Pollinia.'] CLXXIII. QRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 115 



ciliate, IV shortly 2-fid, palea minute. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 173. 

 Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8812. 



BURMA; near Prome, Wallich ; Popan district, Collett; PEGU, Scott, Kurz. 

 DISTRIB. Celebes. 



Stems elongate, diffusely branched, stout or slender, smooth, polished; nodes 

 glabrous ; sheaths much shorter than the internodes. Leaves 2-10 in., from elliptic 

 to lanceolate, acute, tips setaceous, nerves slender, and sheath sparsely hairy ; ligule 

 short, ciliate. Spikes 6-20, densely fascicled, 3-5 in. long, rather stout, pale j joints 

 half as long as the spikelets, often pyriform, margins densely ciliate with purple 

 hairs. Spikelets shining, callus shortly bearded ; gl. I truncate, strongly ciliate, 

 dorsally scaberulous ; II 2-toothed, shortly awned; III 0, or very slender, ciliate, 

 with a lanceolate acuminate glabrous 2-nerved palea as long as gl. I, triandrous or 

 neuter ; I V minute, oblong, acutely 2-toothed ; awn very slender ^-f in. 



16. P. Stapfii, Hook. f. ; branches tall from the distant smooth 

 internodes of a long prostrate stem, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, 

 spikes erect densely fascicled shortly stipitate thickly softly hirsute with 

 fulvous brown hairs each with imperfect naked spikelets at the base, joints 

 and pedicels very stout hollow, gl. I dorsally flat truncately 2-toothed 

 hirsute all over 5-7-nerved, II dorsally convex hirsute aristulate, III 0, 

 IV minute 2-toothed, awn very slender, palea very small, pedicelled spikelet 

 very small awned. 



ARRACAN ; on low hills of sandstone at Akyab, Kurz. 



Stem prostrate and ascending, 12-18 in. long and more, rooting at the lower 

 swollen nodes, as thick as a crow-quill, fistular ; internodes 2 in. long, quite smooth ; 

 branches 2-3 ft. high, again branched, erect, interncdes much longer than the 

 sheaths, the lower of which are open and scarious. Leaves 46 by | in., flat, 

 flaccid, very thin, setaceously acuminate, sparsely hairy, midrib slender, margins 

 smooth ; ligule membranous, truncate, ciliate. Spikes 2-3 in., erect ; joints 

 shorter than the spikelets and nearly as broad as the sessile one, very stout, truncate, 

 plano-convex, hirsute all over the back and sides ; pedicel of upper as large as the 

 joint but rather shorter. Sessile spikelet concealed between the joint and pedicel, 

 ~i in. ; callus .short, hirsute ; gl. I oblong, flat, sub 2-toothed, 5-nerved, nerves 

 sometimes anastomosing, margins narrowly incurved from base to tip, copiously 

 ciliate; II cymbiform, 1-nerved, 2-toothed; IV and its nerveless oblong palea 

 eciliate ; awn = spikelet or longer, very slender, column twisted. Pedicelled spikelets 

 = about 4 the sessile, elliptic, shortly hirsute, fern, or neuter, gls. 4. Basal spikelets 

 of the spikes smaller than the perfect, sessile, closely appvessed to the rachis, sparsely 

 hairy or nearly glabrous, gl. I dorsally more or less channelled. 



17. P. vagrans, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 410; leaves sessile, spikes 

 3-5, joints slender shortly ciliate, spikelets |-| in. linear-oblong, gl. I 

 obovate-oblong dorsally sulcate glabrous ciliate, IV very minute 2-toothed, 

 awn twice as long as the spikelet, palea minute toothed. Sack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 173. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8807 B. 



NEPAL, Wallich. 



Stem laxly branched, slender, glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., very narrow, setace- 

 ously acuminate, scaberulous, glabrous. Spikes very slender, rachis glabrous. 

 Spikelets reddish, callus shortly bearded ; gl. I chartaceous, dorsally smooth ; II 

 membranous, subacute, keel above and margins ciliate ; III usually 0, if present 

 male or neuter; palea larger than its gl., oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than gl. I, 

 membranous, 2-nerved, ciliate j IV smaller than its small subquadrate 3-4-toothed 

 palea. 



18. P. grata, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 175 ; nodes of stem pubescent, 

 leaves sessile, spikes few or many densely fascicled, joints subclavate 



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