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,MuSp Eoti Lugd.-Bat. II. 275. But according to Hooker, var. 

 angastatutn is mere " starved form " of the species ; and var, 

 contractum is not distinguished from the type by Miquel, and 

 also by Franchet and Savatier. 



P. Matsumurae Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. (1899)644; 

 Matsum. Index. PI. Jap. Phanerog. pars 1(1905), 10 ;= Set aria 

 excurrens Miq. Prol. 163 {non Trin). ^^lU 



• K So far as I know this name has not been reported from 

 China. 



Setaria Forhesiana Hook. f. apparently resembles the 

 present spcies. 



Pasparum scrobiculatum L. ; B^nth. Fl. Hongk. 408 ; 



Pilgcr in Engl. Bdt. Jahrb. XXIX. 223 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 



'VIT.'IO; Rendle 1 c. 320=P. Thunhergii Kunth. (sec. Rendle). 



Rcttboellia CDmpressa L. var. Japonica Hack. Monogr. 



Anda.p. f88; ct in Bull. Herb. Boiss. sen 2, HI. (1903)501; 



■Rendle 1. c. 361. j§.>)\\ 



Rendle distinguishes 3 var. nameh' : genuina, iasciculata and 

 japonica ; and states that var. Japonica \s scarcely distinguisha- 

 ble from var. iasciculata. However, after Hackel the distinction 

 between the two though slight is as follows : 



Spiculis cum callo 2 mm. longo glabro 6-7 mm. longis . . 



var. fasciculata Hack. 



Spiculis cum callo 1 mm. longo glabro rectangulo minus 

 distincto 6-7 mm. longis var. japonica Hack. 



Sorghum falvum Beauy. ; Rendle 1. c, '^67; ^Andropogon 

 serratus, Thunb. var. genuinus Hack. Monogr. Androp. 521 ; ct 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. (1899)642 et ser. 2, HI (1903)501 ; 

 Hook, f Fl. Brit. Ind YII. 185. ||'>H 



Spodiopogon cotulifer Hack. Monogr. Androp. 187 et in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. (1899) 461, ct ser. 2, III. (1908)501 ; 

 Hook, f Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 108 ; Rendle 1. c. 351. §M 



Themeda triandra Forsk. (=Th. Forskali Hack.) var.. major 

 subvar. japonica Hack. Monogr. Androp. 662 ; Komarov in 

 Act. Hort. Potrop. XX. (1901)251; Rendle I.e. 378 ;^Th. 

 Forslcali in Bot. Mag. Tokyo XX. 236. f^j]] 



