312 CLXXIII. GIIAMINE-E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Catabrosa, 0. Stapf. 



ligule broadly ovate, rounded. Panicle 1 in., ovate, erect; rachis smooth; branches 

 spreading or deflexed, filiform, with few spikelets ; lateral pedicels very short. 

 Spikelets oblong, pale green ; rachilla smooth, tip setifonn ; gls. thin, obtuse, I 

 1-nerved ; J I longer with 2 short lateral nerves; III 5-nerved, lateral nerves very 

 faint and keel hairy ; palea 2-fid, keels with long hairs. Anthers oblong. Lodicules 

 connate near the base. Grain obliquely oblong, compressed. 



5. C. nutans, Stapf; panicle open or contracted flaccid, spikelets 

 i-i in. 2-5-fld. Colpodinm nutans, Griseb. in Goett. Nadir. (1868) 76. 

 Graphaphorum nutans, Munro ex Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 41. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Jacquemont, 

 &c. 



Stems 12-18 in., .tufted, erect, smooth, nodes 2-3. Leaven very variable in 

 length and breadth, up to 6 in. by ^ in., flat flaccid, many-nerved; sheaths of 

 innovations closed nearly to the mouth ; ligule in. Panicle 2-5 in., nodding or 

 tiexuous ; rachis smooth; branches subcapillary, lowest 2-3-nate, sparingly divided 

 beyond the middle ; lateral pedicels half as long or as long as the spikelets. 

 Spikelets broadly obovate, variegated, rachilla glabrous ; gls. very broad, thin, obtuse 

 and erose ; 1 1-3-nerved, II longer, -j-j in., with 2 short lateral nerves; III obovate, 

 3-5-ncrved, lateral nerves very short, all hairy; keels of palea hairy. Lodicules 

 lanceolate, connate near the base. Anthers linear. Grain oblong, subterete, with a 

 shallow ventral groove. 



** Empty gls. as long as t he fly. or longer. Dupontia, Br. (Gen.). 



6. C. Wallichtiij Hook. f. ; panicle subracemose few-fld., spikelets 

 in. 1-2-fid. Gramin., Wall. Cat. n. 8907. 



NEPAL, WallicJi. SIKKIM ; Kankola Pass, alt. 14-15,000 ft., J. D. II. 



Stem 6-18 in., from a shortly creeping base, slender or rather stout, smooth, 

 nodes 1-2. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowly linear or filiform; ligule T \y in. oblong, obtuse. 

 Panicle 1-2 in., very narrow, usually reduced to a few-fld. raceme, erect ; rachis 

 smooth ; branches with 1-3 spikelets, capillary, flexuous. Spikelets pendulous, 

 green or purplish; rachilla with a setifonn tip; gls. very thin, obtuse; I oblong 

 1-3-nerved ; II broader, more obtuse, 3-nerves, side-nerves reaching about the middle ; 

 III broadly elliptic-oblong, 5-uerved, inner side-nerved very faint, glabrous or nearly 

 so, outer and keel shortly hairy, keels of palea ciliate. Lodicules lanceolate, connate 

 to the middle or below it. Anthers linear-oblong. Grain oblong, compressed. 

 The Sikkim specimens have somewhat smaller and paler spikelets than the 

 Nepalese. 



104. EUAGROSTIS, Bcauv. (by O. Stapf.) 



Annual or perennial grasses. Stem erect or genicnlately ascending, 

 very rarely prostrate. Leaves narrow, ft pikelets many- (rarely 1-2-)^ 

 fld., in open or contracted panicles, raiely in simple spike?, not articulate 

 at the base (except E. cynosuroides), usually strongly laterally compressed ; 

 rachilla firm or subarticulate between the flg. glumes, not produced be- 

 yond the uppermost gl. Glumes many, broad, obtuse acute or mucronate, 

 never awned, dorsally rounded and keeled; land II much shorter than 

 the spikelet, equal or unequal, empty, persistent or separately deciduous, 

 1-nerved or If 3-nerved ; flg. glumes imbricating, at length deciduous 

 from the rachilla, 3-nerved, ail bisexual or the uppermost and rarely the 

 lowest imperfect ; palea broad, membranous, deciduous with its gl. or per- 

 sistent ou the rachilJa, keels 2 ciliate scabrid or smooth. Lodicules 2, 

 very minute. Stamens 2 or o. Ovary glabrous; styles 2, stigmas 



