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Erianthus.] CLxxiii. gramine-E. (J. D. Hooker.) 123 



gl., lanceolate from a crowded concave base. — Evidently a gigantic species of which I 

 have seen only one specimen of leaves and panicle fromthe Calcutta Herbarium, and 

 a scrap of a panicle from Griffith. 



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Branches of panicle long simple mucli or sparingly divided; spikes 

 mny-jointed ; awn of gl. IV more than twice as long as the spikelet, rarely 

 (m sikkimensia and chysothrix) shorter or 0. 



t Gl. IV entire, narrowed into the awn. 



, ,*• fi'fulvus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 409; stem silkily villous 

 wow the long narrow silkily villous panicle, spikelets yL-TJ ^'n- narrowly 

 Oblong much shorter than the fulvous purplish or reddish hairs of the 

 callus, gig. I aud H hyaline above the middle, lY very narrow. JIacL 

 f»\ogr. Androj). 147. / - .--^. «-. 



JJuthie flrnao Tvyrrr 



Nachr. (1868) 9^ ; 



& Tf ,'jZ:""--""' x/nt. xo. Xi. japoiiicus, ui.eru. oi-ru-c/i. & Wtntero. n. Z, 



cSim/' * ^" ^^''^^^^"^ ruepilum, Sieud. L c— Erianthus, Wall. 



KAafV^^^™ Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Slkkim, alt. 5-7000 ft. Khasia and 

 ^"* H"^is. alt. 5-5500 ft. 



lit bT' ^'^ ^^'' ^^'^^^ ' "°^*^^ glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 ft. by i-1 in., 

 Kedfr'^T/"'^ scaberulous beneath and on the margins ; margins of sheath hairy ; 

 «K.wLr • • 1 '''^''''^- -Pa»icZe 8-18 in., erect, decompound ; rachis villous ; spikes 

 more I ^7", ! ^^^ ""'i pedicels filiform, villous, half as long as the spikelets or 

 8l UU.*^ concealed by the hairs of the callus and joints, usually brownish ; 



gl. I cha 

 glabrous 



rtaceous 



H», acute or 



»cijmin«fn , ."-"iucronate, glabrous, margins ciliate; 111 ianceui-w^, v......-, 



iin U^Z ^^^ ^'^"^"^ i 1^' i»uch shorter, ovate-lauoeolate, glabrous, l-nerved ; 

 ^Snm f? ^ fi!* ^^ '°"S "^ ^^^ g'- or shorter or ? Pedicelled spikelets hardly 



rom the sessile.— The name fulvus is not appropriate. 



tle'veS" ^^^'^'"aensisj Hook.f. ; stem very slender silkily villous helow 

 ^Mte Sir "AT ^^'^ V^rxide. spikelets i-J in. lanceolate longer than the 

 ^Jalin°a£ <^ ''^"'''' ^^- ^ ^'P hToad\y 2-fid sides villous with long hairs 



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above the middle, iV very narrow! 



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8tenU9^^^^^J^'' ^'"=^'^'1 Valley, alt. 6000 ft., J. D. H. 

 v.^ 1-^ ft., as thick »« n H„,.„'„ „r.:ii T „ J ,;„;.. - 



ligule 

 ppressed 



— «* erePf ^ 'r " " pedicek ueaily Ta^long'' as the spikelet, glabrous 



f^ms sidlri -i \ ^ oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous below the middle, dorsally 



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!!^«'e; lVne«rl ^^\^t'°"&as H. thinly cartaceuus, -~. - - 



?^'glit a«n S""^' 'i"«'*r-lanceolute, l-nerved, subciliate, narrowed into a short 

 >rfect. ' P"^''^ nearly = the gl. subulate-lanceolate ciliolate.-Specimens very 



^' ^^'<^^ly glabrous or nearli/ so. 



H'^^theS!f°"*'«'.^^^« ex Steud. Syn. Gram, l 409; stem pubescent 

 """^'^ than th A^^^''^'' ^^^^^^ ^^^^■^™' spkelets H i^- lanceolate rather 

 ?*« ^^eeXj ^f \^^of the callus, gl. I of sessile spikelet membranous 

 ^« 'Pikelet 'frV^ «^^'^e or minutely 2-toothed, awn much longer tha^t 



•'^'gbl of pedirjellad «r.;t.i.+ fiJr.^.rrr.A^ Hack. Monogr. Androp. 



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pedicelled spikelet 6-7-nerved. Hach Mmog 



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