120 CLXxiii. GEAMiSE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saccharum. 



Panicle 1-2 ft., erect, ovoid or oblong; branches half-whorled, clothed with soft 

 cream-colrd. rarely purplish hairs. Spikes 1-3 in., rachis capillary. Spik elef s ^ia., 

 lanceolate, pale green violet or brownish ; gl. I dorsally flat or depressed, nerveless 

 ■except the keels; II lanceolate, shortly acuminate ; III oblong-lanceolate ; IVmucro- 

 nate.— Hackel includes under S. cUiwre, 8. Oriffithii, Munro, which is regarded by 

 Dr. Stapf and myself as an 'Erianthus, gl. IV being clearly awned. S. lenghaiense 

 is a doubtful plant, wanting, according to Hackel, in Eetz's Herbarium. 



3. S. Narenga, Sam. in Wall. Cat. n. 8856 ; stem slender silky 

 lielow the panicle, nodes bearded, leaves scabrid aboTe_ uppermost 

 'Subulate, branchlets of panicle clothed with purple hairs, pedicels 

 ■clavellate hispidulous, hairs of callus rigid, gl. I coriaceous glabrous 

 ■or hairy below, II oblong coriaceous tip membranous. Mack. Monogr. 

 ■Androp. 119; ButMe Grass. N.W. Ind. 14. Brioohrysis Narenga, Nees 

 ex Steud. Syn. Oram,. •411 ; AUchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 172. — Saccharum, 

 Wall. Cat. I. c. 



Teopical Himalaya, from Garwhal, alt. 3-4000 ft., to the Khasia Hills, 

 TJppEK and Loweb Bengal, Assam, Silhet, Centeal India, and Bukma. — 

 DisTEiB. Tonkin, China. 



Stem 6-8 ft. ; internodes often longer than the sheaths, nodes stellately bearded. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft. by 4 in., linear, base narrow, flat ; sheath with tubercle-based hairs ; 

 ligule rounded. Panache 12-18 in., narrow; rachis scaberulous, beardedat thenodes; 

 branches 2-47nate, oppressed to the fragile rachis, branchlets fascicled. Spikelets 

 -]L in., callus minute, hairs longer or shorter than the spikelet ; gl. I ciliolate ; IV 

 linear-oblong, ciliate. — Hackel has two varieties : a. gennimum, Himalayan, with gl. 

 I and II of the sessile spikelet obtuse, glabrous ; /3. khasianam, with the corre- 

 sponding gl. subacute, densely hairy below. 



Sect. II. SoLEBOSTACHYA (Anderss.). Sachis of spiie tenacious. Both 

 spikelets of each pair pedicelled. Stem fistular. 



4. S. fuscum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. -236 ; stem stout silky or villous below 

 the panicle, rachis of panicle villous, spikes nodding, hairs of callus about 

 ■5 the length of the oblong or obovoid spikelets, gl. I obtuse, keels ciliate, 

 III and IV ciliate. Sack. Monogr. Androp. 121 ; Kunth JEnum. PI. i. 474, 

 Suppl. 385; Steud. Syn. Gram. 406; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 14. S. 

 Modhara, Ham. in Wall. Cat. n. 8855 0. Tricholssna ? fusca, Schult. 

 Mant. ii. 164. Eriochrysis fusca, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. 

 <1833) II. 315; Stend. I.e. 411. B. fusca & attenuata, Nees ex Steud. Ic. 

 Miscanthus fuscus, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Sue xix. (1881) 65. — Saccharum, 

 Wall Cat. 8855. 



Upper and Lowbb <3AirGETio Plains, Assam, the Khasia Hills, the Westeen 

 Ghats, and Burma. 



Stem 5-8 ft. or more, as thick as the little finger. Leaves 3-4 ft. by 1-2 in., 

 linear-lanceolate, rigid, glabrous, margins scabrid; margins of sheath fimbriate j 

 ligule rounded. Panicle 1-2 ft., narrow, branches whorled or fascicled or snbsolitary, 

 nodes bearded ; spikes or branchlets nodding, slender, flexnons ; joiuts trigonous, 

 glabrous. Spikelets J in., brown, upper and lower alike ; gl. I entire, msrgins 

 narrowly inflexed, dorsally flat smooth shining; II subacute, keeled, 1-nerved; III 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, nerveless, ciliate above ; IT like III but shorter, ciliate with 

 rigid hairs ; palea much shorter ovate, ciliate. Grain obovoid, smooth, brown. 



5. S. Ridleyl, Sack, in CEstr. Bat. Zeitschr. xli. (1891) 6; stem 

 glabrous below the long narrow panicle, rachis of panicle glabrous, spikes 

 erect very long filiform lax-fld., hairs of callus i the length of the oblong- 



