Miscanthus GRAMINEAE Spodiopogon 



Open slopes and shady woods. Fig. 443. 

 3. Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Hack, ffi (Ti; Reed) (Hitch. 740). Culms 0.6- 

 2.0m. high; fls. IX; fr. X. Temperate Asia; locally in Che., Ku. Open moist 

 ground. 



71. Imperata Cyr. gf-M (Pai Mao Shu) 



Perennials with long creeping rootstocks and terminal spici/orm woolly panicles: 

 spikelets all perfect, binate or sometimes solitary, usually unequally pedicelled on a 

 slender continuous rachis: glumes about equal, membranaceous: lemmas hyaline, 

 awnless; stamens 2 (ours). About 10 species, mostly in tropical regions; 1 in China. 

 (Named for Ferrante Imperato.) 



1. Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv. E^ (Pai Mao; White Grass) (Hitch.737). Culms 

 30-90 cm. high; fls. IV; fr. V. Tropical and temperate zones of the Old World; 

 locally in An., Che., Ku. Grassy slopes and valley land. Fig. 444. 



72. Saccharum Linn. ^^M (Kan Che Shu; Sugar-cane Genus) 



Tall perennials with silky pale or brownish terminal panicles of numerous racemes: 

 spikelets all perfect, binate; one of the pair sessile; the other pedicelled; arranged 

 on a jointed fragile rachis; awnless or the fertile lemma mucronate. About 12 species, 

 chiefly Asiatic; 5 in China. (Latin: saccharum, sugar, because of the sweet juice.) 



Key to the Species 



Panicle broad, silvery-silky: spikelets 3.5-4.0 mm. long; glumes 



dorsally long-villous 1 . S. arundinaceum 



Panicle narrow, purplish brown: spikelets 2.5-3.0 mm. long; glumes 



dorsally glabrous or sparsely pubescent 2. S. narenga 



1. Saccharum arundinaceum Retz. (H.F.7:119). Culms 2-7 m. high; fls. IX; fr. X. 

 India to China and Malaysia; locally in An., Che. On slopes or grassland. Fig. 

 445. 



2. Saccharum narenga (Nees) Hack. }BfiA (Ho Wang Pa; River Turtle) (L.S.J. 7:231). 

 Culms 1-3 m. high; fls. X; fr. XL India to China ; locally in Ku. Open grassland 

 or ravines. 



73. Spodiopogon Trin. f^r^M (Yu Mang Shu) 

 Perennials with open terminal panicles: spikelets more or less terete, all perfect, 

 binate, or 3-nate at the terminal rachis joint; unequally pedicelled, or one of them 

 sessile; in peduncled slender racemes on a 1-several- jointed rachis, awned from the 

 sinus of the 2-cleft fertile lemma. About 10 species, in Asia; 6 in China. (Greek: 

 spodios, ash colored, and pogon, beard, alluding to the grayish hirsute spikelets of the 

 type species, S. sibiricus Trin.) 



Key to the Species 



Spikelets 2-fld.; one of the pair pedicelled; the other sessile: racemes 



2-4-jointed; joints and pedicels villous 1 . 5. sibiricus 



Spikelets 1-fld. ; both of the pair pedicelled: racemes many-jointed; joints 



and pedicels glabrous 2 . S. cotulifer 



1. Spodiopogon sibiricus Trin. -kW£. (Ta Yu Mang; Great-oily-awn) (Mak.F.823). 



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