cultivation in Europe by M. Lemoine, who received seeds 

 from Chimborazo. There are, besides Hall's specimen in 

 the Kew Herbarium, others collected by Pentland at 

 Cnzco, alt. 11,380 ft., and in wet places near Sorata in 

 Bolivia, alt. 9-12,000 ft., by Mandon. According to Dr. 

 Stapf it differs from G. argentea in the rather laxer, more 

 graceful panicle, with longer, more flexuous, nodding 

 branches, somewhat smaller spikelets, more delicate 

 glumes, and in the longer, very slender staminodes of the 

 fern. fl. The colouring of the glumes is neither constant 

 in, nor confined to G. jubata. 



The specimen of the latter here figured was sent to me 

 by Mr. Gumbleton, from his famous garden at Belgrove, 

 County Cork, in October, 1895, with the information that 

 it was a far more beautiful grass than G. argentea. The 

 panicle, he tells me, more resembles that of Arundo 

 conspicua, but is much larger, and of a lovely pale lavender 

 colour. Unfortunately the plant did not prove hardy, 

 having been killed by 29° of frost in the following winter. 

 _ Descr. — A densely tufted, glabrous, perennial grass, with 

 biennial culms, and the leaves crowded round their bases ; 

 upper internodes more than a foot long. Leaves long, 

 slender, drooping on all sides, ending in filiform points, 

 margins scabrid, ligule a ridge of silky hairs. Panicle 

 one to two feet long, inclined or nodding, laxly plumose, 

 pale straw-coloured, suffused with purple, branches fili- 

 form, flexuous, lower a foot and upwards long, nodding. 

 Spikelets half an inch long, three to five-flowered, male 

 nearly glabrous, fem. silky, with very long hairs. Glumes 

 hyaline, lower two empty, subequal, narrowly linear-lan- 

 ceolate, finely acuminate, glabrous, 1-nerved, tip acute or 

 2-toothed; flowering glumes narrowly lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 3-nerved, male glabrous, fem. bearded with very 

 long, silky hairs. Stamens reduced to filiform staminodes 

 in the fem. spikelets. Ovary glabrous. Grain narrowly 

 oblong, hilum linear.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, male spikelefc ; 3, base of male flowering glume; 

 4, palea ; 5, anther; 6, fem. spikelet ; 7, base of fem. floweriug glume; 

 8, lodicules and ovary : — All enlarged. 



