116 CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Pollinia. 



shortly densely ciliate, spikelets |- in. oblong, gl. I dorsally channelled 

 keels rigidly ciliate towards the truncate or 2-toothed tip, II mucronate 

 or aristulate, III 0, palea ovate-lanceolate bisexual ciliate, IV minute 

 2-toothed, awn long or short, palea small ovate. P. ciliata, Nees in PL 

 Meyen. 186. PP. montana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 409. Ephebopogon, 

 gratus, Nees mss. ex Sack. I. c. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, the KHASIA and MISHMI HILLS, alt. 1-5000 ft., Griffith, 

 &c. DISTBIB. Java, China. 



Stem rather stout, 3-5 ft., pubescent or scaberulous below the nodes. Leaves 

 4-8 by g-f in., line;ir, setaceously acuminate, scaberulous and sparsely hairy; sheath 

 bearded at the nodes; ligule obscure. Spikes 2^-4 in., pale or dark, joints =f 

 spikelet, rather longer than the pedicels; gl. I dorsally smooth or scaberulous. This 

 resembles P. eucnemis more than any other species, but has more numerous and 

 darker spikes with more slender joints, and the nodes are pubescent. In some spike- 

 lets I find no gl. Ill or its palea, only an ovary and the ciliate palea of gl. IV. 



PVar. hirsuta ; leaves in. broad pubescent, sheath clothed with very long 

 spreading and reflexed hairs, gl. IV all but reduced to the awn. Pegu, Kurz. 



19. P. ciliata, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. ii. (1833) 306 ; 

 leaves sessile, spikes very many, joints slender compressed rather shorter 

 than the spikelets shortly ciliate, spikelets | in. narrow pale, gl. I lan- 

 ceolate deeply grooved dorsally keels scahrid below ciliate towards 

 the forked tip, II awned or mucronulate, HE 0, palea empty or male, 

 IV minute lanceolate or broader and 2-toothed, awn long or short, 

 palea minute. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 176 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 410. P. 

 Wallichiana, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. ; Thw. Enum. PI Zeyl. 369 ; Trim. 

 Cat. Ceyl. PL 107. P. lancea & laxa, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. P. tristachya, 

 Thw. I.e. 368 (in part}. Andropogon biaristatus, Steud. I.e. 379. A. 

 fasciculatus, Linn. Sp. PL 1047. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8815 B, 8822, 

 8823. Batratherum, ? Wall. L c. n. 8831 in part. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft., from Kumaou to the Mishini and Khasia 

 Hills. BEHAB, on Parusnafch, Clarice. NILGHIRI HILLS, Wight. CEYLON, 

 Thwaifes. 



Stems 2-4 ft., much branched below, straggling, glabrous or sheaths sparsely 

 hairy ; peduncle very slender. Leaves very variable, usually small, 1-4 by $- 

 in., narrowed at both ends, finely acuminate, sometimes petioled. Spikes flexuous. 

 Gl. I minutely scaberulous; II sometimes with the awn longer than itself; IV 

 variable, as is its palea, both in breadth and length. Anth-r-i very long. I am 

 puzzled with various forms of the glumes of this plant. Hsckel has four varieties : 



a. genuina (P. ciliata, Trin,, P. lancea, Nees} with linear-oblong spikelets, gl. I 

 entire, keels pectinately ciliate, II mucrouulate, IV 2 toothed long awned; 



b. laxa (P. laxa, Nees) with linear-lanceolate spikelets, gl. I pectinately ciliate, II 

 awned, IV entire long awned; c. Wallichiana (Nees Sp.), spikelets linear-oblong-, 

 gl. I entire rigidly pectinately ciliate, II long-awned, IV entire, awn imperfect; 

 d. seminuda, spikelets linear-lanceolate, gl. I bimucronate, keels scabrid, II long- 

 awned, IV entire, awn imperfect. Ceylon (C.P. 411 in part). 



20. P. monantha, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 410 ; very slender, 

 spikes 4-6 slender flexuous joints shorter than the spikelets subclavate, 

 spikelets -rV~To ^ n -' 1-fld., gl. I narrow ciliate dorsally channelled, II 

 truncate apiculate, III 0, IV minute rounded 2-toothed, awn about twice 

 as long as the spikelet, palea very minute ovate. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 

 174. P. miscantha (error for monantha), Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. 8f T. 

 Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8819. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Garwhal, alt. 5000 ft., Dutliic. SIKXIM TBBAI, 



