326 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Pollinia. 
Very closely allied to P. quadrinervis, Hack of India, sopra cd to var. 
Wightvi, Hook. f., and perhaps not specifically distinct from the lat 
2. P. nuda (Trin. Androp. in Mém. Ac. Pétersb. sér. vi. ii. 307); 
annual; culms very slender, decumbent, rooting, branched below, 
2-5 ft. ‘long, many-noded, grooved ; sheat hs as Jong as, or the upper 
shorter than, the internodes, terete, tight, finely hairy or glabrescent ; 
ligules membranous, glabrous ; blades i ra ae ee a 
glumes membranous, the lower bicuspidate, dorsally coneave, 
2-keeled, keels scaberulous; upper glume acuminate, 1-nerved, 
obscurely keeled, ciliolate; lower valve empty, linear-lanceolate, 
13 lin. long, hyaline, glabrous, rerveless; upper valve linear, very 
narrow, 1 lin. long, hyaline, 1-nerve awn terminal, finely eapillary, 
flexuous, 6-9 lin. long ; pale 0 ; anthers 4 lin. long ; grain 1 lin. long. 
Hack, Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 1 1S; ‘Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v.696 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 117. gr ele 
royleanum, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc.i. 93. L. japonicum, Franch 
avat. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. 190 and 609. Psilopogon capensis, 
Hoechst. in ee a 117. Kulalia capensis, Hochst. lc. ; Steud. 
Sy Jn Pl. Glum 
tT Ree _ nysna Div.; in woods on the banks of peau Krauss, 
921 pet eros Plettenberg Bay and Melville, Burchell, 5365 
Eastern Reeion: Natal; Riet Vlei, in bush, 6000 ft., pideam. 292! 
Also aes North India to China and Japan. 
There difference between the South African and the Indian specimens, 
the latter exhibiting often the same characters which are supposed to distinguish 
the South African var. ‘aanonate, Hack. 
V. XISCHAMUM, Linn. 
Spikelets of each pair alike, or differing only in sex, or distinctly 
oe 2-nate (one sessile or subsessile, the other 
pedicelled), on the articulate Faas shauhia of solitary, 2-nate, 
digitate or fascia spike-like racemes, the pedicelled falling 
from their pedicels, the sessile deciduous together with the con- 
tiguous joint o e chis and _ pedicel. is 2; lower 
generally ¢; up , or som s dg in the pedieelled spike- 
, Tare 
ales more or less equalling their Sires sla, Lodicules 2; 
