PART 1, 1909] POACEAE 89 
Anatherum caudatum Sieber; R. & S. Syst. Veg. Mant. 2: 445. 1824, 
Imperata caudata Trin. Mém. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 2: 331. 1832. 
Imperaia exaltata caudaia Hack. in DC. Monog. Phan. 6: 99, 1889. 
Stems usually 1 m. tall or more; leaf-sheaths smooth and glabrous, or the basal ones 
sometimes pubescent; blades up to 6 dm. long, 1 cm. wide or less, long-acuminate, much 
narrowed toward the base, hirsute on the upper surface toward the base; panicle up to 4 
dm. long, narrowed foward the apex, its lower branches elongated, lax and ascending ; 
spikelets 3-4.5 mm. long, the involucral hairs 2-3 times as long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: On banks of the Magdalena River, Colombia. 
DISTRIBUTION : Mexico ana Central America; Porto Rico ; Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique ; 
also in South America. 
10. MISCANTHUS Anderss. Oefv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. 
Forh. 1855: 165. 1855. 
Tall erect perennial grasses, with usually flat leaf-blades, and terminal ample commonly 
hairy panicles. Spikelets 1-flowered, unequally pedicellate, arranged in pairs along the 
continuous branches of the panicle, articulated with the pedicel. Scales 4; outer 2 larger, 
empty, membranous, muticous; third scale also empty but thinner; fourth scale thinly 
hyaline, subtending a perfect flower, 2-toothed at the apex, the awn arising from between 
the teeth, usually slender, often with a twisted column at the base and geniculate, some- 
times straight, rarely very short or wanting; palet thin; hyaline. Stamens 3. Styles dis- 
tinct. Stigmas plumose. 
Type species, Eulalia japonica Trin. 
1. Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. Oefv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Férh. 
1855: 166. 1855. , 
Saccharum polydactyion 8 Thunb. FI. Jap. 43. 1784. 
Saccharum japonicum Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 328, in part. 1794. 
Erianthus japonicus Beauv.; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 2: 324, in part. 1817. 
Ripidium japonicum Trin. Fund. Agrost. 169. in part. 1820. 
Eulalia japonica Trin, Mém. Acad. St. Petersb, VI. 2: 333, in part. 1832. 
Stems 1-2 m. tall; leaf-blades up to 8 dm. long and 1.5 cm. wide; panicle 2-4 dm. 
long, its branches erect or ascending; spikelets 4.5-5 mm. long, yellowish-brown, shining, 
glabrous, encircled at the base with white or purplish hairs equaling or exceeding them, 
the awn 8-10 mm. long, spirally twisted at the base. 
TYPE LOCALITY: China. 
DISTRIBUTION : Escaped from cultivation in Florida, and at Washington, D. C.; a native of 
China, Japan, and the Celebes. 
ILLUSTRATIONS : Bot. Mag. f/. 7304; Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 20: £6; Nicholson, Dict. 
Gard. 1: f. 740; Cycl. Am. Hort. £ 1407; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 6. 
11. SACCHARUM L,. Sp. Pl. 54. 1753. 
Tall grasses with flat leaf-blades and usually large diffuse terminal panicles. Spikelets 
1-flowered, the flower perfect, in pairs along the articulate branches of the panicle, one 
sessile, the other pedicellate. Scales 4; outer 3 empty, acute, hyaline or somewhat mem- 
branous, or indurated at the base; fourth scale shorter, bearing the flower. Stamens 3. 
Styles distinct. Stigmas plumose. 
Type species, Saccharum officinarum 1. 
1. Saccharum officinarum L. Sp. Pl. 54. 1753. 
Stems tall and leafy, sometimes several meters high ; leaf-blades often over 1 m. long, 
up to6 cm. wide; panicle up to 6 dm. long or more, diffuse. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Both Indies. 
DISTRIBUTION : Sometimes escaping from cultivation in warm and tropical regions. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Rumph. Amb. 5: 61.74, f.1; Lam. Tabl. Encyc. pl. 40, f.1; Woodv. Med. 
Bot. p/. 196; Tratt. Ausg. Taf. Arch. Gewachsk. pl. 307, 307a ; Kerner, Gen. Pl. BL. 101-103 ; Tussac, 
Fl. Ant. 1: p/. 23-25; Descourt. Fl, Ant. p2. 283 ; Hayne, Arzn. Gew. 9: BL 30, 31; Guimp. & 
Schlecht. Abb. Pharm. Bor. pl. 100; T. Nees, Pl. Off. pi. 33-35 ; Wagner, Pharm. -med, Bot. pl. 23, 
24; Bot. Mise. £2. 26; Spach, Hist..Veg. £1. 103 ; Mém. Inst, Paris 1850: Pt, 1,2; een Mad. 
& “Ten. pl. i; Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 20: FZ. 7; Beal, Grasses N, Am. 2:47 
