Festuca, 0. Stapf.] olxxiii. GSAMiNEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 355 



Western TEHPEEiXE Himalaya, from Jamu to Kumaon, alt. 7-8700 ft., 



Stems 4-5 ft., loosely tufted ; innovations ascending or stoloniform. Leaves of 

 innovs. np to 2 ft. by J-^ in., flat, young convolute, rough or almost smooth, suh- 

 rfgid, many-nerved, cauline 4-6 by \-^ in. ; sheaths open to the base, smooth or 

 the lower rough, strongly striate^ at length brown; ligule f in., truncate, ciliolate, 

 at length lacerate. Panicle ovate, lower branches up to 8 in. Spikelets green, open 

 obovate J rachilla scabrid, internodes up to y^j; in. ; gls. thinly membranous, I ^ in., 

 snbulate-lanceolate, hyaline except along' the pepcurreut nerve; It -g- in., oblong- 

 hihceolate, acute, 3-nerved ; flg, gls. -^j^-i in., scaberulous, margins narrowly hyaline; 

 palea linenr-oblong, 2-dentate, keels scarcely scabrid. Lqdicules broadly elliptic, 

 very obtuse. Anthers -^ in., linear. Ovary top hispid, styles terminal. 



14. r. lucida, Stapf; stem tall, nodes 2, leaves linear .glaucous, 

 sheaths long loose white, panicle 6-7 in. broadly ovate, branchlets very 

 scabrid, lateral pedicels long, spikelets ^^^ in- glistening, flg. gls. oblong 

 acute or subobtuse muoronate 5-7-nerved, tips and margins hyaline, 

 white. 



West Himalaya ; Gabwhal, Jaunsar, in the Deodar forest, alt. 9000 ft., 

 Dttthie. 



Stem 2-3 ft., rather stout, smooth ; internodes 2, elongate. Leaves 6-12 by 

 i-f in., finely acuminate, flat except the involute scaberulous margins, firm, smooth, 

 glaucous, many-nerved; basal sheaths of innovs. yery long, cauline tighter pale 

 glaucous; Jigule |— f in., white, split to the middle into fine fibres. Panicle very 

 lax ; branches simple to beyond the middle, rough, lowest 4 in. ; lateral pedicels 

 3~j in. Spikelets pale green; rachilla scabrid, internodes -jj-l i"- J gl- 1 i '"-i 

 ovate, acute or subacute, shortly l-nerved, hyaline pxcept at the base ; II similar, 

 |-i in., midrib percurrent, 2 side-neivea very short ; flg. gls. i~f in., membranous, 

 Sale green, scaberulous, side-nerves prominent; palea linear-oblong, obscurely 2-fid, 

 Ktels scabrid. LodicuUs obliquely ovoid. Anthers i in., linear. Ocary with a 

 blightly obliijue hispidulous top, styles just below the top. 



** Flowers dioecious ; innovations intravaginal. 



15. P. siblrlca. Sack, ex Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 626 ; stem sheathed to 

 the top, leaves linear firm, panicle 3-6 in. ovoid or linear, lower branches 

 simple or divided beyond the middle with 1-4 ovate-oblong 4-6-fld. spike- 

 lets, flg. gls. J-^ iij. ovate or ovate-oblong subobtuse scaberulous, margins 

 subciliolate or denticulate, awiiless or tip setiform. F. niutica, Jaaquem. 

 mss. Schedonorus transparens, Munro mss. Poa albida, Turcz. ex Trin. 

 in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. i. (1831) 387 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 387. 

 p. pallida, Jacquem. mss. Lencopoa sibirica, Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 

 383, j» Goett. Nachr. (1868) 76.— Festuca, n. 3, Eerb. S.f. & T.— Schedo- 

 norus, n. 2, Herb. Strache^ & Winterb. 



Western Tibet, alt. 13-15,000 ft., from Ladak to X. of Kumaon. — Distbib. 

 Caucasus, Altai Mts., Dahuria. 



Stems 1-2 ft., tufted, erect, smooth. Leaves 6-10 in., rarely more, by ^-} in., 

 linear, finely acuminate, smooth or scabrid, subconvolute, dull green, nerves many 

 very prominent, lower canline one 3 in.; sheaths of innovs. open, to the base, 

 terete, la,sal crowded, cauline smooth; ligule very short, membranous, truncate, 

 ciliate. Panicle very narrow or expanded, stitt'or fiexuous; lower branches solitary 

 or binate, erect or spreading, very variable in length ; lateral pedicels very short. 

 iS'pjMets pale green, ^o—'t) '"•' ^^''y ^"""^^ ""^^^ "P^"' rachilla minutely seabnd 

 internodes -'- in. ; gls. thin, X -^-^ in., ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subacute, l-nerved 

 or 3.nerv£d*at the viry bafee, white and hyaline except along the green nerve; II 

 about i in., similar, but more oblong fnri usually distinctly 3-ntrved ; -flg. gls. 



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