356 cLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hookei.) [Fettuca, 0. Stapf. 



I 



filiform in the male fl. Grain -f id., _ 



ventrally flat, hilum reaching rather above the middle. 



Sect. II. VuLPTA. Annnals (the Indian species). SpiMets subsecunJ 

 in spiciform or racemiform panicles ; pedicels clavate, often very snort. 

 Glumes divergent, I minute or 0, II muc>i shorter than the tig., long- 

 awned. Stamens 1-3 ; anthers very short. Ovary glabrous. Gram linear 

 adherent to the palea. 



16. P. niyuros, Linn, Sp. PI 74; panicle elonerate branched below 

 base usually embraced by the upper sheath, pedicels half the lengta o 

 r1. II or longer, gl. I minute, fig. gls. 5-8 as longr as their awns, stamens 

 1-:^. Host Gram. Aii^tr. ii. 66, t. 93; Engl, Bot, t. U12 ; Knapp (^ram 

 Britt.t. 70; Kunth Enum, PI i. 396, Snppl. 330; Ledeh. FL ^,<^'\'^' 

 349. F. Psendomyuros, Soyer WiUem.inAvn. Sc, JS^at. f^er. I-^ii-}*^f/ 

 445. P F. nniglumis, GrLseb, in Goett. Nachr, (1868) 73 {non Solanah 

 Vulnia Mynros, Gmeh FL Bad, i. 215; Reichh, Ic. FL Germ.i. t. ou, 

 a Koch inLivnsea,^x\, (1848)409; T. I^'ees Gen. FL Germ ^^/''''^^^^ 

 n. 71; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 628. V. Pseudo-myuros, Reichb JfL uen ^ 

 Excurs. 37. Mygalurus caudatus, Link Enum. HorL Berol i. 92. 



Western Hiwalata. from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 5-9000 ft. WestbbS 

 Tibet, alt. 9-12,000 ft.— Distrib. Europe, N. Asia. . , ^her 



Stem 6-18 in., very slender, leafy, glabrous. Leaves setacrous, upper ^^'^"^^j^.y^ 

 tumid grooved sheaths embracing the base of the pnniole ; '^&"*® . ^ ' , '^^gnche 

 Panicle 4-10 in., strict or flexuous, glabrous or pubcrulous^, rachis ana ^^^^ 



3 



th 



smooth or scanerulous, lower branches nppressed, upper very short. *>pt«^ ^niooth 

 the awns J-J in.; rachilla smooth or ciliolare ; gls. I and ll '^"^"^^^.^i ^j^?«Tnt«» 

 or more or less scaberulous, nerves obscure. — I have seen no specimen of i. «"y 

 Solaud. from India, and suspect Grisebach's plant to be E. Mynros. 



Sect. III. Naedurus, Reichb. (Gen.). Spikelets spicate, solitary, sessi^^ 

 on the joints of the rachis or with very short flat pedicels. ^^^^ -^^ie. 

 gent, equal or unequal ; flg. gls, awned or not. Stamens 3, ^ ^^^ ™ cave, 

 Ovary glabrous. Grain oblong or subpyriform, obtuse, ventrally co 

 glabrous, adherent to the palea. 



17. F. tenuiflora, Schrad. FL Germ.i. 345; leaves ^^ry short ^^^• 

 form subdexuous convolute, spike simple, spikelets socnnd ^^^y*\^{^ 

 gls. 1 = ^11 linear-subulate acuminate keeled, fig. glf. ^^'^^^^ ^!J\p/ i. 

 mucronate or shortly awned smooth or hispidulous. Kunth -^""'"j^ .^s 

 395, SnppL 330, F. maritima, Linn, Sp, PL 75. Nardurus ^enui" .^^ 

 Boiss. Voy, Bot, Espan, ii. 667, FL Orient, v. 632. N. ""'^^.^^ nft^tiUi^l- 

 ex rJnn.^a, xxix. (1857-8) 780 ; Fourn, in BidL Soc. Bot Fr. xni. (^^^^^^^^ 

 Catapodium unilaterale, Griseh, in Ledeh, FL Boss. iv. 347. ^r ^ 

 hispanicum, Willd. Sp. PL i. 479. T. maritimum, WiUd. lc,(in ^^^^^^i^ 

 Nardua, DC. FL Franc, iii. 87. T. tenellum, Viv. ^^^^' ^^^^-^ ;mn(- 

 Host Gram, Austr. ii, 20, t 86 {excl Syn.). T. unilaterale. ^^"J!* jj. yi-S 

 1. 35. Brachypodium tenuiflorum & tenellum, Roem. & Sch. oy • 

 {ex Kunth). 



Kashmir ; near Sirinagur, alt. 5-6000 ft., DatAie.— Disteib. Westwd. ^^^^^,^, 

 SUtns 3-16 in,, tufted, slender, wiry erect, strict or curved, smootn. 



