BromuB, 0. Stapf.] clxxiii. geamine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 559 



III broader and thinner than in B. a»per, glabrous pubescent or rigidly hairy 

 towards the margins, 5-7-nerved, scarcely keeled below the tip, tip and margins 

 hardly hyaline j calln? largfe; palea obtuse, keels rigidly ciliate. Anthers linear-oblong, 

 sVttt '"■ Grain \ in., linear-oblong, plano-convex, adherent to the gl. and 

 palea. 



Var. grandis, Stapf; branches of panicle almost all simple and bearing a 

 solitary villous spikelet, gls. larger. B. confinis, Herl. Strach. &• Winterb. 

 — Kumaon and Sikkim, alt. 11-12,000 ft. 



■ Sect. IT. Stbnobhomus, Oriseb. Annuals. O-l. I 1- rarely SriierTed ; 

 II S-^-nerved; flg. gls. 6-7-nerved; interuodes of ractilla slender. 



4 B. crlnitus* Boiss. 8f Soh. in Boiss. Biagn. Ser. I. xiii. 64, M 

 Orient, iii. 647 ; panicle rather stiff, spikelets ^.in. elliptic-oblong, flg. gig. 

 clavate not imbricating. Steud. Syn. Gram. 320; Griseb. in Goett. Wachr. 

 (1868J 74. B. graoillimui, Bange in Mem. Sav. Etr. Petersb. vii. (1851) 

 527; Dulhie Grass. N.W. Ind. 42. Deschampsia aralensis, £egel in 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xli. (1868) II. 300. 



, Westeen Tibet ; alt. 10-14,000 ft. ; Baltistan, &c., Thomson, Duihie. Znnskar ; 

 Schlagintweit, British Beluchistan, alt. 4-5000 It., Dutliie. — Distbib. Westwd. 

 to Persia, Turkestan. 



Stem 6-18 in., erect, slender, smooth. Leaves li-SJ by tV"t5 '"■> linear, 

 flaccid, pilose or velvety; sheaths velvety; ligule ovate, lacerate. Panicle up to 

 4 in., oblong, erect or subnutant, rachis smooth; branches 3-5-nate, capillary, 

 suberector spreading, up to 2 in. Spikelets 3-6-fld., pale green ; racbilla seabrid; 

 gl. 1 ^ in., lanceolate, acute, hyaline except along the middle ; II \-\ in., broadly 

 lanceolate, tip and margins hyaline; flg. gls. ^ in., oblong, obtuse, strongly 

 involute, ciliate on or near the margin, faintly 5-nerved ; awn ^ in., capillary, 

 straight, terminal or nearly so; keels of palea ciliate. Anthers \-^ in. Grain 

 I in., linear-oblong, laterally compressed and folded ; hilum as long as the grain. 



5. B. tectorum; Zinn. Sp. PI. 77 ; panicle flaccid nodding often 

 sectind, spikelets ^-1 in. cuneiform, flg. gls. long narrow. Host Gram. 

 Austr. i. 13, t. 15 ;. Sibth. Fl. Grmo. i. t. 82 ; Fl. Bam. 1. 1806 ;. Beichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 73 ; Bedeb. Fl. Boss. iv. t. 359 ; Fknth Enum. PI. i. 419, Suppl. 

 344; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 647; Steud. Syn. Gram.S]8; Griseb. in Goett. 

 Nachr. (1868). 74; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43. B. abortiflorus, 8t. 

 Amans. Fl. Agen. 44; Steud. I.e. B. arenaoeus, Pourr. in Mem. Acad. 

 Toul. iii. (1788) 308. B. lateripronua, St. Laz. in Ann. Soc. Bot. Byon. 

 vii. (1880) 121. ?B. scabrifolius, Opiz. Natural, n. 9 (1825) 119. B. 

 tectoriur , Bulac Fl. Maut. Pyren. 96. Anisantha pontica; O. Koch in 

 Binnma, xxi. (1848) 394 ; Steud. I. c. 377. 



Western HimaiAta, from Gilgit to Kumaon, alt. 7-11^000 ft.; Baltistan, 

 Duthie. — DlSTElB. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia. 



Stems 6-18 in., erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves up to 3 by 

 -l- in., linear, acute, flaccid, hairy ; sheaths hairy, rarely glabrous ; ligule ovate, 

 lacerate. Panicle up to 5 in., flaccid; rachis smooth or nearly so; branches 3-6- 

 iiate, capillary, flexuous, often decurved with erect tips, sparingly divided, Spike- 

 lets green, loosely few- many-fld., racbilla seabrid ; gl. 1 i-J in,, lanceolate, acute, 

 1- rarely 3-nerved, tip and margins hyaline; II J-| in., oblong-lanceolate, 3-5- 

 nerved ; flg. gls. f^ nearly f in., thin, oblong-lanceolate, acutely 2-fid, 5-7-nerved, 

 puberul'ous or seabrid above oi-'all over, tip and margins hyaline; awn i-f in., from 

 the tip or below it, straight or slightly recurved ; keel of palea long and loosely 

 ciliate. Anthers Jy in. Grain i-f in., linear-oblong, dorsally compressed, ventrally 

 concave or folded.— The form with a solitary flg. gl. (B. abortiflorus, St. Amans) 

 may be expected to occur in N. ludia. 



