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222 CLXXiii. GBAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Anthoxanthum. 



dorsal bent awn ; V flg., minute, hyaline, broad, obtuse, glabrous, awnless, 

 5-7-nerved; palea narrow, 1-nerved. Lodicules 0. Anthers 2, large. Ovar^ 

 glabrous; styles long. Grain terete, acute, free witliin the shining gL 

 and palea. — Species 4 or 5, native of temperate regions. 



A. ODORATUir, Linn. Sp. PL 28; Xtcnfh Enum. PL i. 38, Supv^^ ^ 

 t. 8; Host Gram,Aii8tr, t. 5; FL Dan, 666; Beichb. Ic. FL Germ. 106; 

 r. Nees Gen. FL Germ. MonocoL i. t. 16; Xnapp. Gram. Brit t. 1; 

 JEnfiL BoL t. 647; Trin. Sn, Gram. Ic. t. 14; Ledeb. FL Boss. iv. 408; 



Boiss. FL Orient, v. 470. 





Occasionally found in the Hill districts of India, but only as introduced bj 

 man or as an escape from cultivation, — Native of Europe and N. Asia. 



Perennial, sweet-scented, especially when dry. Stem 6-18 in., ^^^^^^^^^^vL 

 ascending. Leaves flat, hairy. Panicle 1-5 in., pubescent or villous. SpticeU 

 i~l in., fascicled, sometimes squarrosely, green; gl. I ovate, acute; II lanceoU ? 

 Ill and lY curved, obliquely truncate.— The glumes are often described as o. 

 The sixth, though 1-nerved, is, I think a palea, analogous to the 1-nerved P^'^°^ 

 Hierochloa and of a few other grasses, the nerves being theoretically formw 



two confluent ones. 



KIEROCKZiOA, GyneL 



Perennial, erect, sweet-scented grasses. Leaves flat. SpiMetsl-o-n -* 

 laterally compressed, panicled, not jointed or their pedicels, racbilla n^ 

 produced above gl. V. Glumes 5 ; I and II equal or unequal, l-^-n^^^^^' 

 hyaline or scarious, shining, keeled; III and lY usually similar, awn < 

 2-3-androus or neuter; palea 2-nervedorO; V fern, or bisexual, pale* ^' 

 (rarely 2-) nerved. Lodicules 2, small. Anthers linear. Stp^^ ^^.: 



Grain oblong, free within the gls,— Species 8-10, of temp 

 region s 



and cold 



v 



♦Panicle effuse. Spikeleta long-pedicelled ; gl. HI ly^Hj 



mailer ; 



ite- 



hirsute and ciliate, III and IV paleate, palea narrow, male ; V s 

 rachilla produced between the gls. 



1. K. laxa, Br. in WalL Gat. n, 3796 ; leaves ensiform acute, spij^ 

 lets^ in. long, gl. I and II equal or subequal faintly nerved, III ^^^ j 

 truncate very shortly awned, V hirsute above the middle not aff 

 Dut/iie Grass. N.W. Ind. 25. 



Western HiitALAXA, from Kashmir, alt. 10-12,000 ft., to Kumaon, « . 

 12-16,000 ft. lObvH 



Stem 1-2 ft,, ascending from a stout creeping rootstock. Leares &-^y -^.^ 

 in., quite smooth; ligule large, oblong. Panicle 3-5 in., lax, oblong, ^"^^.^^^ 

 branches solitary or geminate and pedicels capillary. Spihelets much cotnp^ ^^^^ 

 brown ; gl. 1 1-nervcd ; II faintly 3-nerved; IV sometimes fern, and diandrous; v 

 of V sometimes distinctly 2-nerved, but usually 1-nerved, more or less bispi"* 



2. B. flexuoBa, Sooh.f.\ leaves narrowly linear, ^P^^^^^^^i^^rtly 

 long, gl. I and II subequal acuminate 3-nerved, III 2-toothed ^®^^,? g in 

 awned. III acutely 2-&d awn longer than the gl., IV not awued vino 

 the upper half, palea 1-nerved. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; Bijean, Kinfs Collector. . ^ i^iong. 



Stem 2-2i ft,, erect, very slender. Leaves about ^ in. broad ; *'^^^- gi^ «ll 

 Panicle 2-3 in. long and broad, very lax-fld. ; rachis branches *°^, Pf j iance<^ 

 capillary and flexuous, Spihelett much compressed, brown; gl. I a°" ^ 



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