Stipa.] CLxxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 233 



very large efEase or contracted, spikelets ^ in. sessile or shortly pedicelled, 

 gls. I and II oblong-lanceolate unequal, iil tip 2-fid, awn ^-4- in. Duthie 

 Grass, N.W. Ind. 27; Steud. Syn, Oram. 132. S. altaica, Trin. ex Ledeb. 

 FL AIL i. 80, in Act, Acad. Feirop. 1829, 74 ; Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Soss. t. 222 ; 

 Kanth Umim. PL i. 184. Lasiagrostis splendens, Kunth Bevis. Gram, i. 

 58, Enum. PL \. 178 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic, 89 ; Griseb, in Goett. Nachr. 

 82. Agrostis longiaristata, Serb. Ross, ex Kunth Enum. I. c. 



Western Tibet, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Falconer, &c.— Distrib. Siberia. 



Biem 3-5 ft,, as thick as a goose-quill below, yellow, shining; roots very stout, 

 Termiform. Leaves 6-12 in., and sheuths smooth or scaberulous, acuminate, lower 

 ■heaths long loose; ligule elongate. Panicle 12-18 in., pyramidal when open; 

 mthis slender, smooth ; branches semi-verticillate, capillary, 4-10 in., simple below, 

 branched above. SpiUdets white or dull purplish ; gl. I and II subacute ; I l-nerved ; 

 |1 longest, 3-nerved, III and palea villous; callus short, conical; awn ^\ in., not 

 twisted. Anther-tips bearded. Lodicules 3, obiong, very minute.— A small state 

 CO lected in Balti by Schlagintweit and in the Karakoram, alt. 9000 ft. by Clarke, is 

 ^o'j' A8 m, high, with an open panicle 3-6 in. long, and pale purple spikelets. 



flat 



urn 



nat or convolute, panicle very narrow, branches few erect few-fld., spike- 

 '.\v:« ^^•. gl- 111 as long as II sparsely hairy tip entire, awn glabrous 

 itii 2 or more detlexed spinules towards the base. Orthoraphium Roylei, 

 Mes m Proc. Linn. Sue. i. (1841) 94, in Ann. ^ Mag. Nat MisL (1841) 221. 

 ^i^treptachne ? WalL Cat. n. ^795. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 7-11,000 ft., Wallicli, 



\f.\ ^'^^^' '^'^^- l^'^^O ft., Clarke. 

 quitpTr *!°^®^^ ^''^'^^*^' 1^-21 in. Leaves 6-12 in., ^^-\ in. broad, and sheaths 

 ^r hinaT 1 ' ^^"^^ '^^^'^' ciliate. Panicle 6-10 in,, rachis erect ; bnmches solitary 

 Els mikT^^ ^"^ in. bearing few distant, narrow, terete, pedicelled spikelets; 

 •obrostr . ■^" ""^ faintly 3-nerved, obtuse or tips sub-d.utate; 111 very narrow, 

 Be.rh R ' V "^^^"^ short, obconic, bearded; awn 1 in., rather stout, not twisted, 

 J Biiiootb, jointed on the gl. but persistent. Lodicules 3, large, oblong, obtuse. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



•hort cnn^^'^"'^^' ^'■^^^^- "^ ^o««- -^"'^^''"•- (1868) 82 ; stems 1-li ft., leaves 

 »«le di,t ,' ^'^"'^ "^"^t obtuse, pauicle narrow base sheiithed, branches 1-2- 



»-.liair« ?' ^,'- ^ ''"'^ II linear-lanceolate acuminate, III seriately hairy, avvn_a 

 I'folablv r'^-"^' '^' '^"^e shorter.— Western Tibet, Unari Kborsum, SchlagxntweU. 

 "'y *• orientalis, Trin 



61. ORYZOPSZS. Miclix. 



•^oid or 1 ^''^^^^«- -^"'-es fliit or convol ute. S^nlcehts loosely panided, 

 *^^al or .T^^^^®' dorsally compressed, 1-fld. Glumes 3, I and II 

 5-nerved. n ^^y^^' ^cute or Bubrostrately acuminate, very thin; 1 

 ^foad akVi! ^?^ 3-nerved; 111 shorter, coriaceous, articulate by a short 

 l*'»W8cenf r • ^^^ <^^\\xis, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more or less 

 l*'3ted awJ "^^""tely 2.toothed, with a very slender often caducous un- 

 iS. LaRi' ?^l^^ oblong, coriaceous, as long as the gl., glabrous or 

 ^'•'"■« dor;?]? ' ^' °^''it'^' thin. Stamens 3, anther-tips minutely bearded. 

 '^Species 't ■^A°^P'"^^«^<i' oblong, free within the hardened gl. and palea. 



'loout 16, N. temp. reeioDS. 



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