Imperata."] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 107 



2. Z. exalt at a > Brongn. Voy. Ooq. Bot. 101 (excl. Syn.) ; panicle 

 thyrsiform, lower branches elongate, gl. I 3-5-nerved, stamen 1. Hack. 

 Monogr. Androp. 99. I. caudata, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. ii. 

 (1833; 331. ? I. jaculatoria, Roem. fy Sch. Syst. ii. 289. I. ramosa, Anderss. 

 in CEfvers. Vet. Akad. StocJch. (1855) 158. Saccharum Alopecurus, Nees 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. (1850) 100 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 406. S. caudatum, 

 Mey. Prim. FL Esseq. 68. S. confertum, Presl Eel. Hsenk. i. 346. S. con- 

 tractum & dubium, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et sp. 182, 183. ? S. jaculatorium, 

 Lour. Fl. Gochinch. 53; Poiret Encycl. Suppl. ii. 70. S, macilentum, 

 Chauv. ex Steud. 1. c. S. negrosense, Steud. I. c. Anatherum porto-ricense, 

 Spreng. Syst.i.ZSQ. A. caudatum, Schult. Mant.ii. 445. Syllepis poly- 

 stachya, Fourn. ex Hack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. III. 251. 



, SINGAPORE, Guming. BURMA ; Mergui, Griffith. DISTRIB. Malaya, N. Hebrides, 

 Am. trop. 



Stem tall, up to 7 ft., slender, fistular, glabrous, nodes glabrous. Leaves 

 2-3 ft. by f-1 in., linear, finely acuminate, smooth, glabrous or sparsely pubescent ; 

 sheath glabrous ; ligule very short. Panicle 12-18 in., 4-5 in, broad at the base, 

 narrowly subpyramidal ; rachis slender ; lower brunches 3-4 in. long, branchlets and 

 pedicels ciliate. Spikelets -\ in., like those of I. arundinacea, but gl. I and II 

 fewer nerved; III = II oblong, deeply irregularly toothed above the middle, 

 glabrous, nerve very slender ; IV cuspidately lanceolate from an ovate base, quite 

 entire, glabrous j palea quadrate, many-toothed, glabrous. 



32. BXISCANTHUS, Anderss. 



Tall perennial grasses. Spikes long, simple and branched, very slender, 

 crowded at the top of the peduncle into a nodding fan-shaped corymb ; 

 rachis obscurely jointed. Spikelets very numerous, in unequally pedicelled 

 pairs, 1-fld., dorsally subcompressed, one or both usually awned, callus 

 with long silky hairs. Glumes 4; 1 chartaceous, nearly flat with narrow 

 incurved margins ; II similar but more convex ; III hyaline, ovate, epaleate; 

 IV hyaline, 2- fid or 2-toothed, with a long awn (rarely short or 0) in the 

 sinus ; palea minute. Lodicules cuneate. Stamens 2-3. Styles free, 

 stigmas rather short. Grain linear- oblong, free. Species 5-6, Asiatic and 

 Polynesian. 



1. IMC. nepalensis ? Hack. Monogr. Androp. 104 ; spikes very many 

 densely crowded 5-7 in., hairs of callus much longer than the spikelet. 

 Eulalia nepalensis, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. ii. (1833) 333, Sp. 

 Gram. Ic. t. 332, Poliinia nepalensis, Benth. ex Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 

 16. Erianthus, Wall. Cat. n. 8848. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 5-7500 ft., Wallich, &c. 

 KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft, NAGA HILLS, Prain. 



Stem 3-6 ft., as thick as a goose-quill in large plants. Leaves 6-18 in, by | | in., 

 margins smooth, midrib stout ; ligule rounded. Spikes flexuous ; rachis capillary, 

 glabrous ; pedicels in. Spikelets ^ in. long, purplish or golden yellow, shining ; 

 gl. I and II minutely 2-toothed. 



2. BX. nudipes, Hack. Monogr. Androp, 109 ; spikes few 2-3 in., hairs 

 of callus not longer than the spikelet. Erianthus nudipes, Griseb. in 

 Nachr. Akad. Wiss. Goett. (1868) 92. 



SIEKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 9-12,000 ft.,J.D.H. UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmi Hills, 

 Griffith. 



