Graminea.2 cetlon plants. 



Culmi ad Lasin dense brunneo-tomentosi. 



3. P. Wallichiana, N. ab Es. (Steud. 1. c. p. 410.)— C.P. 950 



Hae. JXot uncommon in tlie Central Province. 



3G9 



34 DIMERIA, E. Br. 



r 



1. D ornithopoda Trin. (Kth, Enum. i, p. 472.)-!). ffracilis, N. ab 



-lis. ; bteud. hynops. Gram. p. 413.— c.p. 952, 3321, 

 Var. /3; spicuUs paucioribus, majoribus.— c.p. 3256. 



Var. y; spicuUs v^he^ceni\hus.—D. fusccscens, Trin. ; Steud. I.e. : 

 Benth. EL Hongk. p. 419.— c.p. 956. 



Var. S ; spiculis muticis. — c.p. 955. 



Has. Not uncommon throughout the island. Yar. /3, at Newera 

 ±illia, and Horton Plams, at an elevation of 6000 to 7000 feet. 



Folia pilosa vcl glabra. 



An extremely variable plant, but all the forms enumerated above appear to me 

 certainly to belong to one species, 



2. p. pilosissima, Trin. (Steud. 1. c.)—Saplachne pilosissima, Pr. ; 



Eth. 1. c. p. 473.— c.p. 24, 3261. ^ i' 



Hab. Southern and Central Provinces. 



pifFers, like the preceding, in the amount of pubescence, and in the size of the 

 spikelets. 



3. D. pusilla, Thw. ; dense csespitosa, culmis erectis, brevibus \foliis 

 parvis, hneanbus ; spka simylici ; racJd tenui, triangulari, glabra ; 

 spicuhs aristatis, villosuhs, basi attenuata dense albo-pilosa ; pedicello 

 orevi,^ gIabro,,uno latere ad apicem acute producto ; glumis acutis, 

 superiore ad apicem setacea.— c.p. 957. 



Hab. Kokotodua, Gardner. 

 ^^ Culmi 4-8-pollicares. Spica poUicaris. SpicuIiV If lin. long®, arista circitcr 5 



35. IMPERATA, Cyr. 



1. I. artmdmacea, Cyr. (Kth. Enum. i. p. 477, cum svn.)— C.P. 968. 

 "Tn^^V „^o°i"ion in the hotter parts of the island. Nom. vulg. 



lUook. 



The leaves make an excellent thatch. 



36. SACCHARUM, Linn. 



1. S. spontaneum, Linn. (Kth. Enum. i. p. 475, cum syn.)— 5'. 

 ^gyptiacxim, WiUd. ; Kth. 1. c. S. semidecumbens , Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 p. ^36, 8, caudieulaiunty Eoxb. 1. c. p. 246 ; Kth. L c.— c,p. 3681. 



Hab. Hotter parts of the island. 



37. PEROTIS, Ait 



1. P 



Abundant 



syn.)— c.p. 3164 



3 B 



