Pollinia.] CXLIV. GRAMINE®. 527 
4. P. tristachya, Thw, Enum. Ceyl. Pl. 368.—Stems 2 to 3 ft. high 
orsometimes more, the nodes not bearded. Leaves narrow, often 
narrower, scarcely ciliate, 3rd nearly as long, almost acute. Awnor . 
terminal glume fine, scarcely à in. long, the hyaline base very narrow 
with small narrow terminal lobes.—Lrianthus Roxburghii, F. Muell. 
i T4. 
Fragm. viii. 1 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Common in East India, our specimens agreeing precisely with some from Ceylon 
others from Khasya, etc. 
5. P. Mackinlayi, F. Muell. Herb.—A pparently tall, but the lower 
part of the plant not seen, the upper leaf erect, with a long sheath 
slightly pubescent. Spikes 4 or 5, scarcely out of the sheath in the 
Specimens seen, about 5 in.-long, the spikelets almost concealed under 
s edicels. Spikelets 
nearly 3 lines long, the sessile and pedicellate ones similar. Outer 
glume membranous, scarcely nerved but thickened in the centre, 
densely ciliate in the middle with long hairs but glabrous above them, 
the 2nd narrower and thinner, the margins slightly ciliate, 3rd hyaline 
but not much shorter. Awn or terminal glume 1 to 13 in. long, the 
hyaline base with narrow acute lobes.—Erianthus villosus, F. Muell. 
tee 
Fragm. viii. 118. 
N. Australia. North Coast of Arnhem's Land, M‘Kinlay. 
The East Indian P. villosa, Munro, differs in the fewer less silky spikes, vm 
smaller spikelets with the outer glume much more rigid and prominently nerve 
ili d th 
Without the dense dorsal cilia, and the awns much 
29, ANDROPOGON, Linn. 
(Gymnandropogon, Cymbopogon and Schizachyrium, Nees.) 
Spikelets 1-flowered or empty, in pairs in t 
the articulate rhachis of simple spikes, 1 
in the fertile spikelet 4, the outer one the largest, awnless, wigs 
nerved, but often 2 nerves near the margin much more prominent t! es 
the others; 2nd glume keeled, rarely produced into a sho ru s 
awn, 3rd much smaller, very thin and hyaline, always empty, 4th 
