i 



Saccharum^ clxxiii. gramine^. (J.D.Hooker.) 121 



^Dceokte spikelets, gL I 2-toothed keels minutely spmulous, III and IV 

 pectinately ciliate with very long hairs, 



■; Malay Pekinstjla ; Pahang, J^idZev. 



,, Stem several feet high. Leaves 2-3 ft. hy l~l in., linear, rigid, green, glabrous, 

 ttiaygins seabridj sLeath terete, glabrous; ligule very short, truncate. Fanicle 

 2 ft. long, erect; racliis angular, subgeniculate at the distant bearded nodes; 

 branches fascicled, very long, filiform ; spike 3 -5 in., firm, flexuous, lax-fld., glabrous 

 WK^^ j^^ bearded axils ; joints and pedicels slender, glabrous, terete. SpiJceleis 

 wth pedicelled equal and perfect, | in. long, yellowish-brown ; pedicel of lower = 

 i the leD|th of the upper which is about i shorter than the joint ; gl. I chartaceous, 

 Qorsallyflat, sides incurved and base sparsely hairy, 2-3-nerved besides the keels; 

 .'"^^^J*<5^ous, acute, S-neryed, sparsely hairy ; III nearly equal II, nerveless, margins 

 \^y]. ^^^ ^<^"g liahs crossing; IV rather shorter, broadly ovate, nerveless, its 

 ongiiuu-s up-curved; palea variable, small or minute, ciliate. 



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DOUBTFrii SPECIES. 



filonA^^^*^^^^^' ^^'^^' Qpw.?c. 65, is a species of Tricholaena, according to Hackel 

 teftrrpff ^^ ■^.^^^*^' P* ^^'')' ^^^ ^^ ^^^«*^ §:^""s is suppressed and the only Indian plant 

 feu to It IS ^./^scw^ (q^ ^, x^ .^ follows that S. hfunneum may he that plant, 



esvaux'8 name has priority. 



Babit 



36. EXIXANTKVS, Mic^. 



^Sn! ■ ^\^ characters of Saccharum, but gl. IV awned, rarely awnless. 

 ■ f^'' ^^o^t 16, temperate and tropical. 



^t IftT ^^^^^'^^^^^ whereby to distinguish Erianthus from BaccTiarum except 

 ^ tolhM.l: ""'^''^^ '« "i" l^"t illusory, and a re-examinatlon of both genera may 

 ^olUnla Hiff *^'^P°8't'0D of their species tinder two or more geuera or sections. 



ainers chiefly iu the digitate spikes (see H.fastigiatus). 



J ■-■ 



shorter than I ovate- 



ower branches of the panicle much shorter than the rachis 



joints^ a™?f^ Jecompound ; ultimate Iranchlets (spikes) very short, of 3-4 

 . awn of gl. IV short or obsolete. 



^'liclfo?.!^®^".*' -^^'»""- ^arost. 14; leaves flat, lignle very short, 

 ^•ar-lancPnl ^; ^^" "^^ <^^^1"S as long as the gls., Bpikelets W i^' 

 ^"'"ite Wi ' 1 Si- I membranous lanceolate ='«"minate tip ^-mu- 

 '"^ceoIatP ^o^ subspmulosely scabrid, IV rather - - 



^'•iv 475 p^°"^i^°^- °- i^O; Eeirhh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 55; ^edet^- 

 2'""- ^ L ^,T-£^- ^'•'^«^- ^^- 455 ; D.t/nc Grass. N. W. I\d-}\f"'f{ 

 ff'^mni^- ^- Jamaicensis, ^nci.r«.. in (E.ers. Vet. ^.*«f„ ^^^^f^ " 

 * Sw. fi pV^'^' . Saccharum Bavennae, il/<,rmv Syst. Ed. xiu. 88; ^ W/'. 



??•. -P^- ^d II 1 <lT'^- '^^^- ^i- "• (1833) 312. Andropogon Ravennfe, Lixn. 

 ^'"*- i^««d !i ^^\ \^«^^- Cra,! ^««ir. iii. 1. 1. 1. Ripidmm Ravennifi, 



^ «a. Agrost. 169 



J>ahe Sj^/-*^* »nd Westeen Tibet, alt. 6-9000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 ^'8- We8twa?/f ^'^ Upper Gangexic Plain, from the Indus to Delbi.- 

 W^'» Mo ft 15° ^^? Mediterranean. v , „, n„ 



^ '"'foce, t' »°^f glabrous. i.a^e* 2-3 ft. by l-U in., Unear, "cajer^lons on 

 ^^- '!>^»iei at the base with goiden hairs/mar^s scabrid ; midrib broad ; 







