364 CLXxiii. GRAMiME.K (J. D. Hookcr.) [Brachypodium. 



Spikdets J-iJ in., errct, recurved from the raclns, glabrous or pubescent, green 

 and purplish. Glumes coriaceous; I 5-nerved ; II 7-uerved ; flg. gls. oblong, 

 mucronate, 5-uerved, 



Tribe X. HoRDEiE. (See p. 8.) 



125. XiOZiZUni, Linn. 



Erect annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. ^SjnAre- 

 lets many-fld., solitary, sessile in the alternating distichous hollows of a 

 terminal inarticulate spike, with the b-ick of the lowest fl. gl. towards the 

 rachis, rachilla jointed. Glumes many, 1 0, except in the terminal spikelet ; 

 II erect, rigid, persistent, many-nerved, empty, margins not involute ; nj?- 

 shorter than the empty, oblong, obtuse, acute or awned, dorsally roonded. 

 5- many-nerved ; keels of palea ciliolate or serrulate. Lodicules 2, riesny. 

 Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles terminal, feathery to the base, 

 Grain glabrous, adherent to the palea. — Species few, of the temperate Ula 

 World. 



The Italian Rye-grass. Z. muUiJlorum, Lamk. {italicum, A.Br.) is a cultivated 

 form of i. perenne. 



temulentuxn 



ceed 



t. 78; Steud.Syn, Gram. 340; Kunth £num. FL i. 437; Le^^'^^l^Z^ 

 iv. 345 : Boiss, FL Orient v. 681 ; Benth. FL AustraL vii. 667 ; f 'f^'' 

 Gat, Panjab, PL 171; WalL Cat n. 3790; Diithie Grass. N.W. i«*i. **' 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 68. L. annuum, Lamk Fl. Fr. iii. 620. L. arven^e. 

 With. Arr. Brit. FL Ed. III. ii. 168. Craepalia temulenta, bcM^^^ 

 Baler FL i. 882. 



The Upper Gangetic Plain, the Panjab, Sind, and Western Himaiata, 



alt. 4-6000 ft.— DiSTEiB. Europe, N. Asia (iutrod. elsewhere). m ^^ 



Stem 6-18 iu., erect, usually stout. Leaves J-J in. broad, and sheaths srnoot"^ 

 scaberulous ; ligule very shore. Spike 6-10 in., strict, rachis stout. ^ptMc '^ .^■'^ 

 variable iu size and shape, longer or shorter than the iuternodes; gl- I ^"s 



rigid, erect; fl. gls. ^~J in., awn ^ in. or shorter, or 0. ^ -Id. 



y&r. s^>eciotium, Griseh. iu Lcdeb. I.e.; spike very stout, gl. I ^"J*^®* hirtuW 

 short turgid obtuse. L. speciosuui, Ster, ex Bieb. FL Taur. Cauc. i. 80. h. robu^ » 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xi. II. t. 4.— Western Himalaya (iutrod.?). 



I 



rigridum, Gaud., var. Duthiei, Hack, mss.; annual, stetn^a^^^ 



empty gl ratuer su..-^ 

 ubacute 5-nbbed, tig- g 



than the rest of the spikelet oblong-lanceolate subacute 5-ribbed, ng- g^^ 

 elliptic subacute 5-nerved scaberulous above the middle narrowed at. 

 hyaline apex into a slender terminal awn or awn infra-apical. 



Kashmir; near Siriuagur, alt. 5-6000 ft., Buthie (no. 10,846).— I>i3T«ib. o 

 rigxd}Mm, westward to the Cducasus and S. Europe. , .^.-j^rrt 



I adopt Hackel's detennluatioa of this grass, which differs from />. ^'^ . j„ 

 proper m the narrower spikelets closely appressed to the rachis of the spike, a^^^^^ 

 the awued glumes, a character to which there is no approach iu any of the uui 



