■PolUnia.] clxxiii. gkamine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 117 



J.D.E. KhabiA Hilis, alt. 4000 ft., J.D.ff. ^ T.T. Buuma, Tuongdong, 

 WallicJi; Rangoon, M'Jjelland; Kiog's laid., Heifer. 



Stems 1-3 ft., nodes naked. Leaves 3-6 in., base contracted, flaccid. Spilkes 

 3-6, 2-4i in. long, very slender, pale green or yellowish brown ; joints compressed, 

 broader upwards, ciliate. &lumes usually widely spreading ; I subacute or narrowly 

 truncate, keels scaberulous or shortly ciliate above ; II with villous margins towards 

 the mucronate or aristnlate tipj IT very minute, rounded. Anthers linear, halC 

 as long as the .gl. or more. — Resembles P. ciliata, but the spikelets are much 

 smaller. 



21. P. delicatula, 'RooTc.f. ; stem very slender vaguely genioulately 

 branched leafy, leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate base very narrow, spikes 

 3-5 fascicled slender pale, joints linear, margins shortly ciliate, spikelets 

 ■^-^V in., callus stellately bearded, gl. I tbin linear-oblong truncate dorsally 

 convex shining, keels ciliate above the middle, II apioulate keel ciliate, III 

 0, IV awn simple or minutely dilated at the base. 



Pbgto, M'Lelland, Kure. 



Stems 1-2 ft., straggling, as thick as a sparrow's quill or less, smooth. Leaves 

 25-5 by i— J in., flat, thin, sparsely ciliate chiefly towards the base, tip capillary, 

 margins smooth, base a mere point, midrib slender ; sheath very slender ; ligule 

 minute. Spikes 2-1-J in., erect, flezuous, pale green, joints truncate. Gl. I. of sessile 

 spikelet 0-5-nerved, tip more or less 2-toothed ; II obtuse, 3-nerved ; IV awn capil- 

 lary about !=■ the spikelet. Pedicelled spikelet like the sessile or reduced, awned or 

 not, male or neuter. Stamens 3, imperfect only seen, filaments short. 



** Triandrous, anthers minute, filaments very long. 



22. P. imberbis, Nees ex Steud. 8yn. Oram. 410 ; stem very slender 

 grooved, spikes solitary or few and racemose very slender, joints com- 

 pressed, spikelets ^-J in. lanceolate, gl. I narrow subtrunoate keels 

 minutely soabrid, II acute nearly glabrous, III-O, IV minute ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, palea ovate, awn short. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 177 ; Buthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 16. P. japonioa, Franch. & Sav. Enwm. PI. Jwp. ii. 

 608 {nonMiq^. P. Willdenowiana, Serdh. in Journ. Limn. Soc. xix. (1881) 

 67. Andropogon vimineus, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. ii. (1883) 

 268. Microstegium Willdenowianum, Nees ex Steud. I.e. 411. — ^Arthraxon, 

 Wall.. Cat. n. 8838.— Batratheram ? Wall. Oat. n. 8832. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; Simla, Gamble ; Nepal, Wallieh ; Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 

 ft., J.D.H., Clarke. Khasia Hills, alt. 4r-5000 ft. — Disteib. China, Japan. 



Leaves narrowed to the base, flaccid, smooth or subscaberulous. Spikes 1-3 in., 

 not fascicled, green, joints more or less ciliate, hardly clavate ; callus naked ; gl. I 

 concave dorsally, 2— 6-nerved, nerves sometimes anastomosing ; II 1-3-nerved ; awn of 

 IV sometimes capillary, and very short (var. Willdenotoiana, Hack.) ; sometimes (vwr. 

 genuina, Hack.) it is longer, stouter, with a twisted base. — Very variable in size ; small 

 Kepal specimens have filiform stems 6-12 in. , with oblong-lauceolate acute leaves an 

 inch long, and solitary spikes ; some large Ehasian specimens have stouter mneh 

 branched stems 2-3 ft. long, with acuminate linear-lanceolate leaves 3-6 in. long, 

 and 6-7 spikes. — The minute persistent didymous anthers are those of Arthraxon, 

 and differ from those of all other Indian species of Follinia, 



*** Diamdrous, anthers linear-ohlong. 



28. P. nuda, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. ii. (1833) 807 ; very 

 slender, spikes few racemed very slender, joints slender terete, spikelets 

 ^-^ in. narrowly lanceolate, gl. I bicuspidate very narrow keels scaberuloaa, 

 II acuminate. III as long as II hyaline ciliate or 0, IV lanceolate, palea 



