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Pollinia] CLXXiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 113 



»fely|in. broad, acufce, short and filiform in some Nilnfhiri specimens, glabrous or 

 Miry; ligule short, bearded. Spikes 1-3 in., stout, dark brown, rathiT distant, 

 joints about J as long as the spikelets. Spi^eZe/s linear-oblong ; gl. I dorsally densely 

 ^008 chiefly at the sides and above ; II tip narrowly truncate, keel obscure hairy 

 tooutthe middle; III as long as I, nerveless, ciliate above the middle; IV half as 

 ^% awn stout inserted in the cleft, broadening out and vanishing. — A Tonkin 



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thnigty. woolly basal sheath, leaves narrow glabrous, spikes few 3-6 in. 

 Jtnct erect, rachis fltout villous, spikelets | in. oblong, gl. I narrowly 

 truncate nerveless, IV very narrow 2-fid eciliate. 



BrRiiAjYomah, Zur^. 



r^r,^^^^!^^^ ^^ ^^^^*^ ^^ a walnut. Stem 4-5 ft., villous below the panicle ; nodes 

 puwscent. Leaves 10-18 in., smooth, glabrous. Spikes closely appressed to the 



trunMt Q -^^^^^ golden-brown hairs; joints as long as the spikelet, obliquely 

 ^ wie. ^ Spikelets dark brown ; gl. I dorsally flat, sparsely villous, sides copiously 

 oWn/I^*"!.^ rather broadly incurved from base to apex ; II narrowly oblong, 

 imaU ^ keeled, sides villous; HI oblong-lauceoLite, hyaliiK', ciliate; IV very 



Wfo*^'^ J'd"' '^"^' ^^^^^^ orbicular-ovate, long-ciliate.— Possibly only a very 

 6 rm ot P. ph(Bothrix, with a stout rootstock, and rachis of the spikes narrower. 



gl, J; ^' ^Peciosa, HacJc. Momgr. Androp. 159; tall, stout, basal 

 Tillonsf v°^^^^ ^ith pale yellow-browa wool, leaves narrow usually 

 JelW K ^"^^"^t^' ''P^'''®^ ^~^ ^f**^'^ ^ery long slender tiexuous villous with pale 

 iBerS''k^^ ^"^' ^Pitelets } in. oblong, gl. I narrowly truncate faintly 

 awn tn t ^^^ ^'^"^^^ villous, IV narrowly 2-fid lobes acute eciliate, 

 specinsno ??! ^^*^ twisted, palea very small suborbicular. Erianthus 

 Na Off r r'""* *'' ^''*- Linn. Soc. Bord. xxxii. (1878) 53.— Ei-ianthus, 



^.^^HAsiA Hills, alt. 5-8000 ft., coimnon. Naga Hills, Pra/n.— Distkib. 



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H in. denii ^•' "^^"^^b' tufted, peduncle silky below the panicle. Leaves 12-18 by 



*''"e or rn 1 ^P^^^^^^^ with sometimes parti- coloured bairs, these of the callus 

 •fWwlvhiir ^^°'?*' ^'- ^ narrowly obloug-luiceolate ; II subacute, dorsally 

 '*'*»»borte7;r*'"^'r"''''*^5 ^^I linear-oblong, ciliate; IV shorter, linear-oblong, 

 '^"nwards in fk" y ^^•' ^"^^ several times longer than the spikelet, vanishnig 

 ^•"^Tous leavp., 1 t ^V -^'"^'cwZes 2-tid, ciliate.— The Naga Hill specimen has 

 ^^^'"Dgin th , ® Chinese. Closely resembles P. hirlijiora and qiiadrinervis, 



slieutlia n, ,1 "fe' ' out in tine ones collected at Icliang uy nem^, tu.. 



aie woolly, exactly as iu the Khasian plant. 



Nils vilb,*^^**?*' ^^''''^- ^^nogr, Androp. 169; tail, stout basal 

 S. TilW ^!?*V ^°"8 «il^y liairs, 'eaves narrow glabrons._sp:kes J^8 

 ^••Inarrowlw ^^^^ P^l« yellow-brown hairs, spikelets i in. oblong 

 ly 2'v''«Dcate 2-cnRpidate 4-nerved, back and sides villous, IV 



^^ J^ ovate shortly ciliate. 



?Basi» n.-_ 



'"^"from h1 ^' '"''°'»9 clothing of the basal sheaths of the stem, this hardly 

 tOi. y^ fc''''>rous states of P. sj>eciosa j but whereas the leaves of specioi^a are 



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