240 CLxxiii. GRAMiNE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



66. PKZPPSIA, Br. 



Very small perennial grasses. Leaves narrow.^ Spihelets mmnte, 

 laterally compressed, in sparingly branched subspiciform panicles, not 

 jointed on their pedicels; rachilla not produced beyond gl. Ill- Glumes 6, 

 membranous, all persistent, 1 and II very short, obtuse, nerveless; Hi 

 terminating the stipitiform rachilla, oblong, obtuse or tip rounded, nerveg 

 or 1-3; palea as long or longer than the gl, tip 2-fid, nerves very faint. 

 Lodicules 2, hyaline. Stamens 1-3. Stules very short, free, plumose to 

 the base. Orxin oblong, loose.— Species 2, an Arctic and the following. 



This genus should perhaps be placed near to Colpodium, 



P. hlmalaicay Hook.f, ; palea much longer than its gl. 



Alpine Western Himalaya; Kumaon, Barji-Khang Pass, alt, ^*^'^^ ?' 

 Strachey ^ Winterhottom ; Gurwhal, on the Duder Glacier, alt. 13-14,000 n., 

 Duthle. , 



Densely tufted, 6-3 in. high, very slender. Leaves 2-4 by Jy in., linear, 0°^^^®' 

 ligule long. Panicle 1'1\ in., sometimes almost reduced to a spike; raclns f^*^"^^^^' 

 smooth; branches very few, short, erect and appressed to the rachis, bearing - 

 spikelets. Spihelets ^^ in. loner, pale brown; gl. I shortest, ovate, ^^^"^^'^^^ 

 almost orbicular, concave, = about i III, nerveless, tip rounded; III raise o 

 short cylindric naked rachilla, concave, obtuse, nerveless, sparsely hairy on tue 

 towards the base ; palea longer than the gl. and nearly as broad, concave, tip • ' 

 keels ciliate. Lodicules 2, ovate-lanceolate. St'Wien 1, filament very long; fl^^^^^^^ 

 nearly as laige as irl. III. Ovary narrow; stigmas broadly plumose.— Diners " 

 the Arctic P. ahjida, in the much narrower leaves, in the fewer very shortly P^^^*^^^^_^ 

 larger spikelets not crowded on lateral branches, in the narrower gl. Ill| 1^%' 1**' 

 Very large anther, broadly plumose stigmas, and long ligule. 



67. CTATKOPUS) Stapf. 



A slender perennial grass. Leaves flat. Spikelets 1-fld., very sm^^^ 

 subterete, singly pedicelled on the branches of a decompound ^^.^^ j 

 panicle, articulate on the cupular tip of the pedicel, rachilla not pro ^ 

 beyond the flg. gl. Glumes 3, 1 and II subeqnal, oblong, beaked, F^?^f:|(j^ 

 stro: gly 3-nerved ; III rather shorter, membranous, obtuse, 5-nervea 

 the middle; palea lanceolate, acute, keels smooth. Lodicules ^, ^^ 

 lanceolate. Stamens 3, anthers short. Styles distinct, stigmas short. 



apfi7i ILjoIc. Ic, pi t. 2395. Hymenachne, n. j 

 Milium Trentleri, Kuntze Rev, Gen. P/. ^^^^ 



C. sikklznensls, S 



ITerh. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 

 part). 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachoong Valley, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H. ^^^ ;„^^ 



Sfem2-3 ft. high, from a creeping stoloniferous base. Leaves 6-10 oy *j,gatbfl 

 finely acuminate, many-nerved, scaberulous, margins thickened smooth; .j^ij 

 deeply striate ; ligule elongate, scarious. Panicle 8-12 in., oblong, or P^^^^^^grti- 

 rachis ami branches flexuous, terete, scaberulous ; branches fascicled or s ^^|y 

 ciliate, lower 2-4 in. long, naked below. Spikelets ^^--U in., sca^erulous,^^^^^^^^-. 

 pedicelled, pale green; gls. 1 and II stoutly subaristately beaked, scao ^^^^^^^ 

 nerves scabrid ; III oblong, nerves slender; callus obconical ; P**^^^ K^^^^.'"' ,.ass »* 

 2-nerved. -^ntA^r^ and stigmas short. — Munro regarded this very ^^'^^i" f bftS> ' 

 forming a new genus near the Plymenachne section of Fanicum, Di'- °^^ 

 think, rightly referred it to near Garnotia, 



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