232 CLxxiii. GRAMiN^E.E. (J. D. Ilooker.) [Stipa, 



tt Tip of gl III 2-fid or 2-tootIied. 



60, t. 639; 



10. S- Jacquexnontii, Jaub. & Spach, ILL. ri. Ur. iv. 

 leaves convolute filiform, panicle narrow rachis and lax-fld. branches 

 filiform, sDikelets \-l in. linear-lanceolate, gl. I and II subequal lanceo ate 

 acnminate, III half as long as II terete villous, awn capillary geniculate 

 3-4 times as long as the spikelet villous at the base. Lasiagrostia 

 Jacq^uemontii, Munro ex Boiss. Fl, Orient, v. 506. 



N. W. HiMAXATA ; Kashmir, Aster, Tilail, &c.', alt. 8-9000 ft., Jaciiuemoni, 

 &c. VVestekN Tibet; Piti, Thomson, — Distrib. Affghanistan. 



Sfems densely tufted, erecr, 10-18 in., very slender. Leaves 6-10 ^^•' ^'J^j* 

 snbflexuous ; ligule a very short membrane. Panicle 4-6 in. long, erect or slight j 

 inclined, branches erect few-fld. Spikeleis erect, green or purplish, pedicels rather 

 shorter than the spikelets ; gl. I and II 3-nerved; III I in., terete, villous all over; tip. 

 2-toothed ; awn l-\\ in. twisted below the knee ; callus very short, conical, viUousiy 

 bearded; palea much shorter than the gl. Anther 'tips bearded, 



11. S. Duthiel, EooJc,f,y tall, very slender, leaves very long and 

 narrow, panicle long narrow few-fld., rachis and long pedicels capnlai*/' 

 spikelets i-^ in., very narrow, gl. I and II subequal very narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, III sparsely hairy, awn capillary nearly straight about twice a 

 long as the spikelet. 



Western Himalaya ; Garwhal, alt. 12-13,000 ft., ButUe (n. 273). 



Stem 3-5 ft., tutted. Leaves 12-18 in. or more, ,V-T(T i"- broad, flat, or fti 

 lower convolute; ligule large, oblong, obtuse. Panicle 8-10 in., branches bearing 

 one or two erect spikelets at the extnmity, lower branches 3 in. S^J^^W^ P** ' 

 glistening; gl. I 3.nerved; II 5-nerved ; III about J shorter th^iu II. tip iimmteij 

 2-tid ; awn | in., hairy at the twisted base ; chUus short, conical, oblique, beurUe i 

 palea nearly as long as the gl., glabrous. Anther-tips bearded. 



12. S. Kookerl, Stapf in Joiirn. Linn. Sac. xxx. (1894)121; tall 

 robust, leaves convolute, panicle oblong loosely branched, branches many- 

 Hd., spikelets ^-i in. longer than their pedicels, gl. I and II s^^*^"*' 

 oblong-lanceolate acute minutely scaberulous, IV sparsely hairy or ^^^j?^ 

 awn about as long as the gl. scaberulous. S. robusta, Duthie Grass. ^• 

 Tnd, 27 {name). Lasiagrostis robusta, 3Iunro mss. ex Duthie I.e. {na^^^h 



Western Tibet ; in wet places, alt. 10-14 000 ft., Jacquemont ; Nubra, ^-^^'Jl^OO 

 TiBKTAN SiKKiM, alt. 15-16,000 ft., J. D. a— Distrib. Central Tibet, alt. 1*,^ 

 ft., Thorold. r 



Stems 3-4 ft., densely tufted, ns thick as a swanks quill at the base, hara, ^^; 

 upwards. Leaves 1-2 ft., smooth or scaberulous; ligule \ in., oblong. ^^ ^^\^^ 

 3-10 in., inclined; branches 2-4-nate, suberect, and rachis and P^*^^'^*^^-f,T^"^tiier 

 Spikeleis yellowish or purplish ; gl. I broadest, 1-3-nerved ; II 3-nerved; y-^^^.^g^ea 

 sliorter than II, terete, 5-nerved; awn more or less curved, slender, hardly ^*\.^]^ 

 towards the base; palea nearly as long as the gl., hairy; callus s"'*^^ '^^^^.jjern 

 bearded. Anther^tips naked or minutely bearded. — In the specimen from ■^^^.^^^.j^r, 

 Sikkim the stem at the base is as thick ns the thumb, the leaves and stems ^"^^^^'^ 

 and panicle sometimes contracted ohloug and deuse-fltl., the short branches ^^^ i^j 

 and the spikelets very shortly pediceiled ; their gl. III is deeply 2-fid, with eq 

 unequal setaceous-pointed lobes. 



B. Column of awn not twisted. (See also S. Hoo'keri.) 



13. S. splendens, Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdecl\ ii. 54; ^!^. 



I 183, in Act. Petrop, (1830) i. 76; tall, rubust, leaves convolute, pao^^ 



