; 



/ 



^^^mi<x:\ CLxxiii. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 107 



. 2. 1, ezaltata^ Brongn. Toy. Coq. Bot. 101 {excl. Syn.) ; panicle 

 wyrsiform, lower branches elongate, gl. I 3-5-nerved, stamen 1. Mack. 

 llil°3>'- Androp. 99. I. caudata, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. vi. li. 



• ^i • '' ^- Jacalatoria, Boeyn. ^ Sch. Syst. ii. 289. I. ramosa, Anderss. 

 niLfveritV^t Jh^j cr^„.7.i. .lo^^r. -.ro^ Saccharum Alopecurus, iVTee* 



"^^J- Ifl. Cochinch. 63; Poiret JEncycl. Suppl. ii. 70. S. macilentum 

 a "• ®« *^e«d. I. c. S. negrosense, Steud. I. c. Anatheram porto-ricease 



^f¥- gv*<. i. 290. A. caudatum, ' Schuli Mant. ii. 445. Syllepis poly- 

 ■«=nya, Jioum^ ex Sack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. III. 251. 



Griffith,.— T)i%tuiB. Malaya, N. Hebri>les 



•4m. trop. 



I 



glabrous. Leaves 



•-Sfthvlri- ^ •' slender, fistalar, glabrous, nodes glabrous. A-ett^ea 



•heath 1 K '"■' ^^°^^^' fiJiely acumiimte, smooth, glabrous or sparsely pubescent ; 

 Ii«m)wl5» k ' ''""'® ^^'■y short. Panicle 12-18 in., 4-5 in. broad at the base, 

 NieeU pT ^^''^^ "^"^ ' ""^^h^s slender ; lower branches 3-4 in. long, branchlets and 

 *Knt nprv!i Tf^^*«^«*« i-i in., like those of I. arundinacea, but gl. I and II 

 gUbrong " ' ^ =i II oblong, deeply irregularly toothed above the middle, 

 •tire trLTh '^""^ ^^^"^'^'* 5 ^^ cuspidately lanceolate from an ovate base, quite 

 ' '5"'"°"8 J Palea quadrate, many-toothed, glabrous. 



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32. BtlSCAHTKUS, ^«(Zem. 



Tall 



*owS?/!u^^? grasses, ^g-i^i^e* long, simple and branched, very slender, 

 fachis oWn ? ^^^ °^ ^^« peduncle into a nodding fan-shaped corymb ; 

 pairs ll7 J 3'>i^ted. Spikelets very numerous, in unequally pedicel ed 

 ^thion„„ili, T ■ ^ subcompressed, one or both usually awned, callus 

 ^"carved m^ ^^"^^- G^wme«4; I chartaceous, nearly flat with narrow 

 ^ hyaHn^9^J!f ' " similar but more convex ; III hyalme, ovate, epaleate; 

 "•^118: i '^•*''' 2.toothed, with a long awn (rarely short or 0) in the • 

 '%ni^ra >. T'"'^^- Lodieulea cuneate. Stamens 2-3. Styles^ free. 

 ^«Wan ^^°^*- ^^«^"» linear- oblong, free.-Species 5-6, Asiatic and 



Sack. Monog 



^'». Jc ? fe^r-^^?^- i^ ^em. Acad. Petersh. Ser. vi. ii. (1833) 'S^, Sp. 

 ^^•^Erianthnfv-^^^,^^^''^^ nepalensis, Benth. ex Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 



'^'''"^ Hiua S*"/ V/^ 5 ^^""^ Garwhal to Bhotan. alt. 5-7500 ft., Wallich, &c. 



^ «tea 3_6' ft' " ht^OOO ft. Naqa H ills, Prain. . . • u i i ;„ 



•"— "^ ".. «» f K.„,. _ ieaw5 6-18in.byMii.., 



a„..„«n«. rachis capillary, 



:, •""»; pedicfla i • "^"^ * "gme rounaeu. aptKea neAU"u° 

 ^ ^ »''<i II miuutely 2'.tof£ed ^*^ " "'' ^°°^' P"'*i'^''^ *''' ^"^"^^ 



.Hac^. Mo 



V ^'*°8 not 1 ' -""■c/c. monogr. Androp. 109 ; spiKcs iev> 

 "^^'•^W^^^^Sv*^^^ tb« spikelet. Erianthus nudip^ 



Vrj^{4^ ^i^UxA, alt. 9-12,000 it,,J.D.H. Upper Assam 



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