PolUnia.] CLxxiii. QRAAuyE^. (J. D. Hooker.) Ill 



2-lobcd.— Pnlney Mts., Wi^ht Possibly a species, differing from quadrinervis in 

 the broad leaves which have not setaceous tips and in the broad gl. IV. 



4. P. hirtlfolia, Sack, Monog 



ith 

 times 



Pedicels villous with long pale violet hairn, spikelets ^ in. linear-oblo 

 gl. I dorsally sligfhtly concave obscarely 4-nerved, keels laxly villous w 

 long hairs, gl. IV short broadly obovate-oblong 2-lobed, awn several tinico 

 longer than the spikelet glabrous, palea minute. 



Western temperate Himalaya, alt. 5500-8003 ft., from Simla, Suegel, to 

 ^m^on, Strachey Sf WinUrh. (n. 925). 



item 2-3 ft., leafy, nodes ghibrous. Leares 8-18 in,, very narrow, more or less 

 mrsate beneath or on both surfaces, tips filiform ; ligule very short, long-bearded. 

 tif fi * ''*'^^*^^ distant, 3-7 in, long, joiuts and pedicels rather f^tout, hairs shorter 

 inan the pale brown spikelets ; gl. I chartaceous, shining, tip entire, obtuse or truncate, 

 swl Tir^^"^^*^^® *^*^^®' ^^ obtuse, glabrous except the ciliate margins, keel 

 tlah ' rp ^^"^^o^ate, ciliate, nerveless ; IV ciliate 3-nerved ; palea broadly ovate, 

 L.T"^'"^. J'**"*^^^^^^e rachis are decidedly obhquely truncate. Very near P. 

 9Wrt«erm, of which it may be a variety. 



stems short, leaves 



acute 2 

 long as 



s with white hairs, spikelets \-\ in. lanceolate, gls. 1 cohcolorous 

 'S-nerved, lY linear 2-fid lobes narrow acute, awn more than twice as 

 '8 the spikelets, palea minute. P. tristachja, var. Thw. Enum. 368; 

 istachya, Trim. Cat. Cevl. PL 106. 



Vat Ai 4. T ~r'"^»ci/o, paiea minute. Jr. 



ar. distachya, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 106. 



for 1-3 in. 



«tem'°^' "1 swamps, alt. 7O0O ft., QarAner, Thwaites. 

 'fitb snL- **? u '^^g^liened downwards and nodose, above densely clothed .u. *-» .... 

 'lender u!^°"''y imbricating leaf-sheaths, 1-2 in. long, which are produced nito 

 Gl I iPu'^^''^ convolute leaves 6-12 in. lonir ; ligule minute. Spikes 2-3 in. ong. 

 ^illong -IT 1 "" ^ ^^« t'P' dorsally concave, n.urgins narrowly incurved ; keels 

 l«te JJ: ^'^'^'^eolite, acute, keel hairy below scaberulous above ; III linear-lanceo- 



P^'ea ovate ^m"'^' "^'"'^^''^'^ ^"°^'"''^''' ''^ *'*'*^^' ^^ """"^^ "' long, glabrous J 



6 p 



mchisT^^"*"}"*' ■^^<'^- ^onogr. Androp. 161 

 IS and pedicels villous with v«rv Inn^^ «ilve 



-- -, Munro 



■'KMprratt, rr 



5-8000 



"''^eri-silkv t'-i""*^' crowded, flexuous, joints and pe. icels slender beautifully 

 '°"«e S D.^'V '"^"g '"^'••s. S,.ikelets pale ; gl. I thin, villous, hairs much 

 ■•""eronat I't? ^' J"^^^'' ^'^^^ ^'^-k brown, upper pile, tip obscurely notched or 

 Volate W V ^"^'^''ute, dorsally sparsely hairy, keel smooth, margins ciliate; ill 

 !«fy«leSeK'r ""'I ^^ili^tein the upper half' l-nerved; lY much shorter, awn 

 Hack. 1 T\kr glabrous.- Almost intermediate between Polbnia and Enanthus, 



'°^'>y,Ta5,l^®'**«a» ^rin.in Bull. Sc. Acad. Fetersh. I (1836) 71 ; spikes 



oUong S ^.V<^,Pedicels villous with silvery hairs spitelets tV i". linear- 



« i'^if. gl. I dorsally flat nerveless membranous above the middle 



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