Tlate 2oa^. 



DEYEUXIA TREUTLERI, iSMff- 



Gkamineae. Tribe Agbostidrak. 



■eutleri, Stapf; perennis, folloruiu \i\ff 





linearibus tenuiter attenuatis flaccidis subtus asperulis liguli« '••''^"ff?. 

 panicula ovata primuui flaccidula deinde rigida patula semivertical w 

 distantibus ramis ramulisque asperis, spiculis anguste ovati" pallidiH 

 rhachillaj processu brevi asperulo, gluma I. ovato-lancpn .-ita a<uU I- 

 nervi, gluma II. ^-h longior magi's oblonga obtusiuscula, glutD^i in. 

 quam II. paululo long'ior lateraliter compressa lanceolato-ovaU cariuatA 

 firma asperula una basi pilis brevissimis ciricta 5-neryi nervjs c emum 

 proniinulis, palea dum» III. subaequilonga, carvopsi oblonga latem- 

 Hter compressa.-Milium Treutlen, 0. Knnize {m parte), Kct. Gen, 



Plant. 780. 



poll 





Hab. Sikkim, Shimong, 7500 feet, kunCze; ^f . f ^^^^^'^^ 

 Treuder (No. 486) ; from 7000 to 9000 feet, /. ^^^^^^ ' J^J^^' 

 12000 feet, C. B. Clarke (No. 26044); To-.-lo. 8000-9000 feet. G. 



-6. Clarke (No. 27438) ; 6. King (Ko. 3Wl). 



Cuhni ad 3 ped. alti, ad | vel fere ad paniculam ™^»^^^' ^'m 

 asperuli, internodiis 5-7 sursum sensim accresceutibus. fohorf.m 



vaginie suiiuTije ad 9 poll. longa>, laminK a 

 lin. latte. Fanicula ad 10 poll, longa, ad » 

 lin, longa. 



This species belongs technically to Deyen.ia^ altbough '^^l^^^^l'^ 



genus is difficult to point out and ^^^^f """*''' ;f'„4«ca SUpf, from 

 of thespikelet is not unlike that of i>ei/eux^ P*^^^^^^ 

 Kiuabalu, but the habit is entirely different. /^ La. j^J^ pi,.,„t, 



whatever to do with Milium. 0. Kuntze J^ef erred ^to^i^t aB^^ P,^ ^ 



But this plant 

 very different 



■w^hich was distributed as Hymenacmp in V-^v. 

 Thomson,' and which is extremely like it .^^^ ^^^^'.^j^^ 

 which is figured in our previous plate, has^pikelets^«ith a 



structure. and is the type of a new genus. 



Fig. 1. Spikelet. 2. Flowering dn;ne •■»"f J^X'"' 7. bHrpp^i^, laierul, «d 8. 

 open. 4. Pali«. 3. Stamen. 6. Ti^.til and lodKUKs. 

 dorsal view,— J ,7 enlarged. 



