Eremochloa.~\ CLXXIII. GRAMINE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 141 



PEGU, Kurz. DISTRIB. China, Tonkin. 



Very near E. zeylanica, but gl. I is smaller and narrower with the long spines of 

 E. muricata, 



6. E. Helferi, Munro ex Hack. Monogr. Androp. 266 ; gl. I broadly 

 ovate subacute, spines longer than the gl. is broad, upper spikelet a scabrid 

 pedicelled bristle. E. ciliatifolia, Hack. I. c. 



TENASSERIM, Griffith, Heifer. 



Leaves 4-6 by ?-i in, (broader than in the other species), flat, ciliate, tip 

 rounded. Spike 1-1^ in. Spikelets % in. ; gl. I 5-uerved, nerves anastomosing 

 above. 



89. POaONATKERUM, Beauv. 



Delicate annual or perennial grasses with capillary peduncles. Leaves 

 erect. Spikelets 1-2-fld., binate (usually a sessile bisexual and pedicelled 

 fem.) imbricate on the fragile rachis of a solitary terminal capillary spike, 

 2-awned ; awns capillary, often interlaced. Glumes 4, membranous ; I 

 oblong, concave, tip truncate or rounded, long ciliate; II as long as I or 

 rather longer, tip acute or 2-toothed, awn terminal; III (in the upper 

 spikelet 0) hyaline, paleate, male ; IV hyaline, narrow, 2-fid, long-awned, 

 palea oblong glabrous. Lodicules 0. Stamens 1 or 2, anthers long. Stigmas 

 slender. Grain oblong, free. 



The following three species are probably forms of one, being united by many 

 intermediates ; they are however for the most part readily distinguishable in India. 



1. P. saccharoideum, Beauv. Agrost. 56, t. 11, f. 7 ; spikelets 

 T V-| in., gl. I truncate retuse or tip rounded, II ciliate above the middle, 

 stamens 2 rarely 1. Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 365; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 107 ; 

 Dutliie Grass. N. W. Ind. 16", Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 27. P. saccharoideum, 

 a. genuinum, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 193. P. polystachyum, Roem. 8f Sch. 

 Syst. ii. 497 ; Wight Cat. n. 1679 ; Wall. Gat. n. 8844. Pollinia polystachya, 

 Spreng. Syst. i. 288 ; Kunth Revis. Gram. 493, t. 162. Perotis polystachya, 

 Willd. Sp. PL i. 324. Saccharum paniceum, Lamk. Encycl. i. 595, lllust. 

 t. 40, f. 31. 



Throughout the hilly parts of India, in dry places, from the PANJAB eastward to 

 BHOTAN, MANIPTTR and BURMA, ascending the Himalaya to 4000 ft., and southward 

 to CENTRAL INDIA and CEYLON. DISTKIB. China, Malaya. 



Stem 6-18 in. usually densely tufted, nodes glabrous or bearded. Leaves 1-3 in. 

 Spikes J-l in. Hairs of callus shorter than the spikelet. 



2. P. crinitum, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 166; apikelets yV-yV i- gl- I 

 truncate, II glabrous or nearly so, stamens 1 rarely 2. Kunth ^Enum. PI. 

 i. 478, Suppl. 380, Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PL 173, Franch. $ Sav. Enum. PL 

 Jap. ii. 189 (excl. cit. Beauv.}. P. saccharoideum, var. j8. monandrum, 

 Hack. Monogr. Androp. 193. P. polystachyum, Kunth Revis. Gram. 493 



[omoplitis crinita, 



Agrost. 166. Iscbsemum crinitum, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. fier. vi. ii. 

 (1833) 298. Andropogon crinitus, Thunb. FL Jap. 40, t. 7. A. monandrus, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. i. 260 ; Steud. L c. 368. Pogonatherum, Griff. Notul. iii. 81, 

 Ic. PL Asiat. t. 145, f. 2. 



