Graminece.] CypeVCLCeCB. I 1 3 



Var. minor, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. 



Stems 6-10 in., filiform, 1. very much longer than the stem, 

 very narrow, xr~<j m - broad, spikes depauperate, few-fid., 

 utricle \ in. long. 



Upper montane zone ; rare. N. Eliya ; Horton Plains. No habitat 

 is given for var. minor. Fl. Feb. 



The type is found in Java, Khasia, and Japan; the var. in the 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



In Herb. Kew. small specimens of the true C. Jackiana are included 

 under var. minor. These have broad leaves and normal spikes, whereas 

 in true var. minor the 1. are very narrow. In Herb. Peraden. a small 

 specimen of true minor is on the same sheet as the typical plant, and a 

 second specimen is on another sheet without locality. It is probably a 

 native of the montane zone. The Ceylon specimens of minor precisely 

 accord with others gathered at Conoor in the Nilgiri Hills, alt. 7000 ft., 

 by Mr. Clarke. Boeckeler regarded it as a distinct species, and it 

 certainly looks very different, but more specimens are wanted to 

 determine this point. — J. D. H. 



20. C. lobulirostris, Drejer, Symd. Caric. 27 (1844). 

 C. Amottiana, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 129 (non Drej.). Thw. 

 Enum. 356. C. P. 2633. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 741. Drejer, 1. c. t. 14. 



Rootstock stout, horizontal, root-fibres stout; stem 2-3 ft, 

 stout, leafy throughout, trigonous, smooth ; 1. overtopping the 

 stem, up to I in. broad, finely acuminate, margins smooth or 

 scaberulous, brown when dry ; lower sheaths compressed ; 

 spikelets 4-6, sessile or shortly peduncled close to the top of 

 the stem, ii- 3| in. long, cylindric, ^-| in. diam., very dark 

 brown, terminal as long, slender, pale brown, all male ; bracts 

 leafy, longer than the spikes ; fem. glumes small, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or awned ; utricle spreading, 

 ovoid or obovoid, ^ in. long, stipitate, strongly veined, suddenly 

 narrowed into a slender 2-toothed beak as long as the body 

 or shorter, smooth, dark brown ; nut ellipsoid, trigonous, 

 apiculate, pale brown, style about as long as the nut, slender, 

 stigmas 3, short. 



Upper montane zone ; rather rare. Nuwara Eliya ; Elk Plains ; 

 Horton Plains. Fl. Feb. 



Endemic. 



CXLIX.— GRAMINE^ 



HERBS or [Bambusecz) shrubs or trees, annual with fibrous 

 roots, or stem {culm of many authors) arising from a perennial 

 creeping rarely tuberous rootstock, terete or compressed, 

 jointed, internodes hollow or solid ; 1. simple, usually long, 

 narrow, entire, veins parallel, sheath distinct from the blade, 

 with a membrane or ridge of hairs (ligule) at the junction, 

 part v, I 



