124 CLXXIII. GRAMINE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriantliut. 



146. Saccharum tilifolium, Steud. Syn. Gram. 409 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 14. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Chamba to Kurnaon, alt. 5-8000 ft., 

 Hoyle, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft., rootstock woody, nodes pubescent. Leaves 8-12 in., rigid, glabrous, 

 convolute below, narrowed to the hair, tip capillary ; sheath glabrous ; ligule very 

 short, obtuse, ciliolate. Panicle 6-8 in., red-purple; joints and pedicels = about half 

 the spikelet, ciliate. Spikelets surrounded with dense white hairs ; gl. I minutely 

 2-toothed, margins broadly inflexed, dorsally glabrous with 3-4 -unequal intracarinal 

 nerves ; II like I, 3-nerved, keel smooth ; III lanceolate, 2-mucronulate, sub 2-nerved, 

 margins indexed ciliate; IV shorter, linear-lanceolate, 1-uerved, glabrous; palea 

 short, lanceolate, glabrous. 



7. XS. versicolor ? Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 409 ; stem glabrous 

 below the lanceolate panicle, leaves flat, spikelets | \ in. linear-lanceolate 

 concealed by the dense white hairs of the callus, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 variegated chartaceous below reddish and membranous above, keels smooth, 

 1Y cuspidately 2-toothed ciliolate, awn twice as long as the spikelet or 

 more, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 3-nerved between the keels. Hack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 144 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 16. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 2500-7000 ft. 



Stem tall, pubescent below the nodes. Leaves 8-16 by t?~i in., smooth, margins 

 scabrid ; sheath glabrous or mouth sparingly hairy ; ligule broadly ovate, glabrous. 

 Panicle 8-10 in., rachis and branches opposite, glabrous, axils bearded; joints of 

 spike 5-7 and pedicels | as long as the spikelet or longer, shortly ciliate with stiff 

 white hairs. Spikelets usually green and violet below the middle, reddish above 

 it ; gl. I tip subacute obtuse or 2-denticulate, nerves 2-3 between the keels vanishing 

 upward ; II linear-oblong, entire, 1-nerved, keel scaberulous ; III linear-oblong nerve- 

 less, tip ciliolate ; IV = ^ II, cuspidately 2-toothed ; palea J shorter, linear-lanceolate 

 acute, glabrous. I very much doubt this being distinct from E.filifolius and the 

 following; and amongst the numerous specimens of Himalayan Erianthi which I 

 have examined, and which must include these, I find it impossible to refer many with 

 precision to any of these three. 



Var. pallens, stem slightly pubescent below the pale lanceolate panicle, leaves 

 flat, spikelets i in. oblong shorter than the dense white hairs of the callus, gl. I 

 membranous tip hyaline keels smooth, IV cuspidately 2-toothed ciliolate, awn 3-4 

 times as long as the spikelet, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet shortly 1-nerved between 

 the keels. E. pallt ns, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 145. 



8. E. long-isetosus, Anderss. ex Senth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 

 67 ; stem naked below the ovate-oblong panicle, sessile spikelets |- in. 

 lanceolate equalling or rather shorter than the red-brown hairs of the callus, 

 gl. I oblong-lanceolate chartaceous bicuspidate 2-nerved between the smooth 

 keels sides sparsely ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn 4 or 5 times as long as 

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

 143 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. (1889) 85, t. 34. E. mishmeensis, 

 Munro mss. Erianthus, Wall. Oat. n. 8846. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., from Nepal to the Mishmi, Naga and 

 Munnepore Hills, ASSAM, SILHET and CHITTAGONG. 



Stem 6-8 ft., stout, nodes pubescent. Leaves 1-3 ft. by i-lf in., glabrous 

 except at the base within, many-nerved, quite smooth, base often much narrowed ; 

 sheath smooth; ligule rounded. Panicle 618 in., of many long>densely packed 

 solitary or binate long divided soft drooping spikes clothed with pale reddish or 

 golden-brown hairs, rachis glabrous, joints and pedicels slender about as long as the 

 spikelets densely ciliate with long hairs. Spikelets brown below, pale above ; gl. I 

 with rather broadly inflexed margins ; II oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, apiculate or 



