Koeleria.} OLXxiir. oaiMiNEa:. (J. D. Hooker.) 309 



purplish, or silvery with a green keel j gls. I and II acute, broadly hyaline, glabrous 

 pubescent or scabnd, keel subscaberulous, rachilla soabrid; flg. gls. lanceolate acute 

 or submueronate.— The synonymy given above includes but a few of the names given 

 to this variable grass, the determination of the species of which would involve great 

 labour. In India there are two prevalent forms, both common European ones, which 

 following Boissier may be thus defined. 



Var. Unuifolia,'Bo}SB. Fl. Orient, v. 575; stems 6-10 in., leaves very short narrow 

 convolute, panicle 1-3 in., spikelets ^-J in. green or purplish. K. brevis, Stev. in 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxx. (1857) II 110.— Koeleria, Wall. Cat. n. 3792.— 

 Subalpine and alpine situations, alt. 9-13,000 ft. 



Var. grandifiora, Boiss. ). c. ; leaves longer broader flat, panicles 3-5 in. white 

 often inteirupted or branched below, spikelets i in. K. ghiuea, Ledeb. Fl. Moss. 

 iv. 402. K. grandifiora, Sertol ex Sohult. ManU ii. 345.— Temp, regions, alt 

 5500-11,000 ft. V B , ■ 



Sect. II. LoPHOCOLEA, Seichb. (Gen.); Annual. Fig. glumes 2-fiJ, 

 awned. 



2. K.. phleoides, Pers. 8yn. i. 97 ; leaves soft flat glabrous or hairy 

 on the margins and towards the base, panicle cylindrio pale or dull green 

 lobnlate or not, spikelets 3-7-fld., gl. I and II unequal acute or aristately 

 acuminate glabrous pubescent or hirsute, flg. gls. 2-fld awned in the sinus, 

 awn ^ as long as the gl. rarely longer. Kunth Dnum. PI. i. 383, 

 Suppl. 317, t. 28, f. 1 ; Steud. Syn. G-ram. 294 ; LeAeh. Fl. Boss. iv. 403 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 572; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 36, Fodd. Grass. N. 

 Ind. 61; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PL 170; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 639. K. 

 berythea, Boiss. & Bl. Biagn. Ser. II. iv. 135. K. braohystachya, DC. 

 Gat. Sort. Monsp. 120. K. cristata, -Bertol. Amoen. Ital. 67. K. dacty- 

 loides, Sprertg. Syst. 332. K. Figarei, de Notar. in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. III. 

 ix. (1848) 325. K. obtusiflora, Boiss. I. c. I. vii. 131. K. trapezuatina, C. 

 Koch in Linnsea, xxi. (1848) 396. Festuoa cristata, lAnn. Sp. PL 76. F. 

 phleoides, ViU. FL Delph. 7, Sist. PL Delph. ii. 95, t. 2 ; Host Gram. 

 Austf. iii. t. 21. Lophochloa phleoides, Seichb. FL Germ. Excurs. 42, Ic. 

 FL Germ. 73; T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monocot. i. n. 63. Wilhelmsia 

 canoasica, C. Koch in Linnsea, xxi. (1848) 4u0. Dactylis caudata, & 

 cylindracea, Brot. FL Lusit. i. 99, 100. D. pungens, Mornem,. Fnum. 

 Sort. Safn. ex Kunth (1804) 9. D. spicata, Brot. ex Spreng. Syst. i. 332. 

 Trisetum phleoides, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 65. 

 Poa phleoides, Lanik. Illustr. i. 182. Bromas alopecuroides, Lagasc. Gen. 

 ^ Sp. Nov. 4. B. dactyloides, Both Nov. Sp. 60. Rostraria pubescent, 

 Trin. Fund. Agrost. 149. 



Plains of the PAnjab, from Lahore westwards. The Salt banoe, &c. 

 Kashmib, Clarice. — Disteie. Westwd. to the Atlantic. (Australia, introd.) 



Stems 6-12 in., erect or ascending. Leaves as long or shorter, erect, acuminate ; 

 sheaths smooth j ligule short, truncate. Panicle i-3 in,, by ^-J in. diara., some- 

 times lobed or branched at the base. Spikelets ^-^ in., hardy shining, gls. 1 and 

 .11 unequal, shorter than the flg., keels scabrid or smooth; I oblong-lanceolate, 

 .1-nerved; II longer, oblong, acuminate, 3-nervtd; flg. gls. elliptic-oblong, 5-ncrved, 

 .at length tubercled, awn shorter long, rachillahairy.— A variable plant in the glumes, 

 of which Boissier has 4 varieties. As with K. cristata, 1 have confined the synonyms 

 of jr. phleoides to those 1 am pretty sure of. Probably a dozen others might be 

 cited. 



3. K. argrentea, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 77; leaves flat 

 glabrous, panicle interrupted elongate, spikelets 2-3-Hd. silvery white 



