Avena.] CLxxm. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 277 



«)pper3 -brown; raclalla penieillate ; gl. I and II scarious, nerves scaberulous ; I 

 t ll i-*""^' II oblong-lanceolate; fl, gls. oblong, scarious above the middle, 

 6 rongly /-9,nerved, tip and margins brondly hyaline, margins and nerves scaberulous; 

 awn median-dorsal, twice as long as the gl., bent just above the top of the gl. ; keels 

 ojpalea smooth. -Hackel (in litt.) refers the Kashmir plant to A. argaea, Boiss., 

 %h^y ^^^^^ author distinguishes from A, pratensis by the short leaves, very 

 Mort branches of the short few-fld. panicle, and golden-brown spikelets, characters 

 ot which may be traced in Kashmir and European A. pratensis. 



5. A. aspera, Ifwrtro ex Thw. Enum, PL ZeyL 372; tall, slender, 

 panicle elongate contracted flexuous inclined or nodding, branches sub- 

 trect naked below, spikelets 3-4-fld. scattered, gl. I and II very unequal 

 5-?"?*^^' 1 1-3-uerved, II 5-nerved, fl. gls. coriaceous smooth or scabrid 

 Ma 1 •'^ 3-) nerved tip entire erose 2-fid or 2-aristate, keels of palea 



TC- i^ ?i^n*^^^^^^3^ ^i^iate. THmen Cat. Ceyl PL 109; Griseb. in GoetL 

 ^^chr. (1868) 78. 



5-60noTf^ y?^^^^^^^' ^^^' 9-10,000 ft., J.D.m, Clarke. Khasia Hills, alt. 

 ^;^|^ It., (jTiJith, &c. NiLGHiEi Hills, Schmid, Maxivell. Cetlon, alt. 60u0 ft., 



pnbescrf"^/^'' slender or rather stout, erect or inclined, glabrous, or nodes slightly 

 smooth i /"^^"^^ ^-12 in. or more, flat or convolute, rarely ^ in. diam. ; sheaths 

 ^nallV ^r^r^"^ ^^ pubescent ; ligule short, truncate, membranous. Panicle 8-16 in., 

 1-^in ^w ^"^' rachis and branches smooth or faintly scabrid; lower branches 

 oblone! !1* rj/ S^^^'nate or fascicled. Spikelets J-| in. long, glistening, green, 

 lofleer ftM t P^"^^ill*^te, slender ; gl. I narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; II J 

 from ' ?j "^"'^"ceolate, rather shorter than III ; fl. gls. ovate-lanceolate, ginbrous, 

 father ahn , "^^"^ate or cleft nearly I way down; callus bearded; awn doml 

 «'eiider r ^ "^^^^le but below the cleft of the gl, and twice to thrice its length, 

 Jong cWp ™^ ^^*'*^^^ ^^^®" ^^"*^ a»<J "»ore or less recurved; keels of palea with 

 <»r P>rifo ^^^^^' ^^dicules narrow, cleft. Anthers linear. Ocary obovoid 



WmenQ?* ^^^ densely hirsute.— A very variable plant. Some of the Khasian 

 ^^^\x Z^V^ ^^'^^^ ^ ^t- ^^^^> and as 'thick as a goose-tiuill below, others are 

 ^eninBular -^"^ ^^^^ slender. The fl. gl. are most scabrid in Ceylon and 

 ^^arest Fn ^^^^^"^^"^> ^^^ast so in Sikkim ones which pass into var. Rot/leu The 

 H«ngarv a f^^.^" species is ^. £^s5eW, Gmel. {A. sempervlrens, Bess, non Vill.) of 

 *tQ8e /rL fl^ species with narrower scabrid leaves, usually longer spikelets and 



*<^Wmo„r^' fROPEU; leaf sheaths smooth, panicle glabrous, fl. gl. more or less 

 %hiri Hill !f ^"^'''^^^^® ^'^ 2-fld., lobes not awned.— Sikkim, the Khasia and 



Var P 7^^ Ceylon, 

 ^Puberulnna fl ^^^' ^' ' leaf-sheaths glabrous or softly pubescent, panicle glabrous 

 ^^^acumZ^ "^ • ^^^^^ smooth tip entire 2-tootlied or 2.fid almost to the awn 

 ^•*8pera r- ^^^^ng-awned lobes, or tip split into 3-4 short unequal bristles. 

 ^"setamVit?'^-^-*^- ^- puhesceus, Eoyte III. Rimal. Pi 417; ^"^V^^-/:^!: 

 ^""''^ Seaeh T^* ^^^' ^^ ^^eud. S^n. Granu 226; Duthie Grass. N.WInd. n 

 '^^y ^our/on '^"**' ^^^^' *^"^- o- 3793.-Ka.hmir to Nepal, alt. 6-12,000 ft. A 



^ar. vqZ^T^^^' ^^^^" 4-5 ft- higli «ith leaves half an inch broad. . , ^ , 



^^HsSv^""' "^^^- f- sheaths villously pubescent, branches of panicle short 

 **'^^^teamS ^'^^^^^^^ sl^ortly pedicelled i in. long, gl H S-nerved, fl. gls. 2- 



V ^Bch'^J^-^^' ^" Singalela, alt. 11,000 ft., Clarke. 



I *ar, ?,c^r; ..r:'^*^*^"' on amgalela, alt. 11,000 It., VUirice. 



h^^paniclpv ' ^^^^- *'- «^«»*^ ^le»^er, leaves chiefly radical, sheaths softly 

 r' or scflh! f^ contracted, rachis short branches and very short pedicels puberu- 

 ?;'^^^ate ZT c^ spJkelets \ in. 2-3.fld., flg. gls. very scabrid 5-nerved tip 

 750a^^^^i8 of palea shortly ciliate.-Nilghiri Hills, Schmid i Ootacuinuud, alt. 

 8. gU. «•. CZarA:e.-Possibly a distinct species. One specimen has 7-nerved 



• Polyneura, HooT^.f. ; panicle pyramidal, branches long few-fld. 



