Festuea, 0. Sfcapf.] olxxiii. GRAMiNKa:. (J. D. Hooker.) 353 



perourrent or Jubexcurrent ; II f in., ovate-lauceolate; flg. gls. up to f-f in., 

 nerves 5, faint ; awn slender, up to ys >»• > palea = the gls., linear-oblong, shortly 

 2-fid, keels eiliolate. Lodioules obliquely ovate, 8ub-2-lobed. Anthers yV~i '"■ 

 Ovary with rarely 1-2 minute hairs. O-rmn ^ in., linear-oblong, grooved, some- 

 times adherent to both gl. and palea, hilum nearly equal the grain. — ^It is impossible 

 to separate the hairy glumed from the glabrous forms ; these vary in specimens 

 from different localities, and Clarke has found them growing in the same spot in the 

 Karakoram Mts. To make a comparative analysis of the Indian forms with the 

 European and Oriental would involve a most minute examination of all the latter 

 and lead to the creation of a number of new varieties and subvarieties with ephemeral 

 characters. Most of the Indian specimens fall into Hackel's subsp. ear. rubra var. 

 genidna, and var./oJJoa! (Monogr. Festuc. Europ. 138, 142). The glabrous stoloni- 

 ferous specimens answer more or less to his subvar. vulgaris ; those with short erect 

 or ascending innovations to var. fallax and mostly to forma alpestris, which has 

 thicker leaves and highly variegated spikelets ; the pubescent to his subvar. B. 

 barbata. The principal synonyms cited by Hackel for these forms are : — F. alpestris, 

 Wulf. Fl. Nor. Phan. Ed. Fenzl, S( GraS, 151. P. barbata, Selvrmk Prim. Fl. 

 Salisb. 46. F. heteropbylla, Beenke in Jaeq. Collect, ii. 93. F. hirsuta, Fl. Ban. 

 t. 1627 ? (»o« Host). F. Kitaibeliana, Schult. Mant. ii. 398 (for var. genuma). 

 F. longifolia, Begetsch. ^ Seer Fl. Schvi. 91. F. nigrescens, Lam. Encycl. ii. 460. 

 F. pul)escens, Willd. Enum. Fl. 6. F. repens, Hegetsck. ^Heer I. c. 92. F. rubra, 

 var. baikalensis, Oriseb. in G-oett. Nachr. (1868) 74, is probably this. The true 

 F. haikalensis is not found in India. 



Var. Clarkei, Stapf; extravaginal innovations very rare slender, leaves sub- 

 setaceous cauline rarely flat, panicle 3-5 in. nodding, branches few subsecnnd lowest 

 up to 3 in. rigid or flexuons mostly obliquely erect, spikelets ^ in. pale green, gl.I 

 I in., II i in., flg. gls. i-^ in., awn = i to nearly all gl., anthers jV-y i"-' S"^*'" 

 I in.— Kangra and Dalhousie, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarke. Khasia Hills, alt. 4-6000 ft., 

 Clarke (a form with setaceous leaves and very long anthers). 



B. Yenation of leaves oonvolute, at length flat or subconvolute ^J^-T^in. 

 broad. 



* Flowers hermaphrodite ; innovations (when known) extravaginal. 



t Flg. ffls. awned, aim as long as the gl. or longer, very slender. 



10. T. ^l^antea, Vill. Hist. PI. Bauph. ii. 110 ; leaves amplexicaul, 

 panicle 4-16 in., branches rather distant undivided to the middle, spikelets 

 about ^ in., flg. gls. -^i in., awn twice as long, anthers linear. Kunth 

 Enum. PI. \. 407, Sujypl. 339; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ.- 1. 358; Engl. Bot. 

 1. 1820 ; Ledeh. Fl. Baits, iv. 854, Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 621 ; Buthte Grass. 

 N.W Ind. 4,1 ; Oriseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 74 (in part). F. aristata, 

 C. Koch in Urmsea, xxi. (1848) 412. F. triflora, 8m. Engl. Bot. t. 1918; 

 Desf. Fl. Atlant. 6, t. 20. Bromus giganteus, Linn. 8p. PI 77; il. 

 Ban. t. 1630 ; Beichb. I. v. t. 76 ; Knapp Gram. Britt. t. 87 ; Host Gram. 

 Austr. 87, t. 6. B. triflorus, Unn. 8p. PL Ed- ii. 115 ; Fl. Ban. t. 440. 



Temp. Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Kumaon.alt. 5-9500 ft.— Disteib. Europe, 



■ sZutock very short, roots fibrous. 8te,ns loosely tufted, 2-4 ft., smooth nodes 

 3-5. Leaves 5-i2 by W '°-. ''"ear to linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, flat, 

 flaccid, dark green, loosely many-nerved, smooth, margins minutely scaberulnus; 

 sheaths of innoTS. terete, o"pen to the base, smooth or asperulous below the month ; 

 ligule very short, truncate, glabrous. Panicle ovate or oblong-oyate "Odd ng 

 branches solitary or the lowermost binate. spreading, flexuons, scabrid ; branchlets 

 fcw-fld. spreading or apprcssed, pedicels short or the lower sometimes = the spike et. 

 «p*./e//linear-lanceolate, pale green, rachiUa scabnd ; gls. membranou.-, I yV* "»•. 



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