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Eastern Asia from the Malayan archipelago to Japan. It has 
the inartieulate panicle-branches and most other characters of 
Imperata, from which Andersson technically separated it by the 
awn of the flowering glume. Exceptional unawned species oceur 
in so many genera where they are usually awned, that this can 
scarcely be regarded as a generic character where there is nothing 
else to separate the two forms. Here, however, if we remove one 
species from Imperata to Miscanthus, inflorescence supplies two 
natural groups. In Imperata the panicle is long, narrow, and 
dense, with short erect branches buried in the copious silky hairs, 
the glumes are never awned, and there is only one, or rarely two, 
stamens; in Miscanthus the panicle is loose, with long spreading 
branches, the silky hairs are less dense and in one species almost 
wanting, the flowering glume is in most species awned, and there 
are always three stamens. The species known to Trinius were 
by him included in Eulalia; and Munro, whom I followed in 
the ‘Flora Hongkongensis,’ restricted the name Ewlalia to the 
species now constituting Miscanthus; but as the true Eulalia of 
Kunth is the type of a section of the very different genus Pol- 
linia, Y have thought it necessary to adopt Andersson's later name 
Miscanthus. Besides his species, I would include in the genus 
M. fuscus (Eriochrysis fusca, Trin., E. attenuata, Nees) from East 
India, M. saccharifer (Imperata saccharifera, Anders.), from North 
China, which has the inflorescence and stamens, but not the awns, 
of the other species, and M. cotulifera ( Eulalia cotulifera, Munro) 
from J apan, which has scarcely any of the hairs of the other species. 
Steudel proposed the latter as a distinet genus under the name 
of Eccoilopus. 
With 3. Saccuarum and 4. EnrANTHUS commence the series 
of true Andropogone& with the branches of the panicle arti- 
culate ; and these two genera are so closely connected that they 
might well be reunited, although they are now almost universally 
recognized as distinct. There might indeed be no great objec- 
tion to consider both, as well as Pollinia and Spodiopogon, as sec- 
tions of one large genus. As now limited, Saccharum is chiefly 
characterized by the compound panicle, usually dense, sometimes 
very large, and the spikelets very small without any points or 
awns to the glumes. The species are supposed to be about ten, 
the typical ones belonging to the tropical or subtropical regions of 
the Old World, amongst which the well-known sugar-caue is now 
extensively cultivated also in America. The genus would also 
