420 159. GRAMINE E. 
Cloud hills, Canton (Sampson, 1556 !), mainland opposite Hong- 
kong (Harland, in herb. Hance, 2131 in part!); Honaxona 
( Hance, 2131 in part), Happy Valley woods (Lamont !), ravine 
leading up to 900 yards range (Urquhart, 250!). Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. 
Tropical Asia to Polynesia and Tropical Australia ; Tropical 
Africa. 
Var. inermis, Rendle, n. var. Folia speciei ad 7 poll. longa 
et 13. poll. lata. Panicula triangulari-ovata, densa, 32 poll. 
longa et lata, rami horizontaliter patentes, secundi, spiculis 
nutantibus; spiculæ 1 poll. longæ, 3-4-floræ. Glume florentes 
rarissime setam solitariam sub apice gerentes. 
Formosa: Bankinsing (A. Henry, 417!). Herb. Kew. 
At first sight this has the appearance of a distinet species, 
owing to the habit of the inflorescence with crowded secund 
branches and nodding spikelets. But, except for the practically 
complete absence of the characteristic recurved bristles of the 
flowering glumes, the spikelets do not differ from those of the 
species—in which, moreover, there is considerable variation in 
the number of bristles on the glumes. 
1. Lophatherum gracile, Brongn. in Duperrey, Voyage, Bot. 
p. 90, t. 85; Steud. Syn. Gram. p. 300; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 433; 
flack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. (1899) p. 707; Franchet, PI. 
David.i. p. 337; Pilger, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) p. 225 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 331. 
Lophatherum elatum, Zoll. et Mor. in Mor. Syst. Verz. p. 102 ;. Franch. 
et Savat. Enum, Pl. Jap. ii. p. 179; Hack. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. (1884) 
p. 50. 
Lophatherum japonicum, Steud. Syn. Gram. p. 300. 
Lophatherum Lehmanni, Nees, ex Steud. Le: A. Henry, in Trans. 
Asiat. Soc, Jap. xxiv. Suppl. (1896) p. 109. 
CuEKIANG : Ningpo Mountains ( Faber, 284 !); FokrEN : Amoy 
( Hance, 1013 in part!) ; Formosa (Oldham, 618 !), Bankinsing 
Mountains (A. Henry, 1647 !); Huren: West (Wilson, 533 !), 
Nanto and mountains to the northward (A. Henry, 4635 !); SZE- 
cHUEN: Mt. Omei (Faber, 1154!; Kwanatune: wood at White 
Cloud Monastery, Canton (Sampson, 11661); Hoxakoxa: Happy 
Valley woods ( Lamont! Ford, 595! Hance,1013in part! Wright!); 
Lucuu ARCHIPELAGO (Wright!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Japan, Hill country of India and Ceylon, Malaya. 
