112 CLXXIII. GEAMINE^!. (J. D. Hooker.) \Pollinia. 



villous or glabrate below it, IV linear 2-fid, lobes narrow acute,- awn 

 several times longer than the spikelet ciliate, palea 0. Hack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 162. P. tristachya, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 368 (in part] ; Benth. 

 Fl Austral, vii. 527. Duthie Fodd. Grass. N.W. Ind. 26, t. 53. Enlalia 

 argentea, Brongn. Voy. Coy. Sot. 92. Erianthus rufus, Nees ex Sttud. 

 Syn. Gram. 409 (partim). E. hexastachyus, HocJist. in Hohen. PL Ind. 

 Or. n. 279; Miq. Anal. Bot. Ind ii. 35. E. Roxbnrghii, F. Muell. Fragm. 

 Phyt. viii. 117. E. tristachyus, Nees in Herb. Strach. & Winterb. No. 4; 

 in Hook. &. Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 241. Saccharum rufum & tristachyum 

 (in part), Steud. I.e. 408. Andropogon minutiflorus & hexastachyus, 

 Steud. 1. c. 379, 380. A. trispicatus, Schult. Mant. ii. 452. A. tristachyus, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 256. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8811. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kuraaon eastwards to the KHASIA 

 HILLS, BENGAL, BEHAR and southward to CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malaya, Australia. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high, leafy, or in small specimens leafy at the base chiefly. 

 Leaves 12-18 in., rarely ^ in. broad, glabrous or sparsely hairy ; ligule very short, 

 bearded. Spikes 2-12, 1J-6 in. long, flexuous; racbis and pedicels slender. Gl. 

 I thin, pale brown below, pale yellow above the middle ; II and III as in P. hirti- 

 folia, but IV longer and narrower. Roxburgh describes this as an annual delicate 

 beautiful species, but most of the specimens appear to be perennial. The very small 

 spikelets resemble those of P. articulata. 



8. P. fimbriata. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 164; stems very slender 

 shining, leaves very narrow, spikes 2-4 villous with white hairs, joints 

 very short slender, spikelets T 1 -| in., gl. I lanceolate truncate nerveless 

 dorsally smooth depressed, keels ciliate, II obtuse, III oblong-lanceolate 

 ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn much longer than the spikelets ciliate, palea 

 very minute or 0. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, Simla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Thomson. MALABAR and CONCAN, 

 Stocks, tyc. PEGU, M'Lelland. 



Annual. Stem I 2 ft., internodes much longer than the sheaths, nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves 6-10 by i in., flaccid, sparsely hairy above; sheath glabrous; ligule a 

 ciliolate ridge. Spikes 1-3 in., long-peduncled, flexuous, pale; rachis slender, 

 joints densely villous ; gl. I with villous keels above, obscurely 2-toothed ; IV 

 with oblong ciliate lobes. Hackel describes gl. IV. as epaleate, but I find a 

 minute palea. He suspects that Andropogon conjugates, Roxb. (Fl. Ind. i. 255) to 

 be closely allied, but Roxburgh describes his plant as the smallest of the genus, 

 with minute leaves, the two spikes as exactly paired and touching one another j 

 which is not the case in P.fimbriata. 



ft Basal sheaths of stem villous or woolly. 



9. P. phaeothrix, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 168 ; basal sheaths rusty - 

 tomentose, leaves very slender, spikes 2-4, spikelets -| in., gl. I broadly 

 or narrowly truncate nerveless or faintly 2-nerved dorsally hispidly 

 villous, IV short deeply 2-fid segments narrow, palea small obovate ciliate. 

 P. Cumingii, Thw. Enum. PL Ztyl. 368 ; Trim. Gat. Geyl. PI. 106 (non 

 Nees}. P. argentea, Balans. in Journ. de Sot. (Paris, 1890) 81. Erianthus, 

 aureus, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1690 (excl. syn.) ; Steud. Syn. Gram, (sub 

 Eul. nepalensis). E. Cumingii, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 118. E. tristachyus, 

 Nees I.e. n. 1691. Andropogon pilosus, Wiltd. ex Wight I.e. 1690. A. 

 brunneus, Heyne in Herb. Rottl. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 6-7000 ft. Wight, &c. CEYLON, in the Central Provinces. 

 DISTRIB. Tonkin. 



Stem 18-24 in., slender; peduncle silky under the panicle. Leaves 6-18 in., 



