toaim^a, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. gramine.k (J.D.Hooker.) 311 



DDt M ^~^* ^"'' ^^''^^^ ^'^"^ ^'^^ creeping sometimes floating base, sheathed nearly 

 P to the panicle; stolons creeping or ascending, branches long or short. Leaves 



vi^ i.^'^!"*' ^^"®"''' obtuse, fiat, subflaccid, smooth; sheaths tight, smooth, of 



jonng brauches closeti to near the mouth but easily split to the base; ligule ovate or 

 ncate, hyaline. Pa/n*cZe up to 8 in., open, loose, rachis smooth, lower branches 

 lU-iiHte, slender, very unequal, subscaberulous, the longer 4 in., branching; 



^tera pedicels very short. Spikelets pale green or yellowish, rarely purph^- 

 nerved^- tT?-^' ' ^^'" ^'^'"^ ^'*'» ^*'^ad and obtuse; I about ^ in., nerveless or 1- 

 tran / i *""' ^ - sub-3-nervL'd ; fl. gls, nearly y^^ in., obovate to broadly oblong, 

 obii ^'' }^ ^ ^*^^*''3' hairy below ; puleu broad, very obtuse, keels hairy below. Lndiciiles 

 knm ?^T^' ^''*'''^^'' V i». (^raln -^^^ in., oblong, subacute at both ends or 

 8Derm I ''^^erally subcompressed, hifum punctitbrni.— I have seen no Indian 



^^m, but aui informed by Mr. Duthie that his was named by Hackel. 

 mtrTl ^^l^'^^^^ St.'tpf; dwarf, tufted, witli or without stolons, panicle narrow 



. dcteu, branrhes very short, gls. 1 Mud II nerveless or nearly so, flg. gls. ^V" 



alt \\ u;A^.''''^'^"' Duthie Grass. .Y.TF, Ind, 36.— Western Tibet; Lanak Pass, 

 a*t. 1d-I6,000 ft., Thomson. 



ranick^'lf **^^*'*^®"®*®5 'SV^P/; stem short, stolons long, leaves ^-1 in,, 



2-fld 1 \^^\ "^^'^<^^^ loose, branches 2-nate subsimple, spikelets yV ^^• 



mar^'^5 I . \"^^^' ^S' gls. 5-nerved, nerves ending below the hjcihue 

 S^^' lateral rather strong. 



Sfi'!!?,'"^.^.'^' alt. 17,000 ft., ffa 



mime. 



growing; OQ 



«Ititade 



'■e very so.intv, and have all the uppeufance of being reduced forms, 

 wet soil oil tlie upper limits of vegetation. Spocimeus from a lower 



may require modificiition of the above ehTiiaeters. 



ler^ed' ^^^^°^^^'M, Trin. (Gen.). Empiy gls. 1-3-nerved; flg. gls. 5-3- 

 fepres<^r,f !iT^ ^^^°*' la'^eral ehort, intermediate often suppressed or 

 Presented by a single spiral vessel. 



^'»pt!lffls. about Ml fas long as the flg. 



laii 



contin 



.«'"?"• to Kumaon, alt. 13-14,500 ft. ,. , ,, 



^-^ "1., tufte.1, erect, sniooili, nodes 1-2. Leaves conipieate jor tlie 



' '."e-'tl's tight, closed almost to the ii 



month ; Hirale very short, rrinide 



'*'''°''&. coinnr , "' '*'''''" ^''^'''tt'. Lodkiile-i conn.te at the h 



"!"^e iicute er'? ''"■ f"""'''^"" ileseriptiou see p. 210. Dn 



differ. "Pv fe'lumes with sometimes erose margias, but 



Duthic's 11. 12,lG0h,is 

 does uot otherwise 



2_.j*jj^°»i8oni, Ilaol: /.; panicle erect open lax-fld., spikelets 



SJ'^STEHx Tib 



'"''''"» acute 



N riBET ; Nubra Vallej, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Thomson. 



i":» gutted, very Blender, erect, smooth, nodes 3-o. 



> nat, few-nervcd; sheaths closed to ^Vi ^"- ^^ ^^^ ^ 



Leaves J-lf in., 

 mouth, thin, tight ; 



