Garnotta.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE-E. (J. T). Hooker.) 243 



truncate, ciliate. Panicle 8-18 in. ; rachis stout, strict ; branches slender, rigid. 

 Spikelets rather few and distant, geminate, lower subsessile, upper on capillary 

 pedicels. 



B. Leaves scattered, linear or very narrowly lanceolate, flaccid, articulate 

 on the sheath. 



6. Cr. polypog-onoides, Munro eot Oliver in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1481 ; 

 stem 6-12 in. slender, leaves T \,-i in. broad lanceolate from a narrow base, 

 panicle contracted flexuous, spikelets | in. base bearded, gl. I and II entire 

 one or both long-awned, III 3-awned. G. polygonoides, Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 12. Berghausia Emodi, Endl. ex Miq. Analect. Bot. II. 20. 

 Miquelia Emodi, Arn. fy Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. six. Suppl. I. (1843) 

 179; Steud. Syn. Gram. 119. Gen. Nov. Wall. Cat. n. 8884. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 6-9000 ft. 



Stem tufted, rarely branched, about as tbick as a crow-quill. Leaves 4-6 by 

 rV~4 U1> > hirsute towards the base ; sheath with glabrous or pubescent margins ; 

 ligule very short, fimbriate. Panicle 2-5 in. ; branches subscaberulous. Spikelets 

 green or brown ; gl. I narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved; II broader; III dark brown, 

 2 lateral nerves excurrent as minute bristles, median awn many times longer than its 

 gl., base twisted. 



7. G. stricta, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 132, t. 21 ; stems 2-3 ft. 

 tufted, leaves -jV^a i n - broad, lower lanceolate from a narrow base, panicle 

 2-10 in. very narrow, branches in distant fascicles, spikelets -^-Q in. base 

 sparsely hairy, gl. I and II finely acuminate or JJ _noJ&hdJbj!Jowjb]ie awn, 

 III entire or notched awned or .not, awn shorter or longer than its gl. 

 G. ascendens & Griffithii, Munro in Cat. PI. Griff. Helf. fyc. ined. G. 

 augustata, Hack. mss. G. sandvicensis, Hillebr. Fl. Hawaii, 513. ? Ber- 

 ghausia pallens & B. tenella, Arn. ex Miguel Analect. II. Bot. 21, 22. B. 

 ascendens, Munro mss. Andropogon adscendens, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8906. Chrysopogon ?, Wall. Cat. n. 8789. Tripogon ?, Wall. I c. 

 n. 8891. - Gramin. Wall. I. c. n. 8906. Aira, Griff 1 . Notul. iii. 56, Ic. 

 PL Asiat. t. 145. Herb. Wight, n. 3243, 3244. 



SUBTROPICAL and TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Garwhal to Mishmi and BURMA, 

 alt. 4-9000 it. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft. BBHAR ; on Parusnath, Clarke. 

 CHOTA NAGPORE and WESTERN GHATS, from the Concan southward, Wight, &c. 

 (Kew distrib. 6780, 6781, 6787). DISTRIB. Sandwich Islds. 



Annual ? Stem usually geniculate and branched at the base, rarely thicker than 

 a crow-quill, stiff, nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 6-10 in., lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, flat or margins involute, glabrous or hirsute or scabrid above ; sheath 

 glabrous or hirsute above ; ligule short, truncate. Panicle strict or flaccid, branches 

 scaberulous. Spikelets pale j gl. I and II 3-nerved, median nerve sometimes ex- 

 current, III 1-uerved or nerveless, median awn in. or less. Probably G. patula, 

 Munro, of China and Tonkin, which has densely tufted leaves, is this species. 



Var. khasiana, Stapf; stout, 3 ft. high, leaves sometimes nearly 1 in. broad, 

 panicle a foot long. 



Var. breviaristotta, Stapf j gl. I and II not awned. 



8. Cr. arundinacea, Hook. f. ; stem branched, leaves lanceolate 

 from a rounded or subcordate base flat acuminate, panicle 4-6 in. nodding, 

 branches fastigiate capillary, spikelets yV"i i n -> gl- I an d II notched and 

 awned, awn of III twice as long as its gl. Andropogon arundinaceua 

 Heyne in Herb. Rottler. 



NILQHIRI HILLS, alt. 2-6000 ft., Heyne, &c. 



Stem reedy, as thick as a pigeon's quill, branches ascending. Leaves 2-3 ia. by 



R 2 



