THE FLOBA HONGKONflENSIS. 47 



Struggling in hedges and on banks ; common near Heongkong. 

 Flowering in November and December. Found also in India and 

 on the mainland. 



64. Andropogon punctatus, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 264; Nees inPl.Meyen. 

 187; Tnn. Ic. Gram. t. 328. 

 In dry sandy places. In the mountainous parts of India, as 

 far north as Kashmir and Kuinaon, and also in South China. 



•Andropogon brevifolitis, Sw. ? 



The Chinese grass is so different in all its proportions from the 

 South- American One, that I do not believe they are conspecific. 



55. Anthistiria heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 249; Steud. Syn. PI. 

 Oram. 389, sub Andropogone. 

 Amongst grass. Gathered by me in November 1862. Found 

 also in India. 



'Ischaemmn leersioides, Munro., 



is, I think, much nearer to I.falcatum, Nees, than to I. pectina- 

 twin, Trin., of which Bentham suggests that it may prove to be a 

 ariety. 



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56. Aristida Cumingiana, Trin. andRuprecht, Spec. Gram. Stipac. 141. 

 ( = Chsetaria trichodes, JVee* in Hook. Kew Oard. Miscel. ii. 101.) 

 Thickly carpeting the precipitous sides of the trap-rock gully 

 between the vUlages of Aberdeen and Heongkong, where the 

 stream runs into the sea and the highroad is below the level of 

 high water ; first discovered by Mr. Sampson in October 1868 ; 

 also since met with on the summit of the "White-Cloud hUls out- 

 side Canton. An exceedingly pretty grass, hitherto found only 

 . in the Philippiaes, unlike any other Asiatic species, but closely 

 allied to the South- American A. eapillacea, Lam. Steudel, with 

 characteristic negligence, after copying Trinius and Euprecht's 

 character (Syn. PI. Gram. 140), quotes CJicetaria trichodes, Nees, 

 as a synonym, with Cuming's n. 671 for the type, and afterwards 

 in the same page describes this as a separate species, with a re- 

 ference to Hooker's Journal, where the same number is given. 

 It is to be regretted that the Eussian monographers could devise 

 no better arrangement of this large genus than a geographical one. 



57. Iieersia hexandra, Sib. ; Steud. Syn. PL Gram. 2. 



In ditches and wet places, not uncommon. Widely dissemi- 

 nated over the warmer regions of the globe. The genus, remark- 

 able for containing mono-, di-, tri-, and hexandrous species, ouly 



