120 MONOCOTYLEDONEX. SACCHARUM. 
3.mm. longa, rotundata, membranacea, brunnescens, ciliolata. Lami- 
næ e basi angustata lineares, usque ad 60 em. long® et 6 mm. late, 
planz, inferne erectze, subtus glabræ, supra tuberculato-hirtulz et 
scaberrim&, costa media crassiuseula, plurinervi percursæ, nervis 
lateralibus primariis utrinque 2—3, secundariisque inter illos ternis, 
omnibus supra prominulis notatæ. Panicula fere linearis, 30—45 cm. 
longa, stricta, densa, rhachi communi robusta ad nodos barbata cete- 
rum glabra scaberula ; rami primarii oppositi v. quaterni, filiformes, 
appressi, basi szpius simplices et brevi tractu nudi, glabri, dein 
ramulos secundarios ardeo confertos edentes. Racemi sessiles 
3—4 em. longi, mult lati, graciles, spadiceo-purpurascentes, albo- 
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Y. v. subviolascenti-lanati 3 rhacheos fragilis articuli pedicellique spicula 
. paullo—'/, breviores, lineari-clavati, basi pilis rigidulis ipsos superan- 
tibus cincti, margine inferne laxe breviterque eiliati, superne glabri. 
Spiculz sessiles 2,5—3 mm. long&, oblong&, spadicez, callo minuto 
villis rigidulis spiculam zequantibus v. paullo superantibus dense sti- 
pato ; gluma P™ coriacea, integra, marginibus superne anguste laxe- 
que inflexis, flexuris scabris, margine parce brevi-ciliata, dorso plana ; 
II^ late oblonga, apice membranacea, obtuse carinata, margine 
superne ciliata, indistincte 3-nervis ; III: I» æquans, oblonga, obtusa, 
eiliata ; IV* paullo brevior, lineari-oblonga, obtusa v. truncata, emar- 
ginata, enervis, ciliata ; palea ovarium vix superans, ciliata. Lodieule 
glabr& ; anther® 1,5 mm. longe. Styli stigmata lineari-oblonga 1 mm. 
longa atropurpurea sequantes. 
a, genuinum. Spiculæ sessilis gluma I": et II? obtusz, dorso gla- 
brze, I^* praeter nervos carinales subenervis. 
Ind. or. pr. Goyalpur et ad Gossam Than (Wall. 8856 A, B.); Hima- 
laya bor.-oec. reg. trop. (Hook. f. et Thoms.) ; China (loco ignoto, 
Staunton in h. Vind.). 
R, Khasianum. Spiculæ sessilis gluma I™ et II** acutiusculz, dorso 
inferne densiuscule pilosæ (pilis gluma brevioribus); I»» præter nervos 
carinales tenuiter 3-nervis. Panicula subinterrupta, spicule majores 
(3,5 mm. long). 
In montium Khasia reg. tropica (Hook. f. et Thoms.). 
6. S. porphyrocomum, panicule ramis simplicibus, spieulis 
pilis saturate purpureo-suffusis involueratis, gluma Ir: dense ciliata, 
II: et IV* uninervibus. — Eriochrysis porphyrocoma H. F. Hance in 
Trim. Journ. of Bot. 1876, p. 294. 
Ligula oblonga, albo-villosa. Panieula 30 cm. longa, rhachi communi 
villoso-tomentosa ; rami primarii 4—6-ni verticillati; racemi 4 cm, 
