Tas. 7304, 
MISCANTHUS sinensis. 
Native of China and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Graminsa2.—Tribe ANDROPOGONES. 
Genus Miscantuvs, Anderss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1125.) 
MiscanTuvus, sinensis; culmis erectis robustis glabris v. infra paniculam 
villosam pubescentibus, foliis linearibus canaliculatis supra glabris v. parce 
pilosis subtus pubescentibus marginibus scabridis, vaginis glabris scaberu- 
lisve ligula ciliata, panicula erecta flabellata, racemis elongatis corymboso- 
fastigiatis sessilibus multifloris infimis 3—4-nis rachim sepissime superan- 
tibus, spiculis pedicellatis 4, poll. longis stramineis nitidis glabris‘v. sparse 
pilosis villos albos v. subviolaceos subzequantibus, gluma i. et i. acumi- 
natis, iii. hyalina ciliata, iv. integra v. apice bifida dentibus subulatis, 
arista gracillima gluma duplo v. triplo longiore, palea brevissima 2-3-fida 
v. lacera. 
M. sinensis, Anderss. in Cifvers. K. Vets. Akad. F orhandl. Stockh. (1855), 
166. Hackel in DO. Monog. Phan. vol. vi. p. 100. 
Erianthus japonicus, Beaw. ex Roem. § Sch. Syst. vol. ii. p. 324. Nees in 
Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 242. ; 
Eulalia japonica, Trin..in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6, vol. ii. p. 333; et 
Hortulanorum. . 
E. japonica, var. foliis univittatis, Carr. & André in Rev. Hortic. (1889), 
p. 516. : 
Ripidium japonicum, Trin. Fund. p. 169. 
Saccharum’ japonicum, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. ii, p. 328 im part. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. i. p. 321. 
8. polydactylon, var. 8. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 48. 
The handsome grass here figured belongs to a small 
Kastern Asiatic, Himalayan and Polynesian genus, closely 
allied to that of the sugar-cane, Saccharum, from which it 
differs in the rachis of the raceme not being articulated and 
becoming disjointed at the bases of the pedicels of the 
spikelets; as also in the corymbiform or flabelliform 
panicle, the lower racemes of which often exceed in length 
the rachis of the panicle itself. Hackel, the latest and 
best authority on the Andropogineous grasses, enumerates 
Seven species of Miscanthus, which are probably reducible 
to five or six. As the cited synonyms (taken from 
Jury Ist, 1893, 
