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CHINA. 



[ Grandma. 



Folia et pars inferior culmi desunt. Summitas plusquam pedalis. Culmus crassitie pennae columbinse, 

 alternatim canaliculatus, kevis. Genicula glabra. Vagina, longae, lanceolatae, comptessse, folio terminantur 

 angusto acuminatissimo complicato glabro glaucescente. Pedunculi axillares gemini; quorum alter brevior 

 et simplex; alter longior itcrumque divisus. Vagina propria? communi similes, lamina autem multo minori, 

 quandoque omnino deficiente, margine menjbranaceae, pallide rufescentes, glabrae. Rachis lutescens; arti- 

 culi ejus extrorsum, pedicelli utrinque basin versus longe ciliati. Spicula sessilis 2 lineas longa, lanceolata, 

 flavescens, glabra, setis glumae inferioris (ubi adsunt) gluma sua paullo brcvioribus superioris seta eadem 

 longiori recurva: seta flosculi fertilis fere pollicaris, scabra, infra genu fuscescens. Spicula pedicellatm, 

 gluma inferior oblongo-lanceolata, purpurascens, decemnervis, superius ciliata; superior alba, subfimbriata; 

 seta glumae inferioris 3-4 lineas longa, superioris seta linearum est. 



8. Imperata. Cyrill. 



i. I. Koenigii ; foliis fasciculorum angustis elongatis, culmeis brevioribus in vaginis sum- 

 mis denique obsoletis basi ciliatis, panicula spiciformi laxiuscula, nodis plerumque barbatis. 

 — P. de Beauv. Agrost. p. 165. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 289. Link, Hort. Ber. 1. p. 

 236. — I. arundinacea. Kunth, En. \. p. 477. — Saccharum Koenigii. Retz, Obs. 5. p. 16. 

 Pers. Syn. 1. p. 103.— S. cylindricum. lioxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 234; (ed Wall.) 1. p. 239.— 

 a; foliis caulinis superioribus brevissimis, nodis omnibus longe barbatis, pilis arrectis. 

 Saccbarum Koenigii. Retz, et Auct. citatorum, — j3 ; foliis caulinis magis conspicuis longi- 

 usculis saspe convolutis, foliis radical ibus pluribus, vaginis distichis, nodis vel inferioribus 

 saltern vel omnibus glabris et imberbibus, barba etiam ubi adest breviori. Sacch. Thun- 

 bergii. Retz, Obs. 5. p. 17 ? 



Hab. a. Circa Macao atque in insulis adjacentibus; G. H. Vachell, n. 47. a. 



Folia culmi infima conferta, subcaespitosa, fasciculorum foliis latiora, duplo breviora. — Gramen caricosum 

 A. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6. t. 7. f. 2. a. vix hujus loci, quippe cui folia 4-5-pedes alta, pollicem fere lata tri- 

 buantur, cum in nostro culmi £-2 pedes alti, nec folia altiora, et 1-H lin. lata, basi angustiora. Spica cylin- 

 drica ^-3 poll, longa et paullo longior. 



[Roxburgh in his Flora Indica states, concerning the leaves, " those of the root or lower part of the culm are 

 much longer than the culm, tapering equally towards each end;" and as his observations were made on the 

 living plant, we suspect that Nees has taken his description from herbarium specimens only: at the same 

 time, Rumphius 1 figure can scarcely be our plant; perhaps it is a true species of Saccharum.} 



9. Saccharum. Linn. 



1. [S. Sara ; panicula subcontracta elongata, ramis semiverticillatis decompositis, ramulis 

 superioribus triquetris pilis albis adspersis, spiculis hemigamis conformibus, glumis subulato- 

 acutatis dorso longe pilosis, floscula neutrius valvula glumas fere sequante, flosc. herma- 

 phrodite bivalvi, valvula inferiori flosculo neutra paulo breviori oblonga apice setulifera, 

 superiori plus dimidio breviori ovata, omnibus ciliatis. — S. Sara. Roxb. ? FL Ind. 1. p. 244; 

 {ed Wall.) 1. p. 249. in Cat. Merc. Angl. Ind. Or. Mus. tab. 1113. 



Hab. Circa Macao, et in insulis vicinis; Millett. G. H. Vachell, n. 31. 



Of this, which seems to be very common about Macao, we have not received the leaves. It appears to 

 be a remarkably tall plant, and the panicle is very similar to that of S. officinarum, from which, however, it 

 differs by the large and conspicuous valvelets of the fertile floret. S. procerum differs by the upper valvelet 

 of the bisexual floret. 



