Poa, 0. Stapf.] oLXxiii. gkaminb^. (J. D. Hookei.) 343 



S<md]}. I^hg^. Fl,262 ; Anders. Gram. SkanA.i, 4, f. 41. P. flexuosa, var. 

 a. eflnsa, M^h. Royh. — Po^ No. 9, Serb. Strach. 8f Winterb. —Voa, No. 7, 

 & P. flexuosa {of Smim), JBerh. Ind. Or. Sf. S( T.) 



Alpine Himalaya, alt. 10-17,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim.— Distrib. N. 

 temp, and Arctic regions. 



Stem 8-16 in., erect or with the branches geniculately ascending, smooth ; 

 lowest internodes short, laxly or closely clothed with short sheaths, the following 

 2-4 elongate, uppermost exserted. Leaves 2-5 by -^ in., glabrous, smooth or 

 nearly so, flaccid or rather firm ; lower sheaths scarions^ uppermost about 4 in. ; 

 ligule Ta^ff ''^•i ovate. Panicle 2-4 in., erect or inclined ; lower branches capillary, 

 flexuous, often spreading or deflexed, naked except towards the tips smooth. Spike- 

 lets shortly or the terminal longer pedicelled, green, generally suffused with purple; 

 gl. I J~f in., sub-obtuse or -acute, margins broadly hyaline, keel smooth or roughish ; 

 II rather longer, ovate-oblong, sub-obtnse, 3-nerved, lateral nerves often short ; flg. 

 gls. i-i in., nearly glabrous or keel and nerves at the base silky, smooth or minutely 

 rongh ; palea rather shorter than the gl., dorsally most minutely puberulous between 

 the keels. Anthers xj-i >n., linear. 



8. Glumes I Sf II thin, acute or acuminate, I 1-^nerved, or with a very 

 slender 2nd, rarely S-nerved ; anthers very minute, rarely -^ in. long. — 

 Usually perennial, sometimes flg. in the first year, or truly annual ; leaves 

 & often stem flaroid ; sterns loosely tufted or on a slender rhizome & with more 

 or less elongate lower internodes, ha/rdly stohniferous when flowering. — 

 § Miorantherse. 



J Ligule very short ; keels of palea serralately acabrid. 



12. P. khasianai Stapf; stem slender erect or ascending, leaves 

 linear long-acuminate, ligule very short truncate, panicle narrowly 

 pyramidal,lower branches 3-5-nate and branchlets scaberulous, spikelets 

 ^ in. 3-4-fld., gls. rather distant, I oblong-lanceolate acute margins very 

 narrowly hyaline, II ovate-lanceolate, fl. gls. minutely granulate, nerves 

 prominent base nearly glabrous, wool copious, or scanty, keels of palea 

 scabrid. — Poa himalayana & Poa n. 17, Herb. Ind. Or. Mf. Sf T. 



Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 11-14,000 ft., J.D.H., King's Collector. Khasia 

 Hills, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. <fc T. T., Clarke. 



Stems loosely tufted, 1-2 tt., suberect from a rooting base, inbernodes 5-6, upper 

 fjraduftlly longer, loosely or rather tightly sheathed, or the upper shortly exserted. 

 Leaves up to 4-6 by iV-To '°-' flaccid, flat, smooth or margins roughish j sheaths 

 smooth, uppermost up to 5 in., usually longer than the blade ; ligule erose. Panicle 

 4-6 in. long, lax, sometimes suhsecund ; lower branches subrigid or flexuous, slender, 

 at length spreading or deflexed, unbranched except the tips or loosely branched 

 almost from the base. Spilcelets ovate-oblong, pale green; gls. firm; I i in., 

 1-nervert, keel rough; II rather longer and broader, 3-nerved; fig. gls. -J--| in., 

 oblong, obtuse, tip shortly hyaline, nerves 5 distant, keel and outer nerves sparsely 

 silky or subglabrous. Anthers -ij-is in.— Diff'ers from P. annua var. sikUmensis iu 

 being taller, with leaves long-aotenaate, ligule very short, branches of panicle 3-5- 

 nate, in the wool, and in the keels of the palea not ciliate ; and from P. annua var. 

 nepalensis, in the 8-5-nate more flexuous branches, rather larger spikelets, narrower 

 firmer gls. with more prominent nerves, rough keels of the palea and rather longer 

 anthers. 



IX Ligule long ; keels of palea oiliate. 



1. Spilcelets obovate ; gl. I & 11 equalling the fl^. or rather shorter. 



13. P. liirtig-luinis, SooL f. ; stem stout, lower internodes usually 



