372 CLxxiii. GRAMiNEii':. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hordeum. 



m 



Botvil (1843) 215.^Tenip. aud Alp. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim, Tibet 

 and China. * . 



Var. nudum ; spikolets 2-ranked, grain free within the paloa. H. nudum, Arduiui 

 inSchult, MatiL ii. 437. H, gymnodistichum, Waft Diet. Econ, Prod. Ind. iv. 274. 

 H. distichum, j8. Kunfh I, c, i. 455 ; Keiv Bullet, (1888) 271. H. coeleste, Aoffs. 

 et Wern. l.c, i.l66, ii. 629. ?H. hhnalavense, Itittig Beschr. Himal. Gerste (1822J, 

 ex SchuU. Mant. ii. 481.— Cult, up to 14^,000 ft. with brown or often purplish spikes. 



1. K. spontaneum, C, Koch in Linnsea, xxi. (1848) 430; tall, 

 densely tufted, leaves flat finely acuminate, spike narrow rachis fragile, 

 spikelets 2-ranked lateral stipitate male awnlese, flg. gl- lanceola^ 

 plumosely ciliate, awn very long flattened. Steiid. Syri. Gram. 351.^ -o- 

 ithabnrense, Boiss, Diarjit. Ser. I. xiii. 20; Fl. Orient, v. 687; Aitclus. tn 

 Trans, Linn, Soc. Ser. II. iii. 127. H. Decaisueanum, liorL 



Beitish Beluchistan; Quetta, Stocks. — Disteib. AVestwd. to Paleatine. 



Stems for»uiug great clumps 3 ft. Int^h, resembling cultivated barley, ^^"^^'^• 

 L c. Leaven flaccid, narrowed into very long points; ligule short. Spi^^^ i'S" \' 

 Spikelets i in., pedicel fiat with villous margins ; gls. linear-oblong. AvJi^ **-^ ^ ' 

 —The only truly wild Barley of the cultivated type, most nearly allied to v"'^^ 

 var. distichon, but differiug in the villous spikelets and jointed fragde spii^ • 

 Grisebach, however {in Ledeh. FL Ross. iv. 317) says under the cultivated i^. 

 dxstichu7n, that he has found the spike to be fragile in some of its forms. 



2. K. murlnum, Linn. Sp. Fl. 85; stems ascending leafy, sP^^J 

 stout subcylindric fragile dense- fld., spikelets :^nate lateral ^^^09. 

 nenter, fl. g\, lanceolate awned ciliate below or glabrous. Fl. Dan.}* ^r ; 

 EodGram,Austr.i.2h,%,Z2', FnglBot.t. 1971; £^^cipp Gram. BrttL^^y^ 



Reichb. Ic. Fl. Genu, t. xi. ; T. Nees Gen, FL Germ. Monorot. i. n, 83 ; A«'' 

 1?.^..... T>j : ^r,. c* .- 7 o"r/^ T 1 J TT., -n ._ • 000. z?^;.o m Orient.^' 



(1848) 433 ; Steud. L c. Triticum murale, Salisb. Prodr. 27. Xeocnio 



munnum, Beauv, Agrost. 125. 



Kashmir ; alt. 5-6000 ft., Jacquemont, &c. Pesuawuk, Steicart.—^^^'^^^ ' 

 Westwd. to the Atlantic. , brousor 



Stem 6-18 iu., ascending from an often decumbent base. Leaves flat, g ^ jqus, 

 sparsely puberulou? and scaberulous ; sheaths inflated; ligule small, . , g|. 

 Spikes l~~2i hy l~l in., inclined, green. Spikelets with the awns 1 m. ; ^^^^^^^^^ 

 filiform; flg. gl. flattened, much shorter than the straight awn ; keels of puiea 



** Perennials^ 



{excl. Syn. Ray) 



(1843) 391. H. maritimum, lioth Tent. Fl. Germ. IT. i. 1-^0 ; 

 630. Zeocriton secalinum, Beauv. Agrost. 115. 



Kashmir & Iskaedo, alt. 7700 ft, Clarke, Dutliie. WesTIb: 

 10-15,000 ft., Thomson, ijbibchilum (N. of Kumaon) alt. 15,000 tt 

 Winterbottom.^'Dis'i&iB. Europe, N. Asia, temp. N. & S, Amencii. 



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