Feduca, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^S. (J. D. Hooker.) 355 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Jamu to Kuinaon, alt. 7-8700 ft., 

 Royle, &c. 



Stems 4-5 ft., loosely tufted ; innovations ascending or stoloniforra. Leaves of 

 innovs. up to 2 ft. by ^-f in., flat, young convolute, rough or almost smooth, sub- 

 rigid, many-nerved, cauline 4-6 by \- -^ in. ; -sheaths open to the base, smooth or 

 the lower rough, strongly striate, at length brown; ligule ^ in., truncate, ciliolate, 

 at length lacerate. Panicle ovate, lower branches up to 8 in. Spikelets green, open 

 obovate ; rachilla scabrid, internodes up to T ^ in. ; gls. thinly membranous, I ^ in., 

 subulate-lanceolate, hyaline except along the percurrent nerve; It - in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved ; flg. gls. T 3 <y-y in., scaberulous, margins narrowly hyaline; 

 palea linear-oblong, 2-dentate, keels scarcely scabrid. Lodicules broadly elliptic, 

 very obtuse. Anthers T \j in., linear. Ovary top hispid, styles terminal. 



14. P. lucida, Stapf \ stem tall, nodes 2, leaves linear glaucous, 

 sheaths long loose white, panicle 6-7 in. broadly ovate, branchlets very 

 scabrid, lateral pedicels long, spikelets |- T 9 o in. glistening, flg. gls. oblong 

 acute or subobtuse mucronate -7-nerved, tips and margins hyaline, 

 white. 



WEST HIMALAYA ; GAUWIIAL, Jaunsar, in the Deodar forest,- alt. 9000 ft., 

 Duthie. 



Stem 2-3 ft., rather stout, smooth ; internodes 2, elongate. Leaves 612 by 

 i-f in., finely acuminate, flat except the involute scaberulous margins, firm, smooth, 

 glaucous, many- nerved ; basal sheaths of innovs. very long, cauline tighter pale 

 glaucous; ligule ff in., white, split to the middle into fine fibres. Panicle very 

 lax; branches simple to beyond the middle, rough, lowest 4 in.; lateral pedicels 

 ^-5 in. Spikelets pale green ; rachilla scabrid, internodes ^-\ in. ; gl. I in., 

 ovate, acute or subacute, shortly 1-nerved, hyaline except at the base; II similar, 

 j in., midrib percurrent, 2 side-nerves very short ; flg. gls. %% in., membranous, 

 pale green, scaberulous, side-nerves prominent; palea linear-oblong, obscurely 2-fid, 

 keels scabrid. Lodicules obliquely ovoid. Anthers % in., linear. Ocary with a 

 slightly oblique hispidulous top, styles just below the top. 



** Flowers dioecious ; innovations intravaginal. 



15. P. sibirica, Hack, ex Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 626 ; stem sheathed to 

 the top, leaves linear firm, panicle 3-6 in. ovoid or linear, lower branches 

 simple or divided beyond the middle with 1-4 ovate-oblong 4-6-fld. spike- 

 lets, flg. gls. -\ in. ovate or ovate-oblong subobtuse scaberulous, margins 

 subciliolate or denticulate, awnless or tip setiform. F. mutica, Jacquem. 

 mss. Schedonorus transparens, Munro mss. Poa albida, Turcz. ex Trin. 

 in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 387 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 387. 

 P. pallida, Jacquem. mss. Leucopoa sibirica, Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 

 383, in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76. Festuca, n. 3, Serb. H.f. & T. Schedo- 

 norus, n. 2, Herb. Strachey & Winterb. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 13-15,000 ft., from Ladak to X. of Kurnaon. DISTRIB. 

 Caucasus, Altai Mts., Dahuria. 



Stems 1-2 ft., tufted, erect, smooth. Leaves 6-10 in., rarely more, by y^-y in., 

 linear, finely acuminate, smooth or scabrid, subconvolute, dull green, nerves many 

 very prominent, lower cauline one 3 in. ; sheaths of innovs. open to the base, 

 terete, lasal crowded, cauline smooth; ligule very short, membranous, truncate, 

 ciliate. Panicle very narrow or expanded, stifl' or flexuous ; lower branches solitary 

 or binate, erect or spreading, very variable in length ; lateral pedicels very short. 

 Spikelets pale green, T 3 /o in -> verv broad when open; rachilla minutely scabrid, 

 internodes -^ in. ; gls. thin, I T \j-f in., ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subacute, l-uerved 

 or 3-nerved at the vt ry base, white and hyaline except along the green nerve; II 

 about 4, in., similar, but more oblong f.nH usually distinctly 3-nerved ; flg. gls. 



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