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146. Sacchamm tilifolium, Sttud. Syn. Gram.^^x Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 14. 



Temperate Western Himalaya, from Chamba to Kuinaon, alt. 5-8000 ft., 



Sotfle, Ac. , 



astern 2-3 ft, rootstock woody, nodes pubescent. Leaves 8-12 in., rigid, glabrous, 



convolute below, narrowed to the hair, tip capillary ; sheath glabrous 5 ^^^^^^ ^^^^ 

 short, obtuse, ciliolate. Panicle GS in., red-purple; joints and pedicels = about hMlt 

 the spikelet, ciliate. Spikeleis surrounded with dense white hairs ; gl. I mnuitely 

 2-toothtd, margins broadly inflexed, dorsally glabrous with 3-4 unequal intracariual 

 nerves ; 1 1 like I, 3.nerved, keel smooth ; 111 lauceolate, 2-mucrouuIate, sub 2-nerved, 

 margins inflexed ciliate; IV shorter, linear-lanceolate, l-nerved, glabrous; palea 

 short, lanceolate, glabrous. 



7. E. versicolor, iVees ex Steud, Syn. Gram. 409 ; stem glabrous 



below the lanceolate pani(*le, leaves flat, spikelets |-J in. Hnear-lanceolate 

 concealed by the dense white hairs of the callup, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 variegated cbartaceous below reddish and membranous above, keels smooth, 

 IV cuspidately 2-toothed ciliolate, awn twice as long as the spikelet or 

 more, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 3-nerved between the keels. Sack, Monogf- 

 Androj), 144 ; Buthie Grass, N. W, hid. 16- 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 2500-700^ ft. 



Stem till, pubescent below the nodes. Leaves 8-16 by |~^ in,, smooth, margm** 

 Fcabrid ; sheath glabrous or month sparingly hairy ; ligule broadly ovate, glabroas. 

 Panicle 8-10 in., rachis and branches opposite, glabrous, axils benrded; jomts 

 spike 5-7 and pedicels § BB long as the spikelet or longer, shortly ciliate withsti" 

 white hairs. Spikeleis usually green and violet below the middle, reddish ano>e 

 it ; gl. I tip subacute obtuse or 2-(ienticnlate, nerves 2-3 between the keels vanishing 

 upward ; II linear-oblong, entire, 1-nerved, keel scabernlous ; III lineav-oblong nene* 

 less, tip ciliolate ; 1 V = i 11, cuspidately 2-toothed ; palea I shorter, linear-lanceolate 

 acute, glabrous.— I very much doubt this being distinct trom E . filifoUus and tlie 

 lollowing; and amongst the numerous specimens of Himalayan ErjantAt whicH 

 have examined, and which must include these, I find it impossible to refer many ww 

 precision to any of these three. 



Van pattens, stem slightly pubescent below the pale lanceolate panicle, lea^ 

 flat, spikelets | in. oblong } shorter than the dense white hairs of the callas, gl- 

 membranous tip hyaline keels smooth, IV cuspidately 2-toothed ciliolate, awn 3- 

 limes as lonjr as the spikelet, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet shortly 1 -nerved between 

 the keels. K. palhns. Hack, ilonogr. Androp. 145. 



^ 8. £• longrisetosus, Anderse. ex Boith. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (l^^' 

 67; stem naked below the ovate-oblong panicle, sessile spikelets s'5^°' 

 lanceolate equalling or rather shorter than the red-brown hairs of the callow 



!. I oblong-lanceolate cbartaceous bicuspidate 2-nerved between thesmoo 

 * sides sparsely ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn 4 or 5 times as long a 

 the spikelet, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 6-7-nerved. Mack. Monogr. AndroP' 

 143; Clarke in Jouryi. Linn. Soc, xxv. (1889) 85, t. 34. E. mishmeensi»» 

 Munro mas.— Erianthus, Wall. Cat. n. 8846. 



Tkopical HiMAtAYA, alt, 1-3000 ft., from Nepal to the Misbmi, i^laga an 

 Hunnepore Hills, Assam, Silhet and Chittagonq. , ^^ 



Stem 6-8 ft., stout, nodes pubescent. Leaves 1-3 ft. by i-lj in., g'**^""^. 

 except at the base within, many -nerved, quite smooth, base often much narrow * 

 sheath smooth; ligule rounded. Panicle 6-18 in., of many long ^^^^^^iS^t of 

 sollury or binate long divided soft drooping spikes clothed with pale r^^"'*, .j^g 

 golden-brown hairs, rachis glabrous, joints and pedicels slender about as long a^ j 

 spikelets densely ciliate with lonjj hairs. Spikelets hrovvn below, pale above; g^-^ 

 with rather broadly inflexed margins; II oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, apiculate 



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