312 CLXxiii, GRAMiNE.i:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Catabrosa, 0. Stapf. 



ligule broadly orate, roniuled. Panicle 1 iu., ovate, erecb; racliia smooth; branches 

 spreiuling or deflexed, tllifonn, with few spikolets ; lateral pedicels very short. 

 Spikelets oblong, pale green; rachilla smooth, tip setiform ; gls, thin, obtuse, I 

 1-nerved ; 1 1 longer with 2 short lateral nerves; III 5-nerved, lateral nerves very 

 faint and keel hairy ; palea 2-fid, keels with long hairs. Anthers oblong. LodicuUi 

 connate near the base. Grain obliquely oblong, compressed. 



5. C- nutans, Stapf; panicle oj^ton or contracted flaccid, spikelets 

 i-^ in. 2-5-fld. Colpodinm nutans, GrUeh. in Goett, Nachr. (1868) 76. 

 Graphaphorum nutaup, Munro ex Bnthie Grass. N. W. IncL 41. 



Alpine HiiiALAXA; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Jacquemont, 

 &c. 



Stems 12-18 in., tufted, erect, smooth, nodes 2-3. Leaves very variable in 

 length and breadth, \ip to 6 iu. by ^ hi., flat flaccid, tnauv -nerved; sheaths ot 

 innovations closed nearly to the nioutli ; lignle i in. PanicZe 2-5 in., nodding or 

 fiexuous; rachis smooth; branches subcapillary, lowest 2-3-nate, sparingly divided 

 beyond the middle ; lateral pedicels half as long or as long as the spikelets. 

 Spikelets broadly obovate, variegated, rachilla glabrous ; gls. very broad, thin, obtuse 

 amlerose; 1 1-3-nurved, II longer, -y^j in., with 2 short lateral nerves ; III obovate, 

 3-a-noi-ved, lateral nerves very short, all haiiy ; keids of palea hairy. LodicuU-< 

 lanceolate, connate near the base. Anthem linear. Grain oblong, subtcrete, with a 

 shallow ventral groove. 



** Empty gls, as lonj as the fig. or longer, Dupontia, Br. (Gen.). 



6. C. Wallichii, Hook, /. ; panicle subraceiiiose few-fld., spikelets 

 ^-i in. 1-2-nd.— Gramin., Wall. Cat. n. 8907. 



Nkpal, Wallich. SiKKiM; Kunkola Pass alt. 14-15,000 ft.,/. B. IL 



Stem 6-18 in,, from a shortly creeping base, slender or rather stout, smootu 



1 uiuaucr, more oDuisc, ^i-nerves, siae-nerves reacning aoout t.n; » 



liptio-oblong, 5-nervod, inner side-nerved very faint, glabrous or nearly 

 xeel i^hortly hairy, ki^els of palea ciliate. Lodlcides lanceolate, coniia.< 



III broadly ell 



so, outer and k 



to the middle or helow it. Anthers linear-oblong. Grain oblong, conipresscU. ^ 



The Sikkini specimens liave somewhat smiiUer and iinler spikelets thau ttie 



Nenalese. 



104 ERAG-ROSTZS, Beam: (by O. Stapf.) 



Annual or perennial grasses. Stem eroct or genicnlately ascetidm^?- 

 very_ rarely jirostrate. Lcuves narrow. S/jik-elcts many- (rarely l---'^ 

 Hd. in opt^n or contracled jianicles, rarelv in siniplo spike", not articulaj*^ 

 at tho base (except E. c ij no., ur aides), usually strongly laterallv compressed - 

 rachilla firm or subarticnbite between the fig. glumes, not produced i>t 

 yond tlie uppermost gl. Glnmcs many, broad, obtuse acute or mucronate, 

 never awned, dorsally rounded and keeled; i aud II nuich shorter tlia" 

 Ihe spikelet, equal or unequal, empty, persistent or sei);irate]y deciduou.-, 

 1-nerved tr II ;3-nerved ; fig. gh.me.s imbricating, at length Jeciduon^ 

 rom the rachilla, 3-nerved, all bisexual or the uppermost and rarely tne 

 loNve.st imperfect ; palea broad, membranous, deciduous with its gl- or V% 

 sistent ou the rachilla, keels 2 ciliate scabrid or smooth. Lodicide^ -, 

 very minute. S(eim:ns 2 or 3. Ovcu-y glabrous; styles 2, Btigm*^ 



