Gamotia.] Graminece. 255 



narrow, rhachis strict, smooth, branches innumerable, fascicled, 

 erect, at length spreading, lower hardly longer than the upper, 

 filiform, smooth, branchlets divaricate, distant, spreading, 

 capillary, bearing distant long or short-pedicelled spreading 

 narrow spikelets i in. long, with bearded bases ; pedicels 

 often much longer than the spikelets, capillary ; glumes 

 narrowly lanceolate, I and II subequal, subaristately acu- 

 minate, veins sparsely scaberulous, III acuminate, tip entire, 

 at length dark brown, shining ; lodicules hammer-shaped, erose. 



Elevated parts of the Island, in swampy ground. Dumballa, Nuwara, 

 Eliya. 



Also in China (?). 



This and G. Thwaitesii cannot be well described from Herbarium 

 specimens. Much used for thatching. 



3. Cr. fuscata, Thw. Enum. 363 (1864). 



C. P. 2756. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 244. 



Perennial, tufted, 10-20 in. high, soboliferous, leafing stems 

 1-3 in., erect, clothed with compressed sheaths, bearing a long 

 very slender, smooth, 1-2-leaved ped. terminating in a de- 

 pauperate raceme or panicle, internodes of leafing portion 

 very short, of flowering 10-12 in. long; basal 1. i-2§ by 

 \— \ in., linear, or narrowly oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, 

 subdistichous, spreading, smooth, softly coriaceous, margin 

 smooth, base very narrow, upper 1. 2-3, small, narrow, very 

 distant, sheath of basal leaves h-i by % in. broad, smooth, of 

 upper 1. very long, slender, terete, ligule a very short scarious 

 membrane; raceme or panicle 1-2 in., very narrow, few-fid., 

 rhachis slender, striate, smooth, branches few, very short or o ; 

 spikelets \ in., lanceolate, subsolitary, subsessile or on capillary 

 smooth pedicels shorter or longer than the spikelets, base 

 bearded ; glumes I and II lanceolate, aristately acuminate, 

 veins scaberulous, III stipitate, membranous, tip 2-dentate, 

 narrowed into a capilary awn about T 4 o in. long, which is 

 geniculately deflexed from near the twisted base; lodicules 

 narrowly cuneate, incurved ; grain narrowly obovoid. 



Suffragam district, alt. 4000 ft. {Thwaites) ; Sabaragamuwa Province, 

 alt. 4000 ft. (Ferguson). Spikelets purplish brown. 



Endemic. 



A remarkable species, differing in habit and in the depauperate inn. 

 from its Ceylon congeners, Thwaites's specimens are very poor, and 

 probably do not represent well-developed plants. I have not seen 

 Ferguson's specimens. 



4. G-. Ferg-usonii, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 170 (i< 

 G. patula, Thw. MSS. (non Munro). Andropogon Beckettii, Thw. in. 

 Herb. Peraden. C. P. 3967. 



Fl. 13. Ind. vii. 242 (sphalm. Fergussonii). 



