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SIZKIM HIMALAYA; ascending to 3500 ft. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1-4000 ft., 

 ASSAM, and BENGAL. CEYLON, alt. 4000ft. DISTRIB. Tropics generally. 



Stem 1-2 ft., weak, decumbent ; loosely branched, more or less pubescent. Leaves 

 3_6 by -1 iu., broadly-lanceolate, thin, flat, caudate-acuminate, scaberulous ; base 

 rounded or cordate, ciliate; sheath lax; ligule a few hairs. Panicle 3-4 in., uni- 

 lateral; branches erect or spreading-, and pedicels scaberulous. Spikelets -i in. long, 

 green ; gl. 1-IH persistent, keels scabrid; I more than III, ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 aristate, 3-nerved, II acuminate 5-nerved; III obtuse 5-nerved, palea large; IV = 

 III deciduous, smooth, pale, turned half round so that the long diam. is at right 

 angles to the plane of the spikelets ; appendages obscure. The oblique position of 

 the grain is very peculiar. 



2. I. foliolosus, Munro in Herb. Kew ; dwarf, hispidly hairy, 

 fastigiately branched from the base, leaves short almost subulate, spik- 

 lets g- in. in short panicles half immersed in the leafy tips of the short 

 branches erect, gl. I neaily=III 5-nerved, II longer than III sub- 

 aristate, III epaleate 5-nerved, IV ellipsoid acute, appendage minute 

 anticous 2-lobed. Panicum foliolosum, Wall. Cat. n. 8680. 



BURMA ; Ava, Wallich ; Mengoon, J. Anderson. 



Densely tufted, 6-8 in. high, stiff, branches suberect or prostrate to the tips. 

 Leaves l-l by t^-^ in., flat, strongly many-nerved, clothed like the short sheaths 

 and panicles with spreading hairs ; ligule of rigid hairs. Panicles with short erect 

 angular branches. Spikelets green, tips scabrid; gl. IV much shorter than III, 

 stipitate, base truncate. A very peculiar species. 



6. THYSANOX.AENA, Nees. 



A very large glabrous grass ; stem solid. Leaves broad, flat. Panicle 

 very large, effuse, with myriads of crowded long filiform compound sub- 

 erect branches and branchlets bearing innumerable subsecund very minute 

 1-fld. spikelets which are jointed on very short pedicels. Glumes 4; I and 



II minute, concave, obtuse, awnless ; I shortest nerveless ; II nerveless ; 



III much longer, epaleate, empty, coriaceous, acuminate, 1-nerved, harden- 

 ing; IV rather shorter membranous, obloog, acute, clothed with white 

 erect hairs, palea short, truncate. Stamens 2-3, anthers short. Styles 

 free. Grain most minute, free within the hardened glumes. 



T. Agrostis, Nees in Edinb. new Phil. Journ. xviii (1835) 180; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 119. T. maxima, Herb. 0. Kuntze. T. acarifera, Arn. & 

 Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Citr. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 181 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8882; 

 Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. y. (1890) 347 ; Dathie Grass N. W. 

 Ind. 13, Fodd. Grass. N.Ind.Zl. Panicum acariferum, Trin. Sp.-Q-ram. 

 Ic. t. 87 ; Baker Fl. Maurlt. 437 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 517. P. Amlisa, 

 Herb. Ham. ex Wall. I. c. 0. Myriachaeta arundinacea, Zoll. <$f Mor. Syst. 

 Verz. Zoll. 101 ; Steud. Si/n. Gram. 404. M. glauca, Mor. ex Steud. I. c. 

 404 ; Zoll. Syst. 1. c. Melica latifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 328. Agrostis 

 maxima, Roach. 1. c. 317. A. latifolia, Heyne in Herb. Rottl. (non Trevir.). 

 A. scoparia, Koenig ex Herb. Rottl, (nun Steud.). Arundo montana, 

 Herb. Ham. ex Wall. I. c. B. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards and the KHASIA HILLS, alt. 

 4- 5000 ft. BEHAR ; on Parus-mth. The DECCAN, BURMA; NICOBAB ISL^S., and 

 PENANG. DISTRIB. Eastw. to New Guinea. 



Stem 4-12 ft., sometimes as thick as the little finger. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 2-4 in., 

 coriaceous, tapering to a fine point, base cordate ; mouth of sheaths hairy ; ligule 



