Tripogon.] CLxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 287 



lanceolate coriaceous nerve broad or narrow 2-tootlied below tbe tip, awn 



" /feoo^"^^*^ ^^^ ^^" ^^ shorter. Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 vii. (1893) 3/0. T. bengalensis, Munro mss. 



BsNGAX; Griffith {Kew Distrib. n. 6636). Malwa, the CoNCAN and Deccan, 

 Jaeqwmont, &c. 



^5<em very slender, 1-2 ft. ieaw* filiform. Spikes 6-10 in., a\ender. Spikelets 

 crowded or not,; glumes subcoriaceous, uppermost flowerless; lobes of III ovate, 

 «cate, not awned, base shortly bearded ; awn straight, variable in length ; palea 

 oblong, keels seaberulous. . 6 . i' 



Bin I"' *"f "'"^*'=^s ; gl- I subulate-lanceolate slightly oblique towards the base very 

 mncn gmaller and narrower than II, awn hardly longer than the lobes of the gl. 

 1. suotnotica, Hack, in Herb. Duthie . —\Y estera Himalaya ; below Kotgnrh, Thomson. 

 ^ia, alt 7-8000 ft., Dutkie.—The habitat is far removed from that of all other 

 ra^/*^' f"'"®'^ specimen has the excessively slender habit and all other cha- 

 ers of the type but those above given. Thomson's are much shorter, with 



acim of the type but those above given. 

 •«»Mr leaves, and are intermediate between J 



Jacquemont's and the following. 



«l.Twi a'>y8sinicus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 301 ; dwarf, very 

 wenaer, spikelets i-i in. 6-8-fld., gl. I very small ovate or subulate- 

 1»W h ^"^'^"'^^ o"" lobulate-sided, II coriaceous linear-oblong 2-3-toothed 

 Jlr> h } *^P' ^^^ 2-toothed at the truncate tip, awn minute, T. minimus, 

 Grn T^A;,^*""^- ^- ^- T. bromoides, Benth. in Gen. PL iii. 1200 ; Duthie 

 hZli • • ^"^- 33 (not of Roth.). T. festucoides, Clarke ex Duthie I c. 

 formi of ^eptophylla, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 421. Festuca fiK- 

 JfS' ■ T ^- ''• Catapodium fiiiforme, Nees ex Steud. I. c. G. fusiforme, 

 '««. t« Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 128 {error for fiiiforme). 



^kstSp^ Himalaya; from Kashmir to Simla, alt. 5-7000 ft., Boyle, Ac. 



S^ein fiJin^'^'^^' 5^^etx;ar^, &c.— Distrib. Affglmn., Tropical Afric-i. 

 ^ther di^T f ^"* I^eaves 2-6 in., filiform. Spikelets always very small and usually 

 oMon? w'H ^^^"^es rather thin, narrow; I membranous, nervestrongj II linear- 

 2-niucronate ^ "^^^^ membranous margin, base bearded, tip sometimes erose and 



** Fl- gl 



tim„., — , _. , 



or truncate. 



Hin^' '®°*°*de8, Both. Nov. Sp. 49 ; spikes long or short, spikelets 

 side IT n ^^ ^^ny-Hd., gl. T ovate or lanceolate deeply notched on one 

 "nail aw° i^^^'^^'^^^^^^*® ^i^^ wi^^h ^ short awn in the cleft, III with 

 *tan tliA^T **"*^'" ^^^^^ ^"^oad ovate acute, inner and median awn shorter 

 301- R,„^J . ^^^^^- Gat. n. 8887; Wight Cat. n. 1793; Steud. Syn. Gram 

 ^ OrtH •" ^^'^ bullet. (1891) 85. T. festucoides, Jaub. & Spach III. 

 2658- n1 ^^- ^^' *• 333. T. Griffitbii, Wight ^ Am. ex Wight Cat. d. 

 Wannt^T^" ,'^'^^"^- ^•^- 301. T. lanatus, Sochst. ex Steud. I.e. 

 %}itrn'f ^'9htSrArn. ex Wight Cat. n. 2059. T. zeylanicus, Nees ex 

 ^i. 109 T ?• P'^^ ' '^^««'^- ^- ^- ; Thwaites Enum. 374 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl 

 ^eitucam "^^^'■'^ bromoides, Roth, ex Kunth I.e. Bromus Myurns & 

 " n Snr-^ll^^^^^' ^''^*- Seune. Plagiolvtrum calycinnm, Nees in Proc. 



/•"-•/'• »o; Winht r.nt '^ T7Q-5 It. ofti^Q A ^PTin mvaoreusis. /Sprcw. 



T. 



s 



^AlAB 



Avena mysorensis, Spreng 



■000 ft. CbyioK; in the 



Stems 6-1 a • ' .1 



*f''>e»tem « ,'°'' s'o"* or slender. Leaves usually short, but sometimes as long 

 '^ or diTw* °'' <^onvolute, and filiform. Spike 3-8 in. Spikelets very variable, 



'*'^'- &U. 1 membranous, nerve stout ; 1 1 membranous, or coriaceous • 





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