CLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 375 



131.' ASP&RX:Z.X.A, Eumh. 



(Not in Clavis, p. 9.) 



Tall perennial grasses. Leaves narrow, flat. SpiJcelets 1- or more-fld., 

 ^~t).nate opposite hollows in the rachis of a terminal elongate simple 

 Bieuaer spike, with the sides of the glumes opposite the rachis ; rachilla 



S t l.^^ *^^ ^^' S^^' ^^^^^s I and II 0, or in the lowest spikelets 

 aurn ^^' subulate; %. gls. rigid, lanceolate, convdlute, narrowed into an 

 ^y, Oorsally rounded, 5-nerved above the middle; palea 2.keeled. Lodi- 

 sti? ^^^^'^^te or dimidiate-obovate, hairy. Styles very short, free, 

 gmas plumose. Grain narrowly oblong, ventrally grooved, adherent to 

 and the ni''^ 7^Uous.— Species 5, 1 Siberian, 2 American, 1 K Zealand, 



pro^ce?^****^*' ^^ailf m 7/t>(>/i'. Ic. PI. ined.f.; spikelets 1-fld., rachilla 

 Cbi?^^^^ Himalaya; Tihri-Garwhal ; alt. 7-8000 ft, Duthie.—DisTHiB. 



menibrr "^ ^^ ' &^^^rous. Leaves 10 by f in. lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, thinly 

 I'piile t^^' scabrid on both surfaces ; sheaths elongate, nodes thinly villous ; 

 ^piielirT'^^^' minutely ciliolate. Spike 6 in., very slender, rachis pubescent. 

 ^^n- fl* 1^*"* ^^"°' nearly all 2-nutc, pale; rachilla glabrous terminated by an 

 itself n ^^"^eoliite, 7-norved, narrowed into an awn ahnost twice as long as 



Allied fn^T r^"^^^ ' ^'^^^^ ^*^o^^^ ^*s long as the gl. Lodicules obovate, hairy.— 

 the IflH ^•.,-^^*^^^'^> VVilld., and to A. sibirica, trautv. differing from both iu 

 has n-^'r ®P'*^^^®*^«- Foliage as in A. Hystrix, but spike not at all stiff. A. sihirica 

 ^tapf ™^^ haves, more uiarkedly nerved gls., and much shorter awns. 



Tribe XI. Bambuse-e. (See p. 91.) 



y J^- S. GaMELT.. at a TI^ T. « n/^T.cAvt^Q + nr nf For 



Tlie follow] 



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'g7 ^iimens, Kew "^ 



'^^^ap^aS^ ^^^« ^"ttea, Mr. Freeman Mitford's - The Bamboo Garden - 



»^owtr2' M ""^'^^ ^^P^«*^« ^ith valuable observations upon the habit mode ot 

 *="*«vatedW^^ o^' the hardy species of Bamboo (mcludmg 5 Indian 



''"^ ^y hau, la it is pointed out (see Arundinaria Simonx, p. 60) for the 



