10. Pollinia.] 97. GRAMINJEM 



2. P. articulata, Trin. Var. pedicellata (F.B.I.). 



A very common erect tufted grass varying from 4-6" to 

 18-30" very similar in general appearance to the last with 

 grey-brown spikes in a contracted raceme and pairs of pedi- 

 celled spikelets, T V long ; both rachis and pedicels with long, 

 white hairs. Spikelets lanceolate brown. Gl. I coriaceous 

 shining narrow lanceolate scarcely or not at all flattened, 

 forked at the apex, dorsally hairy, margins ciliate ; II scarcely 

 keeled slightly hairy, minutely 2- toothed at the apex with 

 a very slender awn i" long more or less. 



Very common on half-bare soils of hard clay associated with Laggera 

 flava, Vicoa, etc. Fls. Oct.-Nov. 



Spikes .6-10, 2-2f long. Gl. IV redticed to the narrow base of 

 he long twisted ciliate awn which is about f long. Pale oblong about 

 To" long. 



The description of 1. P. articulata is taken from the F.B.T., it will be 

 Been that this plant differs materially from that description and hence 

 I have kept it quite distinct. The stem and leaf-sheaths in both are 

 glabrous. « 



3. P. eiliata, Trin., is a much-branched straggling grass which is not 

 common. The base of the leaf is conspicuously constricted above the 

 sheath. Spikelets t" long narrow pale. 



4. P. argentea, Trin - 



A tall slender grass 4-5 ft. with flat leaves and spikelets 

 in 4-10 shortly racemed (sub- digitate) brown spikes with 

 long awns. Spikes usually 4-7" long and spikelets sub- 

 secund. Gl. 1 J" brown narrow-oblong, villous, with nerves 

 obscure ; IV of two very slender hyaline lanceolate lobes and 

 a long awn -§*. 



Common in open forest on dry and stony soil. Fls. Nov. 



Perennial with short rootstock. Stem and sheaths shiny. L. 1-2 ft. 

 hy xVi" with scattered long soft hairs towards the base, tip filiform. 

 Gl. II as long as I, keeled, glabrous outside, ciliate on the incurved 

 margins ; III (or pale of IV ?) nearly as long as II, linear with incurved 

 margins and sparsely-villous above, brown. 



5. P. Cumingii, Nees. Lopud Dumbu, K, 



l|-2 ft. high with a perennial stout stoloniferous root- 

 Btock, very slender stems, short fiat leaves and spikelets in 



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