118 CLXxiii. GRAMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pollinia. 



minute truncate, awn short. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 178 ; Steud. Si/n. 

 Gram. 410. P. iaponica, Miq. Ann. Mus. LugA. Bat. ii. 290. Leptatherum 

 Royleanum, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1841) 93 ; Franch. Sf 8av. Enum. 

 PI. Jap. ii. 609.— Batratherum P Wall. Cat. n. 8831 in part. 



Tempbeatb Himalaya; from Ohamba to tipper Assam, alt. 4-7000 ft. (to 

 10,000 in Kumaon), Khasia Hiils, alt. 4^5000 ft., Griffith, &c.— Distbib. 

 China, Japan, S. Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., grooved. Zeaves 1-4 in., lanceolate, very variable in breadth, 

 acuminate, flaccid ; sheath hairy ; ligule glabrous. Spikes 3-5, rarely more, 1-4 in. 

 long, fltxnous, green ; joints longer or shorter than the spikelets, glabrous or 

 ciliolate. Spikelets sometimes distant, callus nearly naked or villous; gl. I rarely 

 truncate or obtuse, often strongly forked, dorsally concave, glabrous or most 

 minutely scaberulous, margins rarely ciliate; II nearly glabrous; III if present 

 narrow, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, nerveless; IV variable in size, never = ^ III, 

 3-nerved. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



P. JAPONICA, Benii. ex DutMe Grass. N.W. Ind. 16. — Dnthie gives this grass 

 which is no donbt Munanthus fulvus, as a native of the Paojab and N.W. Himalaya 

 up to 9000 ft. I find no authority for the name. P. japonica, franch. &, Sav. is 

 F. imberbis, Nees, and P. japonica, Miq. is P. nuda ; both are Japanese and 

 Himalayan plants. There is also SulaUa japonica, Trin. (Mischantlius sinensis, 

 Anderss.), which is not Himalayan. 



35. SACCKARUDK, Linn. 



Tall perennial grasses. Infl. a large silky Tnuch and densely branched 

 panicle, with spreading at length erect articulate capillary branches and 

 branchlets (spikes). 8pii;elets minute, awnless, 1-fld., binate, a sessile 

 bisexual and pedioelled, fern., rarely both pedicelled and bisexual. Glumes 

 4, all membranous, or I strongly chartaceous, or I and II rarely coriaceous ; 

 III empty; IV shortest, rarely 0; palea hyaline nerveless or 0. Lodicules 

 cuneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally exserted. Grain oblong. — 

 Species about 12, tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 



Sect. I. EusAOCHABUM. Rachis of spike fragile. Spikelets of each 

 pair subequal, sessile and pedicelled, both fertile. Stem solid. 



S. orriciNABUM, Linn. 8p. PI. 54 ; stem solid glabrous below the 

 panicle, upper leaves long margins scaljrid, joints of spikes and pedicels 

 glabrous, hairs of callus about twice as long as the spikelet, gl. I glabrous 

 subchartaceous, IV very narrow or 0, palea small lanceolate. Boxh. Fi. 

 Ind. i. 237 ; MeFad. in Rook. Bot. Misc. i. (1830) 95, t. 26; Steud. 8yn. 

 Gram. 405 ; Sach. Monogr. Androp. iii. Ill ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 507. 

 Morris in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xxviii. (1890) 197, t. 23. S. sinense, Boxb. I. e. 



Cultivated in the hotter parts of Ibdia. — Native country unknown. For history 

 and cultivation of the sugar-cane in India see Watts' " Dictionary of the Economic 

 Products of India," and for its origin A. de Candolle "L'Orieine des Plantea 

 Cnltiv&s." 



1. S. spontaneum, Linn. Mant. ii. 183; stem silky below the 

 panicle, upper leaves long margins smooth, hairs of callus many times 

 longer than the spikelet, gl. I thickened below, IV usually 0, palea ciliate. 

 Bosch. Fl. Ind. i. 235; Kunih Enum. PI. i. 475, Su'ppl. 384; Wight Cat. 

 V. 1682 ; Griff. Noiul. iii. 73, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f. 63 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 304; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 369; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 106. 



