feriuca, 0. Stapf.] OLXxiir. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 351 



J^'^^^^^'^^* Stapf; awn as long as the gl, or rather longer very slender, 



»/ r m>"^^"-' ovary (very young) glabrous.— Bromus ?, No. 15, Jlerh. Ind. Or. 

 ^/ 4' T.— Sikkim, alt. 11,000 ft. 



1 I K 



faccid 



TT-T^gf. gh. i-^3^ in.; anthers linear, -^^^ in,; panicle less wavy or 



6. p. kashmiriana, Slapf 



3-5.fld 



ttf^^n i ^^ ^^^S^i** top of ovary densely hispid, grain loosely adherent to 



fflw P*3 durinscula, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 41; Herb, Boyle & 

 nook.f,^ r. in part, 



^^'mS^^'^^ ^^^ AxpiKE Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 8- 



^aginaUh f ^^'' innovations always apo-geotropic; sheaths of (always?) intra- 

 (canltni^ * * ^^^^^^* smooth, closed to the middle or |, rarely higher. Leaves 



\ uuue; setaceous, nsnu'ilv ^l./^»^- ^.i ^£ i.i.„ : i.: K. -fl..f .^r.r-^ .^*. T^.a 



**^ *cltrench ^ ^^^' f«30oth beneath, green, sulcute between the 5-7 nerves, bands 

 ^««% '^^'MH distinct; ligule short, truncate, ciiiolate, scarcely auricled. Panicle 

 ''ntuchesp" ? ' rather stiff or fiexuous; rachis scaberulous or smooth below; 

 Biiddle- w ,^ i^preading, filiform, scaberulous, sparingly divided from below the 

 *ithLarni! .P,^^'^*^'* = ^ t'»e spikelet or shorter. Spikeiets green or tinged 



grain, — I have seen only one specimen amongst all the 

 'siiovarion^s ' ^^^^'^^^'^^^^ with apparently (but by no means typical) extravaginal 

 I'cbleich.j of 1;^.*".?^^^*^^ specimens of the type resemble var. nigricans (F. nigricans, 



^^O*ron, J . ^'^^^^^^«> a»d ^^ ra6ra var. fallax, forma alpestris {F. nignacuis, 

 "^daioreLi' H^ ^^^^ ^^^^''''^' ^° absence of extravaginal shoots, more open sheiiths, 



,Tar lia,. ^^^^y '^^^^^^^ » slightly developed constriction below the top. 

 ^reor'lesV '^^^^^^^ "»ore flaccid, leaves up to 1 ft., ligule up to ^V ^n- ^^'^^^ 

 *8s.-^Ka«i,. • " auricles. F. violacea, var, virescens, and F. rubra genuimi, Hack. 

 Var Sr' '." U-13,0U0 ft,, Duthie. ^ , 



*^T^nervL!f' ^""^^^ very flaccid, cauline leaves up to 8 by yV ^o- pubescent 

 *^^. V Kr,yP^*>Uii«^ut beneath, panicle flaccid, spikclets green, nwn long or 

 ^Ka^iTt^^^^ I^amh. ex Had mss.; GHseh. in Ooett. Kachr. (186*8 /3. 



^^^\ diff^rin ^~^^'?00 ft., i?«</««._Approaches closely shade foruis of ^. Aeiero- 



''^"'Dgin f/""'"' «lt. 7-80U0fc., Thomson, ^uthie - . , , ,. 



01 -t. ruJj-a, L., by tlie liairy ovary and absi'ucc of stolons. 



'■^rJtfr!;**?*'?' ^'•''^- «-^ -Z^«?ei. i^/. ^/^. i. 109, Fl. Eoss.{v.ro\,Ic. 

 f^'Jed S >5«<i. n«de8 1-2, leaves up to 9 in. subsetace.ms sheaths 

 ^'tt- verv 1 *^^ °^^^dle latterly to the base, ligule very short imnicle 

 'P'^^letsTfl^^f ' ^^^e"- branches 2-nate long slender with 1-2 subtermina 

 'P'^«let8 whll*^ P'*i'°elg equal to or longer than the 3-6-fld. vunegated 



'''iich are \-^ ja. long, glumes thin tips and margins hyaline. 



