Festma, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 357 



1-3 in., erect, sometimes almost capillary, grooved between the prominent ribs, 

 ligule 0. Spike 2-4 in., shorter curved, rachis smooth, wiry, grooved, - terete, with 

 a shallow groove opposite tbe spikelets. Spikelets |~i in., green; fl. gls. rigid, 

 terete, nerves indistinct. Lodicules subcuneate, acutely 2-lobed. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 

 F. filiformis, Nees ex Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 42 is probably a Tripnynn. 



122. BR01VIUS Linn. (0. Stapf). 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves narrow, usually flat. Spikelets 

 many-fld., panicled, laterally compressed ; uppermost Us. usually imperfect ; 

 rachilla juinted below the flg. gls., not produced beyond the uppermost 

 gl. Glumes many, I and II unequal, empty, acuminate, 1-5-nerved, per- 

 sistent, flg. gls. acuminate or shortly cleft; 1- very rarely 3-awned, median 

 awn erect or recurved sometimes twisted towardo the base ; palea 2-nd or 

 2-toothed, keels scabrid or ciliate. Lodicules 2, oblong or lanceolate, 

 entire or cleft. Stamens 3. Ovary oblong or cuneiform, crown more or 

 less enlarged and hairy or villous. Styles usually inserted ventrally below 

 the tip of the ovary, short; stigmas plumose. Grain linear-oblong, 

 usually concavo-convex and adherent to the palea. Species about 40, 

 natives of temp, regions. 



B. unioloides, H. B. K. (B. Schraderi, Kunth ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43 ; 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 67), a tall American species with many-nerved keeled gls. 

 has been introduced into India as a fodder grass, and has been found at Darjiling 

 and elsewhere as aii escape. 



Sect. I. FESTUCOIDES, Coss. & Dur. Perennial, usually tall. Gl. I 

 1-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; flg. gls. 5-7-nerved ; awn terminal or nearly so or 0. 



1. B. inermis, Leyss. FL Hall. 16; rootstock creeping, panicle large, 

 spikolets up to 2 in., awn of flg. gls. minute or 0. Poll. Mist. PL Palat. 

 i. Ill; tichreb. Besckr. Graes. i. 97, t. 13; Host Gram. Austr.i.8, t. 9; 

 Kunth Knum.Pl. i. 412, Suppl. 340; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 357; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. ^21 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 642. B. littoreus, Georgi Beschr. Russ. 

 Reich. Nachtr. 257; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 74; Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 43. B. purpurascens, Turcz. ex, Ledeb. I.e. ?B. variegatus, 

 Griseb. I. c. (non Bieb.). Schedonorus inermis, Beauv. Agrost. 99. Festuca 

 inermis, DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 49 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 70. F. Leysseri, 

 Motnch Enum. PI. Hass. 41. F. poaeoides, Thuill. Fl. Paris, Ed. II. 51. 

 F. poaeformis, Pers. Syn. ii. 94. F. speciosa, Schreb. Spicil. FL Lips. 

 59. Tragus inermis, Panz. in Denkschr. Akad. Muench. (1813) 296. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 9-13,000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 N. Europe, Reg. Caucas., N. Asia. 



Stem 2-4 Jt., often stoloniferous, nodes usually pubescent. Leaves 6-9 by 

 i~s in., finely acuminate, glabrous or hairy above, smooth or scaberulous beneath, 

 many-nerved ; sheaths tight, striate ; ligule very short, truncate, toothed. Panicle 

 6-8 in., open or contracted, erect or nodding, rachis smooth ; lower branches 

 2-5 in., 3-4-nate, simple or sparingly divided. Spikelets pale green, rarely purplish, 

 linear-oblong, loosely 5-12-fld., rachilla pubescent; gl. I - in., lanceolate, keeled ; 

 II 5 f- in., oblong-lanceolate, subacute ; flg. gls. - in., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 5- sub 7'-ner\ r ed, glabrous or nearly so, tip and upper margins scarious ; awn up to 

 iu.; keels of palea rigidly ciliolate. Anthers J-i in. Grain ^-$ in., oblong, 

 more or less folded. B. inermis in M.E. Asia passes into B. ciliatus, L., a 

 characteristic form in N. America where B. inermis is absent. 



