466 GRAMINE^. 



Pulneys : in moist places, near and below Kodaikanal. 

 Bourne 1035,* 1992, 1994, etc. 



Gen. Dist. Temperate mountains of India, Europe, North Africa' 

 North Asia. 



BRACHYPODIUM. f.b.i. 173 cxxiv. 



Perennial slender grasses with flat or rolled leaves 

 and long slender spikes of narrow many-flowered, awned, 

 spikelets, sessile on and closely appressed to the axis^ 



Species 6 in temperate regions and on tropical mountains. 



Brachypodium sylvaticum Beaiiv. ; F.B.I. vii 362, 

 CXXIV I. Stem 2 to 4 feet very slender. Leaves 

 narrow, acuminate, more or less hairy. Spike 2 to 6 

 inches, nodding, its axis flattened. Spikelets % to I 

 inch by Ye inch, green. Glume i % inch strongly 

 nerved; glume ii longer; flowering glume about Yz inch, 

 seven-nerved, gradually narrowed into the slender erect 

 awn ofYs^oY, inch. 



On the downs of both plateaus. Bourne. 



Gen. Dist. Europe, North Asia, temperate mountains of India, South 

 Africa. 



