Agrop-i/ron."] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 369 



2. Gl. I and II as in 1, fl. gl. scabrid more or less throughout. 



3. Gl. I and II long setaceously lanceolate or lanceolate and long-awned, fl. gls. 

 smooth or scabrid towards the tip. 



4. Gl. I and II as in 3, fl. gls. scabrid more or less throughout. 



2. A. semicostatum, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 346; tall, slender, 

 leaves flat, spike elongate, spikelets distant 7-8-fld., gl. I and II linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate smooth or scabernlous strongly 5-7-nerved, fig. rather 

 longer erect lanceolate scaberulous above tip entire or 1-2-toothed and 

 narrowed into a straight rarely recurved slender awn twice as loug as 

 itself or shorter. oiss. FL Orient, v. 662; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 45. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Sikkini, alt. 6-11,000 ft. (as low as 

 3000 ft. in the Sutlej valley), Thomson, Royle, Jacyuemont, &c. DISTRIB. Aftghan. 

 Turkestan. 



Stems 2-3 ft., tufted, erect, or longer, and up to 8 ft., then weak and inclined. 

 Leaves narrow, rarely ^ in. broad, acuminate, scabernlous or smooth ; sheaths smooth ; 

 ligule very short. Spikes 3-8 in., rachis scabrid, slender or rather stout. Spikelets 

 1-2 in. including the awns, green ; internodes of rachilla short ; gls. scabrid as is 

 the callus of the fl. gl. ; empty gls. always large but very variable in size aud nerves, 

 | in. long ; flg. gls. erect and appressed, not at all spreading, tip toothed on one 

 or both sides ; awn rarely 1 in. long. As suggested by Boissier this is very closely 

 allied to A., caninum. In a specimen from Kashmir (Duthie, No. 12,651) named 

 \semicostatuni by Hackel, the awns are upwards of an inch long and reflexed as in 

 longe-aristatum, to which it may be referable. 



Var. Thomsoni, Hook. f. ; leaves hairy, sheaths villous with reversed hairs. 

 Kunawur, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Thomson. 



3. A. striatum, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 346 ; tall, robust, leaves 

 flat or involute, spikelets many large imbricating, gls. I and II linear- 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate as long as gl. Ill acute or obtuse very strongly 

 7- many-nerved, flg. gls. ovate-lanceolate 5-nerved puberulous or glabrous 

 margins usually ciliate, tip notched or entire, awn straight longer or shorter 

 than the gl. Triticum striatum, Steud. I. c. 



KASHMIR, alt. 8-12,000 ft., Royle, Jacquemont, &c. 



Stem 2-4 ft., as thick as a goose's or swan's quill, or more slender. Leaves 2- in. 

 broad, scaberulons above. Spike 3-8 in., rachis stout, glabrous with ciliolate margins 

 of the hollows or puberulous. Spikelets -1 in. long, glumes not spreading ; I and 

 II subequal, very coriaceous, II -f in. long, deeply channelled when dry ; tip 

 sometimes notched or obliquely truncate. Probably a gigantic form of A. semi- 

 costatum or caninum. 



4. A. Jacquemontii, Hook. f. ; dwarf, leaves filiform flexuous, 

 sheaths hyaline silvery, spikelets 2-5 cuneately obovate, glumes spreading, 

 I and II small lanceolate acuminate, II 3-nerved awned, fl. gls. lanceolate 

 smooth 5-nerved above the middle narrowed into a slender recurved awn 

 many times longer than itself. Bromus tataricus, JacquGm. mss. 



WESTERN TIBET; Bckar, Jacquemont; Nubra, alt. 17,000 ft., Thomson ; 

 plain N. of Kumaon, alt, 15,500 ft., Strachey $ Winterbottom ; Chimoreri, 

 Stolicska. 



Stems 6-12 in., erect or ascending, densely tufted, thickened at the base and 

 clothed with short shining sheaths. Leaves 1-3 in., convolute, glabrous, tip obtuse. 

 Spikelets subterminal, close together, |-f in. long without the awns, 4-6-fld. ; 

 rachilla smooth ; gls. 1 and II ^- j in., margins hyaline, nerves very prominent; flg. 

 with the outer pair" of nerves marginal and produced to the base, the inner pair 

 rarely reaching below the middle, tip sometimes 2-toothed j awn sometimes strongly 

 recurved, rarely straight; palea obtuse, keels ciliolate. Anthers very small. I 

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