Tab. 7352. 



GrYNERIUM SACCflAKOIDES. 

 Native of Tropical America. 



Nat. Ord. Gramine^;. — Tribe Festuce^e. 

 G enus Gynericjm, Humb. & Bonpl. ; (Benth. & Rook. f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 1 178.) 



Gyneritjm saccharoides ; caulibns caespitosis 10-15 pedalibus robustis, foliis 

 distichis 4-5-pedalibus 1-2 poll, latis patenti-decurvis planis serrulatis 

 glabris caudato-attenuatis coriaceis multistriatis, costa valida, vaginia 

 patentim Bubbifariam pilosis ore ciliato, panicula 5-6-pedali cernua 

 ramosissima efEusa ramis ramulis pedicellisqne gracilibus glabris, 

 spiculis masculia glaberrimis glumis I. et II. lanceolatis, III. et IV. 

 brevibus subaaqualibus oblongis, femiaeis laxe villosis glumis I. et II. 

 anguste lanceolatis II. multoties longiore. 



G. saccharoides, Humb. Sf Bonpl. PL JEquinoct. vol. ii. p. 112, t. 215. H. B. 

 & E. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vol. i. p. 149. Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. ii. p. 462! 

 Kunth Enum. PI. vol. i. p. 252, & Suppl. p. 194. Steud. Syn. Gram 197 

 [W. Wats.] in Gard, Chron. (1888), ii. 416. 



G. sagittatum, Beauv. Agrostogr. p. 138, et t. xxiv. f. 6 procerum. 



Artindo sagittata, Pers. Syn. vol. i. p. 102 ? 



A. saccharoides, Griseb. Fl. Brit. Fl. Ind. 530. 



Saccharum sagittatum, Aubl. PI. Guian. vol. i. p. 50? 



The magnificent grass here figured is that which 

 yields the ornamental feathery grass used for the decora- 

 tion of rooms, and which, after being imported into 

 London, are dyed of various colours, and sold as " Uva- 

 grass." It has a wide range in distribution, abounding 

 along river banks in the West Indies, Guiana, Brazil, and 

 no doubt all intervening countries. The genus to which 

 it belongs is a very small one, most closely allied to the 

 European Arundo, containing only three or four species, 

 amongst which is the G. argenteum, the so-called " Pampas 

 Grass " of our gardens. These two noble grasses, one a 

 native of tropical, the other of temperate S. America, are 

 equally attractive, and yet so different in habit and 

 appearance, that they can never be regarded as rivals for 

 decorative purposes. 



For the following note on Gynerium saccharoides, as 

 grown at Kew, I am indebted to Mr. Watson, premising 



May 1st, 1894, 



