338 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bromus, O. Stapf. 



Var. villosus, Mert. & Koch in Rohl. Deutsch. Flor. i. 675 ; spikelets pubescent 

 to villom, lower sheiiths and leaves more or less hairy.— Kashmir and Gilgit. 

 Europe. • i 



Var. confinis, Stapf ; stem li-2J ft., leaves hardly i in. broad hairy, panicle 

 usually reduced to a raceme, spikelets densely pubescent. B. confinis, Nees em 

 Steud. Syn. Oram. 320; Duthie I.e.. 42. B. pubescens, Jacquem. mss. B. 

 Muuroi, ioiss. Fl. Or. v. 643. — Kunawur and Gilgit. 



2. B. asper, Murray Prodr. Stirp. Goiting. 42; rootstock short 

 priBmorse, panicle large, spikelets up to 1^ in., awn of flg. gls- i to 

 nearly as long as the gl. straight. Host Gram. Austr. i. 6, t. 7 ; Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1172; Beichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 76; Steud. Syn. Gram. ;?20; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Boss. iv. 356 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 643 ; Gtueb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 

 64 ; ButUe Grass. N. W. Ind. 42. B. altissimus, Weber im, Wigg Brim. Fl. 

 Rolsat. 9 {non Pursh.). B. dnmetorum, Lanik. Fl. Fr. iii. 606. B. gigan- 

 teus, Vill. Sist. PL Bauph. ii. 118 (non Linn.). B. hirsntissimus, 

 Cyrill. ex Boem. 8f Sch. Syst. ii. 643; B. hirsutns, Gwrt. Fl. Lowd.fase. 

 ii. t. 8 {non Schranh.). B. moutanus. Scop. Fl. Oarn. Bd. II. i. 82. B. 

 nemorahs. Suds. Fl. Angl Ed. II. i. 51. B. nemorosua, Vill. Z. c. 218. 

 B. Pseudo-asper, Schur. Enum. PI. Transs. 804. B. ramosus, Suds. Fl. 

 Angl. 40 {non Linn.). B. serotinus, Benek. in Bof. Zeit. iii. (1845) 724 ; 

 Steud. I. c. Festuca aspera, Mert. ^ Koch in Boehl. Deutsch. Flor. i. 672. 

 F. scaherrima & Wightiana, Steud. I. c. 316. Sbhedonorus asper, Gaud. 

 ex Boem. §• Sch. I.e. S. Benekeni, Lange in Fl. Ban. t. 2826. S. serotinus, 

 Bostoup in Kjoeb. Videnslt. Meddel. (1864) 119. S. bromoides, Wight 8; Ann. 

 in Wight Gat. n. 1795.— Bromus, n. 10 {parfim), Serb. Ind. Or. Sf. & T. 



Tempebate Himalaya, alt. 6-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. Khasia 

 HiiLS, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. M. and T. T., Clarke. NiiaHiBi and Pulnry Hills, 

 Wight ; alt. 7000 ft., Clarice.— DiSTRJB. Europe, N. Afr., W. and N. Asia. 



Stems 2-6 ft., erect, smooth. Leaves l-lj ft. by }-i in., finely acuminate, 

 Saccid, hairy above, beneath and margins scabrid, nerves many j sheaths villous or 

 retrorsely hirsute, upper glabrous ; ligule short, obtuse, ciliolate. Panicle up to 

 1 ft., loose, open or contracted, rachis rougher smooth below j branches 2-nate or 

 lower 3-5-nate and unequal up to 7 in., spreading or deflexed, naked below. Spike- 

 lets linear to oblong, green, loosely 7-9-fld. ; gls. rather firm; racbilla scabrid; 

 gl. I |-i in., linear-lanceolate; II i- nearly ^ in., broader, more oblong; III i- 

 nearly 4 in., oblong-lanceolate, keeled below the tip, glabrous pubescent scabrid or 

 side nerves, scabrid to ciliate, 5-7-nerved, tip and margin more or less hyaline ; 

 awn terminal or subterminal ; palea obtuse, keels rigidly ciliate. Anthers t'^-|^ in., 

 linear. Grain ^ in., linear-oblong, flat tightly • adherent to the gl. and palea. — The 

 Sikkim, Khasia and some Nilghiri specimens have more acute and strongly nerved 

 gls. than most of the N. -Western ones ; but they are linked by many interme- 

 diates, and similar variations occur all over Europe. 



3. S.himalaicus.S'^drp/; rootstock very short, panicle usually reduced 

 to a raceme, spikelets up to 1 in., awn of flg. gl. as long as the gl. or longer 

 recurved. B. asper, & Bromus n. 9 & 10 (partim), Serb. Ind. Or. Sf. 8f T. 



Tempebate Himalaya; E. Nepal, Sikkim and W. Bhotan, &c., alt. 8-12,000 

 n.,J.D.B. 



Stems 2-2i ft. Leaves 6-9 by ^J in., finely acuminate, flaccid, hairy above, 

 beneath and margins scabrid, many-nerved; sheaths tight, glabrous or lowest 

 hairy when young ; ligule short, truncate, usually dark-colrd. Panicle 5-7 in., 

 open or contracted; rachis rough, or smooth below ; branches 2-nate, or the lower 

 3-5-nate, spreading or deflexed, unequal, lowest up to 3 in., simple or Bpiringly 

 divided. Spikelets linear-oblong, green, loosely 9-fid. ; rachilla subscaberuloHS ; gl. 

 I ^y'g in., narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved, keeled; II longer (-^p-Jin.) and broader; 



