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Panicle 1-2 ft., erect, ovoid or oblong; branches half-whorled, clothed with soft 

 i-ream-colrd. rarely purplish hairs. Spikes 1-3 in., rachis capillary. Spikekfs ^ in., 

 lanceolate, pale green violet or brownish; gl. I dorsally flat or depressed, nerveless 

 except the keels; II lanceolate, shortly acuminate ; III oblong-lanceolate ; IVmucro- 

 nate. — Hackel includes under S. ciliare, S. Griffithiiy Muuro, which is regarded by 

 Dr. Slapf and mystlf as an 'Erianthus, ^.W being clearly nwncd. S.henfjholeue 

 is a doubtful plant, wanting, according to Haclcel, in Eetz's Herbunum. 



3. S. Narengra, Ham, in Wall. Cat, n. 8856; stem slender sil^y 

 "below the panicle, nodes bearded, leaves scabrid above uppermost 

 subulate, branchlets of panicle clotlied with purple hairs, pedicels 

 clavellate hispidulous, hairs of callus rigid, gl, I coriaceous glabrous 

 or hairy below, II oblong coriaceous tip membranous. Hack, Monogr, 

 Androp. 119; Butliie Gra&s. N,W. Ind, 14. Eriocbrysis Narenga, Nees 

 ex Steud, Syn. Gram, 411 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjah PI 172.— Saccharum, 

 Wall. Cat, l. c. 



Tropical Himaxaya, from Garwhal, alt. 3-4000 ft., to the Khasia HiitS, 

 Upper and Lower Bengal, Assam, Silhet, Central India, and Burma.— 



LiSTRiB. Tonkin, China. 



Stew. 6-8 ft. ; internodcs often longer than the sheaths, nodes stellately bearded. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft. by ^ in., linear, base narrow, flat- ; sheath with tubercle-based l)airs; 

 ligvde rounded. P^n/c/e 12-18 in., narrow; racbisscabernlons, bearded at the nodes; 

 braTiches 2-4-nate, oppressed to the fragile rachis, branchlets fascicled. Spif^'^*^^^ 

 ^'jy in., callus minute, hairs longer or shorter than the spikelet ; ^1. I ciliolate; A 

 lin(*ar-oblong, ciliate. — Hackel has two varieties : a. gemiinnm^ flimalayan, with ^l. 

 I and II of the sessile spikelet obtuse, glabrous ; /3. khasianum, with the corre- 

 sponding gl, subacute, densely hairy below. 



^ Sect- IT. Sclerostachya {Anderss.), Bachis of spike tenacious. Bota 

 splkelets of each pair pedicelled. Stem fistular. 



4, S. fuscum, Itoxh, Fl, Ind. i. 236; stem stout silky or villotis belo^ 

 the panicle, rachia of panicle villous, spikes nodding, hairs of callus about 

 ^ the length of the obhmg or obovoid spikelets, gl. I obtupe, keels cibate, 

 III and IV ciliate. Harl\ Monogr. Androp, 121 ; Kunth Emnn. P/- i- ^^^ 

 Suppl. 385; Steud. Syn. Gram, 406; Dvihie Grass. N.W. Ind. U- f' 

 Modhara, Ham. in Wall. Cat. n. 8855 C. TricholEena? fusca, Schult^ 

 Mant. ii. 164. Eriocbrysis fusca, Trin. in Mem, Acad. Petemh. Str. ^' 

 (1833) II. 315; Steud. l,c. 411. E. fusca & attenuata, Nees ex Sieud^ L^- 

 Miscanthus fuscus, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 65,— Saccharum, 

 Wall, Cat. 8855. 



Upper and Lower Gaxgetic Plains, Assam, the Khasia Hills, the Western 



Ghats, and Hurma. 



Stem 5-8 ft. or more, as thick as the little finger. Leaves 3-4 ft. by 1-2 m^ 

 linear-lancfolate, rigid, glabrous, margins scabrid; margins of pheath timbmt ' 

 ligule rounded. Panicle 1-2 ft., narrow, bninches whorled or fascicled orsubsoUtar » 

 nodes bearded ; spikes or branchlets nodding, sU'nder, flexuous ; joints tngonooN 

 glabrous. Spikelets i in., brown, upper and lower alike; gl. I entire, va^^^..x 

 narrowly inflexed, dorsally flat smooth shining; II subacute, keeled, 1-nerved; u 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless, ciliate above; IV like III but shorter, ciliate wi^ 

 rigid hairs ; palea much shorter ovate, ciliate. Grain obovoid, smooth, brown. 



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Hack, in (E 



glabrous below the long narrow panicle, rachis of panicle glabrous, spi«^ 

 erect very long fiUform lax-fid., hairs of callus I the length of the oblong' 



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