264 CLxyrii. gramine^ (J. D. Hooker.) [Calamagrostis. 



narrow flat, panicle effuse or contracted, branches long or short sub- 

 erect or spreading, spikelets -^-^ in., gl. I and II subequal oblong-lanceo- 

 late acute or acuminate 1-nerved smooth, III oblong tip truncate arose 

 or crenate with sometimes 4 minute setulae, awn subbasal exserted, hairs 

 of callus = i gl. Ill or shorter, anthers linear, Agrostis pilosula, Tnn. tn 

 Mem. Acad. PetersK Ser. VI. vi. II. (1845) 372. 



Tempehate and alpine Himalaya, alt. 6-14,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. 

 NiXGHiRi Hills, alt. 3-6000 ft., fn<jht, Schmid, Jacquemont, &c, CKyLOK,alt. 

 6-8000, JValker, &c. 



Ziem^ 1-3 ft. or more, tufted, 6-10 in. in alpine specimens, erect from a short 

 inclined base. Leaves variable in breadth, up to i in., but usually very narrow, 

 flaccid, smooth or subscaberulous ; sheath smooth ; ligule very variable, longest >n 

 the upper leaves. PctntcZe very variable, large and effuse with spreading branchea 

 1-4 in. long naked below and with loosely crowded spikelets at the extremities, or 

 contracted with suberect shorter branches, or short broadly ovate or triangular, 

 branches branchlets and pedicels minutely scabrid. Spikelets membranous, green an ^ 

 glistening in the larger forms, purple in others and more herbaceous in the alpino; 

 gl. I and II smooth or subscaberulous, I rather the shortest, keels near or qi»i ' 

 smooth, rarely scabrous; III ^-l shorter than I, hyaline, hairy all over, nervesotten 

 indistinct; palea usually very miuute, rarely nearly half as long as its gl. ; *^*^"°*^| 

 or less exserted.— A very variable grass of which Wallich's No. 3775 A from Wepai, 

 with spikelets J^ 5n. long may be regarded as the type; his B has rather large 

 spikelets, but is not otherwise different. I am far from supposing that I have sue- 



eeeded in unravelling its synonymy which is inextricably confused with C Munfoa 

 Agrostis alba and others. The following are marked forms in their typical states a 



8teud. i.e. 293. A. nervosa, var. aristata, Jlf wnro in Herb. ^ook.f.SfT.&'^^' 

 Falconer. A. Royleana, Du/^ie Grass. N.W. Ind. 30 (non Trtw.)- A. ^^a*"*^"" 

 iana, S^ciwi. i%n. Oram. 174. Lachnagrostis ciliata, Munro in Herb. Jacquem.^^ 

 215. L. Hookeriana, Munro mss. Arundinella Hookeriana, W. ^^- ^'^ "^^"'tL 

 Herh.Kew {Ceylon) .— ^^rostis fTall. Cat. n. 3775.— ^^ros(i5 n. 5, Herb. Sif^<^^^ 

 8f Winitrh. — A common form. 



In woods at about 7-10.000 ft. from Kashmir to Sikkim. 



.^^vu. — ^„ »Tuuus ub auouc /-jLu.uuu It. irom ii.asnmir to SikKim. , jp^ 



Var. alpestris; stem 6-18 in. strict, leaves narrow strict, panicle sdo^ , 

 narrow or broad, spikelets smaller ^Vi*^ >n. dark purple rarely green, gls- ^ * 

 II oblong-lanceolate, palea sometimes = J its gl. Agrostis nervosa, N'ees ^* ^*^ 

 Soj^ie; ?Trin. in Mem. ^cad. Petersb. Ser. VI. vi, II. (1845) 328. A. B^^'T,;* 

 Nees Lc. (non Trin.). A. cihata, ^8. nervosa, Nees in Herb. ^oyle. A.- m ^ 

 Trxn. ex Hack, in Herb. Duthie n. 6229.— Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. ll-15i^'^ 

 —A common grass at high elevations. . , ^y 



Var. ciliata; panicle narrow effuse, rachis flexuous, spikelets i '"' / c-g 

 pedicelled pale shining, palea = i its gl. Calamagrostis ciliata, Steud. J^^^ 

 Gram. 193. Agrostis ciliata, Trin. I. c. 373. Lachna^rrostis ciliata, Nees e^ ^^^^ 

 i.c.— N.W. India, Ro^ie. An obscure plant of which I have seen a single s^^^ 

 trom Herb. Royle. 



11. C. Sohmidii, Hook. /. ; stem very slender erect, radical lej^JJ 

 tafted on a woodv bran/»lio^ »-rv/^fafrk..v i;nar,«..in*,^A/%i»4-a«-;/Ti'/i Tiarrowed i*^ 



