Avena."] CLXXIII. GEAMINE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



2-aristulate 1- or sub 3-nerved, awn longer than the gl. recurved or 

 reflexed column not twisted. 



KASHMIR ; at Laka and Budrawur, alt. 10-11,000 ft. CHAMBA; Dalhousie, alt. 

 8700 ft., Clarke, 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 4-8 in., flaccid, softly hairy on both surfaces ; sheath with 

 spreading or reflexed soft hairs. Panicle 3-5 in., erect or inclined, rachis slender; 

 lower branches solitary or fascicled, rarely 1 in. long. Spikelets erect, pale brown, 

 shining, rachilla penicillate with very long hairs ; gls. hyaline as in A. subspicata, but 

 longer and narrower. Very near A. subspicata, but much more slender, with a 

 longer loose panicle of shining much narrower spikelets, with obsolete side nerves. 



9. A. micans, Hook.f. ; stem and rachis of panicle pubescent or tomen- 

 tose, leaves glabrous, ligule short lacerate, panicle contracted elongate 

 ovoid or linear interrupted dense fld., branches short flowering to the base, 

 spikelets % in. densely imbricate silvery hyaline 3-5-fld. quite glabrous, gl. 

 I and II very unequal 3-nerved, ti. gls. lanceolate obscurely 5-nerved, tip 

 acuminate shortly 2-aristate, awn inserted | way from the tip very slender 

 as long as the gl. column not twisted. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Garwhal, hanks of the Ganges, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Duthie. 



Stems 12-18 in., densely tufted, rather stout, leafy. Leaves 6-12 in. flat, narrow, 

 rigid, finely acuminate strongly nerved, smooth or scaberulous ; sheath quite smooth ; 

 ligule reuiform, membranous. Panicle 3-4: in. by -! broad, erect or inclined, strict 

 or subflexuous ; lower branches solitary, densely flowering to the base. Spikelets 

 very pale greenish yellow ; rachilla slender, ciliate; gl. I lanceolate, II longer than 

 I oblong-lanceolate, keels of both scaberulous ; fl. gls. with bearded calli ; awn 

 straight or recurved; keels of palea minutely scabrid. Lodicules narrow, cleft. 

 Anthers linear. Ovary obovoid, quite smooth, style bases close together. Quite 

 unlike any other Indian species, but very near A. virescens, Hegel of Turkestan which 

 has flaccid leaves and an entire tip of fl. gls. 



10. A. flavescens, Linn. Sp. PI. SO; tall, slender, quite glabrous, 

 ligule long, panicle effuse flexuous inclined or nodding branches capillary 

 few-fld. naked below, spikelets in. 2-3-fld brown shining rachilla slender, 

 gls. spreading, I and II unequal hyaline narrow I 1-nerved, II 3-nerved, fl. 

 gls. narrowly lanceolate 3-nerved tip acuminate 2-aristate, awn stout 

 inserted J-i way below the tip, twice as long as the gl. base twisted. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 1507 ; Host Gram. Austr. iii. 27, t. 38 ; Engl. Bot. t. 952 ; Knapp 

 Gram. Britt. t. 89; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 99 ; Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 417; 

 Grweb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 78. Trisetrm flavescens, Beauv. Agrost. 88 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i. 298, Suppl. 252, t. 19, f. 2 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 537. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Sikkim, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H. DISTRIB. Europe 

 N. Asia, Japan, N. Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 6-18 in., flat, finely acuminate, more or less hairy ; sheaths 

 smooth ; ligule elongate, membranous, lacerate. Panicle 35 in., quite glabrous, 

 lower branches solitary or 2-nate. Spikelets larger than in most other species of this 

 section, the awn longer ; rachilia nodose below the fl. gls., penicillate with long 

 hairs; gls. I and II lanceolate, acuminate; fl. gls. chartaceous with hyaline margins 

 and tips, keels scaberulous as are the keels of the palea. Lodicules short, 2-lobed. 

 Anthers small. Grain narrow. 



11. A. aenea. Hook. f. ; stem glabrous, ligule short rounded, panicle 

 spicit'orm dense-fid, oblong or linear simple or lobed, branches very short, 

 spikelets \- in. 2-3-fld. densely imbricating sessile or very shortly 

 pedicelled dark or pale brown shining, glumes hyaline I 1-nerved, II 1-3- 



