310 GramifieCB. \Arundinaria. 



thickly clothed with stiff golden tubercle-based hairs, blade 

 i-i| in. by tV"t hi., subulate, flexuous, scabrid, ligule short, 

 truncate, fimbriate ; 1. 1-3 by \-\ in., ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, from a broad subsessile rounded or cordate base, 

 acuminate, glabrous above, glaucescent beneath, midrib 

 usually glandular-pubescent, base rounded or narrowed into 

 a short petiole, margins not thickened, incurved, scabrid or 

 ciliolate, midrib glabrous and shining beneath, veins 5-7- 

 pairs, cross-venules many, regular, l.-sheaths cylindric, often 

 purple, sometimes hispid or strigose with tubercle-based 

 hairs, margins ciliate, mouth naked or with 5-8 deciduous 

 bristles, ligule short, obtuse; infl. of usually densely crowded, 

 short, leafy branches, bearing terminal loose, open panicles, 

 2-4 in. long and broad, of long-pedicelled spikelets, rhachis 

 and distant spreading few-fid. branches wiry, axils glandular, 

 pedicels filiform ; spikelets \-\ in., narrow, 3-5-fld.; glumes 

 distant on a very stout, compressed, scaberulous rhachilla 

 with a ciliate top, the internodes of which are nearly half as 

 long as the glumes ; glumes glabrous, shining, I and II 

 Ovate-oblong, acute, 5-7-veined, fig. similar but longer, 

 mucronate, many-veined and with a few cross-venules, palea 

 as long as the glume or longer, oblong, obtuse or bicuspidate, 

 2-keeled and with several slender veins and cross-venules, 

 keels ciliate ; lodicules 3, unequal, obovate, fimbriate, usually 

 obtuse, 3-7-veined, one smaller, acute; fil. short, anth. 

 brown, tips bicuspidate ; ov. glabrous, style short ; grain 

 ellipsoid, ts~j in., acute, deeply furrowed on one side. 



Central Province. Pedurutalagala, alt. 8000 ft., very abundant 

 (Thwaites). Spikelets red-brown. Fl. annually in March. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



I have described this plant for the suite of specimens in the Pera- 

 deniya Herbarium, which differ from the figure and description of 

 Gamble, in the much shorter broader leaves, with cordate bases, and 

 glabrous midrib beneath, in the sheaths not being keeled, and the 

 perfectly glabrous glumes. 



3. A. floribunda, Thw. Ennm. 375 (1864). 



Beddome, Fl. Sylv., For. Man. p. ccxxx. Gamble, Bamb. Brit. Ind. 5. 

 C. P. 2624, 4023. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 377. Gamble, 1. c. t. 3. 



Shrubby ; stems 2-5 ft., erect, internodes 2-4 in., tip 

 retrorsely hirsute below the nodes ; 1. 5-8 by |-f in., dis- 

 tichous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, base more or 

 less narrowed into a very short 2-glandular petiole, margins 

 scaberulous, midrib slender, veins 3-4 pairs with 5-6 inter- 

 mediate, cross venules regular, conspicuous, l.-sheaths striate, 

 sometimes hispid with long tubercle-based hairs, auricles ef 



