256 CLXxiii. GRA.MINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agrostk 



6. A. brachiata, Munro mss. ; tall, very Blender, leaves long, ligule 

 very small, panicle effuse, branches branchlets and pedicels capillary 

 divaricate, spikelets ^^g in, few distant very long-pedicelled, gl. I and II 

 subeqnal oblong subacute, III nearly as long narrowly truncate, caJIns 

 quite glabrous, awn median. — Sporobolus, WalL Oat, n. 3769 B. 



Behar; at Mougbyr, Wallich. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high or more, as slender as a sparrow's quill, weak and probaWj 

 decumbent on bushes, internodes 6 in. long. Leaves 6-8 by ^— i in., finely acumi- 

 nate, contracted towards the base, thin and flaccid. Panicle 6-12 in., quite smocjtft, 

 branches 2-2^ in. long, opposite or in distant whorh of 3-5, horizontal ; pedicels , ♦ 

 in. GL I and II equal, cymbiform ; III as long as I and II, 5-nerved, mid-nerire 

 reaching halfway up ; palea minute. Qrain oblong, compressed, as long as the ^1.— 

 An extraordinarily delicate species, quite unlike any other and more resembling a 

 Sporobolus. The specimens are advanced, in frt., and I have seen no awn, or anj 

 other indication of one except the shortened median nerve, 



7. A. fillpea, Hook. f. ; very slender, leaves short very narrow, lig^il^ 

 very short, panicle very narrow elongate, branches short alternate an 

 2-3-nate erect smooth, spikelets yViV i^- shortly pedicelled erect, gi. 

 and II unequal acute, ill - shorter tip truncate nearly entire, callus qn^ 

 glabrous, awn dorsal from above the middle geniculate, palea minute. 



Khasia HiiiXS, alt. 5-6000 ft, in several places, Clarlie, nadica^ 



Stem 8-15 in., erect or geniculate below, densely tufted, base hard, w ^^^^ 

 leaves many, tufted, 1-2 in., subulate, cauline rather longer and broader. ^ 

 2-4 in., interrupted; branchlets J-| in., capiHary, shortly naked below, §©0^^^^ 

 Spikelets green 'or pale reddish; gl. I and II with scabrid keels; awn s ^^^ 

 €x8erted. Anthers very short. Grain ovoid, acute, — Nearest to A. ^f^^^^^'fxom 

 the long very narrow interrupted panicle is constant in all the specimens 

 five distant localities at different elevations. ^ ur « o ix 



Var. ? palea 0, grain linear-oblong. A. nervosa, Nees, var, aristata, JbW 

 Eerh, Kew. — Sikkim ; at Lachoong, Jt 9000 ft. 



8. A. Hookeriana, Clarke mss. (nan Munro); very ^1®°^^^' t^I]? 

 very narrow flaccid, ligule oblong, panicle broad with rather distant w ^^^ 

 of few very long flexuous capillary branches naked and unbranche 

 half their length, spikelets yVI in., gl. I and II unequal lanceolate acanj^^ 

 nate. III about ^ shorter tip truncate denticulate, callus glabrou 

 minutely hairy, awn dorsal. 



Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 9-11,000 ft., in meadows, /, D. H. Cumniint (lo H^r • 

 Clarke), , g-^ 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-6 in., flat, -^V in. broad. Panicle 2-6 in., ^^^f^^yeU 

 in^ miuutely scabcrulons ; pedicels as long as the spikelets or longer, ^^j^^. 

 green, rather distant ; awn exserted ; callus sometimes distinctly but minutely -^goin? 

 Anth&i's Wncar. Grain oblong. — Spikelets very much larger than in *- , oq oor 

 species. This is not ^. HooJceriana^ Munro ex Duthie Grass. N.W. lud. f 

 Lachnngrostis HookerianUy Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 192, 



ft GL III not avoned. 



9. A. micrantha, Steud. Syn. Gram. 70; tall, rather slender, lejj^^ 

 narrow, ligule oblong, panicle elongate inclined contracted in ^''P^ ^j Jl 

 long capillary smooth spreading in fruit, spikelets yV'i^r ^^'^ ^ \ call^ 

 unequal obloug-lanceolate acute, III ^-^ shorter tip truncate crenate 



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