222 OLXXIII. GBAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Anthoxanthum. 



dorsal bent awn ; Y fig., minute, hyaline, broad, obtuse, glabrous, awnless, 

 5-7-nerved ; palea narrow. 1-nerved. Lodicules 0. Anthers 2, large. Ovary 

 glabrous ; styles long. Grain terete, acute, free within the shining gl. 

 and palea. Species 4 or 5, native of temperate regions. 



A. ODORATUM, Linn. Sp. PI. 28 ; Kuntk Enum. PI. i. 38, Suppl. 28, 

 t. 8 ; Host Gram. Austr. t. 5 ; Fl. Dan. 666 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 106 ; 

 T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. t. 16 ; Knapp. Gram. Brit. t. 1 ; 

 Engl. Bot. t, 647 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 14 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 408 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 470. 



Occasionally found in the Hill districts of INDIA, but only as introduced by 

 man or as an escape from cultivation. Native of Europe and N. Asia. 



Perennial, sweet-scented, especially when dry. Stem 6-18 in., tufted, erect or 

 ascending. Leaves flat, hairy. Panicle 1-5 in., pubescent or villous. Spikelets 

 i g in., fascicled, sometimes squarrosely, green ; gl. I ovate, acute ; II lanceolate ; 

 III and IV curved, obliquely truncate. The glumes are often described as 6. 

 The sixth, though 1-nerved, is, I think a palea, analogous to the 1-nerved palea of 

 Hierochloa and of a few other grasses, the nerves being theoretically formed of 

 two confluent ones. 



58. HIEROCHLOA, Ginel. 



Perennial, erect, sweet-scented grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets 1-3-fld., 

 laterally compressed, panicled, not jointed on their pedicels, rachilla not 

 produced above gl. Y. Glumes 5 ; I and II equal or unequal, 1-3-nerved, 

 hyaline or scarious, shining, keeled ; III and IY usually similar, awned, 

 2-3-androus or neuter; palea 2-nervedorO; Y fem. or bisexual, palea 1- 

 (rarely 2-) nerved. Lodicules 2, small. Anthers linear. Styles free. 

 Grain oblong, free within the gls. Species 8-10, of temp, and cold 

 regions. 



* Panicle effuse. Spikelets long-pedicelled ; gl. Ill IY and Y 

 hirsute and ciliate, III and IV paleate, palea narrow, male ; V smaller ; 

 rachilla produced between the gls. 



1. K. laxa, Br. in Wall. Gat. n. 3796 ; leaves ensiform acute, spike- 

 lets | in. long, gl. I and II equal or subequal faintly nerved, III and IY 

 truncate very shortly awned, Y hirsute above the middle not awned. 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 25. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 10-12,000 ft., to Kurnaon, alt. 

 12-16,000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., ascending from a stout creeping rootstock. Leaves 6-10 by -| 

 in., quite smooth ; ligule large, oblong. Panicle 3-5 in., lax, oblong, inclined ; 

 branches solitary or geminate and pedicels capillary. Spikelets much compressed, 

 brown ; gl. I 1-nerved ; II faintly 3-nerved ; IV sometimes fem. and diandrous ; palea 

 of V sometimes distinctly 2-nerved, but usually 1-nerved, more or less hispid. 



2. K. flexuosa, Hook. f. ; leaves narrowly linear, spikelets i in. 

 long, gl. I and II subequal acuminate 3-nerved, III 2-toothed very shortly 

 awned, III acutely 2-fid awn longer than the gl., IV not awned villous in 

 the upper half, palea 1-nerved. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Bijean, King's Collector. 



Stem 2-2% ft., erect, very slender. Leaves about in. broad; ligule oblong. 

 Panicle 2-3 in. long and broad, very lax-fld. ; rachis branches and pedicels all 

 capillary and fleiuous. Spikelets much compressed, brown; gl. I and II lauceo- 



