry, 1127 A !), Apes’ Hil (4. Henry, 1127! Playfair, 
1941); Kwaxarusa: Whampoa (Hance, 1395 in part !), Macao 
(Bladh! Ford, 903!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Widely distributed in the tropies. 
3. Rottkoellia latifolia, Steud. in Flora, xxxi. (1846) p. 21, ef 
Syn. Gram. p. 301; Hack. Mon. Androp. p. 281, ef in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. vii. (1899) p. 641, et sér. 2, iii. (1903) p. 501; 
Debeaux, Fl. Shanghai, p. 71. 
Rottboellia foliata, Steud. Syn. Gram. p. 361. 
Ischeemum latifolium, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Dot. Lugd.- Dat. ii. p. 291; 
Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. p. 193. 
Cuina: without locality (Fortune, A 29!) ; East Coast (Mome ). 
Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Japan. 
4. Rottboellia mollicoma, Hance, in Journ. Bot. ix. (1871) 
p. 134; Hack. Mon. Androp. p. 297. 
KwaNaTUNG: Whampoa (Hance, 75581), Lofaushan (Ford, 
130!) Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Tonkin. 
A very distinct species with the habit of 2. glandulosa, Trin., 
but at once distinguished by the sessile spikelet at each node, 
the back of which is conspicuously tesselated as in W. nigrescens, 
Thwaites ; it differs from the latter in the perfectly free stalk of 
the rudimentary pedicelled spikelet. 
1. Ophiurus monostachyus, J. S. Presl, in C. B. Presl, Rel. 
Henk. i. p. 830; Hack. Mon. Androp. p. 318; Benth. FL 
Hongk. p. 417. ` 
