Erianthus.l CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 123 



gl., lanceolate from a crowded concave base. Evidently a gigantic species of which I 

 have seen only one specimen of leaves and panicle from the Calcutta Herbarium, and 

 a scrap of a panicle from Griffith. 



** Branches of panicle long simple much, or sparingly divided ; spikes 

 many- jointed ; awn of gl. IV more than twice as long as the spikelet, rarely 

 (in sikkimensis and chysothrix) shorter or 0. 



f Gl. IV entire, narrowed into the awn. 



4. E. fulvus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 409; stem silkily villons 

 below the long narrow silkily villous panicle, spikelets -fa-fa in - narrowly 

 oblong much shorter than the fulvous purplish or reddish hairs of the 

 callus, gls. I and II hyaline above the middle, IV very narrow. Hack. 

 Monogr. Androp. 147. E. rufipilus, Griseb. in Goett. Nadir. (1868) 93 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 15. E. japonicus, Herb. Strach. & Wint&rb. n. 2, 

 SfHerb.H.f. & T. Saccharum rufipilum, Sleud. 1. c Erianthus, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8849. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft. KHASIA and 

 NAGA HILLS, alt. 5-5500 ft. 



Stem 6-8 ft., stout ; nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 ft. by -1 in., 

 flat, glaucous and scaberulous beneath and on the margins ; margins of sheath hairy ; 

 ligule rounded, ciliate. Panicle 8-18 in., erect, decompound ; rachis villous ; spikes 

 crowded ; joints 8-10 and pedicels filiform, villous, half as long as the spikelets or 

 more. Spikelets concealed by the hairs of the callus and joints, usually brownish ; 

 gl. I chartaceous below, tip suddenly acute, quite entire, 1-3-nerved, dorsally flat, 

 glabrous ; margins not incurved or below the tip only, ciliolate above ; II rather 

 longer, acute or 2-mucronate, glabrous, margins ciliate ; III lanceolate, ciliute, 

 acuminate or shortly awned ; IV much shorter, ovate-lauceolate, glabrous, 1-nerved ; 

 awn \-^ in., palea as long as the gl. or shorter or ? Pedicelled spikelets hardly 

 different from the sessile. The namefulvus is not appropriate. 



5. E. sikkimensis; Hook.f. ; stem very slender silkily villous below 

 the very narrow stiff panicle, spikelets -| J in. lanceolate longer than the 

 white hairs of the callus, gl. I tip broadly 2-fid sides villous with, long hairs 

 hyaline above the middle, IV very narrow. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen Valley, alt. 6000 ft., J. D. E. 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a dove's quill. Leaves narrow, rigid/flat, hairy towards 

 the base, margins scabrous ; sheaths glabrous or sparsely pubescent above ; ligule 

 rounded ciliate. Panicle 4-6 in., sparingly branched ; spikes strict, erect, appressed 

 to the villous rachis, joints and pedicels nearly as long as the spikelet, glabrous. 

 Spikelets erect j gl. I oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous below the middle, dorsally 

 glabrous, sides with long silky hairs, tip bifid with a broad sinus, margins inflexed, 

 keels scabrid, nerves 5 between the scabrid keels vanishing upwards, tips often, 

 anastomosing; II chartaceous below the upper hyaline third, keeled, 3-nerved, 

 margins ciliate ; III as long as II, thinly chartaceous, 3-nerved, margins incurved 

 ciliate; IV nearly = 111, liuear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, subciliate. narrowed into a short 

 straight awn ; palea nearly = the gl. subulate-lanceolate ciliolate. Specimens very 

 imperfect. 



ft Gl. IV 2-tootbed or 2-lobed. 



GL I. dorsally glabrous or nearly so. 



6. E. filifolius, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. i. 409 ; stem pubescent 

 below the narrow panicle, leaves filiform, spikelets }-\ in. lanceolate rather 

 longer than the hairs of the callus, gl. I of sessile spikelet membranous 

 acute keels scabrid, IV entire or minutely 2-toothed, awn much longer than 

 the spikelet, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 6-7-nerved. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 



