372 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hordeum. 



Sot. vii. (1843) 215. Temp, aud Alp. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim, Tibet 

 and China. 



Var. nudum j spikelets 2-rauked, grain free within the palea. H. nudum, Arduini 

 in Schult. Mant. ii. 437. H. gymnodistiehuro, Watt Diet. lEcon. Prod. Ind. iv. 274. 

 H. distichum, 0. Kunth 1. c. i. 455 ; Kew Bullet. (1888) 271. H. coeleste, Koern. 

 et Wern. L c. i. 166, ii. 629. ?H. himaluyense, Eittig Beschr. Himal. Gerste (1822), 

 ex Schult. Mant. ii. 481. Cult, up to 14,000 ft. with brown or often purplish spikes. 



1. H. spontaneum, C. Koch In Linnsea, xxi. (1848) 430; tall, 

 densely tufted, leaves flat finely acuminate, spike narrow rachis fragile, 

 spikelets 2-ranked lateral stipitate male awnless, fig. gl. lanceolate 

 plumosely ciliate, awn very long flattened. Steud. Syn. Gram. 351. H. 

 ithabnrense, Boiss. Diacjn. Ser. I. xiii. 20; Fl. Orient, v. 687; Aitchis. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. iii. 127. H. Decaisueanmn, Hort. 



BRITISH BELUCHISTAN; Quetta, Stocks. DISTEIB. Westwd. to Palestine. 



Stems forming great clumps 3 ft. high, resembling cultivated barley, Aitchis. 

 I. c. Leaves flaccid, narrowed into very long points ; ligule short. Spikes 1^-3 in. 

 Spikelets $ in., pedicel flat with villous margins ; gls. linear-oblong. Awn 4-8 in. 

 The only truly wild Barley of the cultivated type, most nearly allied to vulgare 

 var. distichon, but differing in the villous spikelets and jointed fragile spike. 

 Grisebach, however {in Ledeb. 'Fl. Ross. iv. 317) says under the cultivated H. 

 distichum, that he has found the spike to be fragile in some of its forms. 



2. XI. murinum, Linn. Sp. PI. 85 ; stems ascending leafy, spike 

 stout subcylindric fragile dense-fld., spikelets 3-nate lateral male or 

 neuter, fl. gl. lanceolate awned ciliate below or glabrous. Fl. Dan. t. 629; 

 Host Gram. Austr. i. 25, t. 32 ; Engl. Bot. t. 1971 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. 104 ; 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. xi. ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 83 ; Kunth 

 Enum. PI. i. 456, Suppl. 370 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 328 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 686; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 669 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 453, Fl. Afr. Austral. 

 363 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 352 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 45. H. leporinum; 

 Link in Linnsea, iv. (1835) 133. H. vaginaturn, 0. Koch in Linnsea xxi. 

 (1848) 433 ; Steud. L c. Triticum murale, ftalisb. Prodr. 27. Zeocriton 

 murinum, Beauv. Agrost. 125. 



KASHMIR ; alt. 5-6000 ft., Jacquemont; &c. PESHAWUR, Stewart. DISTRIB. 

 Westwd. to the Atlantic. 



Stem 6-18 in., ascending from an often decumbent base. Leaves flat, glabrous or 

 sparsely puberulous and scaberulous ; sheaths inflated ; ligule small, scurious. 

 Spikes 1-2| by |-| in., inclined, green. Spikelets with the awns 1 in. ; empty gl. 

 filiform j flg. gl. flattened, much shorter than the straight awn ; keels of palea ciliate. 



** Perennials. 



3. H. secalinum, Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. 148 ; stem erect leafy, 

 spike narrow subcylindric dense-fld., spikelets 3-nate lateral male or neuter. 

 Host Gram. Austr. i. 26, t. 33 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 3 & 4 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austral, vii. 669 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 687. H. pratense, Huds. Fl. Angl. 

 Ed. II. 56 ; Engl. Bot. t. 409 ; Trin. I. c. t. 4 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 

 105; Reickb. Ic. Fl. Germ, i. t. xi. ; Ledeb. FL Ross. iv. 328 ; Steud. Sun. 

 Gram. 352; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 45. H. norlosum, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 Ed. II. 126 (excl. Syn. Ray.}. H. brevisubulatum, Link in Linnsea, xvii. 

 (1843) 391. H. ma'ritimum, Roth Tent. Fl. Germ. II. i. 150 ; Fl. Dan. t. 

 630. Zeocriton secalinum, Beauv. Agrost. 115. 



KASHMIR & ISKARDO, alt. 7700 ft., Clarke, Duthie. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 

 10-15,000 ft., Thomson. Shibchilam (N. of Kuimon) alt. 15,000 ft., Strachey tj* 

 Winter bottom.- DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia, temp. N. & S. America. 



