110 ciAxiii. GRiMiNEJi. (J. D. FTooker.) [Pollinia. 



Plains of lower Gangetic Valley and Behar, ascending to 3000 ft. Sikkim and 

 Khasia Huls. Chota Nagpue, ©ambZe. Nilqhiei Hilis; the Wynaad, i%ne, 

 BuEstA, WallicJi. — DiSTRiB. Malaya, China, Australia. 



Stem, 1-2 ft., erect, tufted, nodes glabrous. Leaves 6-18 in., erect, flexuous, 

 ■Ti-xo ^°- hroad (except in Wallich's n. 8813), glabrous. Feiwncle filiform. Spilces 

 |-2i in., fascicled, very slender, erect. Spikeleis amongst the smallest of the genua ; 

 gl. IV very variable In length and in depth of lobing, sometimes subentire, awn some- 

 times 1 in. long. — Hackel has two subspecies, one with the nodes of the spike longer 

 and not disarticulating, which includes the Burmese plant of Wallich, n. 8814, and 

 the Sikkim plant ; the other has fragile spikes with much shorter nodes, to which 

 Wallich's Burmese, a. 8813 belongs ; this latter is n much taller stouter plant with 

 leaves J in. broad and stems thicker than a orow-quill. — What Hackel describes as 

 gl. Ill appears to me to be the palea of gl. IV, for it surrounds the ovary. 



Var. ;3, pedicellata, Hack. mss. j both spikelets long pedicelled. Kumaon, 

 Dutkie, 



2. P. pallens, Saci;. Monogr. Androp. 156 ; leaves very slender, spikes 

 5-10 silkily hairy white, raohis slender, spikelets ^ in., gl. I narrow mem- 

 branous bicuspidate shortly villous, II laxly villous. III oblong obtuse 

 ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn 2-3 times as long as the spikelet. 



Khasia Hilis, alt. 5000 ft., Ckiffith, &c. — Distkib. China. 



Stem 2-3 ft., slender j nodes glabrous. Leaves 12-20 by x5-i ■•>•> hairy beneath, 

 margins revolute, tips filiform. Spikes 2-4 in., slender, silkily hairy. Spikelets 

 narrowly lanceolate. Gl. I 2-nerved ; II with the capillary awn very variable in 

 length, keel and margins ciliate ; III oblong, obtuse, ciliate ; IV ciliate, oblanceolate, 

 adnate portion of awn forked about half-way down ; palea broadly ovate or orbicular, 

 entire, not ciliate. 



** Glume II of sessile spikelet not awned. 



t Basal sheaths of stem naked. 



§ SpiTceleta 5— J in. 



3. P. quadrinervls, Sack. Monogr. Androp. 158; spikes 3-6 and 

 pedicels villous with long silvery-grey hairs, spikelets -g-i in. oblong- 

 lanceolate subacute, gl. I dorsally concave 4-nerved (often obscnrelv). III 

 glabrous, IV short broadly deeply obcordate, awn 3-4 times as long as the 

 spikelet, palea short broad. P. villosa, Munro in Benth. Fl. Songiong, 

 420 {non Spreng.). Brianthus tristachyns, Nees in Sook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. 241; etin PI. Meyer. 183 (excl. Syn.). — Andropoeon, Wall. Gat. 

 n. 8808. 



SuBTEOPicAi HiMAiATA; from Simla to Sikkim, the MisHMi, and Khasia 

 Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft., Olarke. Pegu, alt. 4-6000 ft., Kurt. — Distsib. China. 



Stem 1-2 ft., leafy upwards, nodes glabrous. Leaves narrow, glabrous or hairy 

 beneath, or on both surfaces, or with the sheath hirsute, tips finely acuminate; 

 ligule oblong. Spikes 3-5, 2-6 in., erect or flctuous. Spikelets pale yellow-brown j 

 callus hairs long white; gl. I with hispid keels above, tip contracted minutely 

 truncate, margins rather broadly inflexed ; II acute, minutely apiculate, sub 3-nerved, 

 keel smooth, margins ciliate ; III linear-oblong, long-ciliate above ; IV with the 

 adnate awn forked towards the base, lobes rounded ciliolate ; palea lanceolate, ciliolate. 

 — Nees, as Hackel observes, errs in describing the base of the stem as rufous-haired. 

 The Khasia plant has softly villous foliage and has paler spikes, and closely resembles 

 P. speciosa, var. heterotricha. 



Var. Wightii ; stem tall stout silky below the panicle, leaves J in. broad acute, 

 spikes 3-7 in., spikelets nearly J in., gl. I 2-4-nerved, IV cuueately obovate broadly 



