236 CLXXIII. GRAMINE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Heleochloa. 



18. Phleum schoenoides, Linn. Sp. PI. 60 ; Jacq. Fl. Ausir. v. App. 29 

 t. 7 Tc. i. 2 t. 15; Cav. Ic. i. t. 52, f. 5. Spartina phleokles, Roth. Neue 

 Beytrag. i. 101. Pechea sub-cylindrica, Pourr. Ghlor. Narbon. n. 103. 



The PANJAB, WESTERN HIMALAYA, and WESTERN TIBET ; Kashmir, Jaequemont. 

 Iskardo, alt. 7000 ft., Thomson. BANDULKUND, Duthie. PSiKKiM; at Dorjiling, 

 Herb. Griffith. DISTKIB. Westward to the Atlantic. 



Glaucous. Stems many, 1-10 in., prostrate with ascending tips, leafy, rigid. 

 Leaves 1-2 in., narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; sheaths deeply furrowed, margins 

 glabrous or ciliate ; ligule a short ring of hairs. Panicle -2 in. by -3 in. di;im., 

 green. Spikelets % in. ; gl. all 1-nerved, keels ciliate; I and II narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate ; I shortest ; III ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; palea oblong, truncate, 

 nerveless. Lodicules 2, oblique, cuneate. Stamens 2-3, filament very long ; anthers 

 small. The Bandulkund specimens are very small and pale, almost silvery white, 

 with very small spikes hardly emerging from the leaf-sheath. The Sikkim habitat is 

 probably due to a misplaced ticket. 



2. ZZ. dura, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 477 ; perennial, minutely pubescent, 

 stem stout ascending, leaves involute pungent, panicle elongate cylindric 

 narrow. H. alopecuroides, Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 48 (non Boiss.). 

 Crypsis dura, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. II. iv. 125. C. phalaroides, Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 25 (non M. Bieb.). Yilfa setulosa, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 

 Ser. VI. v. ii. (1840) 55; Steud. Syn. Gram. 154. 



SCIND, Stocks, in salt water. DISTKIB. Arabia. 



Whole plant pale, and clothed with a very fine velvety pubescence. Stems 

 610 in., densely fastigiate from a woody inclined base which is clothed with leaf- 

 sheaths, ascending, stout, as thick as a crow-quill, hard, few-leaved. Leaves 3-6 in., 

 quite terete, rigid, pungent; sheaths short, coriaceous; ligule 0. Spikes 2-4 in. by 

 - in. diam. Spikelets -J-j in., membranous, gl. all 1-nerved and with ciliate keels, 

 1 and ll narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate ; III half as long again, oblong, mucronate ; 

 palea oblong, bifid, 2-nerved, lobes obtuse ciliate. Lodicules 2, obliquely cuneate, 

 acute. Stamens 2 ; filaments very long; anthers short. Ovary ovoid; styles very 

 long, slender. Boissier cites Griffith by error, for Stocks, under the habitat of 

 Scind. 



64. PHLEUM, Linn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets 1-fld., with rarely 

 a rudimentary 2, imbricated on cylindric or oblong spiciform panicles, 

 strongly laterally compressed, not jointed on the very short pedicels ; 

 rachilla sometimes produced beyond gl. III. Glumes 3, I and II equal, 

 keeled, awned or mucronate ; III much smaller, hyaline, awned or not, 

 3-5-nerved, toothed ; palea small. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. Ovary gla- 

 brous; styles long. Grain compressed, free within the gl. and palea. 

 Species about 10, temp, and Arctic. 



Phleum pratense, Linn. (Timothy grass) is mentioned by Royle (111. Bot. Himal. 

 417, and Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 28) as a native of the N.W. Himalaya (Urukta & 

 Chur), but this has never been confirmed. 



1. P. alpinum, Linn. Sp. PL 59; perennial, upper sheaths inflated, 

 panicle ovoid or oblong, gl. 1 and II truncate as long as their awns keels 

 hispid, III 3-nerved. Fl. Dan. t. 213 ; Host Gram. Austr, iii. t. 10 ; Kunth 

 Enum. Pl.i. 29; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 21; Engl. Bot. t. 519; Knapp 

 Gram. Brit. t. 7 ; Reiclib. Ic. M. Germ. t. 50 ; Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 458 ; 

 Sitmd. Syn. Gram. 150; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 484; Wall. Cat. n. 3779; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 28- P. Hsenkeanum, Presl Eel. Hsenlc. i. 245; 





