108 CLXxiii. QBAMiNE^. (J, D. Hooker.) [Miscanthus. 



Much smaller than M. nepalensis, 2-3 ft. high, with leaves 4-10 in. long, the 

 margins of which are smooth as in that plant j spikelets very much longer, ^-i in. 

 long, and narrower. 



33. SPOSXOPOGON, Trin. 



Tall grasses, ieaijeg 'often long-petioled. Sfnkelets 1-2-fld., panicled, 

 laterally compressed or subterete, 2-3-nate, lower sessile male, upper 

 bisexnal, rachis jointed. Glumes 4; I and II subequal; I lanceolate, 5-9- 

 nerved, tip acuminate or toothed ; II membranous, lanceolate, 3-7-nerved ; 

 III hyaline, paleate or not, 3-androus or empty; IV 2-fid or 2-partite with a 

 very slender exserted awu in the sinus; palea shorter. Lodicules cuneate. 

 Anthers linear. Stigmas linear. Grain free, narrowly fusiform. — Species 

 about 5, Asiatic. 



1. S. albidus, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 66; deoumbentj 

 leaves long-petioled broad flaccid, panicle narrow, spikelets 2-fld. laterally 

 compressed, silkily villous, gl. I membranous. Mack. Monogr. Androp. 185. 

 Andropogon albidus, Sb. Heyne. A. rhizophorus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 381 ; Duihie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 26.— Andropogon ? Wall. Oat. n. 

 8821. 



Rajpootana J on Mt. Aboo, Duthie. Decoak Peninsula, from the Concan to 

 Travaucore. 



A weak struggling tufted branched annual ?, 2-4 feet ; stem very slender, much 

 branched, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by i-^ in., flaccid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1- 

 nerved, usually suddenly narrowed into a slender petiole 1-3 in. long ; sheath 3-5 in. ; 

 ligule oblong, glabrous. Panicle at first enclosed in a long narrow spathaceous 

 leaf-sheath; rachis compressed, ciliate. Spikelets ahont A in. long, white; shortly 

 pedicelled. 61. I minutely 2-mucronate, 7-nerved ; II broader, much compressed ; 

 III truncate tip erose. 



2. S. dubius, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 186 ; erect, leaves sessile long 

 narrow and sheaths softly hairy, panicle narrow, spikelets 1-fld. silkily 

 villous, gl. I chartaceoHS 7-9-nerved. — Andropogon, n. 16, Serb. JT. f. 

 & T. 



Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 6-8000 ft., Thomson, 

 &c. 



Perennial. Stem 2-4 ft., solid, as thick as a goose-quill, quite smooth. Leaves 

 12-18 by i-J in., smooth hairy or villous, base villous, margins Bcaberulous, base 

 villous, midrib broad, white ; sheath glabrous ; ligule densely villous. Panicle 

 6-8 in., narrowly oblong, erect, very dense-fld., pale; pedicels very short. Spikelets 

 ■1^ in. ; gl. I acuminate, dorsally convex, margins narrowly incurved; II as Ion?, 

 subchartaceous, 3-5-nerved, hairy dorsally, sometimes obtuse and apiculate; III 

 oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 1-nerved ciliate ; IV shorter than II, cleft into lanceolate 

 segments with a slender interposed awn as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved below the 

 middle ; palea lanceolate, 2-fi(l. 



3. S. cotulifer, Sack. Monogr. Androp. 187 ; tall, erect, leaves long 

 sessile and petioled, panicle lax effuse branches and long capillary pedicels 

 short subclavate, spikelets 1-fld. lanceolate terete sparsely hairy, gl. I and 

 II coriaceous strongly nerved. Eulalia cotulifera, Munro ex Miq. Prolus. 

 Fl. Jap. 177 ; Franch. & Sav. Fn. PL Jap. ii. 189. Miscanthus cotulifer, 

 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 65. Eccoilopus andropogonoides, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 124. Andropogon cotulifer, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 41. 



Wesieen tempebatb Himalaya, alt. 4-6000 ft., from Kashmir, Clarke, to 



