hieroporjon.] CLtxut. Q^xm^M. (J. D. Hooker.) 2S5 



^ o(ms 1-3 ft. , densely tufted, wiry. Leaves nearly as long as the stem, up to 

 4 in. broad, flat or convolute, tip capillary; ligule of long hairs, Spilres 6-10 in., 

 U.ixuous or curved, rachis dorsally rounded. Spikelets i-^ in., loosely imbricate, 

 'arely 2-8eriate 5 gls. I and II glistening; III opaque, with a very thick raised 

 >m<lnb; awn about := the gl. 



87. TRZPOGON, Both. 



Slender densely tufted grasses. Leaves usually convolate. Spikelets 

 niany.fld. (fl. all but 1-2 terminal perfect), 2-seriate and unilateral on a 

 ^ry slender terminal spike, not jointed at the base; rachilla produced 

 ^tweenthe glumes, jointed at the base. Olumes many, I and I[ unequal, 

 distantly superposed, 1 -nerved, empty, persistent; I usually lodged in a 

 rrowof the rachis, and toothed or lobed on one side; II entire or notched 



low the mucrnnatp nr* o»^;/»n1of<^ f4,^. TTT r.r^A fnllnwinor nva.tp. dorsallv 



belo 



i>«low the mucronate or apiculate tip; III and following ovate, dorsally 

 ^oom, 2-fid, and awned in the cleft, or 4-fid with the outer lobes awned, 



i.^^J^^^r^embranoaa and rarely awned; palea broad or narrow, cotn- 

 pncate. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. Styles very short. Orain very narrow, 



ee—bpecies about 10, trop. and subtrop. Asia and Africa. 



, J^^^P^cies of Tripogon arc very closely allied, and though dissimilar in many 

 mc^![*V^^^° ^^'iriable in a'l, that they fonu an almost inextricable plexus. The 

 latfcer 1 are T. capiUatus, pauperculys, Wightii, and ahyssinicixs, of which the 



si)GdL • ^^^P^^®^^^"^^*^^^^'^^^'^^'^^^'^- Glume I is remarkable from being in most 

 4/?A^*'l"^^^tena, one margin being deeply notched, or dilated suddenly below 

 ^ a f/"*^ ^ ^"ig or lobe or segment, which is sometimes displaced and appears 

 uiutTi ^^^^ \os\t%t empty glume. The subequul symmetric.il glumes of T. 

 ibe loh!'' . ""^^ l^Aiu are unusual in the genus.— The length of the awns, and of 

 ibesrT^ • L ^^' ^^^ ^'^'T 1" each species; and there is every intermediate between 

 r. I^Ta^ ^^^*^ ^^^ ^\\n^\^ awned lobes one on each side of the median awn, as m 

 P^^tT'y'"''^ ^^'^ quadrifid top of the gl. oi T, yiZi/brmis. -The species grow 

 P^^^^scuously on rocks or trunks of trees. 



4 



jQt ^^^' glumes simply 2-6d with an interposed awn, the lobes awned or 



«"» as long or longer than its glume. 



I anil Tt' ^'^Pillatus, Jauh. & Spach. lUustr. Fl Orient, iv. 47, t. 332 ; gl. 



«»a n,/ ''^"owly lanceolate acuminate or awned, III villous at the base 



^■i»6oW ^r*'"'^' longer than its gl. flexuons. T. capitatus (err. typ.; 



g°^'" •^''^'•«- Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 371. 



'"> ^"iKri Hi,r""?"''^''- -^-^-H, Clark 



Western Ghats; from the Concan to 



^'PilC 'P' ^^^^"^*^'-- ^-<^ves 6-10 in., cotivolutr. Spike 6-12 in., fihform or 

 ''''««te ;rTr''- ^Pi^eleis remote, ^^-^ i»» ^^^^"A^^'* ^'^^"^ ' ^^' ^ «'^>"^^^">^^,^.f ^^ 



, "^i at others ..^..«i_ _ 1 ,'. M> ?. ' .• .. '.r....w.,? ...^^mhr.inoiis with a 



'tM di """^'*'-'y «« long a. 1 1/ bath so.neti.ne. aw..ed, u.embn.nons w,U 

 »-« Wely vi^""'^« : lateral teeth of HI shortly avvued ; median uwu so slender a. 



to 



2.T. 



Stapf 



1 



' ^1 villo,' ^ ; ,, ^"*^ ^^ lanceolate subanstateiy acau)iua..c ''.^ "■'"-■ "'"■' 

 'Vas the 1 ^' ^^''' '^^^'■^^ lo^«« long-awned median-a wa not twice as 



^*STKHN Gha 



«w» 2^^ • "^T^ '■ "^^r Poona, on stems of trees, Woodrow. _ , 



^3 ,n., densely tufted, leafy to the tip. Leaves eetHceon., involute, opper 



