264 OLxxiii. GBAMiNB^ (J. D. Hooker.) [CalamagrosHs. 



narrow flat, panicle effuse or contracted, branches long or short sub- 

 erect or spreading, spikelets tV"? i"-' gl- ^ ^°^ ■'■•'■ si^^equal oblong-lanceo- 

 late acute or acuminate 1-nerved smooth, III oblong tip truncate erose 

 or crenate with sometimes 4 minute setnlae, awn subbasal exserted, hairs 

 of callus = i gl. Ill or shorter, anthers linear. Agrostis pUosnla, Trin. in 

 Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. VI. vi. II. (1845) 372. 



Temperate and alpine Himalaya, alt. 6-14,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. 

 NiLOHiEi Hills, alt. 3-6000 ft., ffight, Schmid, Jacquemont, &c. Ceylon, alt. 

 6-8000, fTalker, &c. 



Stems 1-3 ft. or tnore, tufted, 6-10 in. in alpine specimens, er^ct from a short 

 inclined base. Leaves variable in breadth, up to i in., but usually very narrow, 

 flaccid, smooth or subsoaberulous j sheath smooth ; ligule very variable, longest in 

 the upper leaves. Fanicle very variable, large and effuse with spreading branches 

 1-4 in. long naked below and with loosely crowded spikelets at the extremities, or 

 contracted with suberect shorter branches, or short broadly ovate or triangular ; 

 branches branchlets and pedicels minutely scabrid. Spikelets membranous, green and 

 glistening in the larger forms, purple in others and more herbaceous in the alpine ; 

 gl. I and II smooth or subsoaberulous, I rather the shortest, keels near or quite 

 smooth, rarely scabrous ; III J-J shorter than I, hyaline, hairy all over, nerves often 

 indistinct; palea usually very minute, rarely nearly half as long as its gl. ; awn more 

 or less exserted. — A very variable grass of which Wallich's No. 3775 A from Nepal, 

 with spikelets -^ in. long may be regarded as the type ; his B has rather larger 

 spikelets, but is not otherwise different. I am far from supposing that I have suc- 

 ceeded in unravelling its synonymy which is inextricably confused with 0. Munroa/na 

 Agrostis alba and others. The following are marked forms in their typical states as 

 defined, but they pass into one another. 



Var. WalUchiana ; very slender, leaves narrow sometimes filiform smooth, panicle 

 2-3 in., branches spreading lax-fid., spikelets green or purple. Agrostis ciliata, P, 

 Nees in Herb. Bo^le. A. Hookeriana, Munro in Serb. Kew {non Steud.). A. Neesii, 

 Stead. I.e. 293. A. nervosa, var. aristata, Munro in Serb. Hook.f. S/'T. & Herb. 

 Falconer. A. Eoyleana, i)M<Me &rass. N.W. Ind. SO {non Trin.). A. WalUch- 

 iana, Steud. Syn. Oram. 174. Lachnagrostis ciliata, Munro in Herb. Jaequem. n. 

 215. L. Hookeriana, Munro mss. Arundinella Hookeriana, W. ^ A. em Am. in 

 Herb. Kew (Ceylon). — dgrostis ff^all. Cat. n. 3775. — Agrostis n. 5, Herb. Sirachey 

 ^ Winterb. — A common form. 



Var. scabra ; stem 2-4 ft. stout, leaves 6-12 by i-J in., panicle very large effuse 

 with long spreading horizontal capillary branches sometimes 4-5 in. long in distant 

 whorls or fascicles, spikelets -jt-t '"• P*le green, gl. Ill with the truncate tip some- 

 times minutely 2-4-mucronulate. Agrostis biouspidata. Hack, in Merb. DutMe n. 

 10,088. A. Royleana, Hack. I. c. n. 7583. Lachnagrostis scabra, Nees in, Serb. 

 Boyle. — In woods at about 7-10,000 ft. from Kashmir to Sikkim. 



Var. alpestris; stem 6-18 in. strict, leaves narrow strict, panicle shorter 

 narrow or broad, spikelets smaller -ys-^ in. dark purple rarely green, gls. I and 

 II oblong-lanceolate, palea sometimes = i its gl. Agrostis nervosa, Nees in Herb. 

 Royle ; ^Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. vi. II. (1845) 328. A. Royleana, 

 JVees l.c. {non Trin.). A. ciliata, j8. nervosa, Nees in Herb. Royle. K. Roylei, 

 Trin. ems Hack, in Herb. Duthie n. 6229.— Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 11-15,000 ft. 

 — A common grass at high elevations. 



Var. ciliata; panicle narrow effuse, rachis flexuous, spikelets i in. shortly 

 pedicelled pale shining, palea = i its gl. Calamagrostis ciliata, Steud. 8t/n. 

 Gram. 193. Agrostis ciliata, Trin. I. c. 373. Lachnagrostis ciliata, Nees em Steud. 

 I. c. — N.W. India, Bogle. An obscure plant of which I have seen a single specimen 

 from Herb. Koyle. 



11. C. Schniidll, Rook. f. ; stem very slender erect, radical leaves 

 tufted on a woody branched rootstock liuear-lanoeolate rigid narrowed into 



