Bromus, 0. Stapf.] CLXXIII. QRAMINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



2-lobed, keels loosely long-ciliate. Anthers 1 in., oblong. Grain - in., linear- 

 oblong, flatly concavo-convex or folded, tightly adherent to the gl. and palea. 



** Fig. gls. all l-awned y or some 3-awned in B. macrostachys. Panicle 

 loose, open or contracted. 



8. B. patulus, Mert. & Koch in RdJil. Deutscn. Flor. i. 685 ; panicle 

 linear-oblong usually nodding often secund branches long slender up to 

 6 in., spikelets f-1^ in. linear-oblong, awn about = the gl. usually re- 

 curved. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 415 ; Reichb. Ic. PL Germ. t. 74 ; Lecleb. FL 

 Ross. iv. 364 ; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 655 ; Steud. 8y. Gram. 325; Griseb. 

 in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 74; Dutkie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43. B. animus, 

 Herb. Jacquem. B. anatolicus, Boiss. et Jeldr. in Boiss. Diagn. Her. I. 

 xiii. 63. B. arvensis, Dutkie I. c. 42 (non Linn.) Herb. Ind. Or. Iff. fy T. 

 B. chapprianus, De Not. ex Nym. Oonsp. 824. B. coiiniiitatus, M. Bieb. 

 FL Taur. Cauc. iii. 77 (non Mert. $ Koch.). B. Cyri, G. A. Mei/. Verz. Pfl. 

 Gauc. 24. B. japonicus, Thunb. FL Jap. 51, t. 11 ; Franch. & Sav. Enum. 

 PL Japon. ii. 181 (nom. prius). B. Kochii, C. GmeL FL Bad. iv. 76, t. 6. 

 B. mollis, Duthie I.e. B. multiflorus, Host Gram. Austr. i. (excl. exempl. 

 Royle) t. 11 (nom Sm.). B. pendulus, Schk. in Verh. Siebend. Ver. Naturn. 

 iv. (1853) 90. B. phrygius, Boiss. Diagn. Ser II. iv. 140. B. polymorphic, 

 Hon. Enum. PL Talusch. 19. B. secalinus, M. Bieb. I.e. i. 71 (non Linn ). 

 B. squarrosus, Herb. Royle \ Herb. Strach. fy Winterb. (Bromus, n. 3); 

 Duthie I.e. (non Linn.).' B. unilateralis, Schur.l.c. B. velutinus, Nocc. 

 et Balb. FL Tic. i. 54 (non Schrad.). B. vUliferus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 326 

 (in part). Serrafalcus patulus, ParL FL Ital. i. 394. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alb. 6-14,000 ft. Bhotan, Griffith. DISTRIB. Europe, 

 W. and N. Asia, China, Japan. 



Annual. Stems 1-2 ft., erect or ascending, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves up 

 to 8 by ;|T in., linear, acute or subacute, green, flaccid, hairy especially above; 

 sheaths rarely all glabrous or hairy ; ligule short, ovate, toothed. Panicle up to 

 8 in., narrow or open ; rachis glabrous or pubescent ; branches solitary or 3-7-nate, 

 unequal, 1-4-spiculate, slender, flexuous, lower up to 6 in. long, simple or racemose, 

 suberect spreading or nodding, scabrid at least above. Spikelets densely or loosely 

 7-14-fld., pale green; rachilla scabrid ; gls. rather narrow, thin between the pro- 

 minent nerves; I -|- in., lanceolate, subacute, pubescent or scabrid, 3-nerved, tips 

 and upper margins hyaline, II ^5 in., oblong-lanceolate, 7-nerved ; flg. gls. -i i in., 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, 2-toothed, margins inflexed from 

 the middle or above it; awn -^j f in., infra-apical, base rather stout, not or 

 obscurely twisted ; keels of palea loosely long-ciliate. Anthers -^^ in. Grain 

 -i f- in., linear-oblong, more or less concavo-convex, tightly adherent to the gl. and 

 pnlen. Griffiths' Bhotan specimen is a solitary one, probably introduced. The 

 following are rather abnormal forms than varieties. 



Var. Falconeriy Stapf ; panicle very loose villous, gl. I narrowly lanceolate 

 1-nerved, II 5-nerved, flg. gls, 7-nerved. B. tomentellus, Duthie I. c. 43 (non 

 Boiss.). N.W. India, Falconer. 



Var. microstachya, Stapf. ; spikelets small few-fld., gK broader, I i in. 3-5- 

 nerved, II in. 7-9-nerved, flg. gls. i-y 3 ^ by ^ in. broad. N.W. India, Falconer. 



9. B, oxyodon, SchrenJc Enum. PL Nov. ii. 1 ; panicle usually stiff 

 suberect oblong contracted, branches up to 2 in., spikelets 1 in. linear or 

 linear -oblong, flg. gls. broadly hyaline, awn f-1 in. Steud. Syn. G-ram. 

 326. P. macrostachys, var. oxyodon, Griseb. in Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 363. 

 B. multiflorus, Kar. & Kiril. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Hose. (1841) 865. 



KASHMIR, DKAS, BALTISTAN, ZANSKAR, &c., alt. 9-12,000 ft., Thomson, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Turkestau. 



