256 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agrostis. 



6. A. brachiata, Munro mss. ; tall, very slender, leaves long, ligule 

 very small, panicle ^effuse, branches branchlets and pedicels capillary 

 divaricate, spikelets JV "* f ew distant very long-pedicelled, gl. I and II 

 subequal oblong subacute, III nearly as long narrowly truncate, callus 

 quite glabrous, awn median. Sporobolus, Wall. Gat. n. 3769 B. 



BBHAR ; at Monghyr, Wallich. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high or more, as slender as a sparrow's quill, weak and probably 

 decumbent on bushes, internodes 6 in. long. Leaves 6-8 by - in., finely acumi- 

 nate, contracted towards the base, thin and flaccid. Panicle'6-\.2 in., quite smooth, 

 branches 2-2 J- in. long, opposite or in distant whorls of 3-5, horizontal ; pedicels - 

 in. 01. I and II equal, cymbiform ; III as long as I and II, 5-nerved, mid-nerve 

 reaching halfway up ; palea minute. Grain oblong, compressed, as long as the gl. 

 An extraordinarily delicate species, quite unlike any other aud more resembling a 

 Sporobolus. The specimens are advanced, in frt., and I have seen no awn, or any 

 other indication of one except the shortened median nerve. 



7. A- filipes, Hook. f. ; very slender, leaves short very narrow, ligule 

 very short, panicle very narrow elongate, branches short alternate and 

 2-3-nate erect smooth, spikelets Y^-yV * n> shortly pedicelled erect, gl. I 

 and II unequal acute, III | shorter tip truncate nearly entire, callus quite 

 glabrous, awn dorsal from above the middle geniculate, palea minute. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft., in several places, Clarice. 



Stem 8-15 in., erect or geniculate below, densely tufted, base hard. Radical 

 leaves many, tufted, 1-2 in., subulate, cauline rather longer and broader. Panicle 

 2-4 in., interrupted; branchlets - in., capillary, shortly naked below, smooth. 

 Spikelets green or pale reddish; gl. I and II with scabrid keels; awn shortly 

 exserted. Anthers very short. Grain ovoid, acute. Nearest to A. canina, but 

 the long very narrow interrupted panicle is constant in all the specimens from 

 five distant localities at different elevations. 



Var. ? palea 0, grain linear-oblong. A. nervosa, Nees, var. aristata, Munro in 

 Herb. Kew. Sikkim ; at Lachoong, alt 9000 ft. 



8. A. Hooker iana, Clarke mss. (non Munro) ; very slender, leaves 

 very narrow flaccid, ligule oblong, panicle broad with rather distant whorls 

 of few very long flexuous capillary branches naked and unbranched for 

 half their length, spikelets YQ-- | in., gl. I and II unequal lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, III about shorter tip truncate denticulate, callus glabrous or 

 minutely hairy, awn dorsal, 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 9-11,000 ft., in meadows, /. D. H. Cummins (in Herb. 

 Clarke}. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-6 in., flat, -j^ in. broad. Panicle 2-6 in., branches 2-3 

 in., minutely scaberulous ; pedicels as long as the spikelets or longer. Spikelets 

 green, rather distant ; awn exserted ; callus sometimes distinctly but minutely bearded. 

 Anthers linear. Grain oblong. Spikelets very much larger than in the foregoing 

 species. This is not A. Hookeriana, Munro ex Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 30, nor 

 Lachnagrostis Hookeriana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 192. 



ft GL III not awned. 



9. A. micrantha, Steud. Syn. Gram. 70 ; tall, rather slender, leaves 

 narrow, ligule oblong, panicle elongate inclined contracted in fl., branches 

 long capillary smooth spreading in fruit, spikelets yV-yV i n -> gl- I an ^ II 

 unequal oblong-lanceolate acute, III - shorter tip truncate crenate callus 



