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114 CLxxiiT. ORAMiKE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [PolUnia^ 



(as far as has been observed) always liirsutely villous in the Khasia, those of 

 veliUina are always glabrons, Gl. IV varies in the breadth and depth of its lobes 

 which are obtuse or acute. — Dnthie (Grass. N.W. Ind 15) ^ives this as a N.VV, 

 plant, but I Lave seen no specimens from west of the Khasia Hills, 



Sect IL Stem decumbent below. Leaves not contracted or petioled 

 on the aheatli. Gl. I shorter than IT, truncate ; II broadly truncate ; HI 

 absent or present, 



13. P. CumlniTli, Kees in Hook. Xeio Journ. ii. (1850) 98; leaves 

 short flat, spites 2-4 distant slender densely villous with red-brown hairs, 

 spikelets xo-^ in. oblong, g\. I dorsally hairy hairs longer than the gl.. 

 Ill 0, IV minute 2-fid, awn very slender 3-4 times as long as the gl., palea 

 minute. Baclc.Monogr. Androp. 1G7 (excL var. fulva). Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 373. P. fulva, var, leptophylla, Benth. Fl. Austral, vd. 620. Audropogon 

 aureo-fulvus, Steud. I.e. 373. A. Lescheuaultianus, Decne. Herb. Ti'tnor, 

 Descr. 29. 



Upper Gangktic Plain; Moradahad, Thomson. Kumaon ; at Dehra-Jun, 

 Biithie, SiKKiM Tkrai, Clarke. — Distrtb. E. Asta, ]\ra!aya, Australia, 



Stem 12-18 iu., hardly thicker than a sparrow's quill, tufted, decumbent bejo^"r 

 with a>cending leafy hranches ; noiles sometimes proliferous. Leaver 2-i J"., 

 linear-lanceolate, finolv acuminate; lower sheaths hairv ; lisfule or obscure, hiury* 

 I*edunclei\V\i'orm, Spikes slender, 1^-2 in., snbdigitate ; joints villous, shorter tnan 

 the spikelets. Spikelets with a shortly bearded callus; g:l. I truncate, often -• 

 cuspidate, 2-norved or nerveless, margins and tip clliate ; II longer and bronner 

 than I, truncate, keel ciliate above the middle, sometimes shortly awned ; ni 

 absent in nil the specimens which I have examined ; IV very variable, narrow vvitu 

 subulate lobes in the Moradahad specimen, m)st minute and 2'toothed in *i"® 

 Sikkim and Kumaon ones, with lanceolate subulate lobes in Tonkin ones. 



Hack, in (Ester 



... .^^.,__ ^..^..Bot, ZeiY5r//r. xl. i. (1891) 7; epikej 



3-6 digitate, spikelets \ in., gl. I broadly truncate entire or 3-tootn^ 

 densely villous with dark brown hairs shorter than the gl., II cuneate- 

 obovate, IH present or absent, IV short Imear-oblong abruptly awned, 

 awn twice as long as the spikelet or imperfect, palea minute or 0, 



Malay Pentksula; Pahanp; and Johore, Ridley, Fell ding. —Dihtuib. Borneo. 

 Stem compressed, G-10 in., creeping below. Leaves 6-20 by ^^-^ >"•» ^" 

 distichous, rigid, flat or convolute; sheath glabrous. Spikes 1^-2^ in., erect, ratli^^ 

 stout, joints and pedicels ==r ^ the spikelets, stiffly ciliate. Spikelets linear-oblong i 

 gls. dark ; I ciliate nt the truncate apex, dorsally flat ; 11 sub 3-nerved ; H^^ 

 present hyaline, obscurely 3-nerved, with an oblong palea larger than itself; 

 half as lonpr as U.— Habit of P. Cnmingii, but the leaf-sheaths arc all glabron* 

 tbe spikes fewer digitate much darker coloured, the hairs of gl. I are much shorU 

 aud paler. 



Sect. III. Leptatherxjm. *b'<eni prostrate or decumbent. Leaves co^' 

 splcuously contracted at the base or petioled ; basal sheaths naked. ^' 

 I often deeply channelled dorsally ; III present or absent, empty or male' 

 when absent the palea is sometimes as long as gl. I, hyaline or rig» ' 

 faintly 2-nerved or nerveless. 



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TriandrouM\ antliers long narrow^ 



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^ 15. P. eucnemis, Neesex Steud. Syn. Gram. 409; leaves subpetiol^ 



spikes few or many more or less villous with purple hairs, joints sm» 

 cl ivate, spikelets I la. oblong, gl I dorsally sulcate truncate keels shortij 



