104 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. MISCANTHUS. 
ineari-lanceolata, acuta, obtuse carinata, toto dorso more Ir vil- 
losula, uninervis; IIT* parum brevior, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, mem- 
branacea, uninervis, glabra v. ciliolata ; IV* III” subaequans, linearis, 
obtusa, mucronata v. aristulata, 1-nervis, ciliolata ; palea eâ subduplo 
brevior, linearis, acuta, enervis, ciliolata. Reliqua in specimine deflo- 
rato non vidi. 
Japonia (Siebold). — Ad viride tingendum adhiberi Siebold (ex 
Miquelio) testatur ; num cultus aut indigenus sit haud liquet. 
B. Spicule aristate, arista glumas excedente. 
a. Spicule villis involucrantibus fulvis 4—5-plo breviores. Laminz margine 
3. M. nepalensis; Eulalia nepalensis Trin.! in Mém. Ac. Petersb. 
ser. 6, vol. 2, p. 333; Spec. Gram. t. 332 
Innovationes extravaginales, basi late squamatze. Culmi 60—150 em. 
alti, subgraciles, 4-nodes, teretes, infra paniculam puberuli ceterum 
glaberrimi. Vagin: teretes, nodisque glaberrimse v. prope collum 
pilosule, internodiis (exceptis imis) breviores. Ligula rotundato- 
truncata, 2 mm. longa, fuseo-membranacea, ciliolata. Laminz e basi 
angustata a vagina parum distincta lineares, 30—50 em. long, 
6—10 mm. late, plans v. canalieulatze, rigidæ, ereeto-patuls, virides, 
glaberrimæ, costa media erassiuscula supra late albolineata percursse, 
nervis lateralibus primariis utrinque 4—5, interjectis secundariis ter- 
tianisque unà 5—7-nis neutris prominulis. Panicula flabelliformis 10— 
15 em. longa, patens, rhachi communi prseter nodos barbulatos 
glabra, brevi, racemis inferioribus '/,—subduplo breviori ; rami secus 
illius nodos eire. 1 em. distantes solitarii v. oppositi, inferiores ramu- 
los basilares 1—2, superiusque paucos v. nullos edentes, inferne nudi, 
filiformes, glaberrimi. Racemi 8—12 em. longi, gracillimi, nutantes, 
corymboso-fastigiati, fulvo-villosi; rhacheos subcapillaris scaberulæ 
internodia pedicellos longiores »quantes. Pedicelli subcapillares, 
erecto-patuli, recti, vix dilatati, scaberuli, alii spiculam sequantes, 
alii ea duplo breviores. Spieule 2—2,5 mm. longze, ovato-lanceolatze, 
dilute brunneze; gluma I™ chartaceo-membranacea, obtusa, apice 
hyalino emarginato-bidentula, marginibus obsolete inflexa, dorso 
glabra scaberula, 2—3-nervis marginibus in parte inferiore villis inze- 
.. qualibus, longioribus glumam 2—3-plo gen fulvis ciliata; 
