4 



^ 



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Briza.] CLxxiii. gramine^. (J.D.Hooker.) 337 



Stem 1-3 ft., very slender, creeping below and stoloniferous. Leaves flat, smooth 

 or scaberuious; sheaths smooth, upper inflated; ligule short. Panicle pyramidal; 

 or^nches long, capillary, horizontal. Spikelets i-^ in., ereen or purplish, shining,' 

 orbicolur^vate ; fl. gl,. cordate, imbricate. ^ ^^ 



118. POA, Linn, (by O. Stapf). 

 -AnDual 



2_g^^°"?^ ^^ perennial grasses\ Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 

 rarh'll ' '^^ ^^ ^^ close rarely spiciform panicles, laterally compressed; 

 hiTv ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ the base and between the flg. gls., glabrous or sparsely 

 nso^i ^f F^^i ^' "usually irap^^rfect. Glumes 4 or more, acute or obtuse, 



ai V thinly herbaceous; I and II empty, persistent, l-3-nerv6d, keeled; 

 ^rd tl.^ ^^^^ or acute, 5-7- very rarely 3-nerved, nerves conniving to- 

 J Vi ^1^^' ^^^^^"^ *^^*^^" bearded with long wool ; palea shorter than the 

 kmo A • ^^"^^^^^^^ 2. Stamens 3. Styles short, free, stigmas 

 Hg ^^^* T ^^^ *^^*^^^ oblong or linear, free or adherent to the palea. 



P cies about 80, temperate and cold regions, rarely tropical. 



la HISS K*^'^ ^^^? ^*^^^*^ ^^^^ worked up by Dr. Stapf, who has kindly given me 

 ^^feescio 1 "^•^^*^^*^^ ^*'*^* characters given below are taken. The nomenclature 

 (^''Ilectea 1 • \r^^ll^^'^^ ^^' ^^^^''^'^^ '" J' very extensive series of North Indian grasses 

 of Dr Th ' Duthie. The names of early distrihat*'d colleotions includinar those 



»Ddshnnn?^T ^"^ myself were given by Genl. Munro after a cursory examination, 

 ^^^m be disregarded. 



"''gen. I. PsEUDoroA, C. Koch. Fl. gls. 3-nerved, often very faintly. 



Au!jA*F,^®''S*'^' ^''^'^- i^Mem. Acad. Sc. Fetersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 373; 

 P-parvnl '^ 7 '• '^•^^' -^"^'s*- ^^- Ch'ient.y. 610; Stcud. Syn Gram. 255. 

 '*?'• I T ••' "To"^^- ^"- -f^i'i- ea; ;S/c//rZ. Z. r. P. pamphylica, Boiiis. Dv^gn. 



Ledeb 



loci i, ■ r ■ '"'• ('868) 74. Festuca persica, heptantha,& poly^ama, C 

 5o< 417 , *^**««. xxi. (1848) 409, 410. F. Amherstiana, Ro]/le III. Ilimal. 



[name onJy).-.^,,^ ^ 19 90, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. S>- T. 



'-12,000 ft 



:"""■'. Pedior I -' ^"'t*^ «"iooth, flat ; ligule laiici-olatc. Panide-hranches 2-9 in ii 

 H^-fl*) £r^P. '^''P'"'>0-. oftou very long nnd divuri.ate. SpiUlets -,'rri '"• '""PJ- 

 n 3.n,r;.g|i .">. '•"cliilla slender ; P's- I ="'^1 H lanci'oli.te, .•.camhiate, I very sui:.ll, 



'"""'"'O'lttc «' ^'' ,*^ *• ^''"S'T fl""» II, linear-oblong, ;ieute acimiiiiate or ohtnse ami 

 *«-• ' '"loiiM, „.. , . . ' . . » , ■ ore or less broadlv 



?^^^"Un(l si,- • *^*' ohseun^iy puhernlous, tip and niarj,'Ins m 

 ^^^'■s nunufp""?,' ^?''^''^ 2.toothe.', keels seaheruloNs. Ludi 



^Habl 



.'*,^^ 'ollowii'tr ^^^^^.*^=^^'»'^^v, linear, subadherent. 



icides ovate-oblong. 



. '^«R8iri ^ ^^^*^> ^^'^^f»'e the tdant is very abundant. . 



l''^^o;vlv /''•^''' >' ^^^^^»^'»' tall, spikelets 'many-tld., fl. gls. acute or acunnnute 



1*1; ^^ymeS'^^to*^'^ *' ^pikelets l-3.fld.,flff. els. acuminate, margins hn 

 IV^^Wis '#''''; ^'^- 0^*^^^- ^- ^- i^- soongarica, -Bo/.s.. L c 611. 



YOi. vjj^'^^ for diaphora), Trin. in Bull Sc. Acad, Petersb. u (18.3B) 69. 



rins broadly scarious. 



P. paradoxa 



