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stalked, on very many slender, spike-like, unjointed branches 3-7 
in. long and spreading fan-wise from near the top of the stems. 
Empty glumes 3 ; two lower nearly equal, red-brown, concave ; 
uppermost flat, thin, white. Flowering glume 1, rather smaller 
than the uppermost empty glume, membranous, deeply notched, 
with a long, slender awn in the cleft. Stamens 3. Styles 2, 
free. Grain linear-oblong, free, enclosed within the glumes. 
Daha, Giri valley. — Temperate Himalaya, 5000-8000 ft Khasia and Naga 
hills. 
10. SPODIOPOGON. From the Greek spodios, ash-coloured, 
and pogon, a beard, referring to the grey, hairy spikelets of some 
species. — Temperate Asia. 
Perennial ; stems erect, tall, robust, leafy, solid. Leaves flat, 
long, finely pointed, narrowed into a stalk-like base. Ligule a 
fringe of hairs. Spikelets numerous, borne at the tips of the 
otherwise naked, jointed branches of a panicle, occasionally with 
a pair of spikelets inserted laterally, 1-flowered, narrowly ovoid, 
about ^ in., in clusters of three; 1 sessile, containing a male 
flower ; 2 stalked, each containing a 2-sexual flower. Empty 
glumes 3 ; 2 lower nearly equal, stiff, concave, 7-9-nerved ; 
uppermost rather smaller, transparent, sometimes containing a 
minute pale. Flowering glume 1, transparent, deeply notched, 
with a long awn in the notch. Stamens 3. Styles 2, free, fringed 
about half way down. Grain free, enclosed within the glumes. 
Panicle oblong, dense ; branches short. Spikelets silky hairy . 1. S. dubius. 
Panicle pyramidal ; branches long, spreading. Spikelets bristly 
with a tuft of hairs at the base . . . . . . 2. S. cotulifer. 
1. Spodiopogon dubius, Hack. ; FI. Br. Ind. vii. 108. Stems 
2-4 ft. Leaves 12-18 x J--J in., densely hairy. Panicle narrowly 
oblong, 6-18 in., pale silvery brown; branches short, nearly erect, 
densely crowded. Spikelets and stalks silky hairy. Two outer 
glumes pale brown ; awn as long as the spikelet. 
Simla, one of the commonest grasses on sunny hill-sides at high levels. — 
Temperate Himalaya, 6000-8000 ft. 
*2. Spodiopogon cotulifer, Hack . ; FI. Br. Bid. vii. 108. Stems 
3-8 ft. or more. Leaves 2-3 ft. by in., thinly hairy. Panicle 
pyramidal, 6-12 in. ; branches long, very slender, whorled, spread- 
ing. Spikelets minutely bristly, with a tuft of hairs at the base ; 
stalks glabrous, dilated upwards into a cup-like expansion. The 
3 empty glumes very shortly awmed. Awn of the flowering glume 
twice as long as the spikelet. 
Kashmir to Garhwal, 4000-6000 ft. — China, Japan. 
11. P0LLINIA. Named after Giro Pollini, an Italian physician 
and professor of botany, author of ‘ Elementi di Botanica ’ and other 
