898 159. GRAMINEF. 
Characterized by the long narrow linear leaves of the sterile 
shoots, which are surrounded at the base by a dense covering of 
reddish sheath-remains, and the habit of the inflorescence with 
its pyramidal outline and laxly-spreading lower branches. 
Var. ligulata, Rendle, var. nov. Culmus 24-pedalis, parte in- 
feriore 14 lin. crass., 8-nodus. Foliorum vagine glabri, scabri- 
dulo-striatz ; ligula ovata, ad 33 lin. longa; lamina linearis, sub 
medio angustata et plicata, superne longe attenuata, ad sesqui- 
pedalis longa, 24 lin. lata, utrinque scabrida. Panicula stricta, 
densa, 9 poll. longa; spicule 2-24 lin. longe. Gluma i. secundam 
paullo excedens; gl. fertilis sterilibus c. 4 lin. brevior (smpe 
2 lin. longa); arista basalis 24 lin. longa; pili laterales in callo 
c. llin. longi; palea glumam subequans; rhachilla eum pilis 
paleam subequans vel paullo brevior. 
Huren (A. Henry, 5021!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Characterized by its long ligule, its dense strict panicle, and 
by having the rhachilla-continuation with its hair-tuft about 
equal to the pale, and the lateral tufts of hairs on the callus 
barely half the length of the glume. 
Var. sciuroides, Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi1.(1899) p. 652. 
Calamagrostis sciuroides, Franch. et Savat. Enum, Pl. Jap. ii. p. 600. 
CHIHLI: hills in neighbourhood of Jehol (David, 2182 !), dry 
hills and edges of fields in Peking district (Williams, in herb. 
Hance, 12793 in part). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Japan. 
Distinguished from the species by its longer, more rigid and 
scabrid spikelets, conspicuous nerves on the upper barren glume, 
and longer hairs on callus of fertile glume. 
Tribe A VENES. 
1. Eriachne pallescens, #. Br. Prodr. p. 184; Steud. Syn. 
Gram. p. 237 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. p. 630. 
Eriachne Hookeri, Munro (nomen), in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot. vi. 
(1862) p. 42; Hance, in Ann, Sci. Nat. sér. 5, v. (1866) p. 251. 
Eriachne chinensis, Hance, in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 4, xv. (1861) p. 228, 
and in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xiii. (1873) p. 136. 
Aira seminibus hirsutis, aristis terminalibus, flore longioribus, Osbeck, 
Resa, p. 220. 
