^vena.] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



Z-aristuIate 1- or sub 3-nervred, awn longer than the gl. recurved or 

 retiexed column not twisted. 



j^Jf^SHMiU; at Laki and Budrawur, alt. 10-11,000 ft. ChambA; Dalhousie, alt. 

 o700 ft., Clarke, 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 4-8 in,, flaccid, softly hairy on both surfaces; sheath with 



■preading or reflexed soft hairs. Panicle 3-5 in., erect or inclined, rachis slender j 



wwer branches solitary or fascicled, rarely 1 in. long. Spikelets erect, pale brown, 



ioming, rachilla penicillate with very long hairs ; gls. hyaline as in A. suhspicatay but 



onger and narrower. — Very near A. suhspicata, but much more slender, with a 



onger loose panicle of shining much narrower spikelets, with obsolete side nerves. 



9. A. micans, Hook,/. ; stem and rachis of panicle pubescent ortomen- 

 ose leaves glabrous, lignle short lacerate, panicle contracted elongate 



«n-v 1 / 'i"®^"" ^'^^^^'^P^^^d •lense fld., branches short flowering 

 »piJ£elet8 ^ in. densely imbricate silvery hyaline 3-5-fld. quite 



r-^^^/ery unequal 3-nerved, ti. gls. 



•Ruminate shortly 2-aristate, awn inserted i way from the tip very slender 



^ long as the el. colnmn T,nf fwiaf.^ ^ 



to th.e base, 

 glabrous, gl. 



lanceolate obscurely 5-nerved, tip 



es, alt. 8-1 0,000 ft., Buthie. 

 Leaves 6-12 in. flat, narrow. 



Stm^io ,^l"^^*YA ; Garwhal, banks of the Gang 

 rigid fi *, °'"-) densely tufted, rather stoat, leafy, j^eaves o-ii- iu. uav, ..»......, 



li^le r ■/ ^'^"°^'"^*e strongly nerved, smooth or scaberulous ; sheath quite smooth ; 

 or suhfl °'^'°' ™^'"*"'ano«s. Panicle 3-4 in. by ^-1^ broad, erect or inclined, strict 

 'ery pai""™'!f '• l°^^J^ branches solitary, densely flowering to the base.^ Spikelets 



Sr! y "''^"^^'^a; keels of palea minutely . ^ . 



iiJilce an» tf"' J^^'^'>'J/ obovoid, quite smooth, style bases close together,— Quite 

 iagfl«r.;H ? ^^ ^'^^'^^^ species, but very near A. virescens, Kegel of Turkestan which 

 ^ "*<="d leaves and an entire tip of fl gls. 



%nle'w' ^^^escena, Linn. Sp. Fl.80; tall, slender, quite glabrous, 

 few-fld « u ^^"^''^^ ^^'ise flexuous inclined or nodding branch^-s capillary 

 gU snrAa^- '?^°^' spikelets i in. 2-3-fld brown shining rachilla slender, 

 gls! narr ,^' t*'*^^ 11 unequal hyaline narrow I 1-nerved, II 3-nerved, tl. 

 WrtA^ 1 , ^ lanceolate 3-nerved tip acuminate 2-aristate, awn stout 



S^ost Gram 



952; Knapp 

 Ross. iv. 417; 



^«n^A j^„^'°^";.f'''''^^- OSSsfrsr ''Tr7seti-m"flavescens, Beauv Agrost 88 ; 



£num. p;. i. 293. Suppl. 252, t. 19, f . 2 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 537. 



N.aS,''JhY,^„' SiMALATA: ^'^^''^- ''^^- 12-13.000 ft.. J. D. i?.-Di8TKiB. Europe 



1 "^ ^v. 



r««n, th/r ', "'i' ^'^ 2-nate. Spikelets larger than in most other species o. uu» 

 l*ir.;',^^\'»«'n longer; rachilia nodose belofv the fl. gls., penicillate with long 

 '.""•^'P'. keiu l^ lanceolate, acuminate; fl. gls. chartaceous with hyalme margins 

 ^"^Wj'g^'J ««^berulous as are the keels of the palea. Lodicules short, 2.1obed . 



am narrow. 



Mh 



short, 

 ortly 



eddatu^- ^~^^^- densely imbricating sessile or very snoruy 

 '^^''^ or pale brown shining, glumes hyaline I I-nerved, II l-.i- 



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