Avena.'], OLXxiii. 'oEAMiNBiE. (J.D.Hooker.) 279 



2-ari8tulate 1- or sub 3-n.erTed, awn longer than the gl. recurve^ or 

 reflexed column not twisted. 



Kashmib ; at Lakii and Badrawur, alt. 10-11,000 ft. Chamba : Dalhousie, alt. 

 8700 ft., Clarke. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 4-8 in.j flaccid, softly hairy on both surfaces; sheath with 

 spreading or reflexed soft hairs. Panicle 3-5 in., ereot or inclined, raohis slender; 

 louver branches solitary or fascicled,, rarely 1 ini long. Spikeletf erect,. pale brown, 

 shining, rachilla penicillate with very long hairs ; gls, hyaline as in A. subspicata, hut 

 longer and narrower. — Very near A. suhapieata, but much more slender, with a 

 longer loose panicle of shining much narrower spikelets, with obsolete side nerves. 



9. A. micans, Hook. f. ; stem and raohis of panicle pubescent or tomen- 

 tose, leaves glabrous, ligule short lacerate, panicle contracted elongate 

 ovoid or linear interrupted dense fld., branches short flowering to the base, 

 spikelets J in. densely imbricate silvery hyaline 3-6-M. quite glabrous, gl. 

 I and II very unequal 3-nerved, fl. gls. lanceolate obscurely 5-nerved, tip 

 acuminate phortly 2-aristate, awn insetted J way from the tip very slender 

 as long as the gl. column not twisted. 



Western Himaiata; Garwhal, banks of the Ganges, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Duthie. 



Stems 12-18 in., densely tufted, rather stout, leaty. Leaves 6-12 in. flat, narrow, 

 rigid, finely acuminate strongly nerved, smooth or scabernlous ; sheath quite smooth ; 

 ligule reniform, membranous. Panicle 3-4 in. by J-IJ broad, erect or inclined, strict 

 or subflexnous ; lower branches solitary, densely flowering to the base. Spikelets 

 very pale greenish yellow ; rachilla slender, ciliate ; gl. I lanceolate, II J longer than 

 I oblong-lanceolate, keels of both scaberulous ; fl. gls. with bearded calli ; awn 

 straight or recurved ; keels of palea minutely scabrid. Lodieules narrow, cleft. 

 Anthers linear. Ovary obovoid, qnite smooth, style bases close together. — Quite 

 unlike any other Indian species, but very near A. virescens, Kegel of Turkestan which 

 has flaccid leaves and an entire tip of fi. gls, 



10. A. flavescenS) Linn. Sp. P^. 80; tall, slender, quite glabrous, 

 ligule long, panicle effuse flexuous inclined or nodding branchps capillary 

 few-fld. naked below, spikelets i in. 2-3-fld brown shining rachilla slender, 

 gls. spreading, I and II unequal hyaline narrow I 1-nerved, II 3-nerved, fl. 

 gls. narrowly lanceolate 3-nerved tip acuminate 2-aristate, awu stout 

 inserted i^ way below the tip, twice as long as tihe gl. base twisted. | Ft. 

 Dm.t. 1507; Most Gram. Austr. iii. 27, t. 38; Ungl. Sot. t- 952; Kndpp 

 Gram. Britt. t. 89; BeicU. Ic. Fl. Oerm. t. 99; Ledei. FlBoss. ly. 417 ; 

 Grueb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 78. Trisetcm flavescens, Beauv. Agrost. 88 ; 

 Kunth Htmm. PI. i. 298, Suppl. 252, t. 19, f. 2 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 637. 



Tbmpebaib Himalata; Sikkim, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J.D. S.—Disthib. Europe 

 N.. Asia, Japan, N. Africa. , . 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves S-l8 in., flat, finely acuminate, more or less hairy ; sheaths 

 smooth ; ligule elongate, membranous, lacerate. Panicle 3-5 in., quite glabrous, 

 lower branches solitary or 2-nate. Spikelets larger than in most other species of tliis 

 seciioD, the awn longer ; rachilla nodose below the fl. gls., penicillate with long 

 hairs; gls. I and II lanceolate, acuminate; fl. gls. chartaoeous with hyaline margins 

 and tips, keels scabernlous as are the keels of the palea. Lodieules short, 2-lobed . 

 Anthers small. Orain narrow. 



11. A. aenea; Hook, f. ; stem glabrous, ligule short rounded, panicle 

 spiciform dense-fld. oblong or linear simple or lobed, branches very short, 

 spikelets \-\ in. 2-3-fld. densely imbricating sessile or very shortly 

 pedicelled dark or pale brown shining, glumes hyaline I 1-nerved, II 1-3- 



