280 CLXxni. GR^MiNF^. (J. D. Hooker.) [AvenH: 



Derved, fl. gls. ovate faintly 5-nerved tip acuminate 2-aristate, awn twirt 

 as long as fhe gL or less reflexed, column t^visted. Trisetnm aurejiTD, 

 Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 225 {non Tenore) ; Biithie Grass. N.W. JrCd. 3. 

 T. aenenm, HacJc. mss. 



Westehn Himalaya, alt. 11-12,000 ft., from Kashinir to Kumaon. 



Stem erect, 1-2 ft., stout or slender. Leaves 6-10 by \-\ in., glabrons or 

 hairy, as are the sheaths. Fanicle 3-4 by ^-1 in. diam., erect, strict, or very Borrow 

 looser-fld. and flexuous ; rachis branches and pedicels quite glabrous. SpfKeiej^ 

 erect; rachilla penicilhite ; glumes nt)t widely spreading, all acuminate ; Ilanceolaw; 

 II J longer, oblong-lanceolate; fl. gls. rather longer than II, keel scaberulous as are 

 the keels of the palea. Grain fusiform, compressed. 



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12. A. slkklmensis, JJooi^./. ; tall, slender, stem and panicle qnitj 

 glabrous, ligule short rounded, panicle narrow elongate effuse nodamg 

 flexuous, branches few-fld. capillary, spikelets i-^ in. 3-4-fld. sessile 

 shortly pedicelled pale or brown, rachilla not long, gls. I and II "^^*1^ 

 acute hyaline glistening, fl. gls. coriaceous ovate 2-aristate, 1-3 nervea, 

 chartaceous smooth, awn inserted ^-^ way below the tip as long o 

 nearly twice as long as the gl. reflexed column twisted. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachen and Lachoong Valleys, alt. 10-11,000 ft., /. ^- .\ 

 Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 6-12, by ^-i in., more or less hairy, flat, fl«*^*^'y 

 sheaths glabrous except near the mouth. Panicle 6-10 in. ; branches subsecun , 

 fascicled,^-! in. long, naked below. Spikelets usually 4-flU., sometimes nearly 

 brown as in ^. flavescens. 



13. A. flacclda. Hack, mss.; very slender, quite glabrous, panicle 

 small open, branches few capillary spreading, spikelets few pedicelled^- ^^ 

 i in. long white and rose-colrd., rachilla long slender scaberulous, gls. A ^ 

 II very unequal subulate-lanceolate, I and II 3-nerved, fl. g». o^ ' 

 lanceolate acute 5-nerved, awn inserted a little below the tip as long as i 

 gl. straight column not twisted. 



The Panjab; Black Mts., alt. 8-9000 ft., Duthie (n. 7609 in part). ,^ 



A foot high. Leaves 4-6 by i~i in., quite glabrous; ligule short, roun^^^ 

 PanivJe 3 in. long, branches i-alher distant. Spilcelets erect; gh I ?^^!l ^offer 

 and narrower than II; fl. gls. smooth, glabrous, chartaceous, white m ^'^^^ ^grj 

 half pale rose in the upper, margins and tip hyaline, nerves very slender; "*^^^^^^ 

 delicate; keels of narrow palea smooth. Lodicules lanceolate. ^"^^ . P^^i^^ien^ 

 quite smooth, style bases rather distant.— Described from a single msum 

 specimen. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



A. BENnwATwaTQ s:nhirnD^>^ R*./^;* ^^ .c/^rt,,7 ^A«i F// T 94. I have 



to this pi 



A, PILOSA 



Tibet, ^chlagint 

 is the authority. 



„.... i 



ENGHALKNSis, Sclnvaegr. Brett, ex Sfeud. Nom. Ed. I. 94. 



hint, which is not taken up in Ed. II of Steudel's Nomenclator. . yg 



, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. iii. 84 ; Oriseh. in Qoeit. Nachr. (^°^^j^cb 

 intweit.—I have seen no Tibetan specimen of this, for which un 



83. DANTKOMZA, DC. 



lector 



Annual or perennial grasses, Spikelets 2- or more fld. (fls.^ all P^^^jjiHa 

 the uppermost male) panicled, erect, not jointed on their pedicels ; ^ _j^J 

 hairy and jointed at the base and between the fl. gls., produced d ; 



