Arundo.] olxxiii. graminej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 



East Gram. Auitr. iv. 22, t. 38 ; Kunth Enum. Fl. i. 246, Suppl. 159 ; 

 Beichh. Jo. Fl. Germ. t. 109; T. Nees Oen. Fl. Qerm. Monocot. i. n. 36; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 394 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 664 ; Aitchis. Gat. Fanjdb 

 Fl. 166 ; DutUe Grass. N. W. Ind. 35, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 60. A. benga- 

 lensis & hifaria, Betx. Ohs. iv. 22, & v. 20 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 347, 348 ; Kunth 

 Enum. Fl. i. 247. A. longifolia, Salish. Frodr. 24. A. sativa, Lamk. Fl. 

 Fr. iii. 616. A. triflora, Boxh. Ic. Fict. t. 853. Donax arundinaoeus, 

 Beauv. Agrost. 78, t. 16, f. 4. D. benghalensis, Beauv. I. c. 78. D. bifarius, 

 Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii. 73. Amphidonax benealensis, Nees 

 ex Steud. 8yn. Gram. 197 ; Wight Cat. n. 1748. A. bifaria, Nees ex Steud. 

 Sun. Oram. 410 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iv. 410. Scoloohloa arundinaoea, 

 Mert. & Koch Fl. Germ. i. 5'29. Aira benghalensis, Gmel. 8yst. i. 174.-^ 

 Arundo, Wall. Gat. n. 5018, excl. F., 5020. 



LowBE Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Nepal, asceuding to 3500 ft.; nnd from 

 the Panjab to SiLHBT, the Naga Hills, nit. 5-8000 ft., and Burma. TheCiKCARa^ 

 NiLSHiRi, and KuBG Hills. — Disthib. Westward to Europe, N. Afiica, N. Asia. 



Stem 6-10 ft., fistnlar. Leaves 1-2 ft., tapering from the base to the apex, 

 sinpdtb, bifarions, drooping; ligiile a ridge of hairs. Panicle 1-2 ft., branches 

 scabemlous, erect or drooping. Spikelets J in., green or yellowish ; gls. I and II 

 acute or obtuse and apiculate. — A curious branched small-leaved apparently dwarf 

 form named A. iambusifuUa, mss., was collected by Griffith on the summit of 

 Tbnmathaya (Mishmi Mts.),and is alluded to in bis Journals, p. 45, as " un Arundo 

 festucoidea." Grisebacli (in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76) describes a form of A, Pliniana, 

 Turra, with the mouth of the sheath ciliate, as a native of the Himalaya (Simla, 

 alt. 3-SOOO ft.). The above character is found in Indian specimens of what I cannot 

 distinguish from A, Donax, A. Pliniana appears to Dr. Stapf and myself to be a 

 mere form of Donax with small-r spikelets, which organs in Indian specimens vary 

 from i-J in. The plants with the smaller spikelets are, I presume, the A. mauri- 

 tanica, Poir. (a synonym ol Pliniana) oC Duthie Grass. N.W.Ind.Sb, Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 60. 



97. PKRAGMITES, Trin. 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves long. Bpilelets 3-7-fld. in decompound 

 panicles, not jointed on the pedicels, laterally subcompressed; rachilla 

 jointed between the flg. gls. and above gl. Ill, silkily penicillate with very 

 long hairs, not produced beyond the fl. gls. Glumes all glabrous, I and II 

 unequal, oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved, membranous, persistent; III much 

 longer, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-nei'ved, male or neuter, per- 

 sistent; flg. gls. subulate-lanceolate, snbaristate, hyaline; palea much 

 shorter. Lodicules 2, obtuse. Stamens 1-3. Stj/les 2, terminal, free, 

 stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, terete. — Species few, temp, and trop. 



1. P. oommunla, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 134 ; stem 6-10 ft., and leaves 

 withering in winter, leaf-margins rough, panicle 6-18 in. subsecuud, 

 inclined, branches not widely spreading, gl. Ill |-| in. Kunth Bevis. 

 Qram. i, 277, t. 50 ; Enum. Fl. i. 251, Suppl. 193 ; Fl. Dan. t 2664 ; Beichb. 

 Ic. Fl. Germ. 1. 108 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 37 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Oram,. 195 ; Franch. Sf Sav. Emim. Fl. Japan, ii. 170; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 5e»; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 636 ; Duthie Grass. JV. W. Ind. 35, Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 60. P. chilensis, 8teud. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 234. ? P. Emodi, Am. ^ 

 Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix., Suppl. i. (1843) 174. P. hiapanica, iVee* 

 I.e. P. humilis, JVol in Cat. Hort. Geniten. (1846) 27. P. longivalvis, 

 8tem,d. I.e. 196. P. mauritanica, Kunth Bevis. i. 80, 277, t. 50, Emm,, i. 251. 



