114 CLXXIII. GEAMINEJ2. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pollinia. 



(as far as has been observed) always hirsutely villous in the Khasia, those of 

 velutina are always glabrous. Gl. IV varies in the breadth and depth of its lobes 

 which are obtuse or acute. Duthie (Grass. N.W. Ind 15) gives this as a N.W. 

 plant, but I have seen no specimens from west of the Khasia Hills. 



Sect. II. Stem decumbent below. Leaves not contracted or petioled 

 on the sheath. Gl. I shorter than II, truncate ; If broadly truncate ; III 

 absent or present. 



13. P. Cuming-ii, Nees in Hook. Eew Journ.ii. (1850) 98; leaves 

 short flat, spikes 2-4 distant slender densely villous with red-brown hairs, 

 spikelets $- in. oblong, gl. I dorsally hairy hairs longer than the gl., 

 Ill 0, IV minute 2-fid, awn very slender 3-4 times as long as the gl., palea 

 minute. Haclc'.Monogr. Androp. 167 (excl. var. fulva). Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 373. P. fulva, var. leptophylla, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 526. Audropogon 

 aureo-fulvus, Steud. I. c. 373. A. Leschenaultianus, Decne. Herb. Timor. 

 Descr. 29. 



UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN; Moradabad, Thomson. KUMAON ; at Dehra-dun, 

 Dutbie. SIKKIM TEEAT, Clarke. DISTRIB. E. ASIA, Malaya, Australia. 



Stem 12-18 in., hardly thicker than a sparrow's quill, tufted, decumbent below 

 with ascending leafy branches ; nodes sometimes proliferous. Leaves 2-4 in., 

 linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate; lower sheaths hairy ; ligule or obscure, hairy. 

 Peduncle filiform. Spikes slender, 1^-2 in., subdigitate ; joints villous, shorter than 

 the spikelets. Spikelets with a shortly bearded callus; gl. I truncate, often 2- 

 cuspidate, 2-nerved or nerveless, margins and tip ciliate ; II longer and broader 

 than I, truncate, keel ciliate above the middle, sometimes shortly awned ; III 

 absent in all the specimens which I have examined ; IV very variable, narrow with 

 subulate lobes in the Moradabad specimen, most minute and 2-toothed in the 

 Sikkim and Kumaon ones, with lanceolate subulate lobes in Tonkin ones. 



14. P. Hidleyi, Hack, in (Ester. Bot. Zeitschr. xl. i. (1891) 7 ; spikes 

 3-6 digitate, spikelets -^ in., gl. I broadly truncate entire or 3-toothed 

 densely villous with, dark brown hairs shorter than the gl., II cuneate- 

 obovate, III present or absent, IY short linear-oblong abruptly awned, 

 awn twice as long a& the spikelet or imperfect, palea minute or 0. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Pahang and Johore, Ridley, Feilding. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stem compressed, 6-10 in., creeping below. Leaves 6-20 by T V~8 m -> s "b- 

 distichous, rigid, flat or convolute; sheath glabrous. Spikes 1^-2| in., erect, rather 

 stout, joints and pedicels = ^ the spikelets, stiffly ciliate. Spikelets linear-oblong ; 

 gls. dark; I ciliate at the truncate apex, dorsally flat; II sub 3-nerved ; III if 

 present hyaline, obscurely 3-nerved, with an oblong palea larger than itself; IV 

 half as long as II. Habit of P. Cumingii, but the leaf-sheaths are all glabrous, 

 the spikes fewer digitate much darker coloured, the hairs of gl. I are much shorter 

 and paler. 



Sect. III. LEPTATHEEUM. Stem prostrate or decumbent. Leaves con- 

 spicuously contracted at the base or petioled ; basal sheaths naked. Gl. 

 I often deeply channelled dorsally ; III present or absent, empty or male ; 

 when absent the palea is sometimes as long as gl. I, hyaline or rigid, 

 faintly 2-nerved or nerveless. 



* Triandrous ; anthers long narrow. 



15. P. eucnemis, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 409; leaves subpetioled, 

 spikes few or many more or less villous with purple hairs, joints short 

 clivate, spikelets iin. oblong, gl. I dorsally sulcate truncate keels shortly 



