108. —.  MONOCOTYLEDONEJE. | MISCANTHUS. 
Journ. 2, p. 100; S. przgrande Steud. Synops. 1, p. 408; Eulalia 
densa Munro in Seem. Bot. Herald, p. 434; Miscanthus luzonensis 
Anderss. 1. c. (ne varietas quidem distincta). 
Culmi sæpe 2—5 m. alti, robusti, glaberrimi, infra nodos ceriferi. 
Vaginz teretiuscule, innovationum superne subcarinatz, glabræ, 
interdum pruinosze, nodis pubescentibus. Ligula pilis stipata. Laminze 
e basi subrotundata lanceolato-lineares, 50—90 cm.long:, 1,5—3 cm. 
late, plans, excepta basi saepe fimbriata glabr&, utrinque læves, mar- 
gine serrato-scaberrimze, nervis lateralibus primariis 6—8 tenuibus a 
secundariis tertianisque vix distinetis non prominulis. Panicula late 
oblonga v. ovalis, 30—50 em. longa, densa, rhachi communi glabra 
scaberula v. lzevi ; rami primarii ad hujus nodos 3—6 cm. a se invicem 
distantes plerumque oppositi, ipsa basi v. etiam parum superius in 
ramos secundarios tertianosque semiverticillatos divisi, omnes unä 
Sepe verticillos spurios 10—24-radiatos formantes, in axillis barbulati, 
secundarii a basi spiculiferi. Racemi 15—20 cm. longi, sursum subde- 
crescentes, gracillimi, patentes, nutantes ; rhacheos scabrz interno- 
dia spieulas brevipedicellatas cum pedicellis plus minus superantia. 
Pedicelli alii spieulas superantes, demum recurvato-patentes, alii spi- 
cula 3—4-plo breviores, suberecti, omnes subcapillares, sursum subdi- 
latati, cicatricem demum ovalem glabram exhibentes, facie (siccando) 
canaliculati, dorso scaberrimi. Spieule lanceolat®, 3 mm. longs, 
pallide straminex, opacæ, villis involuerantibus mollissimis demum 
patentissimis '/,—'/, breviores, raro eos subzquantes; gluma I" 
brevius acuminata, integra v. sepius minute bidentula, flexuris mar- 
ginalibus superne scabris, dorso glaberrima, 2—3-nervis, nervo inter- 
medio tenui; II“ 3-nervis, nervis lateralibus tenuissimis cum inter- 
medio superne conjunctis, carina scabra, dorso ceterum glaberrima; 
HP lanceolata, acutiuscula ; IV* breviter acuteque bidentula, glabra; 
arista gracillima 7—11 mm. longa, imperfecta v. basi rudimentum 
columnze monospirz geniculumque indistinctum exhibens; palea gluma 
sua 2—3-plo brevior, ciliata. Anth..... Stigmata prope mediam spicu- 
lam exserta. 
In Japonia (Zolling. 28, pr. Nagasaki ex Thunb.); China : Canton 
(Sampson h. m.), Macao (Vachell ; Gomes h. m.), Ins. Lamyet (Hance 
485), Wu-pung (Diedrichsen); ins. Philippin. (Cuming 787, 1841), 
Amboina (Doleschall. h. vind.), Nova Caledonia (ex Labill., Balansa), 
Viti Levu et Vanna Levu (ex Seem.), Tahiti, Aneitum, ins. Pinorum 
(in Hb. Boiss., lg. ignotus), Samoa (Weber), Tonga (ex Seem.). 
