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CLXII. CYPERACE^. 
\CaYex. 
Pahang, Gunong Tahan at 6000 ft. altitude (Ridley); Gunong 
Berumban (Henderson). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Kunstler). Dis- 
trih. India, China and Madagascar. 
var. condcnsata, C. condensata Nees in Wight Contrih. 123; 
Clarke in Hook. fil. F.B.I. vi. 716; Ridl. Mat. iii. 118. Leaves very 
long, I to 2-5 ft. long, -36 in. wide. Partial panicles three or four, 
distant, lax, oblong, hardly pyramidal, long peduncled. Spikes -25 
to *35 in. long, brown, clustered with 3 to 6 utricles in each. Utricle 
ellipsoid trigonous ribbed, beak short bifid, scabrid pilose. Hab. 
Mountains, rare, Malacca, Mount Ophir, in a stream on Gunong 
Mering (Ridley). Distrib. India. 
Order CLXIIl. GRAMINEtE. 
Herbs erect or decumbent, or {BambusacecB) with tall woody 
stems {culms). Culms hollow, rarely solid, jointed. Leaves entire 
linear or lanceolate, base sheathing, ligulate. Inflorescence ter¬ 
minal or axillary as well, of splkelets arranged in spikes or heads. 
Spikelets of 3 or more dry distichous bracts (glumes). The two lowest 
usually empty, the others on a flexuous rachilla, i or more con¬ 
taining a flower; each glume normally has a flattened glume, thin 
and 2-nerved (palea), enclosing the flower which consists of 2 to 6 
scales often minute or absent (lodicules). Stamens 3 (rarely i to 6) 
hypogynous; filaments long slender; anthers linear. Pistil i-celled, 
i-ovuled. Styles 3, rarely 2 or i, plumose. Fruit a i-seeded 
utricle (grain). Seed i. Albiunen copious mealy, embryo minute. 
Species 3000, whole world. 
I have received much help in the grasses from Dr. Stapf and in the 
Bambusacea from Mr. Gamble. 
I. MAYDEa:. Stout grasses. Flowers unisexual in separate spikes or 
panicles on the same culm. 
Lower spikelet female enclosed in a hardened 
bony glume . . . .1, Coix 
II. Andkopogone,®. Usually slender grasses. Flowers bisexual. 
Kachis not jointed; spikelets solitary, uni¬ 
lateral on rachis . , .2. Dimeria 
Spikelets in pairs i sessile, i-pedicellcd, 
I-flowered. 
Rachis not jointed; panicle spike-like, white, 
silky.3. Imperata 
Rachis jointed. 
Panicle large white silky; culm solid, no 
awns . . . . .4- SaccharUm 
Panicle large not white silky; culm hollow, 
no awns . . . ■ 5 - Sclerostachyum 
Panicle large sUky; rachis hardly jointed; 
spikelets awned . . .6. Miscanthus 
Panicle large not silky; rachis jointed; 
spikelets awned . . - 7 - Sorghum 
