Arundo.]- cLXxm. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 803 



Eo3t Gram. Austr, iv, 22, t. 38; KuntU Enum, PI I 246, Suppl 159; 

 mcU. Ic, FL Germ. t. 109; T. Nees Gen. Fl Germ, Monocot i. n. 36; 

 ierfeft. R itos^. iv. 394 ; Boiss. FL Orient v. 564; Aitchis, Cat. Pavjab 

 FL166; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 35, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 60. A. benga- 

 lensis & bifaria, Betz. Obs. iv, 22, & v. 20 ; Eoxh. Fl Ind. i. 347, 34« ; Kunth 

 Uum. Pli.247. A. longifolia, Salisb. Prodr. 24. A. sativa, Zamk. Fl. 

 ^T. m. 616. A. triflora, Boxh. Ic. Pirt, t. 853. Donax arundinaceus, 

 m%,.Agrost. 78, t. IQ, f . 4, D. benghalensis, Beauv. I. c. 78. D. bifarius, 

 ^^n. m Spreng. JSfeue Entdeck. ii. 73. Amphidonax beoealensis, Nees 

 ^ bteud. Syn. Gram. 197 ; Wight Cat. n. 1748. A. bifaria, Nees ex Steud. 

 ^\o^ 410; Miq^. FL Ind. Bat. iv. 410, Scolochloa nrundinacea, 

 f^rt& Koch Fl Germ. i. 529. A^ra benghalensis, GmeLSyst.l 174.— 

 AruDdo, Wa/L Cat n. 5018, excl R, 5020. ■ 



.j^p^^^* Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Nep^l, nscendinj? to 3500 ft.; and from 

 KiTfi ^^^ to SiLHET, the Naga Hills, nit. 5-8000 ft., and Burma. TheCiRCAES, 



9^" V"'^ I^^HG Hills.— DisraiB. Westward to Europe, N. Africa, N. A.ia. 

 iinnofh^v ^ ft-» fistnlar. Leaves 1-2 ft., tapering from the base to the apex, 

 scXn I ^^^™"^' drooping ; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 1-2 ft., hranches 

 aciite ^^''^^*^ ^^ *^*'^'^*'*"^' ^P^^^^e^? ^ iu., green or yellowish; gls. I and II 

 form u*" }^^^ "^^ apieulate. — A curious branched smalf-leaved apparently dwarf 

 Tbum ?K ^' ^^'^^^^^ifolia, mss., was collected by Griffith on the summit of 

 MoADiH » (^'s^^»"i Mts.),and is alluded to in his Journals, p. 45, as *' an Arundo 

 TnrrT V Grisebach (iu Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76) describes a form of A. Pliuiam, 

 a^t. 34omV A "^*^"^^ ^^ ^^^ sheath ciliate. as a native of the Himnlaya (Simla, 

 i»tin^'vi f "^^^^ Jibove character is found in Indian 5pocimensof what I cannot 

 mere form f n" ^' ^^^^^^ A. PUniana apnears to Dr. Stapf atul myself to be a 

 froini I .^^^°^^^ with small r spikelets, which organs in Indian specimens vary 

 'aticu* p '•"' / "^''^ P'**"*^^ ^^'**^** ^^® smaller spikelets are, I presume, the A. mawri- 

 ^^Ind m' ^^^^^y^ o^ PUniana) of Duthie Grass. N.JF.Ind.35, Fodd. Grass. 



97. PKRAenXXTES, Trin. 

 Tall 



'loll 



panicle, ^^'^^f'^.'^^ grasses. Leaves long. Spiielets 3-7-fld. in decompound 

 jointed Lf^ ]omted on the pedicels, laterally suhcompve^sed; rachiUa 

 lonKhaira " ^^® ^°- gls. and above gl. Ill, silkily penicillate with very 

 nneoTial V^^*^ Productd beyond the fl. gla. Glumes all glabrous, I and II 

 L.J. '^I'ionK-lano.pnlat^ 'ir.^^^^^A ^^,„■^^vo,,^ne r,prsis1-pnt: III much 



%inaa n^ ^'"^ ^* 2, obtuse. Stamens 1-3. Styles 2, terminal, iree, 



Plumose. Grain oblong, terete.— Species few, temp, and trop. 



■he^nV ^n*^"*""**' ^'•'^- ^■''"'^- ^iff'-osf. 134 ; stem 6-10 ft., and leaves 



''therini? in •""**' ^'•'^- ^"''"'^- ^ig>'osf. 134 ; stem 6-K 

 "^^^ined u; 'y^^ter, leaf-margins rough, panicle 6-18 



5^<»». i.'277 t ^'rf "^^^ ^^^^'y spreading, gl. Ill \-i in. 



6-18 in. subsecuud, 



Kunth Recis. 



W • I*- homili' A?^- ^«''- ^i^-' '^^i^i'^- '■• (1843) 174. P. hinpanica, .Am 

 ^^'^■i:cS\?''^- ^'^ C-af. HorrGmwen. (1846) 27. P. longivalvis, 



• :''">•. P. mauritanica, iTwn^/^ Revis. i. 80, 277, t. 50, Enum. i. 251. 



