280 OLXXiii. GEiiMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Avena. 



nerved, fl. gls. ovate faintly 5-nerved tip aoominate 2-ari8tate, awn twice 

 as long as the gl. or less reflexed, •colurDn twisted. Trisetnm anrenm, 

 Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 225 {non Tenore); Buthie Cfrass. N.W. Ind. 3. 

 T. aeneum, Saclc. mss. 



Westeen Himaiata, alt. 11-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Knmaon. 



Stem erect, 1-2 ft., stout or slender. Leaves 6-10 by i-J in., glabrous or 

 hairy, as are the sheaths. Panicle 3-4 by J-l in. diam., erect, strict, or very narrow 

 looser-fld. and flexnous; rachis branches and pedicels quite glabrous. Spileelets 

 erect ; rachilla penicillate ; glumes not widely spreading, all acuminate ; I lanceolate ; 

 II J longer, oblong-lanceolate ; fl. gls. rather longer than II, keel scaberulous as are 

 the keels of the palea. Grain fusiform, compressed. 



12. A. sikklmensis, Hook. f. ; tall, slender, stem and panicle qnite 

 glabrous, ligule short rounded, panicle narrow elongate efEuse nodding 

 flexnous, branches few-fld. capillary, spikelets i-g in. 3-4-fld. sessile or 

 shortly pedicelled pale or brown, rachilla not long, gls. I and II unequal 

 acute hyaline glistening, fl. gls. coriaceous ovate 2-aristate, 1-3 nerved, 

 chartaceous smooth, awn inserted ^-g- way below the tip as long or 

 nearly twice as long as the gl. reflexed column twisted. 



SiKKiM Himalaya i Lachen and Lachoong Valleys, alt. 10-11,000 fb., /. D. E. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 6-12, by J-J in., more or less hairy, fiat, flaccid; 

 sheaths glabrous except near the mouth. Fanicle 6—10 in. ; branches subsecund, 

 fascicled, ^1 in. long, naked below. Spikelets usually l-fld., sometimes nearly as 

 brown as in A. fiavescens. 



13. A. flaccidai Sack, mss.; very slender, quite glabrous, panicle 

 small open, branches few capillary spreading, spikelets few pedicelled 3-fld. 

 5- in. long white and rose-colrd., rachilla long slender scaberulous, gls. I and 

 II very unequal subulate-lanceolate, I and II 3-nerved, fl. gls. ovate- 

 lanceolate acute 5-nerved, awn inserted a little below the tip as long as the 

 gl. straight column not twisted. 



The Panjab ; Black Mis., alt. 8-9000 ft., SutUe (n. 7609 in part). 



A foot high. Leaves 4-6 by i-J in., qnite glabrous ; ligule short, rounded. 

 Panicle 3 in. long, branches rather distant. Spileelets erect ; gl. I much shorter 

 and narrower than 11 ; fl. gls. smooth, glabrous, chartaceous, white in the lower 

 half pale rose in the upper, margins and tip hyaline, nerves very slender ; awn very 

 delicate; keels of narrow palea smooth. Lodicules lanceolate. Ova/ry pyriform, 

 quite smooth, style bases rather distant. — Described from a single insufScient 

 specimen. 



DOUBIPTTL SPECIES. 



A. BENGHALKNSIS, ScJiwaegr. Breit. ex Stevd. Nam. Ed. I. 94. 1 have no clue 

 to this plant, which is not taken up in Ed. II of Steudel's Nomenclator. 



A. PILOSA, M. Sieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. iii. 84 ; Oriseb. in Ooett. Nachr. (1868) 78 

 Tibet, Schlagintweit. — 1 have seen no Tibetan specimen of this, for which Griesbach 

 is the authority. 



83. DANTHONIA, BC. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Spikelets 2- or more fld. (fls. all perfect or 

 the uppermost male) panicled, erect, not jointed on their pedicels ; rachilla 

 hairy and jointed at the base and between the fl. gls., produced beyond 



