862 cLxxiii. GBAMiNE^. (J. T). Hookei,) [Bromus, 0. Stapf. 



Annual. Stems 6-18 in., erect or ascending, pubescent or subTelutinous. 

 Leaves 2-5 in., linear, narrow, subacute, hairy or velvety ; young sbeatbs villous; 

 ligule ovate, lacerate. Panicle up to 5 in., usually contracted, erect, racbi« 

 pubescent ; branches 2-5-nate, unequal, suberect, rarely nodding, scabrid, simple 

 1-3-spiculate. Spikelets pale green, densely 5-10-fld. ; rachilla puberulous; gk 

 rutber narrow, glistening, scabrid with appressed hairs, tips long-hyaline, nerve* 

 prominent ; I i-f in., lanceolate, 1-3-nerved ; II ^Vao i°-> oblong-lanceoUte, 

 5-nerved; fig. gls. \~\ by ^-^ in., oblong-lanceolate, maigins infloxed below the 

 middle, subacute, 2.toothed, 7-9-nerved ; awn |-1 iu., infra-apical, nearly strftignt 

 or moderately recurved ; keels of palea loo.«eiy long-ciliate. Anthers y^-j id, 

 Orain y^-i in., linear-oblong, slightly concavo-convex. 



10. B. macroBtachySy Desf, FL AtlanL i. 96, t. 19, f. 2, var. tnaris- 

 tatus, Hack, in Flora (1879) ; panicle oblong or obovate-oblong loose or 

 contracted, spikelets l|-lf in. elliptic to linear-oblong, flg. gls. all or the 

 upper only with 2 straight slender lateral awns, median awn 2"^^^^' 

 finally twisted and strongly recurved. B. DanthoniEe, Trin. in C, -4. Jz^y. 

 Ferz. Pfl, Cauc. 21; 8p. Oram. Ic. t. 353; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind.'^' 

 Boissiera^ Danthoniae, A. Br. Ind. Sem. Sort. Berol (1857) 3. Tnmasa 

 Dantbonise, Steud, Syn. Gram. 328, 



Westkbn Tibet ; Spiti, alt. 12,000 ft., Zance.— Bistkib. Affghan., Turkestan, 

 As. Min, (of ^. macrostacliys, M- diterranean regions, Persia). 



Annual. Stem 6-18 in., erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 



2-5 in., narrowly linear, acute or subacute, more or less hairy or velvety; y<>"°J 



sheaths villous or velvety; lieule ovate, lacerate. Panicle up to 5 in., sonJet'*" 

 __ 1 1 i _ •. » . ', . , . ' . , « ii_ rt« fha lower 



iii-Htiis vujuua ui veivet^y ; iiguie ovate, lacerate, jramac up tu u *u.» 



educed to a spikelet, rachis glabrous or pubescent; branches solitary or the lowe 

 3-4.nate, uuequal, rarely 1 in., simple, 1-2-spiculate, strict, buberect, scabrid, rareiy 

 flexuous. Spikelets pale green, densely 6-20 -fld. ; rachilla pubescent; gls. broa^ 

 villous velvety or scabrid, t'ps and margins usually scarious and dull white, ne 

 prominent or not; gl. I ^^ in.; broadly lanceolate, 5-nerved; 1 1 about i i -i 

 oblong. 7-9-nerved ; fig. gls. |- nearly i 'in., elliptic to obovate-oblong, s^^^*^"^! 



long-ciliate. Anthers nearly ^-f in,, rarely -^ in. Grain ^Vs in., hnear-ot;*"^'^ 

 slightly concavo-convex, tightly adherent to the gl. and palea; hiluiu almos 

 long as the gl. 



BOtJBrFUL SPECIES. ^ 



B. MEMBRANACEtrg, Jacquem. nus.; Griseh. in Goett. Nachr. (1868} 

 Duthie Grass, N. ?r, Ind. 43 is Duthiaea brotnoides, Hack, (see p. 282). 



123. DuTHiEA, Hack. See p. 282. 



124. BRACKYFODZVM, Beauv. 



Perennial slender grasses. Leaves tlat or convolute. Spi^^^^^^ ^^-^^\ 

 many-fld., subsessile or in along slender spike appressed ^^.^^-l^^^in 

 rachilla elongate and jointed below the fl. gls. Glumes many, ^"^, ui^p^- 

 fl., spreading in frt. ; 1 and II persistent ; empty, narrow ; Ag- 8^^* ^ ^^ ; 

 lanceolate, acuminate, with a terminal straight awn or »^^^^^' o^'" others 

 keels of palea pectinately ciliate. Lodicules ciliate. Stamens '^"'•^' ^IJ^mp. 

 hnear. Ovary and grain as in Bromns.— Species 5 or 6, of nortn 

 and mt. regions. 



1. 



. sylvaticum, Beauv. Agrost. 101 ; roots fibrous, leaves "^^J^^,^ 

 y or scaberulous flat, spike drooping, awn as lon^ as its g^- ^q 



less hairy 



Fnum. PL Zeyl. 374 ; Trim. ^Gat. Ceyh PL TlO; Ledeb. K lioss. iv 



