336 OLXXiii. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [ScMsmvs. 



at the base ; rachilla elongate, jointed at the base and between the flg. gk 

 GluTTies 6-10; I and II large, empty, subequal, lanceolate, acute, concave 

 persistent, herbaceous, margins scarious, I broadest, 5-7-nerved; 11 

 3-ncrved; flg. gls. much shorter, oblong or obovate, 2-fid, raany-nerTed, 

 mucronate or not between the hyaline lobes; palea spathulate with 2 

 submargiaal diverging basal nerves. Lodicules 2, hyaline, truncate. 

 Stamens 3, anthers minute. Stt/les terminal, lotig, stigmas plumose. 

 Grain minute, broadly obovoid, compressed, free. — Species 2 or 8, Earop. 

 Asia, N. Africa. 



'S. margrinatus, Beauv. Arjrost. 74, t. 15, f. 4 ; Kunth Enum.Tl 

 i. 385, Suppl. 318, t. 28, f. 2; Ledeh. Fl. Boss. iv. 403 ; Dufhie Grass. i^Jy- 

 Ind. 39. S. calycinus, G. Koch in Linnxa xxi. (1848) 397 ; Coss. & Dur. 

 E^pl. Sc. Alger. 138, in Bull. Soe. Bot. Fr. iv. (1857) 399; Bmss. H. 

 Orient, v. 599. S. hirsutus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 148. Festuca calycma, 

 Loefi. n. Hispan. 116; Gav. Ic. i. 88, l. 44, f. 2 ; Laynk. Illustr. t. 4b, 1. &■ 

 Koeleria calycina. DC. & Duhy. Bot. Gall. Suppl. 271. Hemisacns gona- 

 todes, Steud. in Flora, xii. (1829) 490. Electra calycina & nitida, Tanz. m 

 Muench. Denlcschr. iv. (1813) 299 cum Ic. Triseturn Loeflingianum, 

 Buthio Grass. N.W. Ind. 31 {non Beauv.}.— Griff. Notul. 96 (gramen 

 l)uaillum, &c.), Ic. Fl. Asiat. t. 154, f. ii. '' 



Upper Punjab; Peshawur, Stewart. Western Tibet, alt. 9-11,000 ft., 



Nubra and Dras, Thomson, Iskardo, CJar/ce.— Distrib. Westwd. to the N. Atl:intit, 

 N. Asia. 



Stfins 2-8 in., densely tufted, filiform. Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy, t'o.'"- 

 broad ; ligule of hairs. Fanicle 1^-2 in., green, glistening, pedicels scabnd. .b^t"" 

 lets i in. ; gl. I and II glabrous ; flg. gls. hairy, cleft to about i of their lengta j 

 lobes ovate, acute. 



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117. B&ZZA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial erect grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Sp^ '^' 

 lets many-fld., laterally compressed, pendulous, in lax rarely contracted o 

 Bpiciforra panicles not jointed on the pedicel ; rachilla jointed at the base^ 

 Glumes many, scarious, cymbiCorm or saccate, closely imbricate; I and 

 subequal, empty, 3-5-nerved, persistent; fl. gls. broader, obtuse acute o 

 shortly awned, 5- or more-nerved, terminal often empty or imperteci, 

 palea often small, broad, flat, hyaline, 2-nerved. Lodicidcs 2, ovate-ia 

 ceolate. Stamens 3. Stxjles free. Grain ovoid, dorsally compressea. 

 closely invested by the palea.— Species about 10, of temperate regions. 



B. tnaxhna, Linn., has been found as an escape in several parts of India. ^ ^ , /. 

 recognized by the very large spikelets. B, minor, L., with very small spiKC 



be rec 



may be also expected to occur 



B. media, Linn, Sp. PL 70; perennial, panicle erect, bninche 

 spreaditier. spikelets ovate 5-9-fld., gl. I and II shorter than ^^^--^jj,,/ 

 t. 258 ; Host Gram.Austr. ii. t. 29; KnappTGram, Britt. t. 60; i^'.^^- -f, . 



N. W. Ind. ;39. 



Western Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Garwhal, and Western Tibet, a^^ 

 9-13,000 ft. SiKXiM, at Gnatong, Cumffjtns.— Distrib. Europe, N. Asia. ; 

 alien elsewhere.) 



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