198 CLxni. GRAMiNE^. [Eulalta. 
brown. Hab. Grass plots and roadsides, abundant in cultivated 
areas, possibly introduced from Java. Singapore Gardens; Chas- 
seriau Estate. Malacca town. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur near 
the Museum. Penang. Distrib. Indo-China, Java, Philippines. 
11. POLLINIA, Trin. 
Annual or perennial grasses with short broad flaccid leaves. 
Culms slender. Racemes usually several clustered at end of 
peduncle (rarely 2 or solitary) slender, very fragile, hairy or silky, 
rachis articulate. Spikelets in pairs, i sessile, i pedicelled, similar. 
Callus shortly or not bearded. Glume I fiat or concave, edges 
incurved, keeled and winged above; glume II as large, ovate or 
lanceolate, keeled; glume III hyaline; glume IV bifid, awned. 
About 30 species, Indo-Malaya, Cochinchina, Australia. 
Stems tall, racemes spreading pale or purple. 
Leaves hairy . . . . , . . (i) P. grata 
Leaves glabrous . . . . . . . (2) P. ciiiata 
Racemes appressed erect, callus glabrous . . . (3) P. rupestris 
(1) P. grata Hack. Monogr. Androp. 175; Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
vii. 115; Ridl. Mat. in. 156. 
Stems tall branched, fairly stout, 4 to 5 ft. tall, nodes glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, base narrow, hispid, 4 in. long, -3 in. 
wide. Racemes 6, terminal, 3 in. long, purple. Spikelets *12 in. 
long, hairs at base short, violet. Glume I oblong truncate toothed 
ciliate; glume II equal, mucronate; glume III as in I; glume IV 
short, with a long orange-coloured twisted awn. Hab. River banks 
and hills in the north. Penang Hill at 2500 ft. altitude, very 
abundant in dense masses, but not often in flower. Perlis at 
Tebing Tinggi. Kelantan, river banks (Ridley). Distrib. India, 
Java and China. 
(2) P. ciiiata Trin. Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. ii. 306; Hack^ 
Monogr. Andropogon. 176; Hook. pi. F.B.I. vii. 116; Ridl. Mat. 
iii. 156; var. glabrata Ridl. 
Perennial grass with tall stems, base creeping, about 4 to 5 ft. 
tall. Leaves lanceolate acuminate flaccid, glabrous, except a few 
white hairs at base, 3 to 4 in. long, *25 to 75 in. wide. Racemes 
3 to 8, crowded at tip, slender, pale, 3 in. long. Spikelets lanceolate 
narrow; rachis glabrous slender. Callus with few white hairs. 
Glume I lanceolate acute, scabrid on the edge; glume II longer, 
tip scabrid; glume III very small or o; glume IV oblong, awned. 
Awn very line, hair-like, -25 in. long, pale. Hab. Forests and 
forest edges. Selangor, Semangkok Pass, on the Tras route. 
Pahang, Telom. Perak, Temengoh (Ridley). Distrib. India, 
Burma. 
This much resembles the Indian P. ciliaia, but is much more glabrous, 
the rachis being quite glabrous. I am inclined to separate it as a species, 
but think it better to keep it as a variety. 
