Spodtopogon,'] CLXXiii. graminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 109 



Garwhal, Jacquemont, Duthie. Khasia Hills, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. B.H. &- T. T.— 

 DiSTBiB. China, Japan. 



rerennial. Stem 3-8 ft. or more from a woody branclied stock, as thick as a 

 "Fans quill or less. Leaves 2-3 ft. by ^f in. ; sheath long, grooved; ligule shoi-t. 



L Tri ^'^^ *°'' ^^^^^^ slender, terete, branches whorled, capillary, lower 1--3 in., 

 ^-nd., flowering towards the ends ; pedicels -j^-i in,, clavellate, tips cupped. Spike- 



k!'^"' ^^^^* ^^^^ callus bearded; gl. I and II very strongly 7-9-nerved, nerves 



s^a^rulous, tips 2.dentate and very shortly awncd; III oblong, tip rounded, 



uherulous above the middle, not ciliate; palea lanceolate, subciliate ; IV glabrous, 



m w> below the middle into setiform lobes, awn twice as long as the spikelet ; palea 



other '^ ovate, obtuse, ciliate, nerveless.— A peculiar grass very unlike the 





34. POZiXiZNZA, Trin. 



fanr^^Y L-^'* P^^'snnial grasses. Spikes subdigitately approximate or 

 -T ,• r"°*e silky or ciliate, rachis fragile. Spikelets binate a sessile 

 JM pedicelled rarely both pedicelled, 1-fld. or the sessile 2-fld. Glumes 

 oftpn"^^^ ^^"^'^^ °^ coriaceous, dorsally flattened or concave, truncate 

 Wt}!'"?T'^^' °'' ^^P 2-toothed, margins narrowly inflexed throughout its 

 awnpd' m*^ ^°°^' "8"ally laterally compressed, keeled, acute, rarely 

 TPnrI»\ , , y^^'°^' ciliate, rarely neuter or male, paleate (sometimes 

 aQriS''*^ byagi..iike palea): IV very short, hyaline, entire 2-fid or 2- 

 Palea ^^,/«'i"ced to a dilated base of the long twisted exserted awn ; 

 S^'ot^^l* ^"^ ^- Lodicules obliquely truncate. Stamens 3, rarely 2 

 the Old World ^''"''^ tree.— Species about 30, tropical and subtropical of 



«tiSnf2^''"'^L?' ^y ^1^'ch PolUnia is distinguished from IscTiamum are very un- 



tttisfactnr !r\" ^^ '^^^'^^ PolUnia is distinguished from IscTiamum are very un- 

 •Itoeethp. J , '^^°"'" o^ tlie hairs of the spikes in Sect. Eulalia cannot be 

 •WnceoLlTTT!'^."P*'°5 ""' «"«^ the sexuality of the spikelets and presence or 

 »ome «tJr V ^ °** '° Sect. Leptatherum. The apparent replacement of gl. Hi m 



'*'>dition of tK ^ .^"iCKel (Androp. 171) is a very curious departure irom me uwiuax 



me spikelet in Aniropogonece. It is not confined to PoUinia. 



»We*tl"7^wf ^''®^*' -^^«^es not conspicuously constricted or petioled 

 tniucat/. TFT ^•..^'- I as long as II, narrowly truncate ; II not Broadly 

 ^ * . UI or its palea present. 



ime II of sessile spikelets awned. Basal sheaths of stem naked. 



WsUfl!:'*!*''*^***' ^^»«- ^^ Bull. Sc. Acad. Petersb. (1836) 71 ; annual, 

 •^ctis wW T? usually filiform, spikes usually very many, hairs of 

 ^low with ' K^!M^^' ^^-^ i°- brown, gl. I narrowly trancate, keels villous 

 «^-lV)ovafr w ^^^"' I^ glabrous except the margins, HI (? palea of 

 '^^ nali. u *°'^ ^^ narrowly oblong 2-fid or 2-toothed, awn very long 

 »«. 526^ p*'^?7*,. broad. Mack. Monogr. Androp. 153; Benth. Fl.Bongk. 

 *^«^m*con w '^^^'^ ^««* »»* I^ook. Lw Joum. ii. (I860) 10-1. Pogona- 

 '• iftteH P^"*' ^»-o^»- Bot. Vo7j. Goq. 90, 1. 17. Erianthus articulatus, 

 i^^. &« z^^"^- -P%'- -4««<rai. viu. 118. Eulalia concinna, Nees er 

 l^^»h ,J: ^?"l-. 412. Andropogon koretrostachys, Tnn. in Mem Acad, 

 i ^theaorio^- "• (1^33) 273. A. brunnens, Jeyne in Herb. Bottler. 

 88li ^'""^^tachys, Steud I. c. 381.-Andropogon, TTa/Z. Cat. n. 8813, 



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