Poa, 0. Stapf.] CLXxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 



Sarulb. SJcand. Fl. 262 ; Anders. Gram. Skand. t. 4, f. 41. P. flexuosa, var. 

 1" fT' ^'^^- ^«^^^-— Poa No. 9, Merb. Sirack. ^- Winterb.—Tosi No. 7, 

 * i'. flexuosa {of Sikkim), Berh. Ind. Or. Hf. 4' T.) 



.i.n,n"T. ^^."^^^^'^' ''^*- 10-17,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim.-DisxRiB. N. 

 temp, and Arctic regions. 



wT/j o-iD in., erect or with the branches geniculately ascendiDg, smooth; 

 m mternodes short, laxly or closdy clothed with short sheaths, the following 

 nearl s" fl ."PP^^"i^*^t exsertod. Leaves 2-5 by -^^ in., glabrous, smooth or 

 liuie -»^-i • ^" ^^ nitlior firm; lower sheaths scarious, uppermost about 4 in. ; 

 g: T3~6'"-) ovate. Pant>?e 2-4 in., erect or inclined ^ lower branches capillary, 

 ^^sshoV " *jP''*^''^ing or deflexed, naked except towards the tips smooth. Spike- 

 el I 1-1 ^ ^^ 1 ^ terminal longer pedicelled, ^ra^n^ generally suifused with pnrple; 

 U rath^ \"'' ^" ^^^*'"**^ ^^ -acute, margins broadly hyaline, keel smooth or roughish ; 

 els £j. ^"^'^'■> ovate-oblong, sub-obtuse, 3-nerved, lateral nerves often short; fig. 

 mneh/ *V "^"^'y glabrous or keel and nerves at the base silky, smooth or minutely 

 the keel ^^y^^^*^^ shorter than the gl., dorsally most minutely puberulous between 

 fi s. Anthers -^-^-i in., linear. 



ihndt9^/^^^^^^^^^^'^' ^^"^^^ ^^ ac?/wma/^, I 1-nerved, or with a very 

 J^suaU '^^T^h 3-nerrefi; anthers verxj mimde, rarely ^V in, long.— 



l^^f.y f^^^^^^<^^, so7?ietimesfff. in the first ymr, or truly annual \ leaves 

 or \^^^ ^^^^ fl^^cid ; stems loosely tufted or on a slender rhizome & rdth more 

 § itic-a th^^^^^ ^^^^^' twferuofZcs, hardly stoloniferous tvhen floivering, 



t. ^^g"le very short ; keel-s of palea serrulately scabrid. 



> 



linear f ' ^^^^^^a-'ia* Sta2:>f-> stem slender erect or ascending, leaves 

 mam-j^f^"*^*^"^^"^^^' '^g^^'e ^^H «hort truncate, panicle narrowly 

 ^inSflf" "^^anches 3-5-nate and branchlets scabernlous, spikelets 

 »arrowl ~t ,'•' ^'^- '"^tlier distant, I oblong-lanceolate acute margins very 

 promiTiiL {^°^' ^^ ovate-lanceolate, fl. gls. minutely granulate, nerves 

 eeabn-^ B^^® "^^^'j glabrous, wool copious or scanty, keels of palea 

 ^ ^a-Foa himalayana & Poa n. 17, Ha^h. Ind. Ch: Bf. 4' T. 



Bitis^^Ju ?o*''^^^^^. alt- 11-14,000 ft., I.D.R., Kivff's Collector. Khasia 



sl'mt 1^^ *'=•' '^- ^- H. & T. T., Clarke. 

 S^aduailv 1 ^" ^"^^e^> 1-2 tt., suberect from a rooting base, interuoJes o-O, upper 



y Joiiger, loosely or rathe " " ' "^ '"" 



""'ODff nKf '-"gu; 11 ratner lonpfcr ana uroauer, o-m-..^.^*, "t,- n— » , ■ 

 «!kyo;! K ,V'P ^I'ortlv livaline, nerves 5 distant, keel and outer nerves sparsely 

 being tallp.^ •^^''"''- ^nfhJrs y.- Jj, in.-Differs from P. annua var. .^ikkimen-s,^ m 

 •*»*, in thi' ""'^ '^"^^^ louff-aaenuate, lignle very short, branches of panicle 3-o- 

 »^Cl?'*^^' '^"^^ '" the^keels of the palea not cili»te; and fro.n P. an^ma var. 

 ^'^'^r J{: '".,*^ 3-5.nate more flexuous branche., rather larger sp.kelets narrower 

 ""thers "* ° '"°»'^ prominent nerves, rongli keels of the palea and rather longer 



J* ^'gii^e long ; keels of palea ciliate. 



• ^pikelets ohovate -, gl. I & U equalling the fig. or rather shorter. 

 ^' **• ^*f tlgrlumis, Hook. f. ; stem stout, lower iuternodes usually 



