362 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bromu*, O. Stapf. 



Annual. Stems 6-18 in., erect or ascending, pubescent or subvelutiuous. 

 Leaves 2-5 in., linear, narrow, subacute, hairy or velvety ; young sheaths villous; 

 ligule ovate, lacerate. Panicle up to 5 in., usually contracted, erect, rachis 

 pubescent ; branches 2-5-nate, unequal, suberect, rarely nodding, scabrid, simple 

 1-3-spiculate. Spikelets pale green, densely 5-10-fld. ; rachilla puberulous ; gls. 

 rather narrow, glistening, scabrid with appressed hairs, tips long-hyaline, nerves 

 prominent ; I -f in., lanceolate, 1-3-nerved ; II ^Vl in - oblong-lanceolate, 

 5-nerved ; flg. gls. - by i-^ in., oblong-lanceolate, margins infloxed below the 

 middle, subacute, 2-toothed, 7-9-nerved ; awn f-1 in., infra-apical, nearly straight 

 or moderately recurved ; keels of palea loosely loug-ciliate. Anthers To~f in. 

 Grain T %- in., linear-oblong, slightly concavo-convex. 



10. B. macrostachys, Desf. Fl. Atlani. i. 96, t. 19, f. 2, var. triaris- 

 tatus, Hack, in Flora (1879) ; panicle oblong or obovate-oblong loose or 

 contracted, spikelets l|-lf in. elliptic to linear-oblong, flg. gls. all or the 

 upper only with 2 straight slender lateral awns, median awn -| in. 

 finally twisted and strongly recurved. B. Danthoniae, Trin. in C. A. Mey. 

 Ferz. Pfl. Cauc. 24; Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 353; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43. 

 Boissiera Danthonias, A. Br. Ind. Sem. Sort. Berol. (1857) 3. Triniusa 

 Danthoniae, Steud. Syn. Gram. 328. 



WESTEEN TIBET ; Spiti, alt. 12,000 ft., Lance. DISTKIB. Aflghan., Turkestan, 

 As. Min. (of B. macrostacltys, Mediterranean regions, Persia). 



Annual. Stem 6-18 in., erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 

 2-6 in., narrowly linear, acute or subacute, more or less hairy or velvety ; young 

 sheaths villous or velvety ; ligule ovate, lacerate. Panicle up to 5 in., sometimes 

 reduced to a spikelet, rachis glabrous or pubescent; branches solitary or the lower 

 3-4-nate, unequal, rarely 1 in., simple, 1-2-spu-ulate, strict, suberect, scabrid, rarely 

 flexuous. Spikelets pale green, densely 6-20-fld. ; rachilla pubescent ; gls. broad, 

 villous velvety or scabrid, tips and margins usually scarious and dull white, nerves 

 prominent or not; gl. I --& in.; broadly lanceolate, 5-nerved; II about ^ iu., 

 oblong, 7-9-nerved ; flg. gls. f- nearly in., elliptic to obovate-oblong, subacute, 

 2-toothed, 9-11-nerved, margins iuflexed trom or from above the middle ; lateral 

 awns - in , median -| in., infra-apical, often purplish, base stout ; keels of palea 

 long-ciliate. A nthers nearly -f in. , rarely T % in. Grain T 3 n -5 in- linear-oblong, 

 slightly concavo-convex, tightly adherent to the gl. and palea ; hilum almost as 

 long as the gl. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



B. MEMBRANACEUS, Jacquem. ms. ; Griseb. in Goetf. Nachr. (1868) 74 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 43 is Duthiaea bromoides, Hack, (see p. 282). 



123. DUTHIEA, Hack. See p. 282. 



124 BRACHVPODIUM, Beauv. 



Perennial slender grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spiltelets terete, 

 many-fld., subsessile or in along slender spike appressed to the rachis; 

 rachilla elongate and jointed below the fl. gls. Glumes many, imbricate in 

 fl., spreading in frt. ; I and II persistent ; empty, narrow ; flg. gls. oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, with a terminal straight awn or mucro, 7-9-nerved ; 

 keels of palea pectinately ciliate. Lodicules ciliate. Stamens 2-3, anthers 

 linear. Ovary and grain as in Bromus. Species 5 or 6, of north temp, 

 and mt. regions. 



1. B. sylvaticum, Beauv. Agrost. 101 ; roots fibrous, leaves more or 

 less hairy or scaberulous flat, spike drooping, awn. as long as its gl. Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 374 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 110 ; Ledeb. Fl. Itoss. iv. 346 ; 



