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Mnanthus.] clxxiit. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 61 



. SiKKiM Himalaya; ascending to 3300 ft. Khasia Hills, alt. 1-4000 ft., 

 Assam, and Bet^gal.— Cetlon, alt. 4000 ft. — Distrib. Tropics generally. 

 .. Stem 1-2 ft,, weak, decumbent ; loosely branched, more or less pubescent. Leaves 

 3-6 by ^-1 iu., broadjy-lanceolate, thin, flat, caudate-acuminate, scaberulous ; base 

 rounded or cordate, ciliate; sheath lax; ligule a few hairs. Panicle B-i in., uni- 

 ateral; branches erect or spreading, and pedicels scaberulous. Spikelets \ in. long, 

 Sreen; gl. I-III persistent, keels scabrid ; I more than \ III, ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 anstate, 3-nerved, II acuminate 5-nerved ; III obtuse 5-nerved, palea large; IV = 

 illl deciduous, smooth, pale, turned half round so that the long diam. is at right 

 j'Jigles to the plane of the spikelets ; appendages obscure. — The oblique position of 

 the gram is very peculiar. ^ ' ^^ ^ 



2. 1. foliolosus, Munro hi Herb. Kew ; dwarf, hispidly hairy, 

 lastigiately branched from the base, leaves short almost subulate, spik^- 

 je'si in. m short panicles half immersed in the leafy tips of the short 

 wanches erect, gl. I neaily=III 5-nerved, II longer than III sub- 



oJi- ' J^'- ^Paleate D-nerved, IV ellipsoid acute, appendage minute 

 anticous 2.1obed. Paninnm fnlinlr.«nm - " "- 



BUHM 



Wall 



itinUo!' r**"*^**^^- ^P'^^^^l^ts green, tips scabrid; gl. IV much shorter than 111, 

 »^>P»tate, base truncate.-A very peculiar species. 



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Very ZT^ H*^® glabrous gra8a ; stem solid. Leaves broad, flat. Panicle 

 er^ct hr u ®' "^^^^ myriads of crowded long filiform compoand sub- 

 ^M S 1 f ^^*^ l^ranchlets bearing innumerable subsecund very minute 



Wc 



n i^i^f ^ ^^^^^ af^ jointed on very abort pedicels. Glumes 4 ; land 

 'II mool, l' ''°°<'^^®' obtuse, awnless ; I shortest nerveless ; H nerveless ; 

 ing. lY ^o^ger, epaleate, empty, coriaceous, acuminate, 1-nerved, harden- 

 Wect ha,-/ f shorter membranous, oblong, acute, clothed with white 

 free qI'- P*'^^ s^ort, truncate. Stamens 2-3, anthers short. Styles 



'•«w most minute, free within the hardened glumes. 



Wsiif /?****' ^^^^ »» Edinb. new Phil. Jomm. xviii (1835) 180; 

 ^'«f* inNn T- ^^^- T. maxima, Herh. 0. Kuntze. T. acarifera. Am. & 

 ^''f'oa in L.J^''*- C«^. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 181 ; _, „. 



^''<^- 13 Fn^T^n^'"'"'^- ^«^- ^i'i- ^oc. V. (1890) 347; Duthie Grass^.W. 

 ^'■^- si K^i ^C?/*- ^- ^«^- 21. Panicum acariferura, Trin. Sp.Gmm. 

 ^«'-*- flam . nfi,^''^'"'^- ^37 ; Mzg. Ft. Ind. Bat. iii. 517. P- Amlisa 

 r«'-2. Zon^^^ ^ o^^- '• "• C. Myriachaeta arundinacea, ZoU. Sc Mor.S^yH. 

 ^^\ Zoll'v^} f^^^-S^yn. Gram. 404. M. glauca, Mor. ex Steiid. I.e. 

 ^^ima 'Jh ^' "^ Melica latifolia, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 328. Agrostis 

 i scoparia %r' ""• ^^'^' ^- latifolia, ffey»e in Serb. B'dtl {non Trevir.). 

 ^''"^- Sam.f^'^n^ ^-^ ^^^b. Rottl. {non Steud.). Arundo montana, 



* 5000 iT^^i^i^^^''^'^'^^, f'-O'n Kumaon eastwards and the Kfisia Hills, alt. 

 ,^*»4N8._t>i„^„7 ; ^^ i'rtrus.uath. The Deccan, BokMa; Nicobae laus., and 



.S/e.a 4.12 ft ?; ^«?t^- to New Guinea. , . „ . • 



"""=«>««, taw' °™^*'»>«8 as thick H8 the little fin-.T. Leaver 1-2 ft. by 2-1 m., 



t^""g to u fiue poiut, base cordate j uiouth of sbeHtLs bairy; Iigule 



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