Calamagrostis .] clxxiii. graminejs. (J. D. Hooker.) 265 



a slender petiole, cauline filiform convolute, panicle short broad, branches 

 few and long pedicels capillary, spikelets few ^-^ in., gl. I and II unequal 

 lanceolate, III truncate bicuspidate from the outer pair of nerves, awn 

 Bubbasal exserted, callus hairs short, anthers linear. 



NiiGHiBi Hills ; Ootacamund, Schmid, 



Rootstock aft thick as a crow-quill. Stem filiforni. Radical leaves 2-3 in,, 

 pabrous, nerves strong; petiole very slender stiff; sheaths of old basal leaves 

 clothing the base of the new, lacerate, about an inch long ; ligule long, linear, mem- 

 oranous. Panicle broad, rachis and few distant branches quite smooth. Spikelets 

 Fwepurplisb, gl. land II membranous, 1-nerved, keels scaberulous; III hyaline, 

 o-nerved, hairy, awn twice as long as thespikelet; palea very minute, suborbicu* 



I have seen only one poor specimen of this curious species, which should at 

 once be recognized by its rootstock, and the slender rigid petioles of the leaves, 

 long hgule, and tufted lacerate old leaf-sheaths about an inch long, crowning the 

 «>ot8tock. There is, however, in Herb, Kew a specimen of what may be the same 

 mm collected by Clarke at Conoor (in the Nilghiris) alt. 7000 ft., with a very 

 wnder stem 2-3 ft. long, and narrow flat sessile cauline leaves with a short ligule; 

 w spikelets quite accord with those of C. Schmidii, but the base of the stem and 

 «>*er leaves are wanting. 



Kff ^1^* ^ki '*®*l^®™ontli, Hook. /. ; tall, slender, leaves very narrow, 

 smM ,^^^^°S' panicle narrow drooping, branches erect naked below, 

 gnK ^ ^ ^^' long-pedicelled erect, gl. I and II subequal lanceolate 



fiT^f j^^®^' 111 = about ^ II tip truncate 4-toothed, awn snpra-basal 

 ^»«rted, palea minute, callus hairs = ^gl III, anthers long. 



Kashmir; moist places on the Pyr Panjal, Jacquemont (n. 97). 

 scawT "PP^''®°% tufted, 18 in. high, geniculate below. Leaves 5-6 by i in., 

 fittdcl a ? •\**^^*^^8 quite smooth ; ligule oblong. Fanicle 4-5 in., lower branches 

 gmootu Vtt * ^"'' scaberulous. Spikelets pale yellowish ; keels of gl. I and II 

 distin"' • k . ^^^^ ^^^ over.— I have seen only two specimens. The long spikelets 

 consid™ \ ^^^^ approaches var. ciliata of C. pilosula, but the spikelets are 



DOCBTFUIi SPECIBS. 



SW^7n^^^*^^' **^"^- Syn. Gram. 292. Lachnagrostis Hookeriana, ^tf*?* ex 

 in no r. I ^^'^^^ P^^^t described as having the palea as long as its gl. which occurs 

 " ^-eyiou SDecimpn nf f k« ^««.,« i.«^...^ ? « 



Steud 



AKroBti. p 1 ^' ^^^^- -^0^- ^d. II. i. 251. C. Koylei 



^^IF^f ^ B^yleana, Nees in Kerb, Royle ex Steud. Nom. L c. L. Hooker. 

 Kojle a ig^.^'5'''- '• e.^Trinius founded this species on three plants an Indian of 

 ^iclr'^^l"^ ^f ^^"l^^r, and a Ceylon one from -Herb. Whytt." One of his 

 Df^jeuZ 't I P^-esence of a - bearded rudiment," which reters the plant to 



• i know of no Deyeuxia in Ceylon or the Nilghiris. 



glab 



75. DSTEUXZA, Clar. 



pro- 

 III 



W^u''^ ^'* "I ^^<i usually peniciUate with silky hairs ; gl. 

 ^» hairs of callus usnally short.— Species enumerated about 120. 



'^^^Allt?> ^?^^^ ^^^'^'^'^ (P- 253). In D. Treutleri the P«>^^*=,^^, P;^)^^^^^^^ 

 ^*^^*^ i« most minute and naked/in P. abnormis it is awnless and the rachilla 



