PoJUnia.] cLXXiii. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 117 



iiP'?r\ ^^^^^^ Hii'i'S, alt. 4000 ft., J.D.II. ^ T.T. Burma, Taongdoug, 



^dlhck; Rangoon, M'Lelland ; King's Isld., Heifer. 



.|^6to8l-3(t., nodes naked. Leaves 3-6 in., base contracted, flaccid. Spikes 

 J --'* in. long, very slender, pale green or yellowish brown ; joints compressed, 

 oa er upwards, ciliate. Glumes usually widely spreadiner ; I subacute or narrowly 



Anthers linear, half 



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^ J^ncate, keeh scaberulous or shortly ciliate above ; II with villous margins towards 



|ue mucronate or aristulate tip; IV very minute, rounded. 



smaller ^^ ^'' ^^ Uiore.— Resembles P. ciliata, but the spikelets are nauch 



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L 



1^ ; ^' ^®^*catula, ITook.f. ; stem very slender vaguely geniculately 

 cded leafy, leaves liaear-lanceolate acuminate base very narrow, spikes 



^ J lascicled slender pale, joints linear, margins shortlv ciliate, spikelets 

 M^P '"V.^r'^sstellately bearded, gl. I thin linear-oblong truncate dorsally 

 TV o ^'^^'^P?' -^eels ciliate above the middle, 11 apiculate keel ciliate, HI 



•Av awn Bimple or minutely dilated at the base. 



M-ohv^i^^i^- '^•' **'"&gl'i>g. as thick as a sparrow's quill or less, smooth. 

 •argins* * ' n' ' ''^""' ^Parsely ciliate chiefly towards the base, tip capillary, 

 minute o"'"'''' ''"^^ a mere point, midrib slender; sheath very slender; lignle 

 ^' 'l,U iC^ ^~^i '"•' erect, flexuous, pale frrecn, ioints truncate. Gl. I. of sessile 



Leaves 



•»fy abouf ^"°f 1 ' '^''' ^^^^ "'■ ^*^''^ 2.toothed; II obtuse, 3-nerved ; IV awn capil- 

 "o'.aaleo'^ spikelet. Tedicelled spikelet like the sessile or reduced, awued or 



r neuter. Stamens 3, imperfect only seen, filaments short. 



V . Tnandrous, anthers minute, filaments very long. 



grooved^l*?'*®'^.**'' ^^^» ea; Stend. Syn. Gram. 410 ; stem very slender 

 Pressed ' sSt f solitary or few and racemose very slender, joints com- 

 "'inutelv TJl -J /"^ ^"' lanceolate, gl. I narrow subtruncate keels 

 folate n«l ' ^ ^''^^^ nearly glabrous. III-O, IV minute ovate-lan- 

 ^u'nwr^}^^' ^^^ short. Hack. Monoqr. Androp. 177; Dathie 

 ^ (noft jf •: ^ 1 \?; . P- japonica, Fra^ich. & Sav. Enum. PL Jap. n. 

 *'• Andrnn'^" ^' .Willdenowiana, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 

 2'58- Mi3°^? vimineus, Trin. In Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. ii. (1883) 

 ^«^/. Catl §0^^ Willdenowianum, Nees ex Stend. I.e. 411.— Arthraxon, 



-■^^ • n. «838.-Batratherum ? Wall. Cat. n. 8832. 



^•.J.S''m!5™'^^*^*' ^'"'^''- Gamble i Septi], WallicA; S\kk\m, n\t. 4-7000 



^^lee* narrnf^ Khasia Hills, ult. 4-5000 ft.— Distkib. China, Japan, 

 "ot fascicled er" • • ^^^ ^'•^^^' Aaccid, smooth or subscaberulous. Spikes 1-3 in. 



u''^°»?. and InNf ^''^°''™ ^t«-"« 6-12 in., with oblong-lanceolate acute leaves au 

 •^.■"^bed stem, 2 If? ,''"''^' -5 ^^me larpe Khasinn specimens have stouter much 

 .^f ^7 spikes n • '°"^' ^''tli acuminate linear-lauceolate leaves 3-6 in Ion-. 

 ''•''ff«i-froni"t,/''^"^'nute persistent didymous anthers are those o{ Art hr axon, 

 * ♦»♦ . "^^^"^ ^"<i'"n species of Follinia. 



^23 p'""^''"*' "^^'^^^^ linear.ohlo.j. 



i*?^". spik^A^ ^'*»'»- i» ilfe«i. Acad. Peferah. Ser. ii. (1833) 3a7 ; very 

 T* '"• narrowlv 1 ^*^^°*®^ '^^ry slender, joints slender terete, spikelets 

 : *«'Jniinate 7jj^'^%^^^^> gl. I bicuspidate very narrow keels scaberulous, 



• ^'i as long as II hyaline ciliate or 0, IV lanc-olate, palea 





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