SuecJiarum.'] CLXxiii. geamixex (J. D. Hooker.) Hi) 



Aitchh. Cat. Fanjab. PL 172 ; DuiJiie Grass. N.W. Ind. 15, IndJg. Fudil 

 (jrass.by, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 25 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 405 ; Hack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 113 ; Anderss. in (Evers. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. (1885) 156 ; 

 SiV- ^"^- ■^«*- i'i- 512. S. a?gyptiacum, Wllld. Enum. Eort. Berol. i. 

 8-; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 454. S. bengalense, Boga, Casi, Lola & tennius, 

 iierb. Earn, ex Wall. Cat. n. 8854. S. biflorum, Forsk. Fl. ^g. Arab. 

 l'o7 CY <'3,ducum, Palisotii & speciosissimum, Tausch in Flora (1836) 

 ^^/; bteud. I.e. 406, 405, 407. S. canaliculatum, Boxb. I.e. 246; hViff/it 

 ^at. n. 1682 ; Duihie Grass. iV. W. Ind. 14 ; Steud. I. c. 406. S. chinense, 

 ivees m Hook. Sf Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 241. S. Glaza, Beinw. ex Blume 

 '^ew^Builenz. 38. S. inaulare, Brongn. Voy. Coq. Bot. 99; Steud. I.e. 406. 

 o-i^iag^, Jungh. ex Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. vii. 296; Steud. I. c. (Klagha). 

 0- pimctatum, Sckum. Besch. PI. Guin. 46. S. propinquara, Steud. I. r. 

 D. spontaneum, var. Klaga, Trin. Fund. Agrost. t. 15, p. 1-6. S. semi- 

 oecumbens Boxb. I. c. 236 ; DictJiie I. c. Steud. I. c. 406 ; Wall. Cat. u. 

 oar ir- ^™Pe>'ata spontanea, Beauv. Agrost. 8 ; Boem. & Sch. Syst. u. 

 -o»; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 512.— Saccharum, Wall. Cat. n. 8854. 



the "r^"""?'^""'^ ^^'^ warmer parts of India and Cetion, ascending to 6000 ft. in 

 Aajt™'^y"--I3iSTKiB. S. Europe and warm regions of the Old World. East 



"iari;i'n™ ^'^ ^^'' ^^^'^^ ^'^°^ ^ ^^^^^ rootstock. Leaves erect, very long, narrow, 

 Panicle ^9^? u "'' '"'^"'"ved ; mouth of sheath woolly ; ligule membranous., 

 tlorsallv 1 1-' "'■""ches whorlcd, spreading ; branchlets fragile ; joints filitonn, 



wbkeeiH"^nT"**^" ^^«'=^^e<s i-i in., lanceolate ; gl. I 2.nerved; II lanceolate, 

 aized t«.n ' ! o^ate-laneeolate, subacute, ciliate ; IV very variable.— Hackel recog- 



Subsn '. ''.P^^ies and several varieties of them, 

 lax-fld P-.*"7<^"'«; slender, leaves narrow, ligule ovate subacute, spikes slender 

 India."' P''''^*^^« 4-ff in- 4-6 times shorter than the snow-white villi.— All parts of 



•orelleL^i'i''"^'"'^''^ ' slender, leaves broadly linear, ligule truncate, spikes stouter 

 ttcent v^r ' ,'P'^^^^'^^ ^'^»&er i-L in., villi ehortrr.— Almost confined to Africa, 

 ^ "r. nepalense, with spikelets only i in.— N.W. India, Royle (ii. 197). 



Paniclfn*'"",'**"***'®""*? ^f^^- Obs. iv. 14; stem glabrous below the 

 glibrous n %• ^''^''^ ^""S margins hispidly ciliate, joints ai:d pedicels 

 ffl-Ichart ""^^®' ^^ii"s of callus silky mnch shorter than the sinkeltt, 

 ^n«„i p,'^<^.^o^8 acuminate dorsally villous, IV broadly lanceolate. Kunth 

 ^8. benii^' ^'^^ 5^^«c>fc. Mo7iogr. Androp. 117; Steud. »yn. Gram. JO (. 

 ^<indl sTti^^;.^'^'- '• ^- !«• S. ciliare, Anderss. in (Evers. Vet. Akad. 

 ^^tum,' S^ (18^^) 156; IlacJc. I. c 118 [excl. vars. /3. yX S. exal- 

 ^omJ. ol°"f^- ;f^-/«^. i. 245; Wight Cat. n. 1681; Grah Cat PL 

 ^nnia Vn\i'^- ^- "■ S. Moonia, Soule IlL HimaL PL 416. S. 



"^'^'i'Cat n i '■n,^^^- S- Procerum, Boxb. L c. 243; Steud. I c; 



^^'i. Z e 9rf^ V^^- 106; Dut/ne Grass. N.W. Ind. 15. S. Sarn 



^^'^i Duih;t n' '"'^^' ^•^■; Steud. lc.406: Aitclns. Cat Panjah 11. 

 V. ' -Y't'«ie (Jrass N 



Throu b ""^ ~^^^^^e Ilort. MaL xii. t. 46. 



^iSTKiR Pu: "'® Plains and low Hills of India. Ceylon, at Colombo, Trimen. 



B. Chi 



^•'Cai^'' rf """ }^~-^ ^t- e^-ect from a stout rootstock, branching after the 



""^Poiiit mU-t^^^'- V 2-3 in., broadest about the middle, taperu.g to a 



«^Ht,inulrib white; sheath bearded about the mouth j ligule short, haiv^'. 



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