159. GRAMINER. 403 
Kwanatune: Macao (Abel!); Honaxone: spontaneous (Hance, 
1069 !), Aberdeen (.Lamont!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
India, Japan, and widely distributed in the warmer parts of 
the earth. | 
1. Enteropogon gracilior, Rendle, n. sp. 
Herba perennis, culmi tenues e basi sepe repente ascen- 
dentes demum erecti, ramosi, floriferi ad sesquipedales, plurinodes, 
internodia 4 ad 4 lin. lata, glabra, inferiora a foliorum vaginis 
sepius obtecta, superiora sæpius vaginas paullo excedentia, 
supremum valde exsertum. Foliorum vagine cylindrieze, inter- 
nodiis arcte circumvolute, glabræ, ore albido-pilose, robustiores 
dorso carinulate ; ligula brevissima, pilis mollibus albidis 1 lineis 
longis instructa; lamina glauca, rigidula, anguste linearis, superne 
attenuata, plana vel sepe plus minus convoluta, 2-8 poll. longa, 
ad. 14 lin. lata, glabra, dorso seabridula. Spica linearis, densa, 
ad 5 poll. longa, 1 lin. lata; spicule sessiles, in seriebus duabus 
ordinate, 21 lin. longs, uniflore cum flosculo altero abortivo. 
Glume steriles hyaline, lanceolate, uninerves (nervi virides), 
persistentes, inferior obtusa, § lin. longa, superior acuta pæne 
aristulata, vix 2 lin. longa, nervo valido; gl. fertilis, 2 lin. longa, 
cum marginibus ad nervos laterales inflexis elliptiea, 3-nervis, 
nervi validi, dorso in parte superiore scabriduli, medianus ex 
apice bilobulato in aristam debilem gluma duplo longiorem pro- 
longatus; callus breviter pilosus; palea quam gluma paullo 
brevior, carinulis superne scabridulis ; flosculus abortivus, 14 lin. 
longus, cum aristula debile, 2 lin. longa, glumam fertilem paullo 
superante. 
Formosa: Takow (A. Henry, 1119), Apes’ Hill (4. Henry, 
1940!) Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
A well-marked species, resembling Enteropogon melicoides in 
habit but less robust, and differing in the slenderer shorter spike, 
and smaller, not clustered spikelets. 
1. Chloris barbata, Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. i. p. 200; Steud. Syn. 
Gram. p. 204; Nees, in Hook. d Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy. 
p. 250; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 429 ; A. Henry, in Trans. Asiat. 
Soc. Jap. xxiv. Suppl. (1896) p. 109; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vii. p. 292, 
Formosa: Takow, on cliff and near sea-level (4. Henry, 726, 
