Sorghum.] CLXiii. gramine^. 195 
shaped ; glumes III and IV hyaline ciliate; glume IV oblong ovate, 
2-toothed with a longer or shorter awn. Grain ovoid dorsally 
compressed or globose in cultivated fomis. About 35 wild species 
distributed throughout the tropics and some forms extensively 
cultivated in Africa and also in India. S. Durr a, Stapf., is occasion¬ 
ally cultivated by Malays, chiefly by Javanese and Buginesc, but the 
grain is not very popular, being only used for cakes, and is said not to 
keep very well, being liable to be destroyed by beetles. 
(i) S. affine Stapf. MSS. Andropogon affinisPm/. Rel. Hmnk. 
i. 343 (not of R. Br.). A, propinquus Kunth. Enum. i. 502. 
A tall stout grass 5 ft. tall or more. Leaves 2 ft. long, i in. wide, 
with a stout midrib, linear long-acuminate. Panicle lax, i ft. long, 
erect, 3 in. wide, branches very slender sub-whorled white silky at 
the base. Spikelets elliptic acute, -i in. long, on very slender 
branchlets. Glumes I ajid II equal lanceolate acute silky on the 
back. No awns. Hab. River banks, Pahang, Sungei Jelei 
(Machado). Distrih. Amboina, Philippines. 
8. POGONATHERUM, Beauv. 
Tufted perennial grasses. Leaves linear acute; culms slender 
simple or branched, short. Racemes solitary terminal slender. 
Spikelets in pairs, i sessile, i shortly peclicelled. Glumes thin, 
membranous; glume I muticous; glume II longer awned, apex 
2-toothed; glume III hyaline empty, or male with 2 stamens; 
glume IV bifid with a long awn. Stamens i or 2. Species 2 or 3 
or possibly all one species. Hab. Tropical Asia, China and Japan. 
(i) P. saccharoideum, Beauv. Agrost. 56, t. ii, fig. 7. var. 
monandra Hack. Monogr. Amlrop. 193; Ridl. Mat. iii. 154. P. 
crinitiim Trin. Fund. Agrst. 166; Hook. fil. F.B.L vii. 141. 
Stems simple, tufted from a short base, or branched, slender, 
6 to 18 in. tall, leafy. Leaves *75 to 2 in. long, very narrow, base 
ciliate. Spikes *5 to i in. long. Spikelets -08 in. long, hairs from 
the base longer. Stamen i, rarely 2. Hab. On rocks and banks, 
common, especially by mountain streams, Johor, Kwala Kahang 
(Kelsall). Pahang, Pekan; Tahan River. Selangor, Ginting 
Bidai. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga. Malacca, Ayer Panas 
(Goodenough). Perak (Wray); Penang, Penara Bukit; Waterfall 
(Curtis), Kelantan River (Ridley); Kwala Aring (Yapp). Distrib. 
India, China, Mala^'a. 
Cultivated as a pot plant under the name of Bamboo-grass by residents. 
9. EREMOCHLOA, Buse. 
Perennial grass. Leaves mostly basal, sub-equitant, linear. 
Raceme solitary on a tall culm. Spikelets 2-flowered, secund on 
the clavate internodes of a curved and flattened rachis, imbricat¬ 
ing with a pediceUed or sessile abortive spikelet above. Awnless. 
