352 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Festuca, 0. Stapf. 



% gl 8 - * -& in -j awns shorter or gl. mucronate, ovary pyriform tip his- 

 pidulous. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 411 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 315. F. Duthiei, 

 Sack. mss. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Dras, alt. 11-12,000 ft., DutUe ; Karakoram, alt. 14,500 ft., 

 Clarke. DISTRIB. Central Asia, Siberia. 



Stems 14- 2a- ft., smooth. Leaves subrigid, complicate, smooth, margin obscurely 

 scabrid, nerves 7-9 slightly prominent, bands of sclerenchyma distinct, cauline some- 

 times flat, short ; sheaths of innovs. open to the middle, soon splitting to the base ; 

 ligule very short. Panicle ovate, rachis slender smooth, branches up to 3 in. sub- 

 capillary flexuous. Spikelets oblong, internodes -^ in., scaberulous ; gl. I -f-i in. 

 lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, II -i in., distinctly 3-nerved ; flg. gls. oblong-lanceolate, 

 smooth or subscaberulous towards the acute tip, nerves 5 faint; palea = the gl., 

 linear-oblong, keels minutely scaberulous. Lodicules obliquely ovate. Anthers 

 | i in., linear. Styles terminal. Very near the American F. scabrella, Torr. 

 Trinius describes the rhizome as stoloniferous, but I find no trace of stolons. 



*** Flg. gls. glabrous or pubescent ; top of ovary glabrous, rarely 

 minutely hairy. Innovations intra- and extravaginal, their leaf-sheaths 

 closed almost to the mouth, the extravaginal often stoloniferous. / 



8. r. Leving-ei, Stapf \ stems smooth, nodes 2, upper in ^ of stem, 

 cauline leaves up to 4 in. very narrow, sheaths of innovs. open to middle, 

 glabrous or minutely puberulous above, ligule very short obscurely auricled, 

 panicle 2-3 in. linear strict, branches usually bin ate erect, lower naked 

 for ^, spikelets ^j- in. 4-5-fld. compact, internodes of rachilla very short 

 minutely scaberulous, flg. gls. ^ in. oblong acute awnless or mucronate, 

 anthers oblong, ovary glabrous or nearly so. 



KASHMIR, Levinge. 



Stems H ft., extravaginal innovations present very slender, their leaves finely 

 setiform, flaccid, green, 5-nerved, bands of sclerenchyma fine. Panicle striate, 

 branches often appressed to the rachis, lowermost up to l in. ; lateral pedicels 

 short, thick. Spikelets green ; rachilla minutely scaberulous ; gls. membranous, 

 glabrous or minutely puberulous or scaberulous ; I T ^ in., lanceolate, acute ; II 

 broadly oblong-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse ; palea linear-oblong, almost = gls., 

 keels ciliolate. Lodicules oblong, sub-2-lobed. Anthers -^-5 in. Grain T L jn., 

 loosely adherent to the palea, linear-oblong, grooved, hilum almost = the grain. 



9. r. rubra, Linn. Sp. PI. 74 ; stems smooth, nodes 2, extravaginal 

 innovations frequent ascending or stoloniferous, leaves subsetaceous, 

 ligule very short truncate exauricled, panicle 3-5 in., rachis scabrid, 

 branches solitary or lowest bin ate divided from or near the base, spikelets 

 f-f in. oblong loose 4-9-fld., flg. gls. strongly involute oblong-lanceolate 

 margin above broadly hyaline awned, anthers linear, ovary glabrous. 

 Host Gram. Austr. ii. 59, t. 82 ; Engl. Bot. t. 2056 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 

 401, Suppl. 334; Steud. Syn. Gram. 308; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 352; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 62; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 42 (in part] ; ? Griseb. in Goett. 

 Nachr. (1868) 74. 



TEMP, and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-13,500 ft. KHASIA HILLS, nit. 

 5-6000 ft. (var. Clarkei). DISTRIB. Temp, and Arctic Europe and Asia. 



Stems 1-2 2 ft., erect or geniculiite below, striate. Leaves 3-5 in., all subseta- 

 ceous or cauline linear flat, rather thick, green, 3-7-nerved, subacute or almost obtuse, 

 smooth ; sheaths of innovs. tight, smooth, closed almost to the mouth. Panicle very 

 variable, narrow, nodding and secund or erect, rather dense and ovate, longest 

 branches 2 in. ; pedicels short. Spikelets green or variegated, glabrous or hairy and 

 ciliate ; rachilla scabrid, internodes Jg- in. ; gl. 1 1 in., lanceolate, acuminate, nerve 



