240 CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



66. PHIPPSIA, Br. 



Very small perennial grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets minute, 

 laterally compressed, in sparingly branched subspiciform panicles, not 

 jointed on their pedicels; rachilla not produced beyond gl. III. Glumes 3, 

 membranous, all persistent, i and II very short, obtuse, nerveless ; III 

 terminating the stipitiform rachilla, oblong, obtuse or tip rounded, nerves 

 or 1-3; palea as long or longer than the gl-, tip 2-fid, nerves very faint. 

 Lodicules 2, hyaline. Stamens 1-3. Styles very short, free, plumose to 

 the base. Grjtin oblong, loose. Species 2, an Arctic and the following. 



This genus should perhaps be placed near to Colpodium. 



P. himalaica, Hook.f. ; palea much longer than its gl. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Barji-Khang Pass, alt. 14,500 ft., 

 Sfrachey Sf Winterbottom ; Gurwhal, on the Duder Glacier, alt. 13-14,000 ft., 

 Duthie. 



Densely tufted, 6-3 in. high, very slender. Leaves 2-4 by $ in., linear, obtuse ; 

 ligule long. Panicle 1-1^ in., sometimes almost reduced to a spike ; rachis slender, 

 smooth ; branches very few, short, erect and appressed to the rachis, bearing 2-3 

 spikelets. Spikelets 1. in. long, pale brown ; gl. I shortest, ovate, obtuse ; II 

 almost orbicular, concave, = about i III, nerveless, tip rounded; III raised on a 

 short cylindric naked rachilla, concave, obtuse, nerveless, sparsely hairy on the back 

 towards the base; palea longer than the gl. and nearly as broad, concave, tip 2-fid, 

 keels ciliate". Lodicules 2, ovate-lanceolate. Stamen 1, filament very long ; anther 

 nearlyaslargeasgl.III. Ovary narrow; stigmas broadly plumose. Differs from 

 the Arctic P. algidq, in the much narrower leaves, in the fewer very shortly pedicelled 

 larger spikelets not crowded on lateral branches, in the narrower gl. Ill, long palea, 

 very large anther, broadly plumose stigmas, and long ligule. 



67. CYATHOPUS, Stapf. 



A slender perennial grass. Leaves flat. Spikelets l-fld.,-very small, 

 subterete, singly pedicelled on the branches of a decompound narrow 

 panicle, articulate on the cupular tip of the pedicel, rachilla not produced 

 beyond the flg. gl. Glumes 3, 1 and II subequal, oblong, beaked, persistent, 

 stro; gly 3-nerved ; III rather shorter, membranous, obtuse, 5-nerved below 

 the middle ; palea lanceolate, acute, keels smooth. Lodicules 2, ovate- 

 lanceolate. Stamens 3, anthers short. Styles distinct, stigmas short. 



C. sikkimensis, Stapf in Hook. In. PI. t. 2395. Hymenachne, n. 3. 

 Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. Milium Treutleri, Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. 780 (in 

 part). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachoong Valley, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H, 

 Stem 2-3 ft. high, from a creeping stoloniferous base. Leaves 6-10 by - in., 

 finely acuminate, many-nerved, scaberulous, margins thickened smooth ; sheaths 

 deeply striate ; ligule elongate, scarious. Panicle 8-12 in., oblong, or pyramidal; 

 rachis and branches flexuous, terete, scaberulous ; branches fascicled or subverti- 

 cillate, lower 2-4 in. long, naked below. Spikelets -j--*--^ in., scaberulous, shortly 

 pedicelled, pale green ; gls. I and II stoutly subaristately beaked, scaberulous ; 

 nerves scabrid ; III oblong, nerves slender; callus obconical; palea linear-oblong, 

 2-nerved. Anthers and stigmas short. Munro regarded this very distinct grass as 

 forming a new genus near the Hymenachne section of Panicum. Dr. Stapf has, I 

 think, rightly referred it to near G-arnotia. 



