Pollinia.] CLXXIII. GRAMINTE.ZB. (J. D. Hooker.) Ill 



2-lobed. Pulney Mts., Wight. Possibly a species, differing from quadrinervis in 

 the broad leaves which have not setaceous tips and in the broad gl. IV. 



4. P. hirtifolia, Sack. Monogr. Androp. 165 ; spikes few, rachis and 

 pedicels villous with long pale violet hairs, spikelets in. linear-oblong, 

 gl. I dorsally slightly concave obscurely 4-nerved, keels laxly villous with 

 long hairs, gl. IV short broadly obovate-oblong 2-lobed, awn several times 

 longer than the spikelet glabrous, palea minute. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5500-8000 ft., from Simla, Huegel, to 

 Kumaon, Strachey fr Winterb. (n. 925).. 



Stem 2-3 ft., leafy, nodes glabrous. Leaves 8-18 in., very narrow, more or less 

 hirsute beneath or ou both surfaces, tips filiform ; ligule very short, long-bearded. 

 Spikes 3-8, rather distant, 3-7 in. long, joints and pedicels rather stout, hairs shorter 

 than the pale brown spikelets ; gl. I chartaceous, shining, tip entire, obtuse or truncate, 

 Tseels ciliate aculeate above; II obtuse, glabrous except the ciliate margins, keel 

 smooth ; III lanceolate, ciliate, nerveless ; IV ciliate 3-nerved ; palea broadly ovate, 

 glabrous. The joints of the rachis are decidedly obliquely truncate. Very near P. 

 quadrinervis, of which it may be a variety. 



5. P. Thwaitesii, Hack. Monog. Androp. 163; stems short, leaves 

 chiefly radical very slender subdistichous, spikes 2-3, rachis and pedicels 

 villous with white hairs, spikelets --| in. lanceolate, gls. I concolorous 

 acute 2-nerved, IY linear 2-fid lobes narrow acute, awn more than twice as 

 long as the spikelets, palea minute. P. tristachya, var. Thw. Enum. 368; 

 var. distachya, Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PL 106. 



CEYLON ; in swamps, alt. 7000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 



Stem short, lengthened downwards and nodose, above densely clothed for 13 in. 

 with subdistichously imbricating leaf -sheaths, 1-2 in. long, which are produced into 

 slender wiry erect convolute leaves 6-12 in. long ; ligule minute. Spikes 2-3 in. long. 

 Q-l. I pale brown to the tip, dorsally concave, margins narrowly incurved ; keels 

 villous ; II lanceolate, acute, keel hairy below scaberulous above ; III linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, convolute, obsoletely 2-nerved, tip ciliate ; IV nearly as long, glabrous ; 

 palea ovate, ciliolate. 



6. P. mollis, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 161; spikes usually many, 

 rachis and pedicels villous with very long silvery- white hairs, spikelets 

 g- in. narrowly lanceolate acuminate dorsally flat faintly 2-nerved, IY 

 narrow shortly 2-fid or 2-toothed, awn 3- or more times longer than the 

 spikelet, palea minute. Erianthus mollis, Griseb. in Goett. Nadir. 1868, 

 92. Eulalia mollis, Munro mss. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 5-8000 ft. 



Stem 10-12 in., slender, tufted, leafy chiefly at the base. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 narrowly lanceolate ; sheath glabrous or ciliate ; ligule very short, bearded. Spikes 

 3-10, 1-2 in. long, crowded, flexuouS, joints and pedicels slender beautifully 

 silvery-silky with very long hairs. Spikelets pale ; gl. I thin, villous, hairs much 

 longer than itself, lower half dark brown, upper pale, tip obscurely notched or 

 2-mucronate ; II subacute, dorsally sparsely hairy, k^eel smooth, margins ciliate ; III 

 lanceolate, hyaline and ciliate in the upper half, 1-nerved ; IV much shorter, awn 

 very slender ; palea glabrous. Almost intermediate between Pollinia and Erianthus, 

 Hack. 1. c. 162. 



Spikelets T V~| in. 



7. P. arg-entea, Trin. in Bull Sc. Acad. Petersl. i. (1836) 71 ; spikes 

 many, racing and pedicels villous with silvery hair?, spikelets -^ in. linear- 

 oblong pale, gl. I dorsally flat nerveless membranous above the middle 



