291 TWO NKW CHI.VKSE riRASSEf. 



The flowers .ire somewhat rotten, so that it is impossible to fin.l 

 the gUind still attached to tlie caiidiele, but there can be uo doubt as 

 to the genus to which this should be referred. 



Calanthe sylvatica, Ldl. 



Calanthe sylvattea, Ldl., var. ? foliis angustioribus, floiilus minori- 

 ■bus, &c. 



TWO NEW CHINESE GRASSES. 

 By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., etc. 



1. EiuocnRTSis roitrnTitocojrA, xp. nov. — Vaginis npicem rrrsn* 

 margincque pilosis, ligula oblonga uUoviliosa, folio sumino subuhito 

 bre"vi scubro, culmo apice dense tomentoso, paniculic angiista) pedalis 

 rachi angulata villoso-tonientosa radii3 4-6 verticillatis simplieibui^ 

 ereetis articulatis sed satis tenacibus bipoUicaiibus, spiculis bims 

 oblongis pilis plus minus saturate purpurco-suffusis iis requilongn 

 cinctis altera pedicellata decidua altera sessili magis persistcnte 

 ntra(]uc biiiora heniiologama, pcdicello piloso spiculam sessilem sutx- 

 a}(]uaiite, glumis cartilagineis glandaceis mari;ine dense ciliatis infeiiore 

 5-7 uervi glabra su])eriore 3-5 iicrvi nunc hirtula carinata, flosculis 

 muliois 1-nervibus intcriorc 1-valvi neutro superiore 2-valvi heriiia- 

 phrodiio. 



In provinciaCantonensi, srcus amnem Lien chau, m. Octobri, 1875, 

 invenit doniina Galbraitii. (Herb. propr.,n. 19285.) 



Of this hai)dsi)inu Grass I have seen half-a-dozen specimens, all un- 

 fortunately gathered without the lower portion of the culm or fully 

 develo])ed leaves. The small genus to which it belongs was long sup- 

 ])usid to be munofypic. the oiijiinal species, E. cai/cniiensi's, Beauv. !, 

 being found in ^lexico, Brazil, Venezuela, and the West Indian 

 islands. Trinius*'" subsequently added to this an Indian species, and 

 Steudelf attcrwards two others of similar origin (carelessly re- 

 ])eating one of the three under Saccharum), from the manuscript, of the 

 late celebrated agrostologist, C. G. Nees v. Esenbeck ; and ^lunro;]; still 

 later a fourth from Si)uth Africa. I have seen neither of these ; but 

 the Cliiiiese plant appears to bo well distinguished from each, so far 

 as can be judged from the characters assigned them. From its American 

 congener it differs much in habit, reseiubling somewhat Eulalia 

 capcnsis, !Munro I Since the detection of the Manchuiian and North- 

 Cliiiicse Iinpcio.ta (^IViarrhfinn) mccharijhra, Ma.xim.!,§ the technical 

 distinction between Erioc/inj.sis and Iinpcrata is reduced to the 

 liardened texture of the glumes, as contrasted with the membranaceous 



• Mem. Acad. imp. sc. St. Petersb. G*. ser. ii., 315 (1832), 



t Syiiois. pi. Gram., til. 



\ Uarvey (ien. So. AiV. V\. ed. 2, 410. 



§ Maxim. rii:n. V\. Amur., 331. 



