302 CLixili. gra:mine.t:. (J. I), flooker.) [Pappophonm. 



Western PANJABand Mooltan, Aitchisony Siewarty Edgeworih,kc. Western 

 Tibet, alt. 3-7600 ft., Clarke^ Duthie, &c. — Distkib. Affghan., Persia, Turkestan. 



Stem 6-12 in., erect or ascending, Blender, puberulous. Leaves 2-8 in., narrow, 

 fiat or convolute and filiform ; sheaths smooth, or lower tomentose ; ligulea pubescenl 

 ridfre. Panicle 2-5 in., cylindric, silvery-yellow, with sometimes purple awiia; 

 racbis pubescent. Spikelets including the awns, ^-| in. Gls. I and II narrowly 

 lanceolate, fint^ly pubescent; II rather the longest; III very short, villous, awns 

 softly silky below the middle, the longer four times as long as tlie gl and about i 

 longer than the intermediate; palea as in P. elegans. — F am doubtful about the 

 identification of Edgcworth's Mooltan plant, of which the only specimens I have seen 

 are very bad» consisting of tall very slender much branched rigid stems 12-18 in. 

 high, with long very narrow rigid leaves, and a spiciform slender flowerlcs panicle 

 6 in. long, together with a spike of very immature splkolets. It is ticketed as from 

 the Shah Kot Hills. 



3. ? P. brachystachyuxn^ Jauh, Sf Spach III. PL Orient^ iv. 3f 

 t. 324; dwarf, tomentose, spike very short, gl. I and II faintly 3-5-nerved 

 below the middle, awns of fl. gl. about twice as long as their gl., 4 

 shortest. Steud. Si/i'u Gram. 200 ; Boiss, FL Orient v. 658. ? P arabicucQ, 

 Hochst, ex Sleiid. I.e. 199; ? Edgew, in Joum. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 196; 

 Aitchis. Cat, Punjab PL 166; Duthie Grass, N,W. Ind, 35. ? P. nanum, 

 Steud, Lr.; Edgew. Lc.\ Aitchis. Lc.; Duthie La. P. vincentianum, 

 Schmidt ex Duthie L c. {in Sj/n,) 



The Fanjab; U\\\U\\\,Edgetoorth. RajpootinA; at Jodhpur, King, — DisTEiB. 

 Arabia. N. Africa. 



I am very doubtful about this plant. King's specimens of which resemble a 

 small state of P. Aucheri, with much s\iovter \\\v\m, the four shorter of which are not 

 80 short as in the fikiure cited of P. bracliustachyum, Edgeworth's specimens ot 

 P, arahicum and P. nanum are insufficient for identiticatiou, 



4. P. robustum, Hooh.f. ; stem stout, gls. I and II 3-nerved, awns 



of III nearly equal, about twice as long as their gls. 



with long cilia below the middle. 



96. AaUNDO. Linn, 



Tall stout perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets few-fid- m iar|^ 

 decompound panicles, laterally compressed, fls. mostly bisexual ! ^^^ -^ 

 jointed at the base and between the flg. gls., glabrous or shortly nai^* 

 Olumes 6 or more, I and II subequal, empty, narrow, acute or acumina^^. 

 glabrous, scarious, persistent, 3-nerved; flg. gls. lanceolate, ^^^^^° -fjie. 

 2-fid with a short awn, 3-nerved, dorsally hairy all over below the mid » 



palea hyaline, -J-nerved. J.odic uZe.y 2, obovate. Stamens Z. ^''^^'^ V t^ mP- 

 styles distinct, stigmas plumose. Grain oblong.— Species 6 or 7, te 



and trop. 



leaf-base am- 



A. Donax, Linn, Sp. PL 81 ; stem creeping below, l^^'^ ^uinnJr- 

 plexicaul, panicle erect thyrsiform, spikelets 3-4-fld., gls. I and U odio » 

 lanceolate S-nerved, tip of tig. gls. minutely 2-toothed shortly awn 



