264 CLX7HT. GRAMINE^E (J. D. Hooker.) [Calamagrostis. 



narrow flat, panicle effuse or contracted, branches long or short sub- 

 erect or spreading, spikelets T V~1 in., gl. I and II subequal oblong-lanceo- 

 late acute or acuminate 1-nerved smooth, III oblong tip truncate erose 

 or crenate with sometimes 4 minute setulae, awn subbasal exserted, hairs 

 of callus = i gl. Ill or shorter, anthers linear. Agrostis pilosula, Trin. in 

 Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. vi. II. (1845) 372. 



TEMPEKATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-14,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkiin. 

 NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 3-6000 ft., Fright, Schmid, Jacquemont, &c. CEYLON, alt. 

 6-8000, Walker , &c. 



Stems 1-3 ft. or more, tufted, 6-10 in. in alpine specimens, erect from a short 

 inclined base. Leaves variable in breadth, up to in., but usually very narrow, 

 flaccid, smooth or subscaberulous ; sheath smooth ; ligule very variable, longest in 

 the upper leaves. Panicle very variable, large and eft'use with spreading branches 

 1-4 in. long naked below and with loosely crowded spikelets at the extremities, or 

 contracted with suberect shorter branches, or short broadly ovate or triangular ; 

 branches branchlets and pedicels minutely scabrid. Spikelets membranous, green and 

 glistening in the larger forms, purple in others and more herbaceous in the alpine ; 

 gl. I and II smooth or subscaberulous, I rather the shortest, keels near or quite 

 smooth, rarely scabrous ; III - shorter than I, hyaline, hairy all over, nerves often 

 indistinct ; palea usually very minute, rarely nearly half as long as its gl. ; awn more 

 or less exserted. A very variable grass of which Wallich's No. 3775 A from Nepal, 

 with spikelets T L in. long may be regarded as the type ; his B has rather larger 

 spikelets, but is not otherwise different. I am far from supposing that I have suc- 

 ceeded in unravelling its synonymy which is inextricably confused with 0- Munroana 

 Agrostis alba and others. The following are marked forms in their typical states as 

 denned, but they pass into one another. 



Var. Wallichiana ; very slender, leaves narrow sometimes filiform smooth, panicle 

 2-3 in., branches spreading lax-fld., spikelets green or purple. Agrostis ciliata, #, 

 Nees in Herb. Royle. A. Hookeriana, Munro in Herb. Kew (non tSteud.). A. Neesii, 

 Steud. I.e. 293. A. nervosa, var. aristata, Munro in Herb. Hook. f. fy T. & Herb. 

 Falconer. A. Eoyleana, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 30 (non Trin.). A. Wallich- 

 iana, Steud. Syn. Gram. 174. Laclmagrostis ciliata, Munro in Herb. Jacquem. n. 

 215. L. Hookeriana, Munru mss. Arundinella Hookeriana, W. 8f A. ex Arn. in 

 Herb. Kew (Ceylon). dgrostis Wall. Cat. n. 3775. Agrostis n. 5, Herb. Slrachey 

 ^ Winter b. A common form. 



Var. scabra ; stem 2-4 ft. stout, leaves 6-12 by %-% in., panicle very large effuse 

 with long spreading horizontal capillary branches sometimes 4-5 in. long in distant 

 whorls or fascicles, spikelets -^-^ in. pale green, gl. IIL with the truncate tip some- 

 times minutely 2-4-mucronulate. Agrostis bicuspidata, Hack, in Herb. Duthie n. 

 10,088. A. Royleana, Hack. I. c. n. 7583. Lachuagrostis scabra, Nees in Herb. 

 Royle. In woods at about 7-10,000 ft. from Kashmir to Sikkim. 



Var. alpestris; stem 6-18 in. strict, leaves narrow strict, panicle shorter 

 narrow or broad, spikelets smaller T V~TV m - dark P ur pl e rarely green, gls. I and 

 II oblong-lanceolate, palea sometimes = ^ its gl. Agrostis nervosa, Nees in Herb. 

 Royle-, ?Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. vi. II. (1845) 328. A. Eoyleana, 

 Nees I. c. (non Trin.). A. ciliata, ft. nervosa, Nees in Herb. Royle. A. Roylei, 

 Trin. ex Hack, in Herb. Duthie n. 6229. Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 11-15,000 ft. 

 A common grass at high elevations. 



Var. ciliata; panicle narrow effuse, rachis flexuous, spikelets i in. shortly 

 pedicelled pale shining, palea = i its gl. Calamagrostis ciliata, Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 193. Agrostis ciliata, Trin. I. c. 373. Lachnagrostis ciliata, Nees ex Steud. 

 1. c. N.W. India, Royle. An obscure plant of which I have seen a single specimen 

 from Herb. Royle. 



11. C. Schmidii, Hook. f. stem very slender erect, radical leaves 

 tufted on a woody branched rootstock linear-lanceolate rigid narrowed into 



