122 CTAXiiL GUAMINE-E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Erianthm. 



sheath hairy ; ligule silkily villous. Panicle 1-3 ft, erect or inclined, greyish -white 

 with silkily villous hairs ; spikes (terminal branchlets) about ^ in., joints and pediceU 

 fllitbrra, half as long as the spikolotsor more, ciliate with long hairs, SpiJceleU pie; 

 gl. I with one or both margins incurved, nerves 1-3 between the keels; Tlratlut 

 longer, acuminate or arlstulate, S-nerved, keel scabrid; III lanceolate, ciliate, 1- 

 nerved, hyaline ; IV glabrous or ciliolate, 3-nerved, rarely awnless ; palea shorter, 

 ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. Pedirelled spihelety gl. I strongly 2~3-nerved, yilmi 

 below as is gl. II. — A very variable grass in stature, colour of the hairs of the panicle, 

 siae of the spikelets, and length of the awn. 



Var. purpurascens^ Hack. I.e. ; spikelets more or less tipped with violet or purple. 



E, purpurascens, Aiiderss, L c, 161.— Common in N.W. India. 



2. S.ariffithii 



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above, ligule long, panicle oblong very pale, callus densely villoas with 

 spreading hairs as long as the lanceolate acuminate or acute spikelet, gl- 1 

 and II dorsally villous* keels spinulose, IV ovate-lanceolate ciliate narrowed 

 into the short awn, Saccharum GriflBthii, Munro ex Aitchis, tn Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xix. (1882) 191 [name only). S. ciliare, var. ^3. GriflBthii, BacL 

 Monogr. Anclrop. 119, S. Sara, Aitchis. L c. ex Hack. L c. 



Pesjiawur, Stewart Western Tibet; below Rendu, Thomson. — Distbib. 

 Affghanistan, Beluchistan, 



Stem tall, tufted, glabrous, solid, as thick as a swan's quill, quite glabrous, pale, 

 polished. Leaves 2-3 ft. by \~\ in., thickly coriaceous, rigid, quite smooth, dori»aliy 

 rounded, upper surface concave, margins scaberulous ; pheath smooth, pohsut! , 

 shining; ligule long, ciliate with long hairs. FanicU 6-12 in., contracted, th.vr- 

 sifonn, inclined, pale yellow when dry; rachis glabrous; lower branches 1--* |0-j 

 joints about \ as long as the spikelets and pedicels villous with long pale hairs. 

 iSpikelets pale, often tipped with purple ; callus hairs about as long as the spikelet?, 

 or shorter, white or pale brownish; gls. I and II subequal ; I 3-nerved, margios 

 narrowly incurved, scabrid ; II rather longer, acuminate; III lanceolate, 1"^^^^^' 

 hyaline, margins long-ciliute ; IV as long as III, 3-nerved, narrowed into a slio 

 included or shortly exserted awn; palea much shorter than the g!., more or 1^ 

 ciliate. — Referred to SaccJiarum ciliare (^arundinacenm) hy Hackel, from which t 

 awned gl. IV at once distinguishes it, and much more closely allied to Lrianinff^ 

 RavenntB^ differing in the pale straw-colour of its stem, leaves and panicle, "K'^ 

 i-terete leaves concave on the up'^er surface, long ligule, and dorsally hairy gl- Ij*" 

 II. Griffith, Itinerary NoteSy 317 (n. 1193) describes this as a large grass, 6-/ >■• 

 high, with white spikes, very common at 5000 ft. at JugduUuk (Affghanistan). 



3. S. elephantlnus, Jlooh. f. ; gigantic, leaves broad flat, panicle 

 very large supradecompound, spikelets ^^-^V i^-? hairs of callus as loog^ 

 the gls. or longer, grey or purplish, gl I narrowly ovate-lanceolate Jorsai^ 

 sparsely hairy keels fccabrid, II lanceolate acuminate subarlstate 1-nerve . 

 IV shorter than I ovate-lanceolate 3-nerved eciliate narrowed into a shorty 

 exserted awn. 



Assam, Griffith, Simonds. ^ ..^ 



Stem very tall and stout, as thick as the middle finger below the panicle, q"' ^ 

 ttnooth, glabrous. Leaf (upper) two or more feet long by f in. broad, quite ,^^?^ • 

 on both surfaces, margins serrnlately scabrid ; sheath several feet long; ^^^ ,jg 

 long straight hairs. Panicle 14 in. long, oblong, inclined; rachis as thick as t ^ 

 little finger below, glabrous, polished; lower nodes 4 in, apart, branches numerojJ | 

 lower fascicled and half-whorled 6-8 in. long. Spikes few-fid., capillary, frag" ' 

 joints and pedicels half as long as the spikelets or longer, villously ciliate, tops cup"*^* 

 'Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, pale; gl. I and II subequal, membranous ; Ilanceola » 

 acuminate, tip minutely 2-toothed, dorsally flat, with one median nerve, ^"^|*F' 

 narrowly incurved ; II ciliate; III as long as I, hyaline but stiff, 1-nerved, oil^a ^ 

 •margins incurved; IV shorter than III, quite glabrous ; palea nearly as long as 



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