118 CLXXIII. GRIMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pollinia. 



minute truncate, awn short. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 178 ; Steud. Syn, 

 Gram. 410. P. japonica, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Sat. ii. 290. Leptatherum 

 Eoyleanum, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1841) 93 ; Franch. Sf Sav. Enum. 

 PI. Jap. ii. 609. Batratherum ? Wall. Cat. n. 8831 in part. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Chamba to Upper Assam, alt. 4-7000 ft. (to 

 10,000 in Kumaon), KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. 

 China, Japan, S. Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., grooved. Leaves 1-4 in., lanceolate, very variable in breadth, 

 acuminate, flaccid ; sheath hairy ; ligule glabrous. Spikes 3-5, rarely more, 1-4 in. 

 long, flcxuous, green ; joints longer or shorter than the spikelets, glabrous or 

 ciliolate. Spikelets sometimes distant, callus nearly naked or villous; gl. I rarely 

 truncate or obtuse, often strongly forked, dorsally concave, glabrous or most 

 minutely scaberulous, margins rarely ciliute; II nearly glabrous; III if present 

 narrow, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, nerveless; IV variable in size, never = III, 

 3-nerved. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



P. JAPONICA, Benth. ex Dutliie Grass. N.W. Ind. 16. Duthie gives this grass 

 which is no doubt Euriantlius fulvus, as a native of the Panjab and N.W. Himalaya 

 up to 9000 ft. I find no authority for the name. P. japonica, Franch. & Sav. is 

 P. imberbis, Nees, and P. japonica, Miq. is P. nuda ; both are Japanese and 

 Himalayan plants. There is also Eulalia japonica, Trin. (Mischanthus sinensis, 

 Anderss.), which is not Himalayan. 



35. SACCHARUM, Linn. 



Tall perennial grasses. Infl. a large silky much and densely branched 

 panicle, with spreading at length erect articulate capillary branches and 

 branchlets (spikes). Spikelets minute, awnless, 1-fld., biaate, a sessile 

 bisexual and pedicelled, fern., rarely both pedicelled and bisexual. Glumes 

 4, all membranous, or I strongly chartaceous, or I and II rarely coriaceous ; 

 III empty; IV shortest, rarely 0; palea hyaline nerveless or 0. Lodicules 

 cuneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally exserted. Grain oblong. 

 Species about 12, tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 



Sect. I. EUSACCHARUM. Rachis of spike fragile. Spikelets of each 

 pair subequal, sessile and pedicelled, both fertile. Stem solid. 



S. OFPICINARUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 54 ; stem solid glabrous below the 

 panicle, upper leaves long margins scabrid, joints of spikes and pedicels 

 glabrous, hairs of callus about twice as long as the spikelet, gl. I glabrous 

 subchartaceous, IV very narrow or 0, palea small lanceolate. Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 237 ; McFad. in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. (1830) 95, t. 26; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 405; Hack. Monogr. Androp. iii. Ill ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 507. 

 Morris in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. (1890) 197, t. 23. S. sinense, Roxb. I. c. 



Cultivated in the hotter parts of INDIA. Native country unknown. For history 

 and cultivation of the sugar-cane in India see Watts' " Dictionary of the Economic 

 Products of India," and for its origin A. de Candolle " L'Origine des Plantes 

 Cultive'es." 



1. S. spontaneum, Linn. Mant. ii. 183; stem silky below the 

 panicle, upper leaves long margins smooth, hairs of callus many times 

 longer than the spikelet, gl. I thickened below, IV usually 0, palea ciliate. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 235 ; Xunlh Enum. PI. i. 475, Suppl. 384 ; Wight Cat. 

 i>. 1682 ; Griff. Notul. iii. 73, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f. 63; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 304; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 369; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 106. 



