Erianthus.'] olxxiii. qramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 123 



gl., lanceolate from a crowded concave base. — Evidently a gigantic species of whieli I 

 have seen only one specimen of leaves and panicle from the Calcutta Herbarium, and 

 a scrap of a panicle from Griffith. 



** Branches of panicle long simple much or sparingly divided ; spikes 

 many-jointed ; awn of gl. IV more than twice as long as the spikelet, rarely 

 (in sikkimensis and chysothrix) shorter or 0. 



t Gl. IV entire, narrowed into the awn. 



4. E. fulvus, Nees ex Steud. 8yn. Gram. 409 ; stem silkily villons 

 below the long narrow silkily villous panicle, spikelets tVtV ^"' narrowly 

 oblong mnch shorter than the fulvous purplish or reddish hairs of the 

 callus, gls. I and II hyaline above the middle, IV very narrow. SacJc. 

 Monogr. Androp. 147. B. rufipilns, Orisel. in Ooett. Nachr. (1868) 93 ; 

 ButUe Grass. N.W. Ind. 15. E. japonicus, Serb. Struck & Winterb. n. 2, 

 SfEerb.H./. & T. Saccharum rafipilum, Steud. J. c— Erianthus, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8849. 



Tempeeate HiMAiATA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft. Khasia and 

 Naga Hills, alt. 5-5500 ft. 



Stem 6-8 ft., stout ; nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 2-3 ft. by ^1 in., 

 flat, glaucous and scaberulous beneath and on the margins j margins of sheath hairy ; 

 ligule rounded, ciliate. Panicle 8-18 in., erect, decompound j rachis villous ; spikes 

 crowded ; joints &-10 and pedicels filiform, villous, half as long as the spikelets or 

 more. Spikelets concealed by the hairs of the callus and joints, usually brownish ; 

 gl. I chartaceous below, tip suddenly acute, quite entire, 1-3-nerved, dorsally flat, 

 glabrous ; margins not incurved or below the tip only, ciliolate above j II rather 

 longer, acute or 2-mueronate, glabrous, margins ciliate ; III lanceolate, ciliate, 

 acnminate or shortly awned j IV much shorter, ovate-lanoeolate, glabrous, l-nerved ; 

 awn i-i in., palea as long as the gl. or shorter or ? Fedicelled spikelets hardly 

 different from the sessile. — The name fulmis is not appropriate. 



3. E. sikkimensiS; KooJc.f. ; stem very slender silkily villous below 

 the very narrow stifE panicle, spikelets |-J in. lanceolate longer than the 

 white hairs of the callus, gl. I tip broadly 2-fld sides villous with long hairs 

 hyaline above the middle, IV very narrow. 



Sikkim Himalaya j Lachen Valley, alt. 6000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a dove's quill. Leaves narrow, rigid, flat, hairy towards 

 the base, margins scabrous ; sheaths glabrous or sparsely pubescent above ; ligule 

 rounded ciliate, Panicle 4-6 in., sparingly branched ; spikes strict, erect, appressed 

 to the villons rachis, joints and pedicels nearly as long as the spikelet, glabrous. 

 Spikelets erect ; gl. I oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous below the middle, dorsally 

 glabrous, sides with long silky hairs, tip bifid with a broad sinus, margins inflexed, 

 keels scabrid, nerves 5 between the scabrid keels vanishing upwards, tips often 

 anastomosing; II chartaceous below the upper hyaline third, keeled, 3-nerved, 

 margins ciliate ; III as long as II, thinly chartaceous, 3-nerved, margins incurved 

 ciliate; IV nearly=III, linear-lanceolate, l-nerved, subciliate, narrowed into a short 

 straight awn ; palea nearly = the gl. subulate-lanceolate ciliolate. — Specimens very 

 imperfect. 



+t &1. IV 2-toothed or 2-lobed. 



§ Gl. I. dorsally glabrous or nearly so. 



6. E. filifolius, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. i. 409 ; stem pubescemt 

 below the narrow panicle, leaves filiform, spikelets ^l in. lanceolate rather 

 longer than the hairs of the callus, gl. I of sessile spikelet membranous 

 acute keels scabrid, IV entire or minutely 2-toothed, awn much longer than 

 the spikelet, gl. I of pediceUed spikelet 6-7-nerved. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 



