hiropgon.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 207 



woeatb, Lranchea of panicle few, spathes and spikes densely fascicle J rcJ -brown 

 wbeu dry, proper spatlies about | in. very narrow, sessile spikelets as in A. Nardus 

 F^per, of which this is a small state with hi<:bly coloured spathes. A. coloratus, 



WiT -^^^^^ ^^^' ^' ■^"^^' ^^^^* ^"^' "' ^^^^ ^ ^^"^ part),^S. India, Heyne, 



^^.flexuosusy Hack. I.e. 603 ; stem slender, panicle decompound, branches very 



^ " er Hexuous almost zigzag, proper spathes about I in. narrow divergent, spikes 



tiry short wiih 2-4 pairs ot* spikelets, joints and peiluncles slender laxly ciliute 



d'L? ir^ii^'^''^^' sessile spikelets }-} in. lanceolate, gl. I acuminate 2.cuspi. 



■^leaorsally flat nerveless keels marj^-ined scabrid, gl. IV ciliate, awn short. 

 nlT'' '* ""^ ^^'^^^ *^^^- ^' 17^^ J S^^^^' ^-c- 388.-Southern India, S 



V 



A, 



narrow, panicle very long 

 ry erect filiform branches 



*ith on t ° uisLuut somary or suusoiirury erect niuorm uiauuuco 



Jiin -t ^^^^ *'"''^' fleflcxed spikes, sheaths very narrow tubular erect 



fc'g"„'JP'5^H-*'n-, joints 2-3, pedicels rather stout shortly ciliate, spikelets i-i 

 Welsin ?■ "i*^ or -lanceolate, gl. I dorsally flat or concave below the middle, 

 of Onrfh^rr "'^ **'»"ged nerves obscure or 0, IV very narrow lobes ciliate,— Forests 

 kng erert I '"^f"' ^''^^'^ ^''"S' ^o,nn.—A very distinct-looking plant, from the 

 spikes ","*", """auches and narrow she;.ths of the very long slender panicle, short 

 '"•iawn shT • ^'^^'^*'^" ^"^ ^^^ ^"'^^ specimen gl. I is rather broadly winged, 

 hsdmo^J^ ' ^."^ ^^^^ ^''^^° °^^ gl- I is scarcely margined and the awo ^ iu. long. 



V„ eT*; '^^PP'-oaches 74. A. microtheca. 

 "«m>w" nan- I 1 "'''^- '• ^- ^^^ ; stem not tall slender, leaves very long and 

 'oag-pe'dmol H °**^'^ ^^'■^' nsirrow, branches sliort distant, spikes few subsohtary 

 •»ther slenil 'r\ ^'"?^'' ^P^thes about 1 iu., spikes J-1 in., joints 5-6 and peiiicels 

 ^»' or siiXi ^^ ^'''^^°"*'S^'»'1« spikelets -I- in. ovate or oblong 2-toothed dorsally 

 >»ne(l A y, '^"'^cave 1-2-nerved keels margined or shortly winged, IV eciliate 

 ^^gni Griffi^r?^''""'"'' '^«"- ^«^- n- 8?yi M.-Hort. Bot. Culc, Wallich. 

 ^■'^aku.l^l^ Sf"' '^"■'"^- ^- Q7G3, prohabljj Hort. Culc.).—Frob-My a. form of 



% tiirrow 1 fl ,"°"^- ^-^ tal^, slender, leaves long narrow, panicle strict erect 

 "Jmbiform sn-V ' ^""'^^^l^es short with few spikes, proper spathes about f in. 

 'pikelets il, ?'^^^ i-1 in. brown, joints 6-8 and pedicels subclavute shortly cdiate, 

 """^ or less L?" ^""^^"'"'e or linear-lanceolate, gl. 1 bicuspidate, dorsally fiat or 

 "''*te, awn 4 • °'^''^*-'l«ss keels hardly margined, IV broad lobeselongate strongly 

 ^eaath. alf \^ . ^- ^'^'-tini, Uerh. Strach. ^ Winferb. n. 2.— Kumaon, at 

 """'• WXX) ft., Str. ^ W. Kuauwur, Pangi, Stolizka. 



^^^"8, stem u*o^?*» ^^^^ ^^' ^^^""^- ^</^^' Gram. 287; rootstook 0, roots 

 'pikes l^ii :i "^ ^ *•; leaves almost filiform flexuoiis, proper spathes §-I an-, 

 ?*"'cle, ioin+r ^?^it^^y or few together scattered forming a subsimple 

 ^i«>-narrn!i ? P*^<iicels narrowly davate silkily ciliate, sessile spikelets 

 T'^^ed k'?,l lanceolate dorsally flat 5-7-nerved between the narrowly 

 ^^^ie Cha,l tfL""^ II ringed above the middle, lobes of IV ciliate. 



T«»PER 



^»»hniirtoK*,?'^A'^ATA, alt. 4-7000 ft. (to 9000 ft. in Garwhal, Dufhie), from 



**«!•¥ (l;-t'' ^oyle, &c. 



1 '^' HiC iv? '^^"'•'f*'^""^ form or species, confined to elevations above 4030 ft. 

 £**• leaves v£. ' „<^°"*'P»<--«oas for its almost simple (not paniculate y branched) 

 Ih^ "^^flexed SJ^'^'J''^ ^""^ t"fted at their bases, distant large pale or reddish 

 »l>le, tins nf ^r,'^«J'y narrow long spikelets with strong nerves on gl. I ot 

 ■"P'^lHe, J,a5 ^^- J «*■ the sessile spikelets more or less, sometnnes deeply 

 "=» "margins of gl. n pubescent, IV broader than iu A. iV^anfus pro- 



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