Qlyceria.] CLXxiii. graminbj:. (J. D. Hooker.) 347 



Sender. Leaves SShy -jVi iu., flat, tips obtuse; sheaths smooth, closed to the 

 Bouth; ligale short, rounded or truncate, 2-am-icled. Panicle very variable, 4-8 

 ■• long; rachis slender; branches few-fld. Spikelets pale-grecu or purplish, 

 "ttlj more than 4-fld.; rachilla flexuous, glabrous; glumes glabrous, I and II 

 •nte or ovate-oblong, hyaline, obtuse or subacute, I = about J 11 ; flg. gls. char- 

 taceoas, ovate-oblong, tip rounded h valine, nerves 7 very prominent; palea rigid, 

 wcurvd, keels strong fcaberuloiis. 'AntUtrs very small, linear-oblong. Grain long, 

 slender.- Very near O.fluitanx, Hr., of wliieh it may be a variety, but diilers from 

 « m tbe much smaller and fowef-(ld. spikelets. Some luxuriant specimens from 

 ■•rshy woods in Sikkim have larger 6-10-fld. spikelets nearly i in. long. 



Sect. II. Atbopis. Fl. gls. 5-nerved. Lodicules large, hyaline. 



2. e. distans, Wahlh. Fl. Upsal. 36 ; leaves linear flat or convolute 

 'fflooth, panicle erect pyramidal or contracted lower branches up to 2i in. 

 "length deflexed, spikelets J^-^ in. 4-6-lld., gls. I and li very unequal 

 nnous obtuse, flg. gls. broadly ovate-oblong or cuneate tip rounded or 

 staseand mucronulate crenate. Fl. Dan. t. 2222 ; Beichl. Ic. Fl Germ. 

 V^' Dfi<hie Grass. N.W. Ind. 41. Poa distans, Linn. Mant. ^2; J lost 

 '[";;■ ^ustr. ii. t. 6'] ; FL Dan. t. 251 ; FngL jBot. t. 986 ; Kmpp Gram 

 f '-t 4/. Atvofns distans, Griseh. in Ledeh. Fl. Boss. iv. S88, in Goeit. 

 pf^hr. {ISC.8) 7t) ; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 615. Festuca dintans, Kunth Eevts. 



'""•^- 12?, Enwn. Fl. i. 393, Suj^j^L ii. 303. 



X. J*^^^^"^' Tibet, alt. 10-16,000 ft., abundant, Thomson, &c.-Distbib. Europe, 



s..fl*"",'^^°«ely tufted with copious fibrous roots, 4-24 in. high, erector ascending, 

 { in K r.^^'' '^«fy upwards or at the base only. Leaves very various, flat and 

 ^n. broad ,n large specimens, quite smooth; sheaths open for | of their length 

 Cu "''''''"«"» shining ; ligule short, scarious. Panicle 3-t> in., rachis and 

 cnes «„,oot^^ ,^^^^ branches 2-5-n.vte. Spikelets minute, green, rpore or less 

 ;^«?. minutely scabcrulous ; gl. I oblong, l-nerved; II almost twice as large, 

 dv\;"T'^^' %• gls- very variable, base minutely hairy, margins and ip 

 Ci 'k^*' "^^^-^-^ '•eachfng i-| from the base; keels of palea cilmte. 



^«!es oblong, toothed. Outliers V-V in- ,. • ,. 



'^R nl^'u "^''' ^"'■^^- ^- <^ ; *<tem taller very slender, leaves all convolute, panicle 

 «««llnT-, i^ ^^"'^^* ^lio»-t^i- et-ect. G. con\-olut:., Fries Mant. in. 1/6. >estuca 



'«Ci P^"^''' ^'^•^^- <?'■«'«• '• 129 ; Emm. PL 393. Atropis tenmflora, Oneb 

 ^-i ^i^'"''- '^- 389, w Goe«. iachr. I.e. 76.-Tibet common. N. i-«'-opeund 

 »<»«' slti ' •*:"'"^'"& P''»'t from G. distans in its Tibetan form, being n uch 

 •'"tCdiates '" "''"•«^^'«^ '"OJ-e ovate flg. gls. ; but very variable, and vMth 



"^ath l" *^°?^soni» -S^'W; leaves rigid aspernlous above smooth be- 

 '^HiT\ ^^■^"^^^'' of panicle 2 3 In. spikelets up to i in. oblong 

 *C"'fll- \TVin. oblong-lanceolate subacute. H ^ m. ellipt^^-^^^?.^^ 

 '^^sipL ^V.^^- « ^"- t'P Subacute and margins hyaline yellow. Poa 

 ^^«8S4, GriMj. in Goeit Xachr. (1868) 75. 



'ntS^f '^'^*^^' R"Pfhu al)ove Pugha, alt. 15,5 

 "elmr't """^•'»^i0"8 erect. Sient laiher stout, 



*ort 



00 ft., Thomson. 



inftwl ; " i>-" 'cuu ai)Ove 1 uyrna, air. io,o<ju 11.., X,--- -- ■ „i,.,„tl„./1 



■o«8ou "'r-^'^°"« ^•'•^■^•t- S^.m. naher stout, ^>«'"r'-'-^"^' ?'f '""":', f'^'t, 

 n^t ^''''■''' »P to B in taperin- to an acute or subobtuse point, upper 

 "^^^'tS'"' ^^"'^^' '■S'<'' ..--v s ? 9 ;.-ong ; sheaths move or less -u-P-ssed |.o 

 ?'<7Z' '"■"^^«' --=^« «^bove; ligule bro^ully ovate, obtu.e, «<^»'-">"*;^, ^^"1?^*;; 

 S^e "l> '^""t^Heted, erect or inclined; rachis scaberulous or ^T^) ^^'^^^^^^ 

 ** ^ZS T"\ "''^"^•'"' ^P'^'-'^gly ^i-i^*^^ ''t length spreading, naked to about 

 «^^0s V, ^fT^ pedicels short^ S^.fce/e<* pale green or vanegated ; rach, la 

 •SJ- I 1-nerved, margin broadly hyaline; U 3.uerved, tip and margins 



