236 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE.^. (J. D, Hooker.) [Heleochba. 



18, Phleum schoenoides, Linn, Sp. PL 60 ; Jacq, Fl. Austr. v. Jpp. 29 

 t. 7 Ic. i. 2 t. 16; Cav. Ic. i, t. 52, f. 5. Spartina phleoides, Roth. Neue 

 Beyt?*aff. i. 101. Pechea sub-cylindrica, Pourr. Chlor, Narhon, n. 103. 



The Panjab, Western Himalaya, and Western Tibet ; Kaslimir, JacquemonK 

 Iskardo, alt. 7000 ft., Thomson. Bandulkund, Z>t4«/ne, PSikkiM; at DorjiliHg, 

 Herb. Griffith. — Distrib. Westward to the Atlantic. ^ 



Glaucous. Stems many, 1-10 in., prostrate with ascending tips, leafy, rigid. 

 Leaves 1-2 in,, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; sheaths deei)ly furrowed, margins 

 glabrous or ciliate ; ligule a short ring of hairs. Panicle ^-2 in. by ^-3 in- ^^^^'* 

 green, Spikelets i iu. ; gl. all 1-nerved, keels ciliate ; I and II narrowly Lmceolate, 

 Hfiuninate; I shortest; III ovate-Ianceoiate, acuminate; piilea oblong, truucaie, 

 nerveless, Lodicules 2, oblique, cuncate. Stamens 2-3, fihnnent very long; nnthers 

 small. — The Bandulkund specimens are very small and pale, almost silvery wbit«, 

 with very small spikes hardly emerging from the leaf-sheath. The Sikkim habitat is 

 probably due to a misplaced ticket. 



2. K. dura, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 477 ; perennial, minutely pubescent, 

 stem stout ascending, leaves involute pungent, panicle elongate cybii'i"|' 

 narrow. H. alopecuroides, Dutkie Fodd. Grass, JV. Ind. 48 (nan Bois^-h 

 Crypsis dura, Boiss, Diagn. 8er. II. iv. 125. C. pbalaroides, Duthie Grass- 

 N.W. Lnd, 25 {non M. Bieh.). Vilfa setulosa, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Feierst^' 

 Ser. VI. V. ii. (18i0) 55; Sieud. Syn. Gram. 154. 



SciND, Stocks, in salt water.— Distbib. Arabia. 



Whole plant pale, and clothed with a very fine velvety pubescence. *3| ^^ 

 6-10 in., densely fastigiate from a woody inclined base which is clothed ^*^^^' 

 slieaths, ascending, stout, as thick as a crow-quill, hard, few-leaved. Leaves -iy^^^ 

 quite terete, rigid, pungent; sheaths short, coriaceous; ligule 0. Sj?ito 2-4 in. J 

 -J-i in. diam. Spikelets ^'-^ in., membranous, gl. all l-nerved and with ciliate K ^^ 

 * II narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate ; III halfas long again, oblong, ™"*^^*^"^J 

 oblong, bifid. 2-nerved, lobes obtuse ciliate. Lodicules 2, obliquely cun^ » 

 acute. Stamens 2; filaments very long; anthers short. Ovary ovoid; ^ W^ . ^f 



Judcr.— Boibsier cites Griffith by error, for Stocks, under the habitat 



1 and II 



pa lea 



long, sleud 

 Sciud. 



64. PKZiEUIIC, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. SpHcelets 1-fld., ^it^ '*? J 

 a rudimentary 2, imbricated ou cylindric or oblong spiciform P^.°^^k. 

 strongly laterally compressed, not jointed on the very short V^ ^^ { 

 rachilla sometimes produced beyond gl. III. Glumes 3, I and ^^ ^^ ^^ 

 keeled, awned or mucronate ; 111 much smaller, hyaline, awned '^^ i^. 

 3-5-nerved, toothed ; palea small. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. /,]I^ 

 brous; styles long. Grain compressed, free within the gh a^^ P^ 

 Species about 10, temp, and Arctic. 1 



Phleum pratense, Linn. (Timothy grass) is mentioned by Koyle (111. Bot. t 



417, and Duthie Grass. N.W, lud. 28) as a native of the N.W. Himalaya (Ur^^ 



1. P. alpinum, Linn, Sp. PL 59; perennial, upper sheaths ^^^^^{^ 

 panicle ovoid or oblong, gl. I and II truncate as long as their ^^^°V^„/;i 

 hispid. III ;}-nerved. FL Dan. t. 213 ; HoH Gram. Austr. iii. t. 10 ; ^ - 

 Fnum. PL I 29; Trin. Sp. Gram. Lc. t. 21; EngL But. t. 519;.^^^; 

 Gram. Brit. t. 7; Meichb. Ic. Fl Germ. t. 50; Ledeb. FL Boss, i^- j. 

 Sleud. Syn. Gram. 150; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 484; Wall. C«^' ^•. 2-0; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. lnd. 28- P. Haenkeanum, Presl ReL lIi^^^T^- ^• 



Chur), but this has never been confirmed. 



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