256 Graminece. \Gamotia. 



Perennial; stem 2-3 ft, erect or ascending, slender, terete, 

 rigid, smooth, naked below, much branched and leafy above, 

 internodes 1-3 in. or more, nodes glabrous; 1. 6-8 by \-\ in., 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, spreading, flat, 

 smooth, glabrous, thin, base narrow, rounded, sheaths smooth, 

 mouth and ligule villous with long hairs; panicle 4-8 in., 

 oblong, erect, rhachis smooth, branches suberect, fascicled, 

 f-ij in. long, many-fid., filiform ; spikelets ^-^ in., distant or 

 crowded, erect, shortly pedicelled, base shortly bearded, glumes 

 I and II narrowly lanceolate, aristately acuminate, or awned, 

 awns short or sometimes as long as the glume, veins quite 

 smooth, I 3-veined, III narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, tip 

 2-toothed, awn \ in. or shorter, obscurely geniculate at about 

 the lower third ; lodicules cuneate, refuse. 



Var. fastig-iata, Hook. f. 



Stem naked and unbranched below for a foot or more, 

 with internodes 3-4 in. long, then suddenly fastigiately 

 branehed and leafy with copiously divided branches, short 

 internodes, and flat or involute narrow 1. 1-3 in. long, panicle 

 2-3 in., narrow, with few short erect branches and few purplish 

 spikelets. 



1 Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. Matelle district, Amherst, Uda- 

 passelana (Ferguson, Beckett). Var. fastigiata, summit of Knuckles 

 (Ferguson). 



Endemic. 



The var. fastigiata is a remarkable form, with a long naked stem, 

 evidently drawn up amongst other plants. This alone is named 

 Fergusonii by Trimen in Herb. Peraden. 



5. G-. micrantha, Thw. E7tum. 363 (1864). 



C. P. 944, 945. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 244. 



Annual; stems tufted, erect or ascending from a shortly 

 creeping base, slender or rather stout, up to the thickness of a 

 crow-quill, branched from below and upwards, smooth, inter- 

 nodes 2-4 in., nodes pubescent; 1. 3-8 by |— \ in., spreading, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, smooth, thin, very 

 much narrowed from below the middle to the base, sheath 

 shorter than the internode, often loose, smooth, auricles 

 membranous, ligule a ridge of short hairs; panicle 6-12 in.,, 

 rhachis slender, strict, smooth, branches very many, filiform, 

 fascicled and whorled, at first erect and appressed, branchlets 

 very long, capillary, distant, divaricate; spikelets T V in., 

 linear-oblong, base naked, pedicels variable, often up to 1 in. 

 long, smooth; glumes I and II membranous, acute, veins not 

 strong, obscurely scaberulous, III substipitate, linear-oblong, 



