272 CLXxilI. CftAMtNEifi. (J. tt. Hooket**) [Trtstochya. 



acuminate, glabrous ; III lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, awn 0; 

 IV deeply 2-tid with a long twisted awn in the sinus (copiously bearded 

 above the middle in the Indian sp.) ; palea narrow, acute. LodicuUt 

 minute, cuneate, fleshy. Anthers long. Stales long, slender. Grain 

 narrow, free. — Species 8, chiefly tropical. 



T. barbata, Nees ex Steud. 8yn. Gram. 238 ; Boiss. FL Orient, r. 

 552; Duthie Oras.^. N,W. Ind. 32. T. Stocksii, Boiss. Lc; -M^w^^J* 

 Aitchis. Cat. Panjah. PI 168; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 51. Loadetii 

 barbata, A. Brann in Flora, xxiv. (1841) ii. 714. Sorghum barbatum, 

 Hochst. et Steud. PL Arab, Exsicc. n. 788. 



SciNi); Stoclcs, — DiSTB»B. Arabia, Nubin. , . 



Stem 6-18 in. branched and woody below, geniculately ascending, base clotfiw 

 with tomentose sheaths, slender and wiry above ; nodes bearded. Leaves l-t)in^» 

 lanceolate from a rounded base, finely acuminate, pungent, rigid, glaucous, min)* 

 nerved, margin thickened subserrulate ; sheaths smooth ; ligule 0. Panicle ^P*""^ 

 branched, 1-2 in. long and broad; branches solitary and 2 -nate, capillary, "exuoa|s 

 subscabei-ulous. branchlets 1-3-fld. Spikelets | in., pale yellowish; gl. I »"^ 

 3-nerved, II \-\ longer than I ; III much longer thaii I, interruptedly 7-ne^j 

 and its callus glabrous; IV with a very short broad lamina, margins involute, law 

 lobes lanceolate, aristate, 3-nerved, rather longer than the hairs ; median awn aW 

 twice as long as the gl.— I find no character for T. Stocksii. 



80. AZRA. Linn. 



Annnal or perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets 2-fld. ( 

 fl. perfect) panicled, branches capillary ; rachilla jointed at the ^*®^* i 

 produced beyond gl, IV, Glumes 4. hyaline ; I and II subequal, 3-nerv^' 

 acute, empty, persistent ; III and IV smaller, often 2-toothed ; awn doP ^ 

 capillary, naually twisted below ; callus naked ; palea hyaline, ^-^^^ ' 

 Lodicules 2. Anthers small. Grain minute, free or adhering to 

 hyaline gl. — Species 4 or 5, Europe and temp. Asia. 



Linn 



66 ; annnal, very slender, leav^ 



celled. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 289, bi 

 Lamk. Encycl. t. 44 ; Host Gram. 

 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 94; Eng 

 b-.T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot 



1. 



oceua. dyn. u^ram. 'Z2l ; Ledeb. Fl. Jiosa. iv. 4ii4; Jioiss. Tf. '-'';. 36. 

 529; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 31. A. canescens, Ho«^ l.c "■•/•'„th«. 

 A. Cupaniana, Guss Fl. Sic. St/n. i. 145. A. curta, patulipes & plesia" .^ 

 Jord. ex JBor. Fl. Centr. Fr. Ed. III. ii. 701. A. divaricata. -'^^"(j, ), 

 Mem. Acad. Toul. iii. (1788) 307. A. multiculmis, (multicanlis. -J« ^ 

 Dumort. Agroat. Tent. 121, t. 7, f. 28. A. purpureo-argentea, Gft»0;*'*l ^ 

 ii. 526. A. rigida, Bulac Fl. Haute-Pyren. 82. A. Todari, f^'^^j. 

 Tod. Ind. Sem. Hurt. Fanorm. 1859 ; Linnxa, xxx. (1859) 78S. A; V ji 

 tata, Clarke Trav. ii. 452. Avena caryophyllea. Weber in Wigg- ^^' ' 

 Hols. 10. Fassia carjophylla, Schur Enum. PI. Transs. 754. ^ 



N.W. Himalaya; Kashmir, Vieary, Stewart, Kohat, and Labul, H^lJ^j^. 

 Westebx Tibet, alt. 12,000 ft., Stolizka.—DisiRiB. N. Africa, temp. Asia i 

 elsewhere). .^^tb' 



Stems 2-10 in., tufted, filiform, seabrid above. Le-ves obtuse ana 





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