76 CLXXiii. GKAMiXEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Arundinella. 



lanceolate acute 5-nerved, III oblong obtuse, IV ovate-lanceolate, awn 

 very shortly exserted base twisted. 



SiKKiM Tebat, Clarke, t t • 



Stem 6 ft. or more, stouter than a swan's quill above. Leaven 2-3 ft. by 1 ni^ 

 coriaceous, hairy beneath ; sheath long, margins fimbriate ; Ugule a ridge of hairs. 

 Panicle \2rA% by 4-6 in.; rachis stout, erect, angular, nearly smooth; branches 

 rarely divided, filiform, scaberulous. Spitelets solitary or 2-nate, pale, usuallj 

 longer than their pedicels. — The great »ize, large panicle with long branchea, the upper 

 far exceeding the rachis, will characterize this gigantic species. 



19. A. leptochloa, Hook,/.; tall, slender, leaves narrow^ panicle 

 pyramidal or subcorymbiform often interrupted, branches short flimpw 

 slender alternate whorled or fascicled, spikelets -^^ in. 1-2-seriate secnnd 

 seHBile or pedicelled glabrons, gl. I = J II ovate acuminate 3-nerved, 11 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, III ovate-oblong subacute 5-nervea, 

 IV lanceolate scaberulous base naked, awn minute or 0. Panicum lep- 

 tochloa, Nees ex Steud. Syn, Oram, 62 ; Wight Gat. n. 1621 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 62; Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 360; Trim. Cat Ceyl. PL 105. r. 

 zeylanicum, Am. mss. Leptochloa Ppanicoides, Herb. TVighty n. 125,^ 

 Steud. I. c. L, pectinata, Steud. L c. 



Malabab; at Quilon, Wight. Cetlon, not uncommon, Thwaitet* 

 Stem 2-4 fl., from a woody rootstock, as thick as a crow-quill or less > nodes 

 glabrous. Leaves 6-10 in., rarely i in. broad, glabrous or hairy ; sheath smooth or 

 hairy; ligule obscure. Panicle 2-14 in., rachis faintly scaberulous; branches l;^ ^°'' 

 Buberect, rarely spreading, slender, not flexuous ; axils bearded or ciliate. S/>i?^««^' 

 rarely longer than their pedicels ; gls. thin, nerves of I scabrid. 



Var. ffracillima; more slender, leaves narrower, panicle pyramidal, brancnca 

 alternate very distant, spikelets more distant very shortly pedicelled. — Gocbio, 

 Johnstone, in wet places, Nilambar, Lawson. 



20. A. ZiawBOniy ffooh.f.; tall, stout, leaves linear-lanceolate acnt« 

 scabrid above, panicle tall pyramidal, rachis scabrid, branches fascicle^ 

 or subverticillate erecto-patent filiform strict simple or lower branched, 

 spikelets ^ in. solitary or 2-nate glabrous about equalling their pedicels* 

 gl. 1 = I II ovate acuminate 3-5-nerved, II ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 5-nerved, III obtuse 5-7-nerved, IV lanceolate scaberulous base naked, 

 awn 0. 



NiLGHiEi Hills; in swamps at Goodaloor, alt. 3000 ft., Lawson. 



Stem erect, 3-4 ft. higli, ueurly as thick as the little finder below. Leaves, lower 

 few, 8-12 by | iu., narrowed from the base to the acuminate tip, flat, rigid, upj^^ 

 very narrow; midrib slender; nerves very many and close, margins scabrid; 

 sheath hairy; ligule 0. Panicle dull blue-purple; rachis strict and branches 

 siaberulous ; branches alternate or fascicled, lower 4-6 in. branching at the bas^* 

 SpikeMs glabroUs, sessile or pedicelled, longer or shorter than their slender pedicels; 

 gls. rather coriaceous, ficfves strong. — A very distinct-looking plant, unlike any 

 known to me, but I have seen only one specimen, and it may prove to be a form o^ 

 A* leptochloa, 



21. A. irigrantea, Dah. in Dalz. & Oils. Bomh. Fl 293 ; tall, stout, 



upper leaves 1-1 i in. broad lanceolate base rounded or subcordate, panicle 

 — I 1 1_. ^1 -o , . . . , t " ■ • j^^„^i«. /.rnwded 



su 

 slend 



2-4 



pedicelled, gh I = J II broadly ovate acute 3-nerved, II ovate acuminate 



