POA STRICTA AND P, LEPTOSTACHYA 179 
oe Don’s label with the specimen bears the name Poa 
depaupera 
I have iided the following notes :— 
About a foot high. Stem flattened; stem-leaves four; upper- 
most node bare, just above the middle of the stem; uppermost blade 
shortest, a little over an inch long, sheath 1} in. ; second blade 
g 
have a pinched appearance, and the upper part of the inflorescence 
is more or less blasted as a whole. Spikelets 13-12 lines in length, 
subsessile, sometimes 3- or 4-flowered. nperer glumes 3-nerved 
or the lateral nerves wanti ng in the lower glume; the lower 14 line 
long, the upper slightly longer (14 line) ; the ten fertile glume 
as long as the upper barren glume. Fertile glumes 5-nerved; the 
dorsal vein hairy for about one-third yannen race nearly half) its 
length from the base, the marginal vein very spar sely hairy in the 
lower fourth of its length; the median lateral vein = inconspicuous ; 
the upper sixth colourless and thin, tinged with purple below. 
Pale 1 line long or less, often withered ; phone three, ae 
4 line or less. In the flowers which I opened I found no stigmas 
on the ovary, which seems more or less aborted. e short pedicel 
below the fertile glumes is shortly hairy but enie: no wool; the 
rachis is glabrous. 
David Don refers a the cultivation of oo plant by his father 
ot say whet d 
Ti is evidently a dapat parats form of scnisubiig most probably of 
P. compressa L., which it resembles in the geniculate compressed 
absence of conspicuous webbing in the spikelets. The ligule is 
rather less truncate than usual in P. compressa. 
Description oF Prats 452. 
A. Poa stricta D. Don (half nat. size). 1. Be rem — a3 showing — 
x 2. 2. A two-flowered spikelet, x 10. Lower e glume, 10. 
4. Pale from same flower, x 10. ‘& ee x ‘10. 6. Pit, x 13. 
B. Poa leptostachya D. Don (half nat. size). 1. Portion a leaf showing 
ene * 2. _ reo wera | iuibulet, - 10. 3. The same after removal of 
 gaiae: pags | 4. Lodicule, x 10. 4. Anther, x 10. 6. Ovary, 
x oatein 
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