362 cLxxiii. GBAMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bromus, 0. Stapf. 



Annual. Stems 6-18 in., erect or ascending, pubescent or subvelutinous. 

 Leaves 2-5 in., linear, narrow, subacute, hairy or velvety ;. young sheaths villous; 

 ligule ovate, lacerate. Fanicle up to 5 in., usually contracted, erect, racbis 

 pubescent ; branches 2-5-natc, unequal, suberect, rarely nodding, Be£|.)Drid, simple 

 1-3-spiculate. Bpikelets pale green, densely 5-lO.fld. ; rachilla puberulous ; gls. 

 rather narrow, glistening, scabrid with appressed hairs, tips long-hyaline, nerves 

 prominent ; I i-f in., lanceolate, 1-3-nerved ; II -jV^i '"•> flblong-lanceolate, 

 5'n^I;ved ; flg. gls. J-f by \-\ in., oblong-lanceolate, maigins inflexed below the 

 middle, subacute, 2-toothed, 7-9-nerved ; awn J-1 in., infra-apical, nearly straight 

 nr moderately recurved.; keels of palea loosely long-ciliate. Anthers ^°, - | in, 

 Qrain -fs'i '"•> linear-oblong, slightly concavo-convex. 



10. B. macrostachys, Besf. Fl. Atlant. i. 96, t. 19, f. 2, var. triarig- 

 tsAna, Sack, in Flora (1879); panicle oblong or obovate-oblong loose or 

 contracted, spikelets 1|-1| in. elliptic to linear-oblong, flg. gls. all or the 

 upper only with 2 straight slender lateral awns, median awn ^| in. 

 finally twisted and strongly recurved. B. Danthomas, Trin. in C. A. Mey. 

 rerz. Pfl. Cauc. 21; 8p. Gram. Ic. t. 353; Dufhie Grass. N.W. Ind. 43. 

 Boissiera Danthonise, A. Bf. Ind. 8em. Sort. Berol. (1857) 3. Triniusa 

 banthonise, Sieud. Syn. Gram. 328. 



Wesieen Tibet ; Spiti, alt. 12,000 ft.. Lance. — Disteib. AfFglian., Turkestan, 

 ^s. Min, {of B, macrostaehys, M>-diterraneaa'regions, Persia). 



Annual. Stem 6-18 in., erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 

 2-6 in., narrowly linear, acute or subacute, more or less hairy or velvety; young 

 sheaths villous of velvety; ligule ovate, lacerate, Panicle up to 5 in., sometimes 

 reduced to a spikelet, racbis glabrous or pubescent ; branches solitary or the lower 

 3-4-nate, unequal, rarely 1 in., simple, 1-2-spiculate, strict, suberect, scabrid, rarely 

 flexuous. Spikelets pale green, densely 6— 20-ild. ; rachilla pubescent ; gls. broad, 

 villous velvety or scabrid, tips and margins usually scarious and dull white, nerves 

 prominent or not ; gl. I \-^a in. ; broadly lanceolatej 5-nerved ; II about \ in., 

 oblong, 7-9-netved ; flg. gls. |- nearly -J in., elliptic, to obovate-oblong, subacute, 

 2-toothed, 9-11-nerved, margins inflexed Irom or from above the middle; lateral 

 awns, ^-^ in , median J-f in., infra-apical, often purplish, base stout ; keels of palea 

 long-ciliate. .4»<Ae« nearly ^-f in., rarely -^ in. Grain Jg-J in., linear-oblong, 

 slightly concavo-convex, tightly adherent to the gl, and palea ; hilum almost as 

 long as the gl. 



DOUBTETJI SPECIES. 



B. ■MEMBEANACBU9, Jacque'Ai. rrvs. ; Grieeh. in Ooett. Nachr. (1868) 74 

 Dufhie Grass. N. W. Ind. 43 is Duthiaea bromoides, Hack, (see p. 282). 



123. DuTHiEA, Hack. See p. 282. 



124 BRACKYPOSIVBK, Beauv. 



Perennial slender grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spiiehts terete, 

 many-fld., subsesaile or in along slender spike appressed to the rachis; 

 rachilla elongate and jointed below the fl. gls; Glumes many, imbricate in 

 fl., spreading in frt. ; I and II persistent; empty, narrow; flg. gls. oblong- 

 lanceolate, acnminate, with a terminal straight awn or mucro, 7-9-nerved ; 

 keels of palea peotinately ciliate. Lodicuhs ciliate. Stamens 2-3, anthers 

 linear. Ovary and grain as in Bromus. — Species 5 or 6, of north temp, 

 and mt. regions. 



1. B. sylvatlcum, Beauv. Agrost. 101 ; roots fibrous, leaves more or 

 less hairy or scabernlous flat, spike drooping, awn as long as its gl. Thw. 

 Fnum.PI. 7eyZ. 374; Trim. Oat. Ceyl. Fl. 110; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 346 ; 



