J)actyUs.] CLXxiii. ORAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 



snboompressed, ventrally cliatinelled, glabrous. — Species few, Europe temp. 

 Asia and Africa. 



D. g'lomerata, Idnn. Sp. Fl. 86 ; leaves keeled, sheaths compressed, 

 ligule long laoiniate, panicle erect or inclined, branches short or the 

 lower long erecto-patent naked below, spikelets 3-5-fld., keels of flg. gls. 

 oiliate-scabrid. JBeauv. Agrost. 8.5, t. 17, f. 5; FL Dan. t. 743; Host 

 Gham. Austr. ii. 67, t. 94 ; K%nth Enum. PI. i. 386, 8u'ppl. 32Q, t. 29, f . 1 ; 

 Engl. Bot. t. 335 ; Knapp Qram. Britt. t. 62 ; Reiehh. Ic. FL Oerm. t. 59 

 (eajc/. f. 1520) ; T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monocot. i. n. 65; Webb. Phy tog. 

 Canar. t. 249 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8899 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 39 ; Ledeb. 

 FL Boss, iv. 355; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 596. Festuca glomerata, All. Fl. 

 Pedem. ii. 252. 



Noeth-Wbstern Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon, and Western Tibet, 

 alt. 8-10,000 ft. — DisTBlB. Europe, N. Africa, W. and N. Asia (an alien else- 

 wiiere). 



Stem 2-3 ft. from a short creeping stock, smooth. Leaves sabglaucous, glabrous 

 or hairy towards tlie base, margins seabrid ; sheath much flattened or 2-edged. 

 Pamcle 1-6 in., strict, green or purplish ; lower branches sometimes 2—3 in. long. 

 Spikelets J— J in., ovate ; gls. I and II pale with green nerves, subaristately acu- 

 minate, terminal flg. gl. sterile. — There are many synonyms of this common variable 

 European plant, bat the whole genus must be studied before the species can be 

 disentaugled. 



115. SCXiEROCHXiOA^ Beauv. 



A small annual prostrate grass. Spikelets minute, 3-6-fld., compressed, 

 biseriately crowded on the branches of a seound subspiciform panicle; 

 rachilla thickened under the flg. gls. Glumes 5-8; I and II very unequal, 

 membranous, concave, emarginate, empty, persistent, I 3-nerved ; II 5-8- 

 nerved, unequal-sided ; fl. gls. larger, complicate, keeled, strongly 5-nerved, 

 tip obtuse, margins hyaline ; palea hyaline, 2-fld. keels spinnlosely ciliate. 

 Lodicules 2, hyaline, ovate, 2-4-toothed. Stamens 3. Styles short, free, 

 stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, free, snbconcavo-oonvex, glabrous, tip 

 2.ad. 



S. dura, Beauv. Agrost. 98, t. 14, f. 4 ; Beichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 58 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 367 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 635 ; Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. 

 (1863) 293. Poa dura. Scop. FL Corn. i. 70 ; Sost Gram. Austr. ij. 63, t. 73. 

 Sesleria dura, Xunth Revis. Gram. i. 110, Enum. PI. i. 323, Suppl. 278. 

 Cynosurus duras; Linn. 8p. PI. 72; Pollich Hist Palat. i. 98, Fig. 1. 

 Elensiue dura, Lamk. Illust. i. 203. Festuca dura, Vill. Hist. PL BaupJi. 

 ii. 94. Amblychloa dura, lAmk in Linnsea, xvii. (1843) 399. 



Kashmir Valley, alt. 5000 ft., Thomson.— UlST^lR. Europe, N. Asia. 



Stems 4-6 in., tufted, compressed, leafy throughout. Leaves linear, acute; 

 sheath open; ligule oblong. Pamcle 1-2 in., ovate-oblong, rigid, green; pedicels 

 very short, stout, trigonous. Spikelets i-i in., spreading orappressed to the rachis; 

 gl. I ovate-oblong, obtuse, keeled, margins hyaline; II twice as long; flg. gls. 

 ovate-oblong, herbaceous, compressed above ; palea shorter, oblong. 



116. SCKISMUS, Beauv. 



Small annual grasses. Leaves narrow. Spikelets many-fld., in a sub- 

 spiciform panicle, with very short erect branches and pedicels, not jointed 



