948 CXLVII. GRAMIMC-i;. 



glume smaller or 0, awnless ; palea small, hyaline, nerveless or 0. 

 Lodicules 2, cuneate or irregular. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally 

 exsertecl. Grain oblong or subglobose. — Distrib. Species about 12, 

 tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 



1. Saccharutn spontaneum, Linn. Mant. (1771) p. 183, A tall 

 erect grass reaching sometimes 20 ft. high ; stem erect from a stout 

 rootstock, solid, smooth, polished, silky beneath the panicle. Leaves 

 l-2i ft. by \-\ in., narrowly linear, finely acuminate, rigid, coriaceous, 

 usually glabrous, often with convolute margins ; sheaths smooth, with 

 fimbriate mouth ; ligule ovate, membranous. Panicle 8-24 in. long, 

 lanceolate, silky-hairy ; rhachis slender ; branches 3-5-nate, 2-4 in. long ; 

 rhachis of racemes almost capillary, fragile. Spikelets -^ in. long, 

 lanceolate ; callus minute, bearded with spreading silky hairs | in. long. 

 Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume lanceolate-subulate, acuminate : upper 

 invol.-glume equal to the lower, lanceolate, obscurely keeled, 1 -nerved ; 

 lower floral glume ovate-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate, hyaline, nerveless ; 

 upper floral glume very slender, ciliate ; palea minute, ciliate. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 7, p. 118; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 304; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 201 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 436; Prain, Beng. PL 

 p. 1188; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 11.— Flowers : Nov. 

 Vern. Bagheri ; Kamis ; Khair. 



XoNKAN : SiocJcs ! ; Karjat, Woodrow. Deccan : Poona (river-bank), Wvodroiv ! 

 S. M. Country : Belgauin, Ritchie. Gujarat : Baroda, Cooke ! ; Domas (near Siirat), 

 Dalzell ^ Gibson. Sind : Stocks, b'^bl; Shikarpur, Woodrow. — Distkib. Throughout 

 India; Ceylon, S. Europe and warm regions of the Old World, East Australia. 



SaccJiarum aruncUnaceum, Eetz. Obs. fasc. 4 (1786) p. 14. A tall 

 strikingly handsome grass reaching, under favorable conditions, nearly 

 20 ft. high, with leaves 3-5 ft. by 1-3 in. with a conspicuous midrib. 

 Panicle 1-2 ft. long, cream -colored, brown or pui^plish. Spikelets about 

 -jljy in. long, clothed with soft cveamv or purplish wooUv hairs. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 7, p. 119 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5,' p. 202; AVoodr. "in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 13 (1901) p. 436; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1188; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 1. Saccliarum exaltatum, Roxb. FL Ind. 

 V. 1 (1832) p. 245 ; Grab. Cat. p. 239. 



I cannot find any evidence that this plant is indigenous in the Bombay Presidency. 

 The only specimens from Bombay in Herb. Kew. were collected by Woodrow from a 

 Bombay garden, and Lisboa (Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 6 (1891) p. 190) remarks that it 

 has been seen only in cultivation in Bombay gardens, while Woodrow (/. c.) gives no 

 habitat, merely noting it as " planted." 



Saccharum officinanim, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 54. The Su(/ar Cane, 

 extensively cultivated in the Bombay Presidency and throughout the 

 hotter parts of India. For a full account of the cultivation of the plant 

 and the mode of extraction and refining of its sugar, see Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, pp. 3-380.— Veen. Us. 



18. ERIANTHUS, Michx. 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves flat, narrow. Spikelets all similar, 

 2-nate (one sessile, the other pedicellate, very rarely both unequally 

 pedicellate), l-flowered, 2-se.vual, on the articulate and usually fragile 



