POLLINIA . ANDROPOGONEJE (AUCT. EDUARDO HACKEL). 169. 
num versus basin dilatate, culmece superiores ad nodos glabre, 
superne sepius griseo-villosulze. Ligula brevissima, truncata, mem- 
branacea, ciliolata, pilis stipata. Lamins e basi »quilata lineares, 
sensim acutatz, culmeæ 10—15 em. longs, 3—4 mm. lat, glabree 
v. inferne villosulze, subtus læves supra marginibusque scabr&, erecto- 
patulæ, livide. virentes, nervis lateralibus primariis utrinque 5—6, 
secundariis inter illos singulis, omnibus confertis prominentibus per- 
curse. Racemi secus rhacheos communis sericeo-villose nodos 6— 
8 mm. distantes solitarii, 6—10 em. longi, erassiuseuli, erecto-patuli, 
dense nitidequespadiceo-villosi, articuli pedicellique spiculam dimidiam 
sequantes, villis ferrugineis accrescentibus (summis articulum subze- 
quantibus) dense tecti. Spieulze 5 mm. longe, callo pilis ipsum paullo 
superantibus barbato ; gluma I™ apice anguste truncatula, marginibus 
involuta, dorso plano pilis aureo-ferrugineis rigidulis gluma circ. duplo 
brevioribus prsesertim versus margines dense tecta, ad basin dorsi 
infraque ejus apicem nuda et nitens, ad margines vero ubique pilosa, 
subenervis; II“ ovato-oblonga, anguste truncata, subcarinata, dorso 
Spadiceo-nitens, superne breviter pilosula, carina inferne longius 
pilosa ; II oblonga, obtusissima, enervis ; IV* in ’/, superiore in laci- 
nias lineares acutiusculas fissa ; aristze validiuscule columna castanea 
flexuosa glaberrima subulam parum pallidiorem ad apicem usque laxe 
tortam æquans ; palea quam gluma II“ 3-plo brevior, obovata, apice 
fimbriata. Antherze 2,5 mm. longs. 
Ceylon : in montosis prope Newara Ellia (Thwaites 959) ; in Penin- 
sula Ind. orient. (Wight 1690), in montibus Nilgherries (Perrotet 
1317, 1333) ; Kunur (Gamble). 
16. P. velutina; vaginis imis albo-villosulis ; racemis 5—6"* v. 
pluribus, gluma IV* brevissime obtuseque bidentula. — Erianthus 
velutinus Munro Ms. (in h. berol.). 
Culmi ultra 80 em. longi, infra racemos sericeo-pubescentes. Vagi- 
næ (etiam nodis) glaberrimz. Ligula 1 mm. longa, truncata, rufo- 
membranacea, glabra, pilis stipata. Laminsz basi subangustatz, 
breviter aeuminatz, 20—30 em. longs, 5—6 mm. latze, erectae, gla- 
berrim&, margine lzeves, nervis ut in P. Cumingii. Racemi 7—9 em. 
longi, erecti, secus rhacheos pubescentis nodos 8—10 mm. distantes 
solitarii, sublaxiflori, crassiusculi, fulvo-sericeo-pilosissimi ; articuli 
pedicellique spieulze */, quantes, pilis fulvis rigidulis articulo eor 
brevioribus subaequalibus dense ciliati. Spiculæ 5,5 mm. long, aureo- 
fulvo-pilos®, callo breviter barbato; gluma I™ a medio 
