256 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEj;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Agrodit. 



6. A. brachlata^ Munro mss. ; tall, very slender, leaves long, lignle 

 very small, panicle efEuse, branches branchlets and pedicels capillary 

 divaricate, spikelets ^ in. few distant very long-pedicelled, gl. I and II 

 subeqnal oblong subacute, III nearly as long narrowly truncate, callus 

 quite glabrous, awn median. — Sporobolus, Wall. Oat. n. 3769 B. 



Behae ; at Monghyr, Wallich. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high or more, as slender aa a sparrow's quill, weak and probably 

 decumbent on bushes, internodes 6 in. loug. Leaves 6-8 by ^— i in., finely acumi- 

 nate, contracted towards the base, thin and flaccid. Panicle 6-12 in., quite smooth, 

 branches 2-2J in. long, opposite or in distant whorls of 3-5, horizontal ; pedicels |-J 

 in. Ql. I and II equal, cymbiform ; III as long as I and II, 5-nerved, mid-nerre 

 reaching half way up ; palea minute. Grain oblong, compressed, as long as the gl. — 

 An extraordinarily delicate species, quite unlike any other and more resembling a 

 Sporobolus. The specimens are advanced, in frt., and I have seen no awn, or any 

 other indication of one except the shortened median nerve. 



7. A- fillpeS) Sook. f. ; very slender, leaves short very narrow, lignle 

 very short, panicle very narrow elongate, branches short alternate and 

 2-3-nate erect smooth, spikelets ^^ -- ^^ in. shortly pedicelled erect, gl. I 

 and II unequal acute, III \ shorter tip truncate nearly entire, callus quite 

 glabrous, awn dorsal from above the middle geniculate, palea minute. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 5-6000 ft., in several places, Clarice. 



Stem 8-15 in., erect or geniculate below, densely tufted, base hard. Badical 

 "leaves many, tufted, 1-2 in., subulate, cauline rather longer and broader. Panicle 

 2-4 in., interrupted; branchlets J-f in., capillary, shortly naked below, smooth. 

 Spilcelets green or pale reddish; gl. I and II with scabrid keels; awn shortly 

 exserted. Anthers very short. Grain ovoid, acute. — Nearest to A. canina, but 

 the long very narrow interrupted panicle is constant in all the specimens from 

 five distant localities at different elevations. 



Var. ? palea 0, grain linear-oblong. A. nervosa, Nees, var. aristata, Mumo in 

 Herb. Kew. — Sikkim ; at Lachoong, alt 9000 ft. 



8. A. Hookerlana) Clarke mss. (non Munro) ; very slender, leaves 

 "very narrow flaccid, ligule oblong, panicle broad with rather distant whorls 

 of few very long flexuous capillary branches naked and unbranched for 

 half their length, spikelets yj-^ in., gl. I and II unequal lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, III about ^ shorter tip truncate denticulate, callus glabrous or 

 minutely hairy, awn dorsal. 



Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 9-11,000 ft., in meadows, J. D. E. Cummim (in Herb. 

 Clarke). 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-6 in., flat, -Jj in. broad. Panicle 2-6 in., branches 2-3 

 in., minutely scaberulous ; pedicels as long as the spikelets or longer. Spilcelets 

 green, rather distant ; awn exserted ; callus sometimes distinctly but minutely bearded. 

 Anthers linear. Grain oblong. — Spikelets very much larger than iu the foregoing 

 species. This is not A. Hooienana, Munro ex Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 30, nor 

 Lachnagrostis Uookeriana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 192. 



ft Gl. Ill not awned. 



9. A. micrantlia, Steud. Syn. Gram. 70 ; tall, rather slender, leaves 

 narrow, lignle oblong, panicle elongate inclined contracted in fl., branches 

 long capillary smooth spreading iu fruit, spikelets xS~tW i°-> gl- ^ ^"'^ ^ 

 unequal oblong-lanceolate acute, HI \-\ shorter tip truncate crenate callna 



