Phragmites.] olxxiii. GRAiiiNEa!. (J. D. Hooker.) 305 



P. communis, and F. Mueller observes (in a letter to Bentham) that they are so in 

 tlie Tasmanian P. communis; whereas in the tropical Australian plant which Bentham 

 includes under it they are evergreen. 



Var. cincfa ; spikelets scaberulons, pedicels villous with silky hairs. P. cincta, 

 Cla/rhe mss. — Near Calcutta ; Salt Lakes, Kurz j Mutlah, Olarke. — The specimens 

 are in a very young state of flower. The glumes are identical with those of P. KarJca, 

 in which latter the pedicels of specimens from all parts of India are quite glabrous. 



97*. NEVRAITDIA, Kooh,f. {Oenus noiin clavis). 



A tall perennial leafy grass. Leaves long, flat. Spikelets small, 4-8- 

 fld., in an efEuse decompound nodding panicle, laterally compressed, lowest 

 fig. gl. someticoes glabrous epaleate and neuter; raohilla shortly bearded 

 below tbe fig. gls., jointed at tbe base (above the neuter gl. if present) and 

 between tbe flg. gls. Glumes all membranous ; I and II unequal, empty, 

 lanceolate, 1-nerved; ilg. gls. elongate-subulate, more or less recurved, 

 ending in a very slender tip with 2 setaceous points and a soabrid inter- 

 posed awD, 3-nerved, lateral nerves submarginal, penicillate with long 

 hairs ; palea oblong, keels scaberulons. Lodicules 2, obovate or cuueate. 

 Stamens 3, anthers long linear. Ovary shortly stipitate, oblong; styles 

 terminal, stigmas feathery. Grain linear, terete, loose in the gl. 



N. madagrascariensis, HooTc.f.-, Arundo madagascariensis, Kunth 

 Bevis. Gram. i. 273, t. 48, Enum. i. 247, Sappl. 190; Benth. Fl. Hongle. 

 427; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 35 [excl. 8yn.), Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 60. 

 A. Eoynaudiana, Kunth Bevis. I. c. 275, t. 49, Enum. I. c. ; Sieud. Sifn. 

 Gram. 194; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. (1889) 89. A. Zollinger], 

 Buese in Miq. PI. Jitngh. 243; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 411. Phragmites 

 Zollingeri, Steud. in Zoll. Gat. 55; Syn. Gram. 196. Douax Thouarii, 

 Beauv. Agrost. 78, t. 16, f. 5. — Arundinacea, Griff. Notul. iii. 49, n. 6 ; Jfi. 

 PI. Asiat. t. 156, f. II.— Arundo, Wall. Gat. n. 5021, 5022. 



Tlie Panjab and Tbopical Himalaya, from Chamba to Sikkim, ascending to 

 5000 ft. SiLHET and the Khasia Hills, Assam. Penanq- and Bukma.— Disteib 

 Tropical E. Asia and Malaya. Trop. Africa, Madagascar. 



Stem 6-8 ft. (or more ?) up to i in. diaiti., leafy to the panicle or near i^, 

 polished, solid, glaucous at the nodes. Leaves 1-2 ft., from filiform and couvolnte 

 to 1 in. broad and flat, smooth, rather soft, margins smooth or nearly so, midrib 

 and few nerves slender, base subample-ticaul j sheaths polished; ligule a villous 

 ridge. Panicle 1-3 ft., rachis and filiform fascicled and whorled branches smooth 

 or subscaberulous, ultimate branchlets capillary. Syikelets J-J in. (including the 

 awns), shortly pedicelled, pale brown, 4-8 fld. ; gl. I and II shining, I i shorter 

 tlian II ; neuter gl. if present J-| in., about twice as long as I, strict, spreading, 

 oblong-lanceolate, suberect, 3-nerved, sides convolute, quite glabrous; flg. gls. 

 longer than the empty, more or less recurved, very slender, narrowed into the more 

 or less recurved not twisted scaberolous awn with two bristles at its base; palea 

 hyaline, 2-toothed, keels minutely ciliolate ; callus, the upper portion of each inter- 

 node of the rachilla, jointed with the latter, densely shortly bearded.— A much 

 more elegant grass than any Indian species of Arundo or Phragmites^ but like these 

 extremely variable in habit and size, depending on place of gi'owth. I can find no 

 diiference whatsoever between the specimens with and those without the empty gl. 

 Ill ; specimens with filiform leaves occur in both. Their habitats are as follows :— 



1. madagascariensis proper ; neuter gl. 0. Western Himalaya ; from Kashmir 

 to Kumaon, Rangoon, Prome.— Africa, Madagascar. 



2. Zollingeri ; neuter gl. present. Arundo Reynaudiana, Kunth I. c— bikkmi 

 Himalaya, Assam, Bengal, the Kliasia Hills, Chittagong, Tenasserim, Penang.— 

 Java. 



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