Garnotia.] gkamine^. 417 



to 3 ft. high, usually not so stiff as the last. Leaves naiTOw, scarcely dis- 

 tichous. Panicle naiTow, often a foot long; the branches short, erect or 

 slightly spreading. Spikelets like those of G. pahila, hut nearly glabrous ; 

 the points of the empty glumes much shorter, and the awn of the flowering 

 glume reduced to a minute often microscopical point. — Berghausla nmtica^ 

 Munro in Proceed. Amer. Acad. iv. 362. Miquelia barbulata, Nees in PI. 

 Meyen. 178? 



Ofi rocky cliffs, Hongkong, Wright. Also in Ceylon. As far as Nees's description goes, 

 of the plant gathered by Meyen on the Syngraoou channel (probably in Lautao), it agrees 

 perfectly with this species. 



12. THYSANOLiENA, Nees. 



Spikelets 1 -flowered, minute, awnless, crowded along the slender branches 

 of a large panicle. Glumes 4 ; the 2 outer empty and very short ; the third 

 also empty but much longer and more pointed ; the flowering glume rather 

 smaller and thinner, with a veiy small point, and edged with long spreading 

 hairs. 



The genus is limited to a single species, placed by Nees among TruteginecBy but scarcely 

 distinct from Panicea proper. 



1. T. acarifera, Nees, Fl. Meyen. 181. Stems stout, erect, 4 to 12 ft. 

 high. Leaves 1 to 2 ft. long, and 1 to 2 in. broad at the base. Panicle 1 to 

 2 ft. long, the numerous slender branches drooping or spreading. Spikelets 

 when fuUy expanded about f line long, the long spreading hairs of the flower- 

 ing glume very conspicuous. — Melica latifolia, Koxb. PL Ind. i. 328. Fanicum 

 acariferum, Trin. Ic. t. 87. Jgrostis rnaxima, Roxb. I.e. 317. Thysanolcena 

 Jgrodis, Nees, PI. Meyen. 182. 



Frequent in ravines, Hance, Wright, Wilford. Widely distributed over the hilly districts 

 of northern and eastern India, but apparently not in the Peninsula as stated by Nees, through 

 a mistaken quotation from Roxburgh. 



13. OPHIUBUS, Br. 



Spikelets 1 -flowered, awnless, singly sessile in notches on alternate sides of 

 a simple spike ; the axis articulate at each notch. Lowest empty glume hard ; 

 the 2 next empty ones, the flowering glume, and the palea all very thin and 

 transparent, and completely enclosed under the outer one. 



A small genus, limited to tropical Asia and Australia. 



1. O. monostachyus, Fred; Kuutli, Mu{m.i.464>. Stems ascendin 

 rather slender, -^ to 1 ft. high, simple or slightly branched. Leaves narrow 

 Spike terminal, pedunculate, slender, cylindrical, 1^ to 2 in. long, straight or 

 slightly curved. Outer glume about It lines long, ovate, thick and hard, 

 slightly convex, the veins scarcely conspicuous. — 0. uudatiis, Nees in Kew 

 Joum. Bot. ii. 102. 



Hongkong, Hance, Harland. Also in the Philippine Islands. 



14. HEMARTHRIA, Br. 



Spikelets 1 -flowered, usually awnless, inserted in pairs, one sessile, the other 

 pedicellate in notches on alternate sides of a simple spike, the axis not arti- 



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