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LIST OF PLANTS. 
cata, arista subbasilari basi vix torta glumis vacuis subsequi- 
longa. 
Hab. Sanju Pass above Kitchik Yilak,, Aug. 1870. 
Csespitosa. Culmi basi decumbentes^ 4-10 pollicares^ gra- 
ciles, Iseves. Folia flaccida^ radicalia 3-5 poll, longa, culmo 
dimidio breviora^ angusta, plana, acuminata, superne strio- 
lata, subtus scaberula ; vaginis Isevibus sulcatis vix inflatis ; 
ligula oblonga hyalina obtusa lacera. Spiculse in capitulum 
globoso-ovoideum apice rotundatum compactse, breviter pe- 
dicellatse, J poll, longse, fulvse, 1 -florae, pedicello glabro fere 
Isevi. Glumse 2, vacuge, sequales, lanceolatse, versus api- 
cem subaristatam serratse v. erosse, hyalinse enervise, carina 
tenui remota scaberula. Gluma florifera hyalina, vacuis 
triente brevior, lineari-oblonga, truncata, apice sub-5- 
dentata, 3-nervis, glaberrima, lateribus obscure scaberulis ; 
callo laxe piloso, pilis gluma dimidio brevioribus ; arista sub- 
basilaris capillaris, basi vix torta, scaberula, glumis vacuis 
seqailonga. Palea gluma florifera paulo , brevior, lineari- 
oblonga, truncata, apice erosa, 2-nervis, nervis vix scabris ; 
setula palea f brevior, gracilis, parce pilosa. Squamulse 
hyalinse, insequaliter 3-fidse. Stamina 3, filamentis brevibus ; 
antherse lineari-oblongse, palea triente breviores, aurantiacse. 
Ovarium ellipticum ; stylis breviusculis per totam longitu- 
dinem breviter plumosis. 
This very remarkable grass has been carefully examined 
by General Munro, who points out its similarity to Calam- 
grostis holciformis, Jaub. and Spach. 111. PI. Orient, t. 346, 
a plant of the lofty regions of Tibet, which differs from this 
in the rigid glaucous scabrid leaves, loose open panicle, the 
hispid pedicels, scabrous empty glumes, twisted awn, densely 
bearded callus, and larger and very densely bearded setula 
at the base of the palea. Its remarkable similarity to An- 
thoxanthum suggested to Gen. Munro the name which 
is adopted here. There are very obscure traces of 3 nerves 
at the base of the lower empty glume, and the squamulae 
are very variable in size and shape. — J. D. Hooker. 
Explanation of Plate. — Fig. 1, spikelet ; 2, floret ; 3, palea 
and stamens ; 4, stamens, squamulas, and ovary j 5, squa- 
mula ; 6, ovary : — all magnified. 
