308 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Cynosurus. 



Suppl. 323 ;..Evql. Bot. t. 316 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 64 ; Reichl. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 7 ; T. Nees Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 96 ; Beauv. Agrost. 66 ; 

 Steud Syn. Gram. 299 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 348 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 570 ; Duthie Grass y N.W. Ind. 36. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Drankar, in Piti, alt. 12-1 4 ,000 ft., StolizJca (introd.?) 

 DISTRTB. Europe, As. Min. (introd. elsewhere). 



Perennial. Stem 1-2 ft., slender, simple, wiry, strict, stoloniferous, naked 

 above. Leaves very narrow, slightly hairy ; ligule 2-fid. Panicle 1-3 in., semi- 

 cylindric, strict, rigid, oblong or linear ; rachis flexuous. Spikelets about -Jj in., the 

 outer pectinately arranged, forming an involucre to each fascicle ; flg. glumes I and 

 II oblong-, scabrid above, very shortly a\vned ; neuter gls. rigid, cuspidate, concave, 

 scabrid, pungent. I have seen no Indian specimen of this common European grass. 

 According to Boissier its Eastern limit is the Caucasus. 



102. K.OELERZA, Per*. 



Annual or perennial tufted grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets 2-7- 

 fld. (uppermost flg. sterile), densely crowded in subspiciform panicles, 

 strongly laterally compressed, very shortly pedicelled ; rachilla jointed 

 between the fl. gls., and produced beyond the upper. Glumes I and II 

 unequal, empty, persistent, keeled, acute or acuminate ; fll. gls. broadly 

 scarious, 3-5-nerved, mucronate acuminate or bifid and shortly awned in 

 the sinus; awn straight scabrid; palea hyaline, 2-toothed. Lodicules 2. 

 Stamens 3. Stigmas subsessile, plumose. Grain oblong, laterally com- 

 pressed, free. Species about 12, of N. temp, regions. 



Sect. I. AIROCHLOA, Link. (Gen.). Perennial. Fig. glumes entire, not 

 awned. 



1. XL. cristata ? Pers. Syn. i. 97; leaves short, panicle shining, 

 spikelets 2-4-fld. I 1-nerved, II longest, 1-3 nerved ; flg. gls. acut 

 or mucronate. Fl. Dan. t. 2223 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 381, Suppl. 

 315 ; BeicKb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 93 ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. 

 n. 64; Steud. Syn. Gram. 292; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 36, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 61; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 170; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 

 402; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 57 i; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 639. K. glauca. 

 DO. Cat. Hort. Monxp. p. 117; Ledeb. I.e. K. gracilis, Pers. I.e. K. 

 Linkii. Kunth I.e. K. lobata, Roem. & ScL Syst. ii. 620. K. nitida, 

 Nutt. Gen. Am. i. 74. K. valesiaca, Gaud, in Alpina iii. 47, Agrost. i. 149. 

 Aira cristata, Linn. Sp. PI. 63 ; Engl. Bot. t. 648 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 

 30. A. glauca, Spreng. Nachtr. Bot. Gart. Halle, i. 10; Fl. Dan. t, 1566 ; 

 Kunth I. c. i. 381. Airochloa cristata, valesiaca, pubescens, & gnicilis, 

 Link Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 127, 128, ii. 228. Dactylis cristata & lobata, 

 Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. i. 67. D. paleacea, Linn. Herb, e.v Munro in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 44. Poa cristata, Withering Arr. Brit. PI. 145 ; 

 Host Gram. Austr. ii. 54, t. 75. P. nitida & pyramidata, Lamk. llluxtr. 

 i. 182, 183. Testuca cristata, Vill. Hist. Pi. Dauph. ii. 93. F. dactyloides, 

 & F. glaucescens, Both. Nov. Sp. 78. 



TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, and WESTERN TIBET ; from Kashmir to 

 Nepal, alt. 5-13,000 ft. DISTRIB. N. temp regions. 



Densely tufted, stoloniferous. Stem 1-3 ft., slender, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Leaves narrow, flat or involute, glabrous or the lower ciliate; old sheaths not 

 lacerate ; ligule obscure. Panicle 1-4 in., linear- oblong or lanceolate ; branches very 

 short, scabrid ; peduncle glabrous or tomentose. Spikelets ^-i in., shining, green, 



