Poa, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 



Stems 15-20 in., stoloniferous, erect or ascending from a prostrate rooting base; 

 internodes 5-7, gradually lengthening upwards, all but the upper included in the 

 sheaths. Leaves 4-8 by in., linear, acute, smooth or nearly so, glabrous, flaccid, 

 upper often longer than their sheaths ; lower sheaths lax, upper about 6 in. , smooth ; 

 ligule - in., obtuse, or shorter in the surculi. Panicle up to 10 in., pyramidal, often 

 elongate, very lax and flaccid, rachis smooth ; lower branches often 6 in., capillary, 

 flexuous, loosely branched and at the tips only, nearly smooth, branchlets roughish. 

 Spikelets distant, oblong, pale green ; rachilla glabrous or hairy ; gls. thin, rather 

 distHnt ; I i- in., acute or acuminate, 3-1-nerved, margins hyaline, keel roughish ; 

 II rather larger, broader in the middle, lateral nerves sometimes short ; flg. gls. 

 i in., oblong, subobtuse, keel and all the obscure nerves and interspaces or the 

 outer only silky-hairy; palea shorter, keels ciliate especially towards the base. 

 Lodicules unequally 2-lobed. Anthers -^"rV m -> elongate-oblong. 



Var. micranthera, Stapf; fl. gls. less hairy, anthers smaller, gls. I and II 

 usually thinner, lateral nerves sometimes obscure. Kashmir, alt. 12-13,000 ft., 

 Clarke, Dutkie. 



16. P. G-ammieana, Hook.f. ; stem leafy throughout, leaves broadly 

 linear long-acuminate, ligule oblong, panicle contracted or at length open, 

 lower branches binate or solitary, spikelets - in. 3-2-fid., gls. firm, I 

 lanceolate acute, II narrowly oblong, fl. gls. oblong tip only hyaline, 

 nerves prominent outer and keel silky-hairy, keels of palea shortly ciliate, 

 wool scanty. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Tankra Mts., alt. 12,000 ft., Gammie. 



Stems 1-2 ft., terete, smooth, leafy; internodes 7-8. Leaves up to 4 by i in., 

 scattered along the whole stem up to the panicle, flat or plicate, glabrous, smooth, 

 except the margins and midrib, upper shorter; lower sheaths lax, median 2-3 in., 

 asperulous or nearly smooth, except the margins; ligule J-- in., acute, dorsally 

 roughly puberulous. Panicle up to 4 in., narrow, lower branches capillary, 

 flexuous, loosely branched at the tips only; branches and brauchlets smooth. 

 Spikelets i in. and upwards, shortly or the terminal longer pedicelled, oblong, acute, 

 pale green; gls. firm, I ^ in., 3-nerved, margin entire hardly hyaline; II rather 

 longer, narrowly oblong, 3-uerved ; fl. gls. i in., acute or subobtuse, keel and outer 

 nerves prominent silky-hairy, palea rather shorter. Lodicules subquadrate, shortly 

 2-lobed. Anthers -^ in., oblong. 



17. P. annua, Linn. Sp. PI. 68 ; stem shortly creeping and rooting 

 stoloniferous, leaves flat flaccid acute, panicle ovate or oblong sometimes 

 subsecund lower branches at length spreading or deflexed, spikelets 3-7-fld., 

 gls. 1 and II oblong-lanceolate obtuse, flg. gls. prominently 5-nerved 

 margins and tip broadly or narrowly scarious, keel and nerves below 

 more or less silky ciliate, keels of palea long-ciliate, anthers minute. 

 Host Gram. Austr. ii. t. 64; FL Dan. t. 1686 ; Engl. Bot. t, 1141 ; Knapp 

 Gram. Britt. t, 52 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 82 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 377 ; 

 Boiss. fil. Orient, v. 601 ; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 75 ; Wight Cat. n 

 1789 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 372'; Trim. Gat. Gey I. PI. 110; Aitchis. Cat 

 Panjdb PI. 168; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 40, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 67. 

 P. alpina, Herb. Stracli. fy Winterb. n. 12. P. Roy lean a, Nees ex 8 tend. 

 8yn. Gram. '256. Herb. Strach. 8f Winterb. n. 3 ; Duthie I. c. ; Griseb in 

 Goett. Nachr. (1868) 75. 



Throughout the TEMPERATE & SDBALPINE HIMALAYA, & WESTEKN TIBET, 

 alt. 6-12,000 ft., the KHASIA and NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 5-7000 ft. (introduced?). 

 CEYLON (introduced ?) DISTKIB. Europe, Temp. Asia. 



Annual or perennial ; stolons slender. Stems 6-12 in., erect, usually geniculate, 

 slightly compressed, smooth ; internodes gradually lengthening upward, upper 



