204 Graminece. \Pollinia. 



anth. large, linear, stigmas very long and narrow; pedicelled 

 spikelets narrower than the sessile, bisexual. 



Central Province, in swamps alt. 7000 ft. Nuvvara Eliya (Gardner). 

 Endemic. 



2. «*. arg-entea, Trin. in Bull. Sc. Acad. Petersb. i. 71 (1836). 



P. tristachya, Thw. Enum. 368 (excl. forma). C. P. 995. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 111. 



Perennial ; stems densely tufted, ij— 4 ft., stout or slender, 

 erect, simple or branched, smooth, shining, leafy at the base 

 and upwards, nodes glabrous ; 1. 6-18 by ^V - e m -> erect, very 

 narrowly linear, rigid, often filiform, tips capillary, base not 

 contracted, glabrous, striate, flat or margins involute, sheaths 

 long, slender, coriaceous, mouth not auricled, sides bearded 

 with long hairs, ligule a short membrane fringed with long 

 hairs ; spikes 2-12, .1-6 in. long, narrow, lax- fid., rhachis firm, 

 filiform, fiexuous, compressed, sides of pedicels silkily villous, 

 internodes shorter than the pale brown spikelets ; sessile 

 spikelets ^ or A in., callus minute; glume I linear-oblong, 

 dorsally flat, hairy, crustaceous below, membranous above, 

 tip contracted, hyaline, truncate, margins narrowly incurved, 

 villous with long erect silky hairs, II broadly oblong, 1 -veined, 

 margins incurved, ciliate, tip erose, III narrowly oblong, 

 Tiyaline, flat, veinless, ciliate, IV much shorter than II, linear- 

 oblong, cleft into two subulate lobes, awn about | in., ca- 

 pillary, palea o; lodicules minute, cuneate ; anth. T V in.; 

 pedicelled spikelets like the sessile, but narrower. 



Central and Uva Provinces, ascending to 7000 ft., Haputale, Nilgule, 

 Ambagamuwa, Ramboda. 



Hilly districts of India, Malaya, and Australia. 



3. l». pliseothrix, Hack. Monogr. Androft. 168 (1889). 

 P. Cumingii, Thw. Enum. 368, non Nees. C. P. 959. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 1 12. 



Perennial; stems 1-3 ft., slender, erect, strict, simple, leafy 

 upwards, pale reddish-brown, pubescent under the infl. only, 

 nodes glabrous, base thickly clothed with dark red-brown 

 tomentum ; 1. 6-12 in., either chiefly short and subradical 

 with few cauline, or cauline very long, filiform, glabrous or 

 more or less woolly, rigid, wiry, fiat or sides involute, sheaths 

 of short radical 1. short, woolly, of longer and cauline elon- 

 gate, slender, uppermost sometimes forming a compressed 

 narrowly lanceolate green spathe to the infl. 3-4 in. long, 

 outer basal sheaths more or less thickly clothed with red- 

 brown wool, mouth not auricled, sides villous, ligule short, 

 membranous, ciliolate ; spikes 2-4, 1-5 in. long, by \ in. 

 across the spikelets, fiexuous, rhachis very slender, com- 



