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118 CLXXili. GRAMiNE-E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pollinia. 



minute truncate, awn short. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 178; Steud, Sp- 

 Gram. 410. P. japonica, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lnqd. BaL ii. 290. Leptatherum 

 Eoyleanum, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. I (1841) 93; Franch, ^ Sav. Enum. 

 Pi. /a;?, ii. 609.— Batratherum? Wall Cat. n. SSSlin part. 



Temteeatb Himalaya ; from Chamba to Upper Assam, alt, 4-7000 ft. (to 

 10,000 in Kumaon), Khasia Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft, Griffith, &c.— Distbib. 



China, Japan, S. Africa- , , , 



Stem 2-3 ft., grooved. Leaves 1-4 in., lanceolate, very variable in breadth, 

 Rcuininato, flaccid; sheath hairy ; ligule glabrous. Spikes 3-5, rarely more, 1-1 in. 

 long, fl»xuous, green; joints longer or shorter than the spikelets, glabrous or 

 ciHolate. Spikelets sometimes distant, callus nearly naked or villous; gh I rarely 

 truncate or obtuse, often strongly foikod, dorsally concave, glabrous or roost 

 minutely scaberulous, margins rarely ciliatc ; II nearly glabrous; III if present 

 narrow, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, nerveless; IV variable in size, never = a H^, 



3-nerved. 



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P. JAPOXTCA, Befith, ex Duthie Grass. iV.T7. Ind. 16.— Dathie gives this grass 

 which is no doubt Eurianthus fulvusy as a native of the Panjab and N.W. Himalaya 

 up to 9000 ft. I find no authority for the name, F. japonica, Franch. & Sav. » 

 P. imherhisy Nees, and P. Japonicay Miq. is P. nuda ; both are Japanese an 

 Himalayan plants. There is also Eulalia japonica, Trin. (Mischanthus sinemih 

 Auderss.), which is not Himalayan. 



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Tall perennial grasses. Lfifl. « .«.^^ __.^ , ^ 



panicle, with spreading at It-ngth erect articulate capillary branches an 

 branclilets [—''—^ o„.7._7... ... . _ -. ^n^ i,:_„.. n apasiie 



bisexual and 



4, all membranous, or I 



ti spreaamg at it-ngtii erect articulate capillary oranoutro «■ 

 (spikes). Spikelets minute, awnlesp, 1-fld., binate, a sessie 

 I pedicelled, fem., rarely both pedicelled and bisexual. Gh^ 



' strongly chartaceous, or I and II rarely coriaceous, 

 III empty; IV shortest, rarely 0; palea hyaline nerveless or 0. Lodtcui^ 

 cnneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally exserted. Grain oblong-^ 

 Species about 12, tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 



Sect. L EusACCHAKUM. RacJiis of spike fragile. Spp^elets of each 

 pair subequal, sessile and pedicelled, both fertile. Stem solid. ' - 



S. OFViciXARUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 54; stem solid glabrous below tie 

 panicle, upper leaves long margins scabrid, joints of spikes and P^^^^*; 

 glabrous, hairs of callus about twice as long as the spikelet, gl. I ^^^n 

 subchartaceous, IV very narrow or 0, palea small lanceolate. Boxb. J- 

 Ind. I 237 ; McPad. in Hook, Pot. Misc. i. (1830) 95, t. 26; Stetid.^ W 

 Grahi. 405 ; Hark. Monogr. Androp. iii. Ill ; Miq. Fl. Lnd. Bat. m. f*' 



Morris in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. (1890) 197, t, 23. S. sinense, Boxb. f.^- 



Cultivated in the hotter parts of I>DiA.— Native country unknown. For hist^^ 

 nnd cultivation of tlie sugar-cane in India see Watts'. " Dictionary of the Econow 

 Products of India,'' and for its origin A. de Candolle ** L*Origine des Flam 

 Cultiv^es." 



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