GarnoUa.] GbamikEvE, 417 



to 3 ft. high, usually not so stiff as the last. Leaves narrow, scalrcely dis- 

 tichous. Panicle nan-ow, often a foot long; the branches short, erect or 

 slightly spreading. Spikelets like those of G. palula, but nearly glabrous ; 

 the points of the empty glumes much shorter, and the awn of the flowering 

 glume reduced to a minute often microscopical point. — BergMusia mutiea, 

 Mum-o in Proceed. Amer. Acad. iv. 362. Miquelia barbulata, Nees in PL 

 Meyen. 178? 



On rocky cliffs, Hongkong, Wright. Also in Ceylon. As far as Nees's description goes,; 

 of the plant gathered by Meyen on the Syngmoou channel (probably in Lantao), it agrees 

 perfectly with this species. 



12. THYSAHrOL^IfA, Nees. 



Spikelets 1 -flowered, minute, awnless, crowded along the slender branches 

 of a large panicle. Glumes 4 ; the 3 outer empty and very short ; the thii-d 

 also empty but much longer and more pointed ; the flowering glume rather 

 smaller and thinner, with a very small point, and edged with long spreading 

 hail's. 



The genus is limited to a single species, placed by Nees among Tristeginea, but scarcely 

 distinct from Taniceee proper. 



1. T. acariferaj Neei, PI. Meyen. 181. Stems stout, erect, 4 to 12 ft. 

 high. Leaves 1 to 3 ft. long, and 1 to 3 in. broad at the base. Panicle 1 to 

 3 ft. long, the numerous slender branches drooping or spreading. Spikelets 

 when fully expanded about |- line long, the long spreading haii-s of the flower- 

 mg glume very conspicuous. — Melica latifolia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 328. Fanicutii 

 acariferum, Tiho.. Ic. t. SI . Jg?!ostis mcuiima, 'Roxh. I. c. Sll . Thysanolcena 

 Agroslis, Nees, PI. Meyen. 183. 



Frequent in ravines, Smtce, Wright, Wilford. Widely distributed over the hilly districts 

 of northern and eastern India, but apparently not in the Peninsula as stated by Nees, through 

 a mistaken quotation from Boxburgh. 



13. OPHIUBUS, Br. 



Spikelets l-floweied, awnless, singly sessile in notches on alternate sides of 

 a simple spike ; the axis articulate at each notch. Lowest empty glume hard ; 

 the 3 next empty ones, the flowering glume, and the palea aU very thin and 

 transparent, and completely eiidosed under the outer one. 



A small genus, limited to tropical Asia and Australia. 



1. O. monostachyus, Presl; Kunth, Enum.i. 464. Stern's ascending, 



slightly curved. Outer glume 

 slightly convex, the veins scarcely conspicuous. — 0. undatus, Nees in Kew 

 Joum. Bot. ii. 103. 

 Hongkong, Hance, Harlmd. Also in the Philippine Islands. 



14. HEMABTHE.IA, Br. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, usually awnless, inserted in pairs, one sessile, the other 

 pedicellate in notches on alternate sides of a simple spikss the axis not arti- 



