372 CLXxiii. GEAMiNBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) ' [Hoi-deum. 



Bofc vii. (1843) 215;— Temp, and Alp. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim, Tibet 

 and China. 



Var. nudum ; spikelets 2-ranked, grain free within the palea. H. nudum, Arduini 

 in Sehult. Mant. ii. 437. H. gymnodistiehum, Watt Diet. Econ. Trod. Ind. iv. 274. 

 H. distichum, j8. Knnth I. e. i. 455 ; Kew Bullet. (1888) 271. H. coeleste, Koern. 

 et Wen. I. c. i. 166, ii. 629. ?H. himalayense, MUig Beschr. Himal. Gerste (1822), 

 ex Sehult. Mant. ii. 481. — Cult, up to 14^000 ft. with brown or often purplish spikes. 



1. K. spontaneum, C. Koch, in lAnnaea, xxi. (1848) 430; tall, 

 densely tufted, leaves flat finely acuminate, spike narrow raohis fragile, 

 spikelets 2-ranked lateral stipitate male awnless, fig. gl. lanceolate 

 plumosely ciliate, awn very long flattened. Steud. Syn. Oram. 351. H. 

 ithabnrense, Soiss. Biagn. Sei: I. xiii. 20 ; Fl. Orient, v. 687 ; Aitchis. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 8er. 11. iii. 127. H. Decaisueanum, Sort. 



British Beluchistan; Quetta, Stocks. — Disteib. Westwd. to Palestine. 



Stems forming great clumps 3 ft. high, resembling cultivated barley, Aitchis. 

 I. c. Leaven ilaccid, narrowed into very long points j ligale short. Spikes lJ-3 in. 

 Spikelets i in., pedicel flat with villous margins ; gls. linear-oblong. Aivn 4-8 in. 

 — The only truly wild Bnrley of the cultivated type, most nearly allied to vulgare 

 var. distichon, but differing in the villous spikelets and jointed fragile spike. 

 Grisebach, however (in Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 317) says under the cultivated S. 

 distichum^ that he has found the spike to be fragile in some of its forms. 



2. K. xnurinum, Linn. Sp. PI. 85 ; stems ascending leafy, spike 

 stout subcylindric fragile dense-fld., spikelets 3-uate lateral male or 

 neuter, fl. gl. lanceola.te awned ciliate below or glabrous. Fl. Dan. t. 629 ; 

 Sost Gram.Austr.i.2tj,t.S2; L^ngl.Bot.t. 1971; Knapp Oram. Britt.lQ4<; 

 Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. xi. ; T. Nees Oen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 83 ; Kunth 

 JSnum. PI. i. 456, Stcppl. 370 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 328 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 686; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 669; Nees Agrost. Bras. 453, Fl. Afr. Austral. 

 363; Steud. Syn. Gram. S52; Duthie G^ass. N.W. Ind. 45. H. leporinum; 

 Link in Linnsea, iv. (1835) 133. H. vaginatum, C. Koch in Linnsea xxi. 

 (1848) 433 ; Steud. I. c. Tritioum murale, Salisb. Prodr. 'i/7. Zeocriton 

 murinum, Beauv. Agrost. 125. 



Kashmir ; alt. 5-6000 ft., Jacquemont, &o. Peshawue, Stewart. — Distbie. 

 Westwd. to the Atlantic. 



Stem 6-18 in., ascending from an often decumbent base. Leaves flat, glabrous or 

 sparsely puberulous and soaberulous ; sheaths inflated ; ligule small, scarious. 

 Spikes l-2i by |-| in., inclined, green. Spikelets with the awns 1 in. ; empty gl. 

 filiform ; flg. gl. flattened, much shorter than the straight awn ; keels of palea ciliate. 



** Perennials. 



3. K. secalinumii Schreh. Spicil. Fl. Lips. 148 ; stem erect leafy, 

 spike narrow subcylindric dense-fld., spikelets 3-nate lateral male or neuter. 

 Host Oram. Austr. i. 26, t. 33 ; Tfin. Sp. Gram,. Jc. t. 3 & 4 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austral, vii. 669 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 687. H. pratense, Huds. Fl. Angl. 

 FA. II. 56 ; Fngl. Bot. t. 409 ; Trin. I. c. t. 4 ; Knapp Oram. Britt. t. 

 105; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. xi. ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. iv. 328 ; Steud. S^i/n. 

 Oram. 362 ; Buthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 45. H. nodosum, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 Fd. II. 126 {exol. Syn. Fay.). H. brevisubulatum. Link in Linnsea, xvii. 

 (1843) 391. H. maritimum. Roth Tent. Fl. Germ. II. i. 150 ; Fl. Ban. t. 

 630. Zeocriton secalinum, Beauv. Agrost. 115. 



Kashmib & IsKAKDO, alt. 7700 ft., Clarice, DutJiie. Western Tibet, alt. 

 10-15,000 ft., Thomson. Shibchilam (N. of Kumaon) alt. 15,000 ft., Sti-achey ^ 

 Winterboitom. — Distkib. Europe, N. Asia, temp. N. & S. America. 



