282 CLxxiii. GRAMiNBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dantlionia, 



the tip, variable in length, about twice that of gl. II ; callus bearded ; palea as long 

 as the gl., linear, obtuse, keels nearly smooth. Anthers linear. Orain narrowly 

 oblong, glabrous, — A very variable plant in panicle bub constant in habit.^ Jaubert 

 and Spaeh's figure is of a very starved small form, and I have not found in Jacque- 

 mont or other spechnens the whorl of hairs at the top of the pedicel (base of gl.l 

 and II) which they represent. The nervation of gl. I and II varies remarkably^ I 

 find both 3-nerved in Sikkim specimens, both S-uerved in many Western Himalayan ; 

 both sub 7-nerved in Kunawur ones ; both 4-nerved in Simla ones; I 3"°®^ u, 

 5-nerved in some Western ; I 5-nerved, II 7-nerved in Garwhal ; I 5-nerved andU 

 sub 6-nerved in Jacquemont's n. 260, in which the awn is twisted to the tip; !>«■ 

 are very sparsely hairy in a few specimens. The lower sheaths are villous in Simla 



(Hattu) specimens. % 



Var. minor; stems 6-8 in. very slender, leaves filiform, panicle often recurveu, 



spikelets 4-8, gl. I and U often purple 5-7-nerved. Danthonia No. 3. Wero. 

 Strach. ^ Winterh.—kl^ine Himalaya, from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 12-14,uw 



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4, D. Cumminsll, EooJc.f.\ stem ascending, leaves filiform, panicle 

 small, rachis and pedicels villous, spikelets 3-6 i in. long very nhoruy 

 pedicelled. lateral awns of gl. ill very short, median nob twice as long a 

 gl. II hardly twisted, 



Bhotak ; Gnatongin the Sikkim frontier, alt. 12,000 ft., Cummins. ' 

 Possibly a form of D. cachemyriana, but the characters are marked, i^^ 

 specimens are curved in a semi-circle, no doubt from growing amongst roCKS, ^ 

 was the case with Calamagrostis tripiliferay var. (p. 262). ; , j 



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DOtTBTPUI/ SPECIES OF DANTHONIA. 



D. Grifpithiana, C. Muell, in Bot. Zeit. xiv. (1856) 374.— Khasia Hills, 

 G?re>/A.— Judging by the description this is not a Danthonia, but I have wrmea/* 

 idea of what it may be, - __ 



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84. BUTKXaSA, Hack. 

 No. 123 in Clavis, p. 8. 





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Tufted perennial erect glabrous grasses, ieave 5 linear, subcouvola* 

 Spikelets 3-5-fld., often bracteate, in a short simple unilateral raceme, lawr 

 ally subcompressed, not jointed on the pedicels, uppermost fl. ^^P®. ^j/ 

 rachilla articulate. Gls. I and II empty, persistent, lanceolate, ^^^"^^l^J^ 

 7-11-nerved, dorsally rounded; fl. gls. herbaceous, oblanceolate, 7-11-°® ^^^\ 

 2-fid, awned in the sinus, margins membranous, awn half-twisted 5 P .^^ 

 2-keeled, keels scabrid, excurrent. Lodicules 0. Stamens S. ^^^^^fi^Q^ 

 narrowed into a slender style ; stigrmas very long, papillose, exsertea ^^^ 

 the top of the spikelets. Grain oblong, crowned with the style, hirsu 

 Species 2, Western Himalaya and AfEghanistan. 



I>. bromoides, Each in Verhandl. Zool Bot Oea, Wien. (^^^^^Lf 

 spikelets 3-5-ad., rachilla hairy, gl.l and II 7-11-nerved margins narro; 

 hyaline, fl. gla. obtusely 2-lobed dorsally hairy below, style about as 

 as the stigmas. StapJ in Booh. Ic. PI t. 2474. ' .qOO 



Kashmie, alt. 12-13,000 ft., Jacquemont, Duthie. Wbstben Tibet, alt. 1 i 

 ft., Thomson^ Clarice. IJrenda Pass, Kunawur {Herb. Saharunpore). ^^^^ 



Stems 18-24 in., slender, compressed, scaberulous above. Leaves 6-1^ '."'Lflgted 

 rigid, cauline very short, flat, acute; sheaths compressed, of "PP*^^"^. . ^abrii " 

 embracing the raceme; ligule oblong, ^Raceme 1-2 in., inclined, racbis ^^^^ 

 Spikelets 5-6, fiubsessile, ovoid, about \ in. long (without the awns) green; 



