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110 CLSXiTi. GRiMiNEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [PolUnia. 



Plains of lower Ganpretic Valley and BehRr, ascendin? to 3000 ft. Sikkim anJ 

 KnA?iA HftLR. Chota Nagpub, Gamble. Nilghiri Hills; the Wynaad, iigrwc 

 BuRUA, Wallich, — DiSTRiB. Malaya, China, Australia. 



Steyn 1-2 ft., erect, tufted, nodes glabrous. Leaves 6-18 in., erect, flexnons, 

 ^-f\j 'lo- ^road (except in Wallich'a n. 8813), glabrous. Peduncle filiform. Sjpifces 

 3-2i in., fascicled, very slender, erect. Spikelefs amongst the smallest of the geims; 

 gU IV very variable in length and in depth of lobing, sometimes subentire, awn some- 

 times 1 in. long.— Hackel has two subspecies, one with the nodes of the spike longer 

 and not disarticulating, which includes the Burmese plant of Wallich, n. 8814 and 

 the Sikkim plant; the other has fragile spikes with mnch shorter* nodes, to wmc& 

 Wallich's Burmese, n. 8813 belongs; this latter is a much taller stouter plant witn 

 leaves 4 in, broad and stems thicker than a crow-quill.— What Hackel describes as 

 gl. Ill appears to me to be the palea of gl. IV, for it surrounds the ovary. 



Van /3, pedicellata, Hack, mas.; both spikelets long pedicelled, Kumaon 

 Duthie. 



2. P- pallens, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 156 ; leaves very slender, spikes 

 6-10 silkily hairy white, rachit* slender, spikelets ^ in., gl. I narrow mem- 

 branous bicuspidate shortly villous, II laxly villous, III oblong obtuse 

 ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn 2-3 times as long as the spikelet. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 5000 ft., Oriffith^ &c. — Distrib. China. . 



sum 2-3 ft., slender ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 12-20 by tV-f ^«-» ^^'^^ beneata, 

 margins revolute, tips filiform. Spikes 2-4, in., slender, silkily hairy. Spx^^^^J^ 

 narrowly lanceolate. QLl 2 -nerved ; II with the capillary awn very variable m 

 length, keel and margins ciliate ; III oblong, obtuse, ciliate ; IV ciliate, oblanceoiae* 

 adnate portion of awn forked about half-way down ; palea broadly ovate or orbicular, 

 entire, not ciliate. 



** Glume II of sessHe spikelet not awned. 

 t Basal sheaths of stem naked. 



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3. P. quadrinervls, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 168; spikes 3-6 acd 



{)edicels villons with lone silvery-grey hairs, spikelets ^i in. oblong- 

 aneeolate subacute, gl. I dorsally concave 4-nerved (often obscurely ), ^^ 

 glabrous, IV short broadly deeply obcordate, awn 3-4 times as long as toe 

 spikelet, palea short broad. P. villosa, Munro in Benth. Fl. Hongiong* 

 420 (non Spreng). Erianthus tristachyus, Nees in Book. & Am. ^oU 

 Beech, Voy. 241 ; et in PL Meyer. 183 {excl ^^^w.),— Andropogon, Wall Cat* 

 n. 8808. 



Subtropical Himalaya; from Simla to Sikkim, the Mishmi, and KhASU 

 Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft., Clarke. Pegu, alt. 4-6000 ft., E^wrz.— Distbib. China. ^ 



Stem 1-2 ft., leafy upwards, nodes glabrous. Leaves narrow, glabrous or bairj 

 beneath, or on both surfaces, or with the sheath hirsute, tips finely acuminate; 

 ligule oblong. Spikes 3-5, 2-6 in., erect or flexuous. Spikelets pale yellow-brow^ ; 

 callus hairs long white; gl. I with hispid keels above, tip contracted minutely 

 truncate, margins rather broadly inflexed ; II acute, minutely apiculate,sub 3-nervet, 

 keel smooth, margins ciliate; III liuear-oblong, long-ciliate above; IV with toe 

 adnate awn forked towards the base, lobes rounded ciliolate ; palea lanceolate, cilioja^^- 

 — Nt^es, as Hackel observes, errs in describing the base of the stem as rufous-hairea- 



The Khasia plant has softly villous foliage and has paler spikes, and closely resembles 

 P. speciosay var, heterotrivha. 



Var. Wiffhtii ; stem tall stout silky below the panicle, leaves i in. broad »cuio, 

 spikes 3-7 in., spikelets nearly i in., gU I 2-4-nerved. IV cuneatelv obovate broadlj 



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