148 OLXXiii. GR.VMiNE^. (J. D. Flooker.) [Ischnochloa, 



with thickened margins, inarticulate. Spikelets 1-fld., mJDute, binate, a 

 sessile and a pedicelled, lanceolate, both awned and bisexual; callus 

 minute, ciliate. Glumes 3 (III absent) I linear-oblong, aubcoriaceous, 

 5-6-nerved, dorsally flattened, tip broadly hyaline truncate irregularlj 

 2-toothed, margins incurved, keels ciliate; II oblong, keeled, obtuse or 

 truncate. 3-nerved, ciliate towards the tip ; IV much shorter, very narrow, 

 cleft to the middle, lobes subulate; awn in the cleft, capillary, geniculate, 

 palea 0. Lodicules cuneate. Stamens 3, anthers oblong. Stj/les short, 

 free. Grain subfusiform, terete, grooved one side. 



A remarkable genu?, with the h'lhit of Arthraxon (closely resembling A, micro- 

 pliyllus), next which it may be provisionally placed, but not nearly related ^to it, 

 differing in the inarticulate flat rachis of the simple spike, bisexual awued pedicellea 

 Bpikelets, and absence of gl. III. 



Z. Falconer!, HooTcf. in Hook. Ic. Ft t 2466. 



NoETH Western Himalaya; growing amongst moss, Falconer, 



Stems 6-8 in., very slender, sparingly branched, leafy to the tips, filiform j 

 internodes concealed by the leaf-sheaths, Zeatjes -j-f in., flat, acute or acuminate, 

 sheath deeply furrowed, glabrous; ligule a few hairs. Splices i-1 in,, very slenuer, 

 green, peduncle capillary as long as the leaf-sheath ; rachis exactly linear, flexuons, 

 quite glabrous, not disarticulating jit the transverse glabrous nodes. Spili^^^^ 

 -jL in. long, rather longer and broader than the internodes ; gl. I with the 2 lattT. 

 (carinal) nerves only reaching the tip; II with a stout median nerve and 2 very 

 slender lateral ones anastomosing with it below the tip. 



42. TKEZiEPOGON. Roth. 



A coarse perennial grass. Leaves lanceolate, base cordate, amplexicau . 



acute. Glumes 4, 1 thickly coriaceons, convex, beaked, transversely r^^g^^ 

 ridged or tubercled ; II sunk in the cavity of the joint, rigid, sparingiT 

 tubercled, acuminate; III shorter, hyaline, paleate, usually male; |^ 

 bisexual, hyaline, deeply bifid, with a long twisted awn in the sinus ; P^l^ 

 narrow. Lodicnles broad. Anthers 3, very long. Styles free, stigiJ^as 

 short. Grai/i narrowly oblong, free. 



T. elegrans, Roth, ex Boem, & Sch SysL ii. 788. Nov. PL Sp. 62 ; HacT^: 

 Monoqr. Androp. 267. Andropogon Princeps, A, Rich. Tent. FL ^^f^ 

 471, t. 102. Rhiniachne Princeps, Hochst, ex Stend, Syn. Gram. 3t)U l''' 

 Sijn.). Jardinea abyssinica, Steud. Syn. Gram. 360. 



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Central India, the Concan and Malabae. — Distrib. Afr. trop. 



Stems 6 in. 3 ft., tufted and branching from the base, or woody ns *^1^^ ^ ^ 

 crow-quill leiow and genicuhitely branching upward; roots stout, rigid, ^f . ^^ 

 3-10 by l~i in., linenr, acuminate, rnther thin, and s-heaths glabrous scabru 

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