344 CLXXIII. GRAMiNEJ). (J. D. Hooker.) [Poa, 0. Stapf. 



short, upper elongate, lower sheaths lax scarious, leaves linear flat or 

 plicate acute flaccid, panicle pyramidal, lower branches binate spreading 

 or deflexed, spikelets in. obovate 2-fld., flg. gls. broadly oblong obtuse, 

 base copiously silky-hairy, wool 0, keels of palea long-ciliate. P. alpina 

 partly, & P. flexuosa, ??partly Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. $ T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 16-18,000 ft. ; PLachoong Valley, alt. 11,000 ft., 

 /. D. H. 



Stems 8-12 in., from a slender evanescent rhizome, forming lax stoloniferous 

 tufts with the surculi, smooth, terete ; internodes mostly very short, the penultimate 

 ac - the stem, uppermost up to 6 in., exserted. Leaves 2-3 by T V~T\> in., chiefly 

 crowded towards the base of the stem, with 1-2 shorter higher up, or all short, 

 glabrous, smooth with roughish margins ; lower sheaths lax, scarious, upper up to 

 3 in., membranous, smooth; ligule jV nj in., ovate, obtuse. Panicle up to 2 in., 

 lax, lower branches 1| in. shorter, naked for most of their length, smooth, branchlets 

 roughish. Spikelets shortly or the terminal longer pedicelled, loosely disposed or 

 the. terminal crowded, green or suffused with violet, rachilla pilose; gls. firm, I % in., 

 acute, 1-nerved, keel roughish ; II rather larger, acute, 3-nerved ; flg. gls. rather 

 longer than II, upper hyaline, nerves obscure. Lodicules unequally 2-lobed. 

 Anthers -^ in., linear. Grain elliptic-oblong, laterally compressed. 



2. Spikelets ovate or oblong; gls. I fy II distinctly shorter than the flg. 



14. P. himalayana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 256; stem tall 

 erect or ascending slender weak, leaves linear flat long-acuminate rather 

 flaccid, ligule ovate or oblong, panicle contracted or effuse, lower branches 

 2- rarely 3-4-nate long capillary flexuous, spikelets -| in. 3-4-fld., gls. 

 distant, gl. I lanceolate acuminate margin hardly hyaline, lig. gls. narrow 

 tip alone hyaline, base scantily silky-hairy, keels of palea long-ciliate. 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 40. Deschampsia, Wall. Cat. n. 8885. Poa n. 

 18, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. $ T. 



TEMPERATE & ALPINE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Bbotan, alt. 7-13,000 ft., 

 Royle, Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



Stems 12-18 in., loosely tufted, smooth, internodes 5-6, gradually longer 

 upwards, mostly exserted. Leaves 1^-3 by T V-fb i n - rarely broader, narrowly linear, 

 roughish above, glabrous beneath ; sheaths appressed, smooth, upper about 4 in. ; 

 ligule about T ] T iu., ovate or oblong. Panicle up to 6 in., rather flaccid, very lax, 

 rachis smooth ; lower branches about 2 in., loosely forked at the tips only, branch- 

 lets roughish. Spikelets i-i in., rather distant] oblong, pale green; gls. thin ; I 

 -rV~F in., 1-nerved, keel roughish ; II rather larger, 3-nerved, lateral nerves long ; 

 flg. gls. - in., oblong, subobtuse ; nerves 5, slender, elongate, sometimes pro- 

 minent, outer pair & keel or the keel only silky-hairy, wool scanty. Lodicules 

 minute, unequally 2-fid. Anthers about ^ in., linear. 



15. P. tremula ? Stapf; stem rooting at the base ascending, leaves 



oblong i-J in. 3-6-fld., gl. I oblong- 

 flg. gls. with upper | hyaline, wool rather copious, keels of palea shortly 

 ciliate. P. altaica, Munro in Herb. Jacquemont (n. 277). P. nepalensis, 

 & nemoralis, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. $ T. (in part). P. trivialis Griseb. in Goett. 

 Nachr. (1868) 75; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 41. Festuca, Wall. Cat. n. 

 3798. 



TEMPERATE & ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 8-15,000 ft., Jacque- 

 mont, &c., to Garwhal, Duthie. WESTERN TIBET ; Ladak, Thomson, Schlagint- 

 weit. 



