120 CLXXIII. GRAMISEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saccharum. 



Panicle 1-2 ft., erect, ovoid or oblong; branches half-whorled, clothed with soft 

 vream-colrd. rarely purplish hairs. Spikes 1-3 in., rachis capillary. Spikelets -^ in., 

 lanceolate, pale green violet or brownish ; gl. I dorsally flat or depressed, nerveless 

 -except the keels; II lanceolate, shortly acuminate ; III oblong-lanceolate; IVmucro- 

 . nate. Hackel includes under 8. ciliare, 8. Grrffitliii, Munro, which is regarded by 

 Dr. Stapf and myself as an Erianthus, gl. IV being clearly awned. 8. benghalense 

 is a doubtful plant, wanting, according to Hackel, in Ketz's Herbarium. 



3. S. Narengra, Ham. in Wall. Cat. n. 8856; stem slender silky 

 below the panicle, nodes bearded, leaves scabrid above uppermost 

 subulate, branchlets of panicle clotlied with purple hairs, pedicels 

 clavellate hispidulons, hairs of callus rigid, gl. I coriaceous glabrous 

 or hairy below, II oblong coriaceous tip membranous. Hack. Monoqr. 

 Androp. 119; Dutliie Grass. N.W. Ind. 14. Eriochrysis Narenga, Nees 

 ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 411 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PL 172. Saccharum, 

 Wall Cat. I, c. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from G-arwhal, alt. 3-4000 ft., to the KHASIA HILLS, 

 UPPER and LOWER BEN&AL, ASSAM, SILHET, CENTRAL INDIA, and BURMA. 

 DJSTRIB. Tonkin, China. 



Stem 6-8 ft. ; internodes often longer than the sheaths, nodes stellately bearded. 

 Leaves 12 ft. by in. , linear, base narrow, flat ; sheath with tubercle-based bairs ; 

 ligule rounded. Panicle 12-18 in., narrow ; rachis scaberulous, bearded at the nodes ; 

 branches 2-4-uate, appressed to the fragile rachis, branchlets fascicled. Spikelets 

 -jL in., callus minute, hairs longer or shorter than the spikelet ; gl. I ciliolate ; IV 

 linear-oblong, ciliate. Hackel has two varieties : a. genuinum, Himalayan, with gl. 

 I and II of the sessile spikelet obtuse, glabrous ; /3. kliasianum, with the corre- 

 sponding gl, subacute, densely hairy below. 



Sect. II. SCLEROSTACHYA (Anderss.}. Rachis of spike tenacious. Both 

 spikelets of each pair pedicelled. Stem fistular. 



4. S. fuscum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 236 ; stem stout silky or villous below 

 the panicle, rachis of panicle villous, spikes nodding, hairs of callus about 

 7T the length of the oblong or obovoid spikelets, gl. I obtuse, keels ciliate, 

 III and IV ciliate. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 121 ; Kuntli Enum. PL i. 474, 

 Suppl 385; Steud. Syn. Gram. 406; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 14. 8. 

 Modhara, Ham. in Wall. Gat. n. 8855 C. Tricholasna ? fusca, Schult. 

 Mant. ii. 164. Eriochrysis fusca, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. 

 (1833) II. 315; Steud. I.e. 411. E. fusca & attenuata, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 

 Miscanthus fuscus, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 65. Saccharum, 

 Wall. Cat. 8855. 



UPPER and LOWER GANGETIC PLAINS, ASSAM, the KHASIA HILLS, the WESTERN 

 GHATS, and BURMA. 



Stem 5-8 ft. or more, as thick as the little finger. Leaves 3-4 ft. by 1-2 in., 

 linear-lanceolate, rigid, glabrous, margins scabrid ; margins of sheath nmbriate ; 

 ligule rounded. Parade 1-2 ft., narrow, branches whorled or fascicled or subsolitary, 

 nodes bearded ; spikes or branchlets nodding, slender, flexuous ; joints trigonous, 

 glabrous. Spikelets % in., brown, upper and lower alike ; gl. I entire, margins 

 narrowly inflexed, dorsally flat smooth shining; II subacute, keeled, 1-nerved; III 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless, ciliate above; IV like III but shorter, ciliate with 

 rigid hairs ; palea much shorter ovate, ciliate. Grain obovoid, smooth, brown. 



5. 8. Rldleyi, Hack, in (Estr. Sot. Zeitschr. xli. (1891) 6; stem 

 glabrous below the long narrow panicle, rachis of panicle glabrous, spikes 

 erect very long filiform lax-fld., hairs of callus I the length of the oblong- 



