352 cLXxiii. GEAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Festtiea, 0. Stapf. 



flg. gls. J -^ in., awns shorter or gl. mucronate, ovary pyriform tip his- 

 pidulous. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 411 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 315. F. Dathiei, 

 Sack. mss. 



WssiEBN Tibet ; Dras, alt. 11-12,000 ft., Duthie ; Karakoram, alt. 14,500 ft., 

 Clarke. — DiSTElB. Central Asia, Siberia. 



Stems li-2^ft., smooth. Leaves snbrigid, complicate, smooch, margin obscurely 

 scabrid, nerves 7-9 slightly prominent, bands of sclerenchyma distinct, cauline some- 

 times flat, short ; sheaths of innoTs. open to the middle, soon splitting to the base ; 

 ligule very short. Panicle ovate, rachis slender smooth, branches up to 3 in. sub- 

 capillary flexuons. Spikelets oblong, internodes -J^ in., scaberulons ; gl. X ^-^ in. 

 lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, 11 ^—1- in., distinctly 3-nerved ; flg. gls. oblong-lanceulate, 

 smooth or subscaberulous towards the acute tip, nerves 5 faint ; palea = the gl., 

 linear-oblong, keels minutely scaberulous. Lodicules obliquely ovate. Anthers 

 ^— i in., linear. Styles terminal. — Very near the American F. scabrella, Torr. 

 Trinius describes the rhizome as stolonif erous, but I find no trace of stolons. 



*** Fig. gls. glabrous or pubescent ; top of ovary glabrous, rarely 

 minutely Hairy. Innovations intra- and extravagiaal, their leaf-sheaths 

 closed almost to the mouth, the extravaginal often stoloniferous. 



8. F. Ziovlng'el, Stapf; stems smooth, nodes 2, upper in ^ of stem, 

 cauline leaves up to 4 in. very narrow, sheaths of innovs. open to middle, 

 glabrous or minutely puberulous above, ligule very short obscurely auricled, 

 panicle 2-3 in. linear strict, branches usually bin ate erect, lower naked 

 for 3, spikelets \-\ in. 4-5-fld. compact, internodes of rachilla very short 

 minutely scaberulous, flg. gls. |-^ in. oblong acute awnless or mucronate, 

 anthers oblong, ovary glabrous or nearly so. 



Kashmir, Levimge. 



Stems li ft., eztravaginal innovations present very slender, their leaves finely 

 setiform, flaccid, green, 5-nerved, bands of sclerenchyma fine. Panicle striate, 

 branches often appressed to the rachis, lowermost up to 1^ in. ; lateral pedicels 

 short, thick, Spikelets green ; rachilla minutely scaberulous ; gls. membranous, 

 glabrous or minutely puberulous or scaberulous ; I -J^ in., lanceolate, acute ; II 

 broadly oblong-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse ; palea linear-oblong, almost ^ gls., 

 keels ciliolate. Lodicules oblong, sub-2-lobed. Anthers ^j-i in. Grain Jj in., 

 loosely adherent to the palea, linear-oblong, grooved, hilum almost = the grain, 



9. P. rubra, lAnn. 8p. PI. 74 ; stems smooth, nodes 2, extravaginal 

 innovations frequent ascending or stoloniferous, leaves subsetaoeous, 

 ligule very short truncate exauricled, panicle 3-5 in., rachis scabrid, 

 branches solitary or lowest binate divided from or near the base, spikelets 

 |-f in. oblong loose 4-9-fld., flg. gls. strongly involute oblong-lanceolate 

 margin above broadly hyaline awned, anthers linear, ovary glabrous. 

 Host Gram. Austr. ii. 59, t. 82 ; Ungl. Bot. t. 2066 ; Kunth Envm. PI. i. 

 401, Swppl. 334 ; Steud. 8yn. Oram. 308 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 352 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 62 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 42 {in part) ; ? Griseb. in Goett. 

 JSTachr. (1868) 74. 



Temp, and Subalpine Himalaya, alt. 6-13,500 ft. Khasia Hills, alt. 

 5-6000 ft. (var. Clarkei). — Distkib. Temp, and Arctic Europe and Asia. 



Stems li-2i ft., erect or geniculate below, striate. Leaves 3-5 in., all subseta- 

 oeous or cauline linear flat, rather thick, green, 3-7-nerved, subacute or almost obtuse, 

 smooth ; sheaths of innovs. tight, smooth, closed almost to the mouth, Panicle very 

 variable, narrow, nodding and secund or erect, rather dense and ovate, longest 

 branches 2 in. ; pedicels short. Spihelets green or variegated, glabrous or hairy and 

 ciliate ; rachilla scabrid, internodes ^ in. ; gl, I | in., lanceolate, acuminate, nerve 



