416 GEAMiNBiE, [Arundirwlla. 



third similar but often with a male flower in its axil ; the terminal flowering 

 one smaller, thinner, with an awn twisted at the base, and bent back at or 

 below the middle. Palea smaller, awnless. Grain enclosed in the slightly 

 stiffened glume and palea. 



A tropical or subtropical genus, chiefly Asiatic, with a few African or S. American species. 

 Flowering glume ending in 2 fine bristles between which arises the awn . 1. A. setosa. 

 riowering glume slightly painted on each side of the awn 2. A. nepalensts. 



1. A. setosa, Trin.; Steud. Syn. Gram. 114. A rather slender erect 

 perennial, 3 ft. high or more. Leaves narrow. Panicle slender, 6 to 8 in. 

 long ; the branches erect or sHghtly spreading. Spikelets numerous, solitary, 

 or 3 together on pedicels of unequal length. Lowest glome usually about 2 

 lines long, shortly pointed ; the second tapering into a longer point ; the third 

 thinner, smaller, and scarcely pointed, with a mde flower ; flowering glume 

 ending in 3 very fine bristles nearly as long as itself, between which arises 

 the awn. — A. stricta, Nees in Kew Joum. Bot. ii. 103. 



Hongkong, Wright. On the mainland and northward to Amoy, in the Philippines, and 

 more rarely in the mountains of northern India and the Peninsula. 



3. A. uepaleusis, Trin. Ic. t. 368 ; Steud. Syn. Oram. 115. An erect 

 perennial, with narrow leaves, like the last but often taller. Panicle narrow, a 

 foot long or more. Spikelets nearly as in A. setosa, but the flowering glume 

 IS only slightly notched at the top ; the minute points on each side of the awn 

 not produced into bristles. — Aeratherum miliaeeum, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 

 i, 330. Arundinella miliacea, Nees in Kew Joum. Bot. ii. 103. A. Eckloni, 

 Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. Gram. 80. 



Hongkong, Hance. Widely distributed over the hiUy districts of tropical Asia, extending 

 also to S. Africa and N. Australia. 



11. G-ARNOTIA, Brongn. 



(Miquelia, Sees ; Berghausia, Undl.) 



Spikelets 1-flowered, in a loose terminal panicle. Outer empty glumes 3, 

 pointed but not awned. Flowering glume smaller, thinner, usually with an 

 awn twisted at the base, and bent back in the middle, but sometimes straight 

 or reduced to a minute point. Palea awnless, usually with 3 amides at the 

 base. Grain enclosed in the slightly stiffened glume and palea. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



Awu of the flowering glume longer than itself, straight 1. G. paiula. 



Awn reduced to a minute point 2ff stricta 



1. G. patula, Mmro. An erect somewhat glaucous perennial, 3 to 4 ft. 

 high, with a short creeping rootstock. Leaves rather nan-ow, the lowest with 

 loose distichous sheaths. Panicle 8 in. to 1 ft. long; the slender branches 

 not above 3 m. long, but very spreading. Spikelets about 3 lines long, 

 narrow, mmutely hau;y. Outer glumes ending in fine points sometimes length- 

 ened into a bnstle or short awn in the second. Flowering glume smaller 

 notched, with a fine straight awn of 4 or 5 lines.— Berghausia patula. Munro 

 in Proc. Amer. Acad., iv. 363. 



Hongkong, Wright, Hmce. Not known from elsewhere. 



3. G. Stricta, Brongn. in Buperr. Voy. 133, t. 31. An erect grass, 1^ 



