350 CLxxiii. gbaminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Festuea, 0. Stapf. 



lanceolate, acute ; flg. gls. |-| in., strongly involute, nerves 5 faint ; awn from ito 

 as long as the gh ; palea as long as the gl., scabrid or puberulous. Lodicules 2-lobed. 

 Orarj/ glabrous. Grain -^-^ in., linear-oblong, deeply grooved, hilum slightly exceediug 

 the middle. 



Var, hrevis, Stapf; stems 4-6 in. often shorter than the leaves, sheaths open 

 to the middle only, panicle i-lj in. contracted, flg. gls. | in., anthers ^V-tV *°- 

 Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 11--13,000 ft.— Referred by Hackel (Monogr, Festuc. Kiir. 

 89) to F, ovina, var. supina, but evidently only a dwarfed state of F. polycolea. 



** FJg. gls. glabrous or nearly so except sometimes towards the tip, 

 thin, more or less shining ; ovary very rarely glabrous. — Innovations intra- 

 vaginal, their sheaths closed to beyond the middle, except in nitiduhi. 



t Fig. gls, \-\ in.; anthers minute; panicle usually very pxuout 

 and flaccid. 



4. P. nitidula, Stapf; stems tufted, node solitary near the base. 

 leaves 1-2 in. very narrow, panicle 1^-3 in., ovate open /;^,,contractea^ 



long 



sparsely hispidnlons. F. pumila, Duthie Grass. JSfJV. Lid. 42 (non ViU-)^ 

 Ilerh, Strach. & W^miferi.— Festuea, n. 10, Herb. hid. Or. if./ ^' T. 

 ^ Western Tibet; Nubra, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson. N. of Kuniaon, ai • 



lo,GOO ft., Strnchey ^' Winterhottom. 



Stems i~li ft., far exserted beyond the uppermost sheath, smooth, i^ea 

 complicate, rather thick, green, 5-7-"nervcc], smooth, bands of sclerenchyma n ^^ 

 any; sheaths of iunovs. closed to about ^, smooth; ligule very short, ciholate,^^^^ 

 or less auricled. Panicle flexuous, sometimes flaccid ; rachis smooth below; ^f^,. i^ 



• « 



gls. smooth, very minutely scaberulous below the tip ; awn i as long as i ^^ ^^ 

 pulea about as long as the gh, keels scaberulous. Lodicules 2-lobed. ^^^^^* 'fo ^ 

 free or adherent to the base of the paloa, linear-oi)long, hiluni ^ ^, if 3.5 in. 

 Thomson's specimens are tall and very slender, Strachey & VV^intcrbottom s only 

 high. 



5. r. undata, Sfapf; stems tufted erect or base geniculate ^^^^^^^^^ 



beyond the middle or almost to the panicle, nodes 2-3, ^Pl?^^ T Aaper- 

 raedian, leaves subsetaceous subacute complicate or the cauhne na i 



P 

 Ind. Or. ILf. 8^ 



Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 12,000 ft., J. D. H. j , • sheatl^- 



sums 1-2 ft. Leax^es trianous or puberulous above, 7-9-nerved, green , ^^^^^^|, 

 tight, bMsal tliin brown rarely finely hairy; ligule vev^ short, truncat . ^^^^^^ 

 auricled, glabrous or sparsely ciliolate. Panicle often more or ^^*"'* f.^''jgd 'solita^^ 

 smooth or scabrid, very slender ; branches simple or very sparingly <^/^.' / j-arbil'* 

 or the lowest binate up to 3 in. Spikelets pale green, som<'what '*"^""lvjl ^ is • 

 scantily scabrid, internodes very short; gl. 1 -f\^ in., lanceolate, ^'^*^r'^' (.'gqutil '*** 

 broadly lanceolate, acuminnte, S-nerved ; palea oblong-lanceolate, *'^*'", .^ vlolc*- 

 gl., obscurely 2-toothed. Lodicules obliqueJy ovoid, sub-2-lobed. ^^^^ 

 Styles terminal. 



