Bromus, 0. Stapf.] olxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



2-Iobed, keels loosely long-ciliate. ^n<Ae™ | in., oblong. Grain J-^ iii., linear- 

 oblong, flatly concavo-convex or folded, tightly adherent to the gl. and palea. 



** Fig. gk. all l-aiened, or some 3-awned in B. macrostaohys. Panicle 

 loose, open or contracted. 



8. B. patulus, Mert. & Koch in Bohl. Deutsch. Flor. i. 685 ; panicle 

 linear-oblong usually aodding often secund branches long slender up to 

 6 in., spikelets |-1| in. liaear-oblong, awn about = the gl. usually re- 

 curved. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 415 ; Seichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 74 ; Ledeh. PL 

 Rosa. iv. 364 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 655 ; Bteud. 8yn. Gram. 325 ; Griseh. 

 in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 74; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43. B. annuus, 

 Serb. Jacquem. B. anatolicus, Boiss. et Heldr.in, Boiss. Biagn. Ser.l. 

 xiii. 63. B. arvensis, Duthie I. c. 42 (non Linn.) ; Herb. Ind. Or. Sf. ^ T. 

 B. ohappvianus. Be Not. ex Nym. Gonsp. 824. B. ooramutatus, M. Bieh. 

 Fl. Tour. Ca/uc. iii. 77 (non Mert. Sr Koch.). B. Cyri, G. A. Mei/. Verz Pfl. 

 Cane. 24. B. japonious, Thunh. Fl. Jap. 51, t. 11 ; Pi-anch. & Sav. Enum. 

 PI. Japan, ii. 181 {nom.prius). B. Kochii, C. Gmel. Fl. Bad. iv. 76, t. 6. 

 B. mollis, Buthie I. c. B. multiflorus, Host Gram. Austr. i. (end. exempl. 

 Boyle) t. 11 (nom Sm.). B. pendulus, Schk. in Verh. Slebend. Ver. Naturn. 

 iv. (1853) 90. B. phrygius, Boiss. Biagn. 8er II. iv. 140. B. polymorphus, 

 Hoh. Enum. PI. Talusch. 19. B. secalinus, M. Bieh. I.e. i. 71 (non Linn). 

 B. squarrosus, Serb. Boyle; Serb. Sfrach. ^ Winterb. (Bromus, n. 3): 

 Buthie I.e. (non Linn.). B. unilateralis, Schur.l.c. B. velntinue, Nocc. 

 et Balb. Fl. Tic. i. 54 (non Schrad.). B. v'lliferus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 326 

 (in part). Serrafalcus patulus, Pari. Fl. Hal. i. 394. 



Westebn Himalaya, alt. 6-14,000 ft. Bhotan, Orifflth.—DiSTiiiB. Europe, 

 W. and N. Asia, China, Japan. 



Annual. Stems 1-2 ft., erect or ascending, glabrous or puberulons. Leaves up 

 to 8 by i in., linear, acute or subacute, green, flaccid, hairy especially above; 

 sheaths rarely all glabrous or hairy ; ligule short, ovate, toothed. PaiUcle np to 

 8 in., narrow or open ; rachis glabrous or pubescent ; branches solitary or 3-7-nate, 

 unequal, 1-4-spiculate, slender, flexuous, lower up to 6 in. long, simple or racemose, 

 suberect spreading or nodding, scabrid at least above. Spikelets densely or loosely 

 7-14-fld. , pale preen; racbilla scabrid ; gls. rather narrow, thin between the pro- 

 minent nerves; I ^— }^ in., lanceolate, subacute, pubrscent or scabrid, 3-nerved, tips 

 and upper margins hyaline, II i%— J in., oblong-lanceolate, 7-nerved j flg. gls. ^— f in., 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, 2-toothed, margins inflexed from 

 the middle or above it; awn -^^y-j- in., infra-apical, base rather stout, not or 

 obscurely twisted ; keels of palea loosely long-ciliate. Anthers ^Vtt '"• Grain 

 \-^ in., linear-oblong, more or less concavo-convex, tightly adherent to the gl. and 

 pulea. — Griffiths' Bhotan specimen is a solitary one, pi-obably introduced. The 

 following are rather abnormal forms than varieties. 



Var. Falconeri, Stapf j panicle very loose villous, gl. I narrowly lanceolate 

 1-nerved, II 5-nerved, flg'. gls. 7-nerved. — B. tomentellus, Dalhie I. c. 43 (noa 

 Boiss.). — N.W. Jndia, Falconer. 



Var. mierostaehya, Stapf.; spikelets small few-fld., gN. broader, I f in. 3-5- 

 nerved, II J in. 7-9-nerved, flg. gls. i-jV bj i 'i- broad.— N.W. India, Falconer. 



9. Sa oxyodon, SchrenJc Enum. Pi. Nov. ii. 1 ; panicle usually stiff 

 suberect oblong contracted, branches up to 2 in., spikelets 14 in. linear or 

 linear-oblong, flg. gls. broadly hyaline, awn |-1 in. Steud. 8yn._ Gram. 

 326. B. macrostaohys, var. oxyodon, Griseh. in Ledeh. Fl. Boss. iv. 363. 

 B. multiflorus. Ear. & Kiril. in Bull. 8oc. Nat. Mosc. (1841) 865. 



Kashmik, Dkas, BAT,TisrA?r, Zanskab, &c., alt. 9-12,000 ft., Thomson, &c.— 

 — DisTKiB. — Turkestan. 



