358 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bromus, 0. Stapf. 



Var. villosus, Mert. & Koch in Rohl. Deutsch. Flor. i. 675 ; spikelets pubescent 

 to villou*, lower sheaths and leaves more or less hairy. Kashmir and Gilgit. 

 Europe. 



Var. confinis, Stapf; stein l-2 ft., leaves hardly 4 in. broad hairy, panicle 

 usually reduced to a raceme, spikelets densely pubescent. B. confinis, Nees eat 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 320 ; Duthie I. c. 42. B. pubescens, Jacquetn. mss. B. 

 Munroi, JBoiss. Fl. Or. v. 643. Kunawur and Gilgit. 



2. B. asper, Murray Prodr. Stirp. Gotting. 42; rootstock short 

 pnemorse, panicle large, spikelets up to 1^ in., awn of flg. gls. to 

 nearly as long as the gl. straight. Host Gram. Austr. i. 6, t. 7 ; Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1172; Reicbb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 76; Steud. Syn. Gram. ^20; Ledeb. 

 FLRoss. iv. 356; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 643; Griseb. in Goett. NacJir. (1868) 

 64 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 42. B. altissimus, Weber in Wigg 'Prim. Fl. 

 Holsat. 9 (non Pursh.}. B. dumetorum, Lanik. Fl. Fr. iii. 605. B. gigan- 

 teus, Vill. Hist. PL Dauph. ii. 118 (non Linn.}. B. hirsutissimus, 

 Cyrill. ex Roem. $ Sch. Syst. ii. 643. B. hirsutus, Curt. FL Lond.fasc. 

 ii. t. 8 (non SchranJc.). B. montanus, Scop. Fl. Cam Ed. II. i. 82. B. 

 nemoralis, Huds. Fl. Angl Ed. II. i. 51. B. nemorosua, Vill. I. c. 218. 

 B. Pseudo-asper, Schur. Enum. PI. Transs. 804. B. ramosus, Huds. FL, 

 Angl. 40 (non Linn.}. B. serotinus, Benek. in Bot. Zeit.\\\. (1845) 724; 

 Steud. I. c. Festuca aspera, Mert. fy Koch in Roehl. Deutsch. Flor. i. 672. 

 F. scaberrima & Wightiana, Steud. I.e. 316. Schedonortis asper, Gaud, 

 ex Eoem. fy Sch. I. c. S. Benekeni, Lange in FL Dan. t. 2826. S. serotinus, 

 Rostoup in Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. (1861) 119. S. bromoides, Wight $ Ann. 

 in Wight Cat. n. 1795. Bromus, n. 10 (partim}, Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. and T, T., Clarke. NILGHIRI and PULNEY HILLS, 

 Wight ; alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Afr., W. and N. Asia. 



Stems 2-6 ft., erect, smooth. Leaves 1-H ft. by - % in., finely acuminate, 

 flaccid, hairy above, beneath and margins scabrid, nerves many ; sheaths villous or 

 retrorsely hirsute, upper glabrous ; ligule short, obtuse, ciliolate. Panicle up to 

 1 ft., loose, open or contracted, rachis rough or smooth below j branches 2-nate or 

 lower 3-5-nate and unequal up to 7 in., spreading or deflexed, naked below. Spike- 

 lets linear to oblong, green, loosely 7-9-fld. ; gls. rather firm; rachilla scabrid; 

 gl. I - in., linear-lanceolate; II - nearly in., broader, more oblong; III |- 

 nearly \ in., oblong-lanceolate, keeled below the tip, glabrous pubescent scabrid or 

 side nerves, scabrid to ciliate. 5-7-nerved, tip and margin more or less hyaline ; 

 awn terminal or subterminal ; palea obtuse, keels rigidly ciliate. Anthers t^i m - 5 

 linear. Grain in., linear-oblong, flat tightly -adherent to the gl. and palea. The 

 Sikkim, Khasia and some Nilghiri specimens have more acute and strongly nerved 

 gls. than most of the N. -Western ones ; but they are linked by many interme- 

 diates, and similar variations occur all over Europe. 



3. B.himalaicuB,/?lap/; rootstock very short, panicle usually reduced 

 to a raceme, spikelets up to 1 in., awn of flg. gl. as long as the gl. or longer 

 recurved. B. asper, & Bromus n. 9 & 10 (partim), Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. 8f T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; E. Nepal, Sikkim and W. Bhotan, &., alt. 8-12,000 

 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems 2-2 ft. Leaves 6-9 by i- in., finely acuminate, flaccid, hairy above, 

 beneath and margins scabrid, many -nerved; sheaths tight, glabrous or lowest 

 hairy when young ; ligule short, truncate, usually dark colrd. Panicle 5-7 in., 

 open or contracted; rachis rough, or smooth below $ branches 2-nate, or the lower 

 3-5-nate, spreading or deflexed, unequal, lowest up to 3 in., simple or sparingly 

 divided. Spikelets linear-oblong, green, loosely 9-fld. ; rachilla subscaberuloas ; gl. 

 I l- T 3 o in., narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved, keeled ; II longer (^Jin.) and broader; 



