312 CLXXiii. GiiAMiNE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Gatabroga, 0. Stapf. 



ligule broadly ovate, rounded. PamcZe 1 in., ovate, erect; rachia smootb j branches 

 spreading or deflexed, tiliform, with few spikelets ; lateral pedicels very short. 

 Spikelets ohXong, pale green j rachilla smooth, tip setiform ; gls. thin, obtuse, I 

 1-nerved; II longer with 2 short lateral nerves; III 5-nerved, lateral nerves very 

 faint and keel hairy ; palea 2-fid, keels with long hairs. Anthers oblong. LodicuUs 

 connate near the base. Grain obliquely oblong, compressed. 



6. C. nutans, Stapf; panicle open or contracted flaccid, spikelets 

 ^-§ in. 2-5-fld. Colpodinm nutans, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76. 

 (iraphaphorum nutans, Munro em Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 41. 



Alp.ine Himalaya; from Kashmir to G;irvvliiil, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Jacquemoni, 



Stems 12-18 in., tufted, erect, smooth, nodes 2-3. Leaves very variable in 

 length and breadth, up to 6 in. by i in., flat flaccid, many-nerved; sheaths of 

 innovations closed nearly to the nioutli ; ligule J in. Fanicle 2-5 in., nodding or 

 Hexuous ; rachis smooth ; branches subcapillary, lowest 2-3-n;\te, sparingly divided 

 beyond the middle ; lateral pedicels half as long or as long as the spikelets. 

 Spikelets broadly obovate, variegated, rachilla glabrous ; gls. very broad, thin, obtuse 

 and erose ; 1 1-3-nerved, II longer, -^ in., with 2 short lateral nerves ; III obovate, 

 3-5-nerved, lateral nerves very short, all hairy ; keels of palea hairy. Lodlcules 

 lanceolate, connate near the base. Anthers Wnem. Grain oblong, subterete,, with a 

 shallow ventral groove. 



** Empty gls. as long as the fig. or longer. Dupontia, Br. (Gen.)- 



6. C. Wallichii, Hook. f. ; panicle subraoemose few-fld., spikelets 

 Jg-^ in. 1-2-Hd.— G-ramin., Wall. Cat. n. 8907. 



Nepal, WalUch. Sikkim ; Kankola Pass, alt. 14-15,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem 6-18 in., from a shortly creeping base, slender or ratlier stout, smooth, 

 nodes 1-2. Leaves 1-3 in., narrowly linear or filiform ; ligule -^ in, oblong, obtuse. 

 Panicle 1-2, in., very narrow, usually reduced to a few-fld. raceme, erect; I'achis 

 smooth ; branches with 1-3 spikelets, capillary, flesuous. SpiTcelets pendulous, 

 green or pnrplisli ; rachilla with a. setiform tip; gls. very tliin, obtuse; I oblong 

 1-3-nerved ; II broader, more obtuse, 3-nerves, side-nerves reaching about the middle ; 

 III broadly elliptic-oblong, 5-uerved, inner side-nerved very faint, glabrous or nearly 

 so, outer and keel shortly hairy, keels of palea ciliate. Lodicules lanceolate, connate 

 to the middle or below it. Anthers linear-oblong. Grain oblong, compressed. — 

 The Sikkim specimens have somewhat smaller and paler spikelets than the 

 Nepalese. 



104 ERAGROSTXS, Beam: (by O. Stapf.) 



Annual or perennial grrasses. Stem erect or geniculately ascending, 

 Tery_ rarely prostrate. Leaves narrow. Spikelets many- (rarely 1-2-) 

 fld., in open or contracled panicles, rarely in simple spike?, not articulate 

 at the base (except E. cijnosuroides), usually strongly laterally compressed ; 

 rachilla firm or subarticulate between the flg. glumes, not produced be- 

 yond the Uppermost gl. Glumes many, broad, obtuse acute or mucronate, 

 never awned, dorsally rounded and keeled; land II much shorter than 

 the spikelet, equal or unequal, emply, persistent or separately deciduoui', 

 l-nerved cr II 3-nerved ; flg. glumes imbricating, at length deciduous 

 from the rachilla, 3-nerved, ail bisexual or the uppermost and rarely the 

 lowest imperfect ; palea broad, membranous, deciduous with its gl. or per- 

 sistent ou the rachilla, keels 2 ciliate scabrid or smooth. Lodicules 2, 

 very minute. Stamens 2 or 3. Ovary glabrous; styles 2, stigmas 



