352 cLXxiii. GRAMiNKiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Festma, 0. Stapf, 



flg. gls. ^ -^(y in., awns shorter or gl. mucronate, ovary pyriform tip his- 

 pidulous. Kunth Ennm, PL i. 411 ; Stend. Syn. Gram. 315. F. Duthiei, 

 Hack, mss, 



"Western Tibet ; Drus, alt. 11-12,000 ^t„ Dut hie ; Karakoram, alt. 14,500 ft, 

 Clarke, — Distrih. Central Asia, Siberia, 



Stems lj-2ift., smooth. Leares suhrigid, complicate, smooth, margin obscurely 

 scabrid, nerves 7-9 slightly prominent, bands of sclerencljyma distinct, cauline some- 

 times flat, short; sbeatbs of inuovs. open to the middle, soim splitting to the base; 

 ligule very short. Panicle ovate, riicbis slender smooth, branches up to 3 in. sub. 

 capillary fiexnous, Sjiikelets oblong, iuternodes -^\j in., scabendous ; gl. I t4 "'' 

 lanceolate, acute, 1-uevved, II ^-i in., distinctly 3-nerved ; fig. gls. oblong-lanceolate, 

 smoother subscaberulous towards the acute tip, nerves 5 fiiint ; palea = the gl., 

 linear-oblong, keels minutely scaberulous. Lodicules obliquely ovate. Anthers 

 |— ^ in., linear. Styles terminal. — Very near the Americau F. scahrella, lorr. 

 Trinius describes the rhizome as stoloniferous, but I find no trace of stolons. 



*** Fig. gls. glabrous or pubescent; top of ovary glabrous, rarely 

 minutely hairy. Innovations intra- and extravaginal, their leaf-sheatbs 

 closed almost to the mouth, the extravaginal often stolvmiferous. 



8. r. Zieving-ei, Stapf; stems smooth, nodes 2, upper in i- of stem, 

 canline leaves up to 4 in. very narrow, sheaths of innovs. open to ^^^^^^* 

 glabrous or minutely puberulous above, ligule very short obscurely auricle . 

 panicle 2-3 in. linear strict, branches usually binate erect, lower nakea 

 tor I, spikelets I-} in. 4^5-fld. compact, iuteruodes of rachilla very abort 

 minutely sci^berulous, fig. gls. ^-^^ in. oblong acute awnless or mucronate, 

 anthers oblong, ovary glabrous or nearly so. 



Kashmir, Levlnge. ^ - » 



Stems II ft., extravaginal innovations present very slender, their ^f^^'^^ ."y 

 setiform, flaccid, green, 5-nerved, bands of sclerenchyma fine. Fanicle **^I',^^.J 

 branches often appressed to the rachis, lowermost up to 1^ in.; lateral peai 

 short, thick. Spikelets green; rachilla minutely scaberulous ; gls. membranou.. 



loosely adherent to the palea, linear-oblong, grooved, hiluni almost = the grain 



9. F. rubra, Linn, Sp. PI 74; stems smooth, nodes 2, extravaginal 

 innovations frequent ascending or stoloniferous, leaves subsetaceo , 

 ligule very short truncate exauricled, panicle 3-5 in., rachis ^cao^^' 

 branches solitary or lowest biuate divided from or near the base, ^P^^Vx 

 1-1 in. oblong loose 4-9-fld., flg. gls. strongly involute oWongdanceoia^ 

 margin above broadly hyaline awned, anthers linear, ovary ^^^ p, :' 

 Host Gram. Ausfr. ii. :>S\i. H2; Enril BoL t. 205^; Kunth ^'jl'l'^- i ':,, 

 401, Siq^d. 331; SIcikL Sf/n. Gram. 308; LedelK Fl. Boss. iv. 3^>4; ^^^ - 

 VL Orient, v. 62; Duthie Grass. NJV. Inch 42 {in pari) ; ? Griseb. in ^^ 

 Nachr. (1868) 74. 



TkmP. and SUBALPINK HIMALAYA, alt. 6-13,500 ft. KUASIA Hltt^» 



5-6000 ft. (var. C/arA-etJ.— Distrib. Temp, and Arctic Europe and Asui. ^^^^^^^^^ 

 Stems li -2i ft., erect or genicuhite below, striate. Leares 3-5 iBm ^^ .^j^|,t^uge, 

 ceous or cauline linear flat, rather thick, green, 3-7-nerved, subacute ^^^^^^-^i^ very 

 smooth ; sheaths of innovs. tight, sniootli, closed almost to the mouth. P^^^ longest 

 variable, narrow, nodding and pccund or erect, rather dense and *^^^*^^i -^y and 

 branches 2 in.; pedicels short. Spikelets greeu or variegated, glabrous or D .^^^^,^ 

 ciliate; rachilla scabrid, internodes ^\ in. ; gl. 1 | in., lanceolate, acuminate, 



