Mca.] cLxxiii. GRAMiNE.K (J. D. lloukcr.) 331 



^Vf.sTKKX Tempekate HIMALAYA ; from Kasluiiir to Kmnaon, alt. 6-10,000 ft. 



S^m 3-5 ft., very (-lender, flaccid, smooth. Leaves 8-10 by -}-i in., more or 

 wscanrid; sheaths sea brid, hirsute on the upper margins; ligule short, truncate, 

 --aunc'led. Panicle very variable, rarely reduced to a subsiniple raceme; rachis 



wT* ^''^^'^^^ ^^^ ^"-^ ^^ length liorizontal, often 2 in. apart, smooth or scabnd. 

 Relets often irreguhirly disposed, shortly pedicelled, crowded on short branchlets, 

 or distantly scattered, :^-J in. long, pale green; rachilla slender, scaberulous; gl. I 

 >na II ovatedanceolate, I 1-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; fig. gls. distant, lowest about 

 ^J^as lonjT a«5 n^ narrowly lanceolate, strongly 7-9-nerved, tip quite entire; palea 

 J ^'■t^rthan its gl., keels scaberulous. Lodiotles very minute. Anthers variable in 

 P^^**- ^^am suhcylindric or fusiform.— Closely allied to the Affghan M. secunda, 

 Kegel (M. gracilis, Aitch. ^ Kemsl.) a native of Afl'ghan. and Turkestan. 



var micrantha; spikelets -t in., leaf -sheaths nearly smooth, ligule hardly 

 «Bricled.-Kishtwar, alt. 6000 ft!, Clarke. 



110. ZiOPKATKERUM 



;^^^ ^'^"der leafy perennial grassps. Leaves petioled, lanceolate, acn* 

 8olit^ ^^^^^^ tessellate. Spikelets l-M., narrowly lanceolate, terete, 

 paDi [^' ^^^^^^d and jointed ou the long strict alternate branches of a lax 

 bean ^^^'^^^^a not jointed at the base, produced beyond the flg. gl. and 

 rooK T^^^''^^ closely sheatliing awnod empty gls. Glumes dorsally 

 deciHn -^^^ ^^ ^°^P^y' oblong, obtuse, margins membranous, 5-nerved, 



nervT"' "^'^^ ^^^ %• ^1- > III iii^^ch longer, coriaceous, ovate-oblong, 7-9- 

 siDoofK ^"^^^^^^e or shortly awned ; keels of p;ilea narrowly winged, 

 hntr r -^^^^ 0. Stamens 3. Slj/hs connate at the base, stigmas 

 ^' ^'""^^^ oblong, free.— Species 1 or 2, trop. Asia. 



i si'^cv*^**®' Bro?ign. in Difpp.rr. Voy. Bot, 50, t. 8 ; Kuntl Enum, PL 



uS;. ^r^;\ TrinK Cat, CeyL PL 109 ; Mlq. FL Ind. BaL iii 400. 

 and dnV ' ''"• * ^'^'^^ SfjsL Verz, ZolL 102. L. japonicum, multitlorum 

 AcropUf ^' S'^ewrf. ^i;n: Gram, 300. L. Lehmauni, Xees ex Steud Lc, 

 ^n2l^\^ ]apouicam, Sfeud. in Flora, xxix. (1846) 21. Allelotheca 

 W^r T ^'t'^' %/?. Gram. 117 — Centotheca^ affine, WalL Cat n. 8000. 

 ^f ^'-^^-^^ia^t. i:>2,f.2. 



^^RMrpP^' "^^^^^^'^' ^»'*^^» Sikkim eastwards; the Kuasia and Xaga Hills, 

 Jap,nJj!;j^^^^»^;(upto 4000 ft.), and the Malaya Pemnsula.-Distrib. China, 



&/' t i^' ^* Guinea. 

 *'Uir""^ ^^'' ascending from a branched woody rootstock. Leave-^^-lO by 

 'Qimite'^p 'T''"^ ^^to a slender petiole \A in. long; sheaths smooth; hfjule 



DOUBTFUL sri:ciES. 



T X)OUBTFUL STECliiS. 



fleaveS!^' ^/'«'!- '^J/"- Gram,. SOO.-J.rb. IFight n. 1090. The doscription is 



"b', and 



qiute unrccosiiizable. 



111. CEKTOTKECA, Desv. 



Tall 



T li 



^'Hf/? fll*^ S^^«ses. Leai;.^ broadly lanceolate, tessellately nerved. 



^-'^■M., secund on the long branches of a lax subaimple panicle, 



!.,i' 



