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278 cLxxiii. GKAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Avenat 



lower horizoutally spreading, spikelets J in. long, glumes opaque all with 

 very strong close-set raised nerves, I 1-3-nerved, II 5-nerved, fl. gis. 

 ovate-lanceolate tip 2-dentate 7-9-nerved, keels of palea pectinately 

 ciliate. 



NiLGHiBi Hills; Dodabetta, alt. 8000 ft, Gamble. -,■ 



Stem 2-3 ft., rather stout, strict. Leaves strict, narrow, convolute; sheaths 

 deeply grooved, lower sparsely hairy ; ligule very short, truncate. Panicle 8 in., 

 and nearly as broad; branches 2-3-nate, smooth. SpiJcelets reddish -brown.— 

 Possibly only a state of aspera^ as more specimens may prove ; but of a very different 

 habit and conspicuous for the large ^pikelets and opaque ribbed glumes. 



Sect. lY. Perennials. Spikelets erect. FL gls, S-S-nerved. Ovary 

 quite glabrous. 



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T. tolnccense, Kunth -^^^''^v/Vt 95 

 Lira spicata, Xtw«. Sp. ^^-^^ §73; 



Nachr. (1868) 78 ; Ledeb. Fl. ..._ .^. , ^ 



& Germ. 208. A. mollis, Mich. Fl. Am. Bor. i. 72. A. phleoides, Un-, 

 Mem. Linn. Soc. Par. iv. (1826) 601. A. toluccensis, H. B. & ^■J^""- 

 Gen. 8f Sp. i. 148. Trisetum airoiles, Boem. Sf Sch. Syst. ii. 666. T- a?' 

 dinura, BentJi. PI. Hartw. 261 ; Steud. I. c. 228. T. antarcticum, Trin. »» 

 Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 61 (non Nees). T. groenlandicuni « 

 labradoricum, Steud. Syn. Gram,. 228. T. molle, Kunih Bev. Gram.^-}^^' 

 Fnum. PI. i. 296; Torrey Fl. N. York, ii. 452, t. 154; Steud. I.e. ^^ 

 phleoidea, Xunth l.lc. 101, 295 {non Trin.). T. spiciforme, Dulae i-j- 

 Maut. Pfiven. 86. T. snbspicatum, Beauv. Aqrost. 88; Kunth Fnum.i-^ 

 295, Suppl. 248; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 31 ; Jaook. Fl. Bor. Am. n- J^ 

 Hooh.f.Fl.Antarct. I 97, ii. S9(i, Handb. N. Zeal. Fl 335; ^enth.^i. 

 Austral, vii. 588 ; Steud I. c. 225. 

 t. 60, Fnum. I. c. 296 ; Steud. I. c. Aira 

 (non Fd. I.) ; Fl. Dan. t. 228, Aira 

 Most Gram. Austr. ii. 33, t. 45 ; Wulf. in Jacq. Collect, in. t."l9, f. 3. i^oei^"; 

 aristata, Loisel. Fl. Gall. Ed. II. i. 66. K. spicata, WillL & Lange rroar. 

 Fl. Uisjp. i. 72. K. subspicata, Mart, ex Beichh. Fl. Germ. Fxcurs. 4a. , 



Alpine and Subalpine Himalaya and Tibet, alt. 10-18,000 ft. (18,500 ft' 

 Kunawur, Jacquemont).~Y)isT&iB. Alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic regions. ^^ ^ 



Stems densely tufted, 6-24 in., strict, stout or slender, always P"° p"^-f[« 

 tometitose. Leaves flat, soft, hairy, rarely glabrate, lower sheaths loose. ^ ^^^ 

 2-4 in., from shortly oblong to cylindric, rarely interrupted or l^*'^? , ^bite, 

 very short spreading lower branches. Spikelets yellowish -green, purplish, or ^^^^^ 

 densely imbricating; rachilla short, hairy ; gl. I and II more or less ""^"*^ ,,9 or 

 as long as III, keels scabeinlous ; I 1-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; fl. S^]-^^ \g\oii 

 pnberulous, tip sometimes almost entire ; callus bearded ; awn inserted ^-^^^Jj-jit; 

 the tip, column slightly twisted but sometimes awn shorter than the gl. «"'' fuaiforn". 

 keels of palea scabrid. Lodicules oblong, 2-fid. Anthers short. Ovary »"* 

 glabrous. Orain fusiform, compressed. 



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8. A.. Clarkel, Hoohf.; stem very slender and branches of P*^ 



icle 



lujjucLi, ojjiikcicutj uiirrow -^t i". ii-o-na. giaorous sessuo ui °^-\ '. 

 celled, gl. I and II unequal, fl. gls. narrowly lanceolate acucaii^* 



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