THE FLORA HONGKONGENSIS. 135 
Struggling in hedges and on banks; common near Heongkong. 
Flowering in November and December. Found also in India and 
on the mainland. 
54, Andropogon punctatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 264; Nees in Pl. Meyen. 
187; Trin. Ic. Gram. t. 328. 
In dry sandy places. In the mountainous parts of India, as 
far north as Kashmir and Kumaon, and also in South China. 
*Andropogon brevifolius, Sw.? 
The Chinese grass is so different in all its proportions from the 
South-American one, that I do not believe they are conspecific. 
55, Anthistiria heteroclita, Rorb. Fl. Ind. i. 249; Steud. Syn. PT. 
Gram. 389, sub Andropogone. 
Amongst grass. Gathered by me in November 1862. Found 
also in India. 
*Ischemum leersioides, Munro., 
is, I think, much nearer to Z. falcatum, Nees, than to T. pectina- 
tum, Trin., of which Bentham suggests that it may prove to be a 
variety. 
56. Aristida Cumingiana, Trin. and Ruprecht, Spec. Gram. Stipac. 141. 
(=Cheetaria trichodes, Nees in Hook. Kew Gard. Miscel. ii. 101.) 
Thickly carpeting the precipitous sides of the trap-rock gully 
between the villages of Aberdeen and Heongkong, where the 
stream runs into the sea and the highroad is below the level of 
high water; first discovered by Mr. Sampson in October 1868; 
also since met with on the summit of the White-Cloud hills out- 
side Canton. An exceedingly pretty grass, hitherto found only 
in the Philippines, unlike any other Asiatic species, but closely 
allied to the South-American A. capillacea, Lam. Steudel, with 
characteristic negligence, after copying Trinius and Ruprecht’s 
character (Syn. Pl. Gram. 140), quotes Chetaria trichodes, Nees, 
as a synonym, with Cuming’s n. 671 for the type, and afterwards 
in the same page describes this as a separate species, with a re- 
ference to Hooker’s Journal, where the same number is given. 
It is to be regretted that the Russian monographers could devise 
no better arrangement of this large genus than a geographical one. 
57. Leersia hexandra, Sw.; Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 2. E 
In ditches and wet places, not uncommon. Widely dissemi- 
nated over the warmer regions of the globe. The genus, remark- 
able for containing mono-, di-, tri-, and hexandrous species, ouly 
