Koeleria.~\ OLXXIII. GHAMINE*. (J. D. Hooker.) 309 



purplish, or silvery with agreeu keel ; gls. I and II acute, broadly hyaline, glabrous 

 pubescent or scabrid, keel subscaberulous, rachilla scabrid; flg. gls. lanceolate, acute 

 or submucronate. The synonymy given above includes but a few of the names given 

 to this variable grass, the determination of the species of which would involve great 

 labour. In India there are two prevalent forms, both common European ones, which 

 following Boissier may be thus defined. 



Var. tenuifolia, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 575; stems 6-10 in., leaves very short narrow 

 convolute, panicle 1-3 in., spikelets -i in. green or purplish. K. brevis, Kiev, in 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxx. (1857) II 110. Koeleria, Wall. Cat. u. 3792. 

 Subalpine and alpine situations, alt. 9-13,000 ft. 



Var. grandiflora, Boiss. 1. c. ; leaves longer broader flat, panicles 3-5 in. white 

 often interrupted or branched below, spikelets in. K. glauca, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 iv. 402. K. grandiflora, Bertol. ex Sohult. Mant. ii. 345. Temp, regions, alt. 

 5500-11,000 ft. 



Sect. II. LOPHOCOLEA, Reiclib. (Gen.). Annual. Fig. glumes 2-fiJ, 

 awned. 



2. K.. phleoides, Pers. Syn. i. 97 ; leaves soft flat glabrous or hairy 

 on the margins and towards the base, panicle cylindric pale or dull green 

 lobulate or not, spikelets 3-7-fld., gl. I and II unequal acute or aristately 

 acuminate glabrous pubescent or hirsute, flg. gls. 2-fid awned in the sinus, 

 awn -i as long as the gl. rarely longer. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 383, 

 tiuppl. 3~17, t. 28, f. 1 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 294; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 403 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 572 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 36, Fodd. Grass. N. 

 Ind. 61; Aitchis. Gat. Panjab. PI. 170; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 639. K. 

 berythea, Boiss. & Bl. Diagn. Ser. II. iv. 135. X. brachystachya, DC. 

 Cat. Hort. Monsp. 120. K. cristata, Bertol. Amoen. Ital. 67. K. dacty- 

 loides, Spreng. Syst. 332. K. Figarei, de Notar. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. 

 ix. (1848) 325. K. obtusiflora, Boiss. I. c. I. vii. 131. K. trapezuntina, G. 

 Koch in Linntea, xxi. (1848) 396. Festuca cristata, Linn. 8p. PI. 76. F. 

 phleoides, VUL Fl. Delph. 7, Hist. PL Delph. ii. 95, t. 2 ; Host Gram. 

 Avstr. iii. t. 21. Lophochloa phleoides, Reiclib. FL Germ. Excurs. 42, Ic. 

 FL Germ. 73; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 63. Wilhelmsia 

 caucasica, G. Koch in Linneea, xxi. (1848) 4(JO. Dactylis caudata, & 

 cylindracea, Brot. FL Lusit. i. 99, 100. D. pungens, Hornem. Enum. 

 Hort. Hafn. ex Kunth (1804) 9. D. spicata, Brot. ex Spreng. Syst. i. 332. 

 Trisetum phleoides, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 65. 

 Poa phleoides, Lawk. Illustr. i. 182. Bromus alopecuroides, Lagasc. Gen. 

 $ Sp. Nov. 4. B. dactyloides, Roth Nov. Sp. 60. Rostraria pubescenp, 

 Trin. Fund. Agrost. 149. 



PLAINS of the PANJAB, from Lahore westwards. The SALT RANGE, &c. 

 KASHMIR, Clarke. DISTRIB. Westwd. to the Atlantic. (Australia, iutrod.) 



Stems 6-12 in., erect or ascending. Leaves as long or shorter, erect, acuminate ; 

 sheaths smooth ; ligule short, truncate. Panicle ^-3 in., by - in. diaui., some- 

 times lobed or branched at the base. Spikelets |~i in., hardy shining, gls. I and 

 ,11 unequal, shorter than the flg., keels scabrid or smooth ; I oblong-lanceolate, 

 1-nerved; II longer, oblong, acuminate, 3-nerved; flg. gls. elliptic-oblong, 5-ncrved, 

 at length tubercled, awn shorter long, rachilla hairy. A variable plant in the glumes, 

 of which Boissier has 4 varieties. As with K. cristat, 1 have confined the synonyms 

 of K. plileoides to those I am pretty sure of. Probably a dozen others might be 

 cited. 



3. K. argrentea* Grisel. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 77; leaves flat 

 glabrous, panicle interrupted elongate, spikelets 2-3-tid. silvery white 



