Triticum.~\ cr.xxin. GRAMI^E-E. (J. D. Hooker.) 367 



Sect. I. TRITICTJM, proper. Glumes keeled. 



T. VULGARE, Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. ii. 153 ; Host Gram. Austr. iii. 18, 

 t. 26; Wa/l. Cat. n. 2334: Kunth Enum. PI. i. 438, Suppl. 360, t. 34; 

 T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. t. 79; Aitchis. Gat. Panjab PI. 171. 

 T. sativum, DG. Fl. Fr. iii. 625 ; Lam. Encycl. ii. 554; Duthie Grass. N. W. 

 Ind. 45, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 68. 



Cultivated in many parts of NORTHERN INDIA and the DECCAN PENINSULA, 

 especially in the N.W., and up to 13,000 fb. in the HIMALAYA and TIBET. 



It is beyond the scope of this work to detail the races of wheat cultivated in 

 India, for which I must refer to Murray's article in Watts' " Dictionary of the Economic 

 Products of India," and to Koernecke & Werner's "Handb. der Getreide Arten," 

 ii. 209. All are believed to have been derived from T. mono coc cum, Linn., a native 

 of the East from Greece to Mesopotainia.s^Hackel, the latest botanical writer on the 

 wheats (in Engler & Prant. Planzenfana. ii. 80), regards all as referable to three 

 species, monococcum, sativum, & polonicum. Linn, (the last is not cult, in India). 

 According to Murray and others the following races are cultivated in India as else- 

 where : T. sestivum, Linn. Sp. PL 86 ; Eoxb. FL Ind. ' i. 359 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. 

 PI. 234; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 97. T. amyleum, Ser. Mel. Bot. i. 124. 

 T. compactum, Host Gram. Austr. iv. 4, t. 7. T. compositum, Linn. Sp. PL Ed. II. 

 126. T. dicoccum, Schrank. Fl. Baier, i. 389. T. durum, Deaf. FL Atlant. i. 114 ; 

 Stewart Panjab. PI. 262. T. hybernum, Linn. Sp. PL 80, Eoxb. I.e. T. Spelta, 

 Linn. I. c. ; Host I. c. iii. 31, t. 30. T. Zea, Host I. c. t. 29. T. tui gidum, JLinn. I.e. ; 

 Host. I. c. t. 28. 



Dalz. & Gibs, have also, as cultivated in' the Concan, a T. pilosum, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 97, the " Buckshee wheat" with tomentose spikelets. I have 

 seen no specimens of it. * 



Sect. II. ^EGILOPS. Glumes dorsally rounded, not keeled. 



T. 2g*ilops, Beauv. Agrost. 180; annual, leaves linear flat, spike 

 elongate cylindric fragile, spikelets oblong turgid 3-5-fld. half sunk in 

 hollows of the rachis, gl. I and II similar oblong-quadrate many-nerved, 

 fl. gls. rather longer awnless or in the upper spikelets with one strict erect 

 awn. ^Bgilops squrrosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 1051; Tausch. in Flora, xxxix. 

 (1837) 108 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 458, Suppl. 371 ; Jaub. $ Spach. III. PL 

 Or. iv. 12, t. 310; Schreb. Gram. ii. t. 27, f. 2; Gav. Ic. t. 90; Ledeb. 'FL 

 Ross. iv. 326; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 676. M. cylindrica, G. A. Mey. Verz. 

 PL Gauc. 26 (non Linn}. M. Tauschii, Coss. Notes Grit. 69. 



N.W. INDIA, Falconer ; Wazuristan, alt. 45CO ft., Stewart. DISTRIB. Westward 

 to Spain and N". Africa. 



Stem 6-18 in., erect or geniculately ascending, stiff, leafy. Leaves acuminate, 

 smooth or slightly scabrid ; sheaths smooth, upper subventricose ; ligule very short. 

 Spike 1J-5 in., strict ; nichis stout. Spikelets -3- in., alternating in close succession; 

 gl. I and II coriaceous, tip truncate often crenulnte; flg. gls. hardly longer, truncate 

 or retuse; awns ^-1| in. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. BENGHALENSE, Host ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. ii. 715. 



uEoiLOPS CILIABIS, Koen. ex Roem.et 8ch. Syst. ii. 772 (genus Manisuro proximus) 

 = Rottboellia ciliaris, Willd. ex Sttud. I. c. 474 (Isclicemi sp., Trin.). 

 ^G. CORD AT A, Linn., A itch. Cat. Panjab. PL 560. 



129. AGROPVRON, J. Gsertn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 3- 

 many-fld., solitary, sessile, distichously arranged opposite to hollows in the 

 rachis of a simple spike, with the sides of the glumes opposite the rachis ; 



