124 CLXXin. GKAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \Erianthus. 



146. Sacoharum tilifolium, Stevd. Syn. Gram.4D9; DutJiie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 14. 



Tempebate Westekn HimaI/ATA, from Chamba to Eumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft., 

 Soyle, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft. , rootstock woody, nodes pubescent. Leaves 8-12 in., rigid, glabrous, 

 convolute below, narrowed to the hair, tip capillary ; sheath glabrous j ligule very 

 short, obtuse, ciliolate. Panicle 6-8 in., red-purple ; joints and pedicels = about half 

 the spikelet, ciliate. Spikelets surrounded with dense white hairs ; gL I minately 

 2-toothed, margins broadly inflexed, dorsally glabrous with 3-4 unequal intracariual 

 nerves ; II like I, B-nerved, keel smooth ; III lanceolate, 2-mucronulate, sub 2- nerved, 

 margins inflezed ciliate ; IV shorter, linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, glabrous ; palea 

 short, lanceolate, glabrous, , 



7. IS. versicolor, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Oram. 409 ; stem glabrous 

 below the lanceolate panicle, leaves flat, spikelets |— I in. linear-lanceolate 

 concealed by the dense white hairs of the callus, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 variegated chartaoeous below reddish and membranous above, keels smooth, 

 IV ouspidately 2-toothed ciUolate, awn twice as long as the spikelet or 

 more, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 3-nerved between the keels. Sack. Mbnogr. 

 Androp. 144 ; Duthie Gh-ass. N. W. Ind. 16. 



Tempekate Himalaya j fi-om Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 2500-7000 ft. 



Stem tall, pubescent below the nodes. Leaves 8-16 by J— | in., smooth, margins 

 scabrid ; sheath glabrous or month sparingly hairy ; ligule broadly ovate, glabrous. 

 Panicle 8-10 in., rachis and branches opposite, glabrous, axils bearded; joints of 

 spike 5-7 and pedicels | as long as the spikelet or longer, shortly ciliate with stiff 

 white hairs. Spileelets usually green and violet below the middle, reddish above 

 it J gl. I tip subacute obtuse or 2-3enticulate, nerves 2-3 between the keels vanishing 

 upward ; II linear-oblong, entire, 1-nerved, keel scaberulous ; III linear-oblong nerve- 

 less, tip ciliolate ; IV ^ i II, ouspidately 2-toothed ; palea 5 shorter, linear-lanceolate 

 acute, glabrous. — I very much doubt this being distinct from E . filifoUus and the 

 following; and amongst the numerous specimens of Himalayan Erianthi which I 

 have examined, and which must include these, I find it impossible to refer many with 

 precision to any of these three. 



Var. pallens, stem slightly pubescent below the pale lanceolate panicle, leaves 

 flat, spikelets ^ in. oblong J shorter than the dense white hairs of the callus, gl. I 

 membranous tip hyaline keels smooth, IV ouspidately 2-toothed ciliolate, awn 3-4 

 times as long as the spikelet, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet shortly 1-nerved between 

 the keels. E. pallins, Each. Monogr. Androp. 145. 



8. E. longrisetosus, Anderss. ex Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 

 67 ; stem naked below the ovate-oblong panicle, sessile spikelets |-} in. 

 lanceolate equalling or rather shorter than the red-brown hairs of the caUus, 

 gl. I oblong-lanceolate chartaceous bicuspidate 2-nerved between the smooth 

 keels sides sparsely ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn 4 or 5 times as long aa 

 the spikelet, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 6-7-nerved. Mack. Monogr. AnArop. 

 143 ; Clarke in Journ. lAnn. Soc. xxv. (1889) 85, t. 34. E. mishmeensis, 

 Munro mss. — Erianthus, Wall. Cat. n. 8846. 



Teopioal Himalaya, alt. 1-3000 ft., from Nepal to the Mishmi, Naga and 

 Munnepore Hills, Assam, Silhet and Chittasong. 



Stem 6-8 ft., stout, nodes pubescent. Leaves 1-3 ft. by J-IJ in., glabrous 

 except at the base within, many-nerved, quite smooth, base often much narrowed ; 

 sheath smooth ; ligule rounded. Panicle 6-18 in., of many long densely packed 

 solitary or binate long divided soft drooping spikes clothed with pale reddish or 

 golden-brown hairs, rachis glabrous, joints and pedicels slender about as long as the 

 spikelets densely ciliate with long hairs. Spikelets brown below, pale above ; gl. I 

 with rather broadly infiexed margins ; II oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, apiculate or 



