IIG CLxxiii. GRAMiXEJi. (J. D. IIoDker.) IPoUinia. 



shortly densely ciliate, spikelets |-^ in. oblong, gl. I dorsally channeled 

 ieels rigidly ciliate towards the truncate or 2-toothed tip, I[ mucronate 

 or aristulate, III 0, palea ovate-Lmceokte bisexual ciliate, IV mimite 

 2-toothed, awn long or short, palea small ovate. P. ciliata, Nees in PL 

 Meyen, 186. PP. montana, Kees ex Steitd. Syn. Gram. 409. Ephebopogon, 

 gratus, Nees mss. ex Hack, I, c» 



SiKKiM Himalaya, the Khasia and Mishmi Hills, alt. 1-5000 fb., GriM^K 



&c. — DiSTBiB, Java, China. 



Stem rather stouf, 3-5 ft., pubesceut or scaberulous below the nodes. Leaves 

 4-8 by 5-| in., linear, setaceoasly acuminate, scaberulous and sparsely hairy; sheath 

 bearded at the nodes; ligule obscure. Spikes 2^-4 in., pale or dark, joints = t 

 spikelet, ratlier longer than the pedicels; gl. I dorsally smooth or scaberulous. — in*J 

 resemblt's P. eucnemis more than any other species, but has more numerous aim 

 darker spikes with more slender joints, and the nodes are pubescent. In some spike- 

 lets I find no gl. Ill or its palea, only an ovary and the ciliate palea of gl. IV". 



?Var. hirsuia ; leaves ^ in. broad pubescent, sheath clothed with very long 

 spreading and reflexed hairs, gl. IV all but reduced to the awn, Pegu, Kurz* 



19. P. ciliata, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Peter sh Ser. vi. ii. (1833)306; 

 leaves sessile, spikes very many, joints slender compressed rather shorter 

 than the spikelets shortly ciliate, spikelets | in. narrow pale, gl. I 1^"" 

 ceolate de^^ply grooved dorsally keels sca^Tid below ciliate towards 

 the forked tip, II awned or mucronulate, III 0, palea empty or niaK 

 IV^ minute lanceolate or broader and 2-toothed, awn lontj or short, 

 palea minute. Ilack, Monogr, Androp, 176; Steiid. Syn, Grram, 410. " 

 Wallichiana, Nees ex Steud. I e. ; Thw. Enum. Fl Zeyl. 369 ; Tm* 

 Cat, Ceyl PL 107. P, lancea & \2.%3., Nees ex Steud, Lc. P. tristachy> 

 Thw. I.e. 368 (in part). Andropogou biariatatus, Steud. ^•'^•379. ^ 

 fascicnlatus, Lmn. 8p. PL 1047.— Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8815 B,88'.'., 

 8823.— Batratherum, ? Wall. I. c. n. 8831 in part. 



Tropical Himalaya, alt 2-5003 ft., from Kumaon to the Mishmi and Khasia 

 Hills. Behar, on Parusuaih, Clarke. Nilguiri Hills, Wl^ht. Cb^I'^^' 

 Thwaifes. . 



Stems 2-4 ft., much branched below, stragsrlin^, glabrous or sheaths spJ^ra^J 

 hairy; peduncle very slender. Leaves very variable, usually small, 1-4 by H 

 in., narrowed at both ends, finely acuuiinate, sometimes petioied. Spikes flexoouft^ 

 Gl. 1 minntely scaberulous; II sometimes with the awn longer than itself;^ 



variable, as is its palea, both in breadth and length. Anth'.rs very long.-j-l.^^ 

 puzzled with various forms of the glumes of this plant. Hickel has four varieties- 

 a. genwna (1*. ciliata, Trin., P. lancea, Nees) with linear-oblong spikelets, g^-^ 

 entire, kt'els pectiuately ciliate, II mucronulate, IV 2-toothed long a^\"® '[j 

 h. laxa {? AwxWy Nees) with linear-lancoohite spikelets, g-1. I pectinately cilirtte^ 

 awned, IV entire long awned ;—c. WMichlana (Nees Sp.), spikelets linear-obloogi 

 gl. I entire rigidly pectinately ciliate, H long-awned, IV entire, awn imperfect i^ 

 d.seminuda, spikelets linear-lanceolate, gl. I biumcronate, keels scabrid, H l^ug 

 awned, IV entire, awn imperfect. — Ceylou (C.P. 411 in ])artj. 



20, 



P, monantha, Nees ex Steud. Syn, Gram. 410 ; very 



slencle^' 



epikes 4r-6 slender flexuous joints shorter than the spikelets subclajat • 

 spikelets -^^^ in., l.fld., gl. I narrow ciliate dorsally channelled, 

 truncate apiculate. III 0, IV minute rounded 2-toothed, awn about t*^^ 

 as long as the spikelet, palea very minute ovate. Hack. Monogr, Andrr 

 174. P. miscantha (error for monantha), m?'b. Ind, Or. Hf- * ^• 

 Andropogon, Wall, CaL n. 8819. 



Subtropical Himalaya; Garwha], alt. 5000 ft., Diifliie. Sikkim Te^*^' 





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