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cLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hookei.) 



[Agrostii, 



truncate crenate, callus quite naked, palea minute or 0, anthers short. 



Agrostis n. 10, Herb. Ind, Or, Hook.f, & Thorns, 



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SiKKiM Himalaya ; alt, 12-16,000 ft., J. P. II,, Clarice, &c. 

 • Stem 4r-6, rarely 8 in. Leaves usually convolute, upper sometimes flat, not -jt »o* 

 broad ; lower sheaths green or purple. Panicle 1-2 in., strict, branches stout denself 

 imbricating, flg. to the base. Spi&elets very shortly and stoutly p<?dicelledj 

 green or dark purple. — A very common alpine grass, constant in habit at al 

 elevations. 



13. A 



dlvaricata, Griseh. in Goett Nachr. (1868) 82; stems 4^ 

 in. densely tufted capillary, leaves capillary, panicle small with ^J^y^ 

 spreading divaricate sparingly divided branches and capillary pedicels, 

 spikelets t8~tV ^^m gl I and II very unequal ovate-lanceolate, I acute, H 



about 



faint, callus quite glabrous, palea most minute orbicular, anthers snort. 

 Serh. Ind. Or. Jfff. ^ 2\ No, 11. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, Yeumtong, on moist banks, alt. 13,000 ft., J,D.S, .^^ 

 The most delicate little species kuown to me, resembling Air a caryophyllea^^^^ 



and slenderness, but growing in dense tufts. Leaves about ^ ^" convoia 



flexuous : ligule short, oblong. Fanicle about 1 



1 in., con 



iu. long and broad, bran^hesgemj- 

 HUb^, ^^iii,c ouiu«jLii. toffifvc^cvs rciuubc, purpit;, &.t;tils of ^K I and 11 scaori f *^TT _k 

 rather long. Grain oblong. — A single specimen of a Sikkim Agrostis in n j 



Bate, quite smooth. Spikelets remote, purple, keels 



of a Sikkim Agrostis 



Calcutta (n. 663 in part)" without "further habitat, resembles this in the 



stature and panicle, but has a much stouter stem, and flat leaves about ^o^s 

 in. gl. I and II are more obtuse. More specimens of both are much wanted. 



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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



A. NERVOSA, Nees ex Trin. ut Mem. Acad. Peter.h. Ser. VI. vi. II (18^f) ^"J 

 Steud. 8^71, Gram. 165; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 30; leaves flat, ^'/^^®,^q^ 

 short, panicle 4 in. lower branches 4.nate naked below, gl. I and H ^^"^,j^j 

 hardly y^ in. acute. III i shorter, awn 0, palea rather shorter than the ovary, ca 

 very shortly rctrorsely pilose. —Nepal. (See Calamagrostis pilosula). 



A. PROCERA, Retz. Ohs. iv. 19. ? Thysanolcena Agroi^tis. 



A. WlQHTii, JSTees ex Steud. I.e. 168; leaves flat margins scabrous, 

 ovate, panicle long capillary, branches 2-4.nate, branchlets 2-3-chotomous scaun^ 

 gl. I and II equal subobtuse, keel scabrid III = II 3-denticulate, ^l«?a I 

 longer than the ovary ovate-lanceolate acute. Vilfa vulgaris, Wight Serb- i 

 Steud.). .^^ 



A. Zejtkeei, Sieud. Z. c. 170; stem exceedingly slender scaberulous a ^^ 

 leaves 1-1^ in. erect strict convolute retrorsely scabrid, ligule *^^^"^,%t eqo»* 

 pyramidal, rays 2-nate widely spreading, spikelets 1^ line purple, gh I ^"^^^ g^yed, 

 acute, III as long shortly denticulate 5-nerved awn 0, palea as long ^' 

 callus hairy all over.-^Nilghiri Hills. 



Uguk 



.bnft 

 ather 



'8(ei 



73. MV£KZ.SMBSaGZA, Schreh. 



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Annual or perennial very slender grasses. Leaves — i \o\\i 

 Spikelets very numerous and minute, 1-fld., panicled, terete, ^y^^^^l 

 on their pedicels ; rachilla jointed at the base, not produced. <>'^^ 

 and II persistent, equal or unequal, l-nerved; III as loug 



than T and II, terete, meml>ranous, 3-nerved, hairy below the mic 





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