Phalaris.'] CLXXIII. GRAMINE.S. (J. D. Hooker.) 221 



be Indian on the authority of Wallich (Nepal), and Stewart (The Panjab) ; but in. 

 Focld. Grass. N. Ind. he says that he has not seen specimens; nor have I. It is a 

 Mediterranean plant. 



* PHALARIS proper. Spikelets in a dense cylindric or ovoid spiciform 

 panicle ; gls. I a'nd II with winged keels. 



1. P. minor, Retz. Obs. iii. 8 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 32 ; Trin. Diss. ii. 

 254, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 79 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. ii. ; Wight Cat. n. 173S ; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 25, Fodd. Grass. N.Ind. 45 ; AitcMs. Gat. Panjab 

 PI. 158 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, iv 455 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 472. P. ambigua, 

 Fig. & Notar. in Mem. Acad. Turin. Ser. II. xii. (1852) 326, t. 10, f. 6. P. 

 aquatica, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 56. P. bulbosa, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 35 (non 

 Linn.). P. canariensis, Wall. Cat. n. 3782 (non Linn.). P. capensis, Thunb. 

 Prodr. Fl. Cap. 19. P. nepalensis, Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 80 ; Kunth I. c. 

 33 ; Steud. I. c. 10 ; Duthie 1. c. Alopecurus otiporensis, Griff. Notul. iii. 94, 

 Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 143, f. 1. 



Plains of WESTEKN INDIA, and the HIMALAYA from Kashmir to Nepal, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. DISTRIB. Westwd. to the Canaries, S. Africa, Austral. 



Annual. Stem 1-3 ft., stout or slender, leafy. Leaves long, linear, acuminate ; 

 sheath smooth; ligule oblonsr, scarious. Panicle small and ovoid, or longer and 

 eylindric, 2^-3^ in. long by f in. diam., green. Spikelets in. broad, very shortly 

 pedicelled, shining ; gls. I and II acuminate, wings irregularly crenate or serrulate ; 

 III ovate, acute, silky, with one bristle-like imperfect gl. at its base. 



** DiAGBAPHis, Trin. (Gen.). Spikelets in a thyrsiform panicle ; gls. 

 I. and II. not winged. 



2. P. arundinacea, Linn. Sp. PI. 55; Fl. Dan. t. 259 ; Host Gram. 

 Austr. ii. t. 33; Enal. Bot. t. 2UiO ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 33, Suppl. 23 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 11 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 474. P. americana, Ell. 

 Sketch, i. 101. P. colorata, Beauv. Agrost. 172. P. intermedia, Bosc ex 

 Pair. Encycl. Suppl. i. 300. P. picta, Sort, ex Steud. Nom. Ed. I. 609. 

 Digraphis arundinacea, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 127 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 454. 

 D. americana, Loud. Hort. Brit. 27. Baldingera arundinacea, Dumort. 

 Obs. Gram. Belg. 130. B. colorata, Gsertn. Mey. & Scherb. Fl. Wett. i. 

 96. Calamagrcstis colorata, DG. Fl. Franc, iii. 26. Arundo colorata, 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 116 ; Engl. Bot. t. 402 ; Knapp. Gram. Brit. i. 98. 



KASHMIR ; Wolar Lake, alt. 5550 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. N. temp, and 

 Arctic regions. 



Perennials. SootstocJc creeping. Stems 2-6 ft., stout, erect. Leaves long, 

 i 5 in. broad, finely acuminate ; sheaths smooth ; ligule large. Panicle 4-8 in., 

 suberect; branches 1-2 in., spreading in flower. Spikelets % in., densely crowded on 

 the scabrid branchlets, very shortly pedicelled ; gl. I and II glabrous, lanceolate, 

 acuminate; I nerveless; 113-nerved; III ovate-lanceolate, sparsely hairy, with 2 

 minute linear gls. on the rachilla. Lodicules silky. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



P. PECTIN ATA, RotJi. Nov. Sp. 34; Kunth Enum. PL i. 34; panicle cylindric 

 spiciform, gl. I and II navicular margins membranous ciliate-pectinate, outer 

 corolla 2-valved villous. 



57. ANTHOXANTHUBX, Linn. 



Annual or perennial sweet-scented grasses. Spikelets 2-fld, narrow ; in 



a spiciform panicle, persistent on the short pedicels. Glumes 5, I and 



I herbaceous, empty, persistent, acute or mucronate ; I small, 1-nerved ; 



II longest, 3-nerved, III and IV very short, keeled, hairy, 2-fid, with a 



