Pollima.'] Graminece. 205. 



pressed, plano-convex, fragile, margins of pedicels villous 

 with long yellow-brown, rarely silvery, soft hairs ; sessile 

 spikelets \-\ in., linear-oblong, callus very small, bearded,, 

 glumes I and II villous like the rhachis with long soft erect 

 hairs, I linear-oblong, chartaceous, top narrowed minutely 

 truncate, margins narrowly incurved, II ovate-oblong, i-veined, 

 tip erose, margins villously ciliate above the middle, keel 

 dorsally ciliate about the middle, III as long as II, obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, veinless, villously ciliate, IV much shorter,, 

 deeply bifid, lobes acute, ciliate, awn \-\ in., palea very 

 small, broad, truncate, ciliate; anth. T V in.; pedicelled spikelet 

 smaller and narrower than the sessile. 



Central and Uva Provinces. Nuwara Eliya, Dambulla, Atampitiya. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



The curious dark-red brown tomentum at the base of the stems some- 

 times extends for an inch or more up the lowest 1. -sheaths ; at others it 

 is present only on the base of the stem below the sheaths; in the latter 

 case it occurs sometimes in pisiform masses. 



4. P. ciliata, Triii. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. ii. 306 (1833). 

 P. Wallichiana. Nees; Thw. Enum. 369. C. P. 950. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 116. 



Stem 2-4 ft., slender, naked below, much branched,, 

 branches straggling, remotely leafy, internodes 4-6 in. or 

 uppermost much longer, nodes glabrous, often rooting; 1. 4-6 

 by \-\ in., spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, thin, flat, 

 narrowed downwards to an "acuminate or sub-petioled base,, 

 glabrous, margins scabrid, midrib slender, veins 3-4 pairs, 

 sheaths terete, glabrous, mouth not auricled, glabrous, ligule 

 ovate, eciliate; spikes 5-10, fascicled, very slender, 2-5 in. long,, 

 fragile, pale green, internodes shorter or longer than the 

 spikelets and pedicels, clavate, compressed, plano-convex, 

 ciliate in one or both margins ; sessile spikelets ^ in., callus 

 minute, bearded; glume I thinly chartaceous, scaberulous, 

 linear, acute, 3-5 veined, dorsally flat, margins incurved 

 spinulosely ciliate towards the tip, II linear-oblong, acute 

 acuminate or aristulate, 1-3 veined, margins above hyaline 

 ciliate, keel scabrid, awn capillary, sometimes as long as the 

 glume, III hyaline, narrowly oblanceolate, 1 -veined, IV 

 minute, orbicular, entire or 2-lobed, awn -g— § in., palea minute,, 

 ovate, obtuse; anth. T V in.; pedicelled spikelet smaller than 

 the sessile, bisexual, glume III o. 



Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces, not uncommon. Kandy, Matale,. 

 Hantane, Kaduganawa. 



Hilly country of India. 



Hackel refers Thwaites's plant to subsp. laxa, characterised by the 

 cilia of the joints of the spike being 3-4 times longer than the joint itself. 



