\» 



Eremochha.'l CLXXiii. gkamine^* (J. D. Hooker.) 141 



yEGTJ, Zwra;,— DiSTEiB. China, Tonkin. 

 *' Tery near E, zeylanka, but gl. I is smaller and narrower with the long spines of 

 J, muricata. 



6. E. Kelferl, Munro ex Hack. Monogr. Androp. 266; gl. I broadly 

 ovate subacute, spines longer than the e;l. is broad, upper spikelet a scabrid 

 pedicelled bristle. E. ciliatifolia, HacL L c, 



. Tknassehim. Griffith, Heifer. 



Leaves 4-6 by i-J in. (broader than in the other species), flat, ciliate, tip 

 ,rounded. Spike 1-1^ in. S^ikelets \ in.; gl. I 5-nerred, nerves anastomosing 



loove. 



■k 



39. P060NATKERVM, Beauv. 



Delicate annual or perennial grasses with capillary peduncles. Leaves 

 wect._ Spikelets 1-2-ad., binate (usually a sessile bisexual and pedicelled 

 fem.) imbricatfl on f>>« frarriu -..ooUic r.f ., «r^^l•tar■o■ iprminal caoillary spike, 



2-affned; awns capillary, oftea interlaced. Glumes 4, membranous; I 

 oblong, coneave, tip truncate or rounded, long ciliate; II as long as I or 

 rather longer, tip acute or 2-toothed, awn terminal; III (in the upper 

 spikelet 0) hyaline, paleate, male ; IV hyaline, narrow, 2-fid, long-awned, 

 Palea oblong glabrous. Lodicules 0. Stamens 1 or 2, anthers long. Stigmas 



L following three species are probably forms of one, being united by many 

 ■atermedmtea ; they are however for the most part readily distinguishable m India. 



Sack. Monogr 

 Wight 



polystachya, 



^- 40, f. 31 . 



W^ 



i ; Kunt'k Revls. Gram. 493,"t. 162. Perotis polystachya, 

 *• w f 31 ^^*- Saccharum paniceum, Lamk. Enci/cl i. 595, Lllu^t. 



^BoilTtr^ *^^ ^'"y P^'-t^ of Intlia, in dry places, from the Punjab eastward to 

 ^clirlfT^'''' '^"^ S^-^^iA, ascending the Himalaya to 4000 ft., and southward 

 ■ S««m ^ic "'^ ^^^ Ceylon.— DisTBiB. China, Malaya. . 



%tST-l • •°i,^'."«"y "densely tufted, nodes glabrous or bearded. Leaves 1-3 in. 



I s -mi. Hairs of callus shortor t.hnn f,li(» stiikelet. 



of callus shorter than the spikelet. 



V 



krr 



WoJ; tT^**™"*. ^«^- ■^«»'^- ^ffrost. 166; spikelets tWV i°-. g^ 

 1478% ' "^gl^b'^o^s or nearly so, stamens 1 rarely 2. Kunth Enum. PL 

 4\i7io- P^^*'«-/"-«. CatPanJab. PL m,Franch. S( Sav. Enum. PL 



Sack J? ^'"^'I- '^i*- ^eauv.). P. saccharoideum, mr ^. . monandrum. 

 ('« par? T?;; ^"'^^•^P- 193. P. polystachyum, Kunth R^''\%"%fl 

 »» nV; ^\oI- ^efractnm, Nces ii Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech Voy. 239 



tene^ ir^^- 182. 



Poffonopsis 



-ff^ft-?-. i. 133, t. 46. Homoplitis crmita, Tnn. Fund. 

 emum crinitum. Tnn. in Mem. Acad- Petersb. ber. vi. u- 



S)29f • ^«^^ 



Xc. Pi, Li^\\^^ ' '5*^^- '• ^- 368.— Pogonatherum, Qnf 



