Phrajmites,] CLXXiii. gramixk.e. (J. D. Hooker.) 305 



r. comjnunis, and F. Mueller observes (in a letter to Bentham) that they are so hi 

 ^ ^^^^miinhn P. communis ; whereas ia the tropical Australian phint which Benthain 

 includes under it they are evergreeu. 



ar. cmcfa ; spikelets scaberulons, pedicels villous with silky hairs. P, cinday 

 Uarke ms5. —Xear Calcutta; Salt Lakes, ^urc; Mutlab, Clarice.— The specimens 

 in T-Vr^ ^'^*^"o s^^ate of flower. The ghuues are identical with those of P. Karka, 

 wuich Jatter the pedicels of specimens from all parts of India are quite glabrous. 



97* NBYRAUDIA, Hook,/. {Gemts not in clavis). 



fld ^' *^" ll^^^^inial leafy grass. Leaves long, flat. Spikelets small, 4-8- 

 •, in an effuse decompound nodding panicle, laterally compressed, lowest 



beio fh*^^^^"^^^ ^.^^^^^^^ ^P^^^^^^ and neuter; rachilla shortly bearded 

 betwe fh^' ^^^'' i^i^ted at the base (above the neuter gl. if present) and 

 lance Tf 1^^' ^^^' ^'^^^"^^'^ ^^1 membranous ; I and II unequal, empty, 

 eodin ^^^^^ved; flg. gls. elongate-subulate, more or less recurred, 



posed^ ^^ ^ Q^^'-^ slender tip with 2 setaceous points and a scabrid inter- 

 liairs-^^?' "^^^®'^' lateral nerves submarginal, penicillate with long 

 Siavn^I^^^ oolong, keels scaberulous. LodkvJes 2, obovate or cuneate. 

 terming] i.^^t^^^'s long linear. Ovary shortly stipitate, oblong ; styles 

 "ai, stigmas feathery. Grain linear, terete, loose in the gl. 



N. 



i Rovn A- "*'"'* -iv-'^. J.na. f^o {exn, oj/n-), roaa. u-/-a.>d. j.\. -t«tt. wv. 

 Gram lot '^",^' ^^''''^^' R^^i^^ l-<^' 275, t. 49, Enum.l.cr, Steud. Syn. 



Sues8i.\r^^'^^^^'^ ^"^ J'ouni. Linu. Sor. xxv. (1889) 89. A. Zollinger!, 

 Z^lliDppr; o?' ?^' ^^*^.'7/^- 243; Miq. FL Lid. Bat iii. 411. Phragmites 

 ^eauv \ .i' ^'^ ^^^^- Cat, 55; Smi. Gram, 190. Donax Thouarn, 

 H iwi'^ri : J^' ^- 16, f. 5.-Ariindinacea, Gr/J. .Yoi^^l iii. 49, n. 6 ; Ic. 

 ^/'"'^.t. lo6, f. IL_A,.„«,i^ TTT^// /7^/ n. nO:>1.5022. 



SOOOft r!"^^*'"^ Tropical Himalaya, from 

 Hical E A '^ '^'''^ ^^^^^ KiiAsiA Hills, Assam, 



Tb P ' • 11.— ArunJo, IKaZ/. (7a/. n. 5021, 5022. 



ePAKjAt.o..i rn ^ „ _ Chamba to Sikkim, ascon<1inc,' to 



_ _^__ Penang and Burma.— Distkib. 



^'^«"i 6-H ^1> '"/^ Malaga. Trop. Africa, Maihigascar. 

 P^^ished soliM 1 '^^ more?) np to I in. diam., Uvify to the panicle or near it, 

 ^' 1 in'broai ^^''''^^"» at the nodes. Leaves 1-2 ft., from filiform and convolute 

 ^'^dfewnerv t flat, smooth, rather soft, margins smooth or nearly so, midrii) 



^*^?^- PaJrJ^ 1^^^' ^'^'® subamplexicaul; sheaths polished; ligule a villous 

 or ^ o /. , . - , , , , .1... ^ . 



than 

 obi 



"^"^^r than M. ' suberect, S-ucrved, sides convolute, quite glabrous; 



?>% varfKf *^'"» ""y I'Hliau species of Arundo or PAra^;«/f«., but like these 



T^^nee wh ', '' '" ^'al^it «nd size, depcndiug ou place of growth. I can find no 



'^ = «Pecimenr'-u' ''"^'^^''^*-'» ^lie specimens u^th and those without the empty gl. 



t I- «ai,V"^'' ^''^■'''■'° leaves occur in both. Their habitats are as follo^vs :- 



" ^maoD f ''"'^ I'^Per; neuter gl. 0. Western Himalaya; from Kashmir 



ft- ^ ^"llinnJ^^^' Prome.— Africa, Madagascar. , , „., , .,,, 



j'"%a, Ac,?' 'k'"'^'' 8'- present. Arnndo Reynaudiana, Kunfh 2. c -Sikkim 



Java. ^^sani, B.ngal, the Khasia Hills, Chlttagong, Tenasserim, Penang. 



Vll. 



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