fiottboellia.] CLXXIII. GBAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 153 



3. R. compressa, Linn f. Suppl. 114; rachis of spike coherent, 

 sessile spikelets tV-J" i n -> callus distinct, gl. I of sessile spikelets coriaceous 

 obtuse or acute 7-9-nerved, gl. II of pedicelled acuminate or shortly 

 awned 7-9-nerved. 



Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA, generally in wet places, Burma and 

 CEYLON. DISTEIB. Westwards to Spain and the Canaries, and in most warm 

 climates. 



Erect or decumbent below, usually branched throughout, leafy ; nodes glabrous 

 or pubescent. Leaves short or long, linear, acute, margins and sometimes the upper 

 surface scaberulous ; mouth of sheath hairy. Spikes solitary or fascicled, 2^-5 in. 

 long, slender, erect, rarely branching; gl. I of pedicelled spikelets subulate or 

 narrowly lanceolate, tip scabrid. A polymorphous grass, whose Indian varieties are 

 disposed of as follows by Hackel : 



Var. a. aenuina, Hack. 1. c. ; stems creeping below, then erect, scandent, 

 5-20 ft. long (Roxb.), spikes slender solitary or 2-3-nate, spikelets |-i in., gl. I 

 broad ovate-lanceolate obtuse not constx'icted below the tip. R. glabra, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 353; Wall. Cat. n. 8871 A. R. anceps & quarterna, Serb. Ham. ex 

 Wall. I. c. B. C. Hemarthria compressa. Kunth Enum. i. 465 (in part) ; 

 Gmh. Cat. Bomb. PI. 233; Thtv. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 364; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 107; 

 Aitckis. Cat. Punjab. PI. 172; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 18, Fodd. Grass. N. 

 Ind. 30. H. coromandelina, Steud. Syn. 358. Common in India. Hackel does 

 not notice Roxburgh's description of this grass as scaudent, and attaining 20 ft. in 

 length. 



Var. fi. fasciculata, Hack. I.e.; stem 2-5 ft. creeping, then erect, upper spikes usually 

 fascicled longer stouter often curved, spikelets - in., gl. I of sessile constricted 

 below the tip. R. altissima, Pair. Voy. Barb. ii. 105. R. compressa, Linn. f. Suppl. 

 114 ; Retz. Obs. iii. 12 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 354. R. fasciculata, Lamk. Hi. i. 204; 

 Deftf. Fl. Atlant. t. 36. R. spathacea, Ten. Fl. Nap. Prodr. p. xi. Lodicularia capensis, 

 Nees Fl. Aft: Austr. 128. L. fasciculata, Beauv. Agrost. 108; Wight Cat. n. 1721. 

 L. fastigiata, Herb. Beauv. (non Agrostogr.}. L. laxa, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. 358. L, 

 peruviana, Meycn Reise, ii. 71. Lepturus fasciculatus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 123. 

 Hemarthria capensis, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. ii. (1833) 248. H. 

 caudiculata, Steud. 1. c. 359. H. fasciculata, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 153, Enurn. i. 

 465 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 418; Hack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. Ill, 314, t. 72, f. 2; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 13, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 30. H. laxa, Steud. I c. 358. 

 Hemarthria, Wall. Cat. n. 8871 (in part). Common especially on the borders of 

 pools often climbing amongst bushes. 



Var. S. japoniea, Hack. 1. c. 288; leaves with setaceous tips, upper spikes sub- 

 fascicled stout, spikelets 5 in., gl. I sessile hardly constricted below the snbobtuse 

 tip 7-11-nerved, of pedicelled lanceolate not subulate. Hackel sajs of this Japan 

 plant that " Wallich's n. 8868 B is exceedingly like it." But that number of 

 Wallich's Herb, is Ratzeburghia pulcherrima, and there is no B under it. 



4. R. protensa, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 289; rachis of spike firm, 

 sessile spikelet i in. lanceolate, callus obscure, gl. I subacute many-nerved ? 

 gl. II of pedicelled spikelet lanceolate narrowed into a long slender awu 



1-3-nerved. R. repens, Roxb. mss. ex Wo/,1. Cat. Hemarthria protensa r 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 359. PH. vaginata, uhse PI. Jungh. iii. 354 (ex 

 Sack.). Hemarthria, Wall. Cat. n. 8872, 8910, 



ASSAM, BENGAL, SILHET, CACHAR and .the KHASIA HILLS, in marshes. 

 ? LACCADIVE ISLDS., A. B. Hume. 



Stem 3-6 ft., erect from a decumbent base, stout, leafy, flowering from all the 

 nodes. Leaves 3-12 by - in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed from below 

 the middle to the base, surfaces and margins smooth, glabrous ; sheath glabrous or 

 hairy. Spikes 4-8 in., slender, joints shorter thau the sessile spikelets, top transversely 

 truncate ; pedicels adnate to the joints. Sessile spikelets linear-lanceolate ; gl. I 



