Hackel’s monograph) show, there has been confusion in 
the nomenclature of the two Miscanthi founded by Anders- 
Son on the old Saccharum japonicum of Thunberg; 
namely, M. sinensis and japonicus. Of both of these there 
are sufficient specimens in the Kew Herbarium, but being 
undistinguishable by the characters given by Hackel, I 
requested Dr. Stapf (Assistant for India in the Kew 
Herbarium), to be so good as to compare them critically 
for me; and he has kindly given me as his opinion, that 
though very distinct in the extreme forms, they pass into 
one another in portions of their common area, but that 
each being rather uniformly distributed over large tracts, 
they may be kept as distinct species. The following are 
his characters of the extreme forms :— 
M. sinensis ; leaves 8- rarely to 6— lin. broad, often 
strigose; panicle flabelliform ; ‘rachis short, with rather 
Stouter racemes; pedicels straight or slightly curved ; 
outer glumes 2-22 rarely 3 in. long, long-acuminate, 
glabrous or with few hairs :—Distrib. Tonkin to Corea, 
Loochoo Islds., and var. purpurascens with more hairy or 
villous glumes (M. purpurascens, Anderss.) Japan. 
M. japonicus; leaves 8-10 lin. broad, rarely 14 in., 
glabrous; panicle oblong or obovate,’ rachis elongate ; 
racemes slender; pedicels slender, usually more or less 
recurved; outer glumes L-1 rarely 2 lin. long or (longer 
in Philippine and Polynesian Specimens) acuminate, 
glabrous.—Distrib, Japan, China, Philippines, N. Cale- 
donia and Polynesian Islds. 
The broad-banded leaved Eulalia japonica, figured in 
Gard. Chron. (1877), p. 565, fic. 89, referred to sinensis 
by Hackel, agrees better with M. japonicus. 
_ The specimen here figured flowered in the open-air 
in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in September, 1892. 
.. Fig. 1, portion of sheath and ligula; 2, spikelet; 3, glume i; 4, glume 
alt iu.; 6, pale; 7, lodicules; 8, anther; 9, ovary :—All greatly 
