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CLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker,) 149 



«ngth; palea as long as the ^1., oblong, acuminate, 2-nerved. Pedicel of arrested 

 •pifeelets flat, scabrid.— Gi. Ill and its palea would appear to have exchanged tlieir 

 ^H^H^ w ^°^^^^^^^^- "*■ c^ri^us gigantic state? collected by Ritchie at the Kola 

 ffl T y\*^f ^^^^ (^" tbe Concan ?) has the upper spikelets densely softly villous, 

 ^ 1 and II thin hardly tubercled, the lower spikelets appear to be binate but are 

 ▼erj imperfect. f ^i^ 





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43. X.OPKOPOGON, Hack. 



vprvT 1^^''^^°'^^ densely tufted grasses. Leaves very narrow. Sj)ikes 

 veS t° -1 ^^^'^^'■y 2-nate or fascicled on the ends of capillary branches, 

 homn ^^ ' J"^"^*^ ^^^y s^o^t' slender, tips cupnlar. Spikelets small, 

 mogamous or heterogamous, 1-2-tid., 2-3-nate, one sessile, callus conical 

 tmllT ; . ""'^* 4, I and II chartaceous, I oblong, broadly truncate, irre- 



AustraUan ^^^''^' '^'^mas very long. 



Nuucle" !r^^"'^*"* *^^ lower spikelots sometimes form a whorl at the apex of the 

 or neuter u .^ermainia. In this species also tlie upper spikelet is usually male 

 ^•2l7io»'l',i w *"^S^*'s "»e probability of Eetz's Androjjoc/on inminatus (Obs. 

 • »*■) from Tranquebar, Koenitj, being a Lophopoc/on. ' 



Il56 jiV*'*'^®'**^*^» JI(ick. in Engl. Sf Prantl Nat. Fflanzenfam ii. 

 ^•^« cioS r- I'^t^P- 2''^4. t. i.f. 14; stem subsimple, ^P^kf more or 

 0- KuS p'^*^^**- Lishoain Bomb. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. (1891) 201; 

 ^•257 S/'?"^- ^^"- i- 197. Andropogon tridentatus, i?o.i;i. IZ. /h^?. 

 283.-Gpl ^- ^^«- ^»-«w. 372. Saccharum triJentatum, Sjpreng. Syst. i. 

 n. 1 ''^- ^«^^- C'a^. n. 8842. 



^ttie. "^'^^N and Canaka, Hey»e, Ac. CentbaI Pbovinces, Khaudua, 



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*iddle. 



V O- Kuntze 1 



"^^fgl-I anV;b"? "^""^ ''*"<=ties : o. JFr to A«t, Nees fflss., wiiu reu u».x= -....- 



^6 ^•. and /3. ii/,„,.,j.^ ^^j^j^ ^^^^_ 



^'"'gWufct?"' ^''''^•f--> stem subcorymbosely branched above, spikes 



rSie tt^*^'*^'' "'-■'^'•^^- - >" ^- ^-'i^-'«'««, t«t habit very different J he 

 H'^-'ofgembr '.'I''*" ""^^ «*'^'" »'*^"'- ""bulate leaves aud capvlkry pedunces 

 L> Cher I '"^^y "^"'^^t filiform sheaths with acicular tips. _ Spxkes sob ury 

 • ^» ^utt%onhvV»- •"°^' ^""^^ yellow-brown. fragile.-More materials are wautmg 



i aescnption of the inflorescence. 



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