520 GRAMINEZ. 
2. Saccharum officinarum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 54; Ch. et Schl. in Linnea, 
vi. p. 39; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 561; Fourn. Mex. PI. Enum., Gram. p. 52. 
Naturalized i in various parts of Mexico and Central America. 
[Saccharum mexicanum, Brouss. in Hornem. Hort. Hafn. i. p. 75, ex Kunth, Enum. 
Pl. i. p. 476; Steud. Gram. p. 407, is a doubtful plant. ] 
33. ERIANTHUS. 
Erianthus, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. p. 54; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 1126. 
About a dozen species inhabiting the warmer parts of both hemispheres, and extending 
to the south of Europe, China, Japan, and the Southern States of North America. 
1. Erianthus saccharoides, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 55; Hack. in Mart. Fl. 
Bras. ii. 3, p. 257 (varietates plures). 
Andropogon alopecuroides, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 1045, excl. syn. Sloanei, ex Hack. 
Anthoxanthum giganteum, Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 65. 
Erianthus alopecuroides et E. contortus, Elliott, Sketch, pp. 38 et 40; Chapm. FI. Southern U. S.. 
p. 582. 
Erianthus brevibarbis, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 55. 
Saccharum giganieum, Pers. Syn. Pl. i. p. 108. 
Andropogon erianthus, Link, Hort. Berol. i. p. 243. 
Spodiopogon foliatus, Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. p. 52. 
Spodiopogon vaginatus, Fourn. 1. c. p. 53? 
Carotina to Froripa.—Sourn Mexico, Borrego, near Orizaba and Santa Fé, in the. 
valley of Mexico (Bourgeau, 674, 2970), without locality (Karwinski)—Co.omsta to 
Brazit. Hb. Kew. 
34. ELIONURUS. 
Elionurus, Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 941; Benth. et Hook. iii. p. 1129. 
Of this genus, again, there are about a dozen species, the greater part of which inhabit. 
Tropical America and Tropical and South Africa; one occurs in the Levant and one in 
Tropical Australia. 
1. Elionurus ciliaris, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 193, t.63; Kunth, Enum. 
Pl. i. p. 480; Rupr. in Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. (reprint, p. 18); Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum.,. 
Gram. p. 66. | 
Texas ; New Mexico.—Sours Mexico, Orizaba (Botteri, 1264; Schaffner; Bourgeau,,. 
2844), Mirador, Vera Cruz (Linden, 277), Zacuspan &c., Vera Cruz (Galeotti, 5696).— 
CoLOMBIA; VENEZUELA. Hb. Kew. 
Hackel (Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. 3, p. 806) regards the Brazilian grass that has been. 
referred to this as a distinct species—. candidus, Hack. Whether the specimens 
here referred to EL. ciliaris and E. tripsacoides, H. B. K., are really such, we are unable 
to decide; but we have partly followed Fournier and partly the named specimens in 
the Kew Herbarium. 
