CLXXIII. GRAMINEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 233 



very large effuse or contracted, spikelets in. sessile or shortly pedicelled, 

 gls. I and II oblong-lanceolate unequal, III tip 2-fid, awn -| in. Duthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 27; Steud. Syn. Gram. 132. S. altaica. Trin. ex Ledeb. 

 Fl. Alt. i. 80, in Act. Acad. Petrop. 1829, 74 ; Ledeb. Ic. 'FL Ross. t. 222 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PL i. 184. Lasiagrostis splendens, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 

 58, Enum. PL i. 178; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. 89 ; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. 

 82. Agrostis longiaristata, Serb. Ross, ex Kunth Enum. I. c. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Falconer, Ac. DISTRIB. Siberia. 



Stem 3-5 ft., as thick as a goose-quill below, yellow, shining; roots very stout, 

 vermiform. Leaves 6-12 in., and sheaths smooth or scaberulous, acuminate, lower 

 sheaths long loose; ligule elongate. Panicle 12-18 in., pyramidal when open ; 

 rachis slender, smooth ; branches semi -verticil late, capillary, 4-10 in., simple below, 

 branched above. Spikelets white or dull purplish ; gl. I and II subacute ; I 1-nerved ; 

 II longest, 3-nerved, III and palea villous ; callus short, conical; awn 5 in., not 

 twisted. Anther-tips bearded. Lodicules 3, oblong, very minute.- A small state 

 collected in Balti by Schlagintweit and in the Karakoram, alt. 9000 ft. by Clarke, is 

 only 18 in. high, with an open panicle 3-6 in. long, and pale purple spikelets. 



14. S. Orthoraphium, Steud. Syn. Gram. 131 ; stem slender, leaves 

 flat or convolute, panicle very nai row, branches few erect few-fld., spike- 

 lets \-\ in., gl. Ill as long as II sparsely hairy tip entire, awn glabrous 

 with 2 or more defiexed spinules towards the base. Orthoraphium Roylei, 

 Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1841) 94, in Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. (1841) 221. 

 JStreptachne ? Wall. Cat. n. 3795. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 7-11,000 ft., Wallich, 

 &c. NAGA HILLS, alt. 10,000 ft., Clarke. 



Stems densely tufted, 18-24 in. Leaves 6-12 in., -^-^ in. broad, and sheaths 

 quite smooth ; ligule short, ciliate. Panicle 6-10 in., rachis erect; branches solitary 

 or binate, lower 13 in. bearing few distant, narrow, terete, pedicelled spikelets; 

 gls. subequal, 1- or faintly 3-nerved, obtuse or tips sub-dentate; III very narrow, 

 hubrostrate ; callus short, obconic, bearded; awn 1 in., rather stout, not twisted, 

 nearly smooth, jointed on the gl. but persistent. Lodicules 3, large, oblong, obtuse. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. BKEVIFLORA, Grisel. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 82 ; stems 1-1 ft., leaves 

 short convolute, ligule short obtuse, panicle narrow base sheathed, branches 1-2- 

 nate distant, gls. I and II linear-lanceolate acuminate, III seriately hairy, awn 2 

 in., hairs towards its base shorter. Western Tibet, Gnari Khorsum, Schlagintweit. 

 Probably S. orientalis, Trin. 



61. ORYZOPS1S, MicJix. 



Perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets loosely panicled, 

 ovoid or lanceolate, dorsally compressed, 1-fld. Glumes 3, I and II 

 equal or subequal, acute or subrostrately acuminate, very thin; I 

 5-nerved; II sub 3-nerved; III shorter, coriaceous, articulate by a short 

 broad glabrous basal callus, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more or less 

 pubescent, tip minutely 2-toothed, with a very slender often caducous un- 

 twisted awn ; palea oblong, coriaceous, as long as the gl., glabrous or 

 hairy. Lodicules 2, ovate, thin. Stamens 3, anther-tips minutely bearded. 

 Grain doreally compressed, oblong, free within the hardened gl. and palea. 

 Species about 16, N. temp, regions. 



