28g CLXxtit. QEtAMiJ^E^. (J. D. Hdoket.) [Tripogon. 



with broad membranous margins, more deeply notched or bifid at the apex than in 

 any other species ; III and following bearded at the base, broadly ovate, stronglj 

 3-Derved, cleft h:df way down, outer lobes small placed low down and margined with 

 their awns half as long as the gl. or longer, inner lobes often half as long as the gl.| 

 much larger than in any other species ; awn rarely as long as its gl. 



Var. major, Stapf mss, ; stem 2-4 ft., leaves 5-6 in. narrow flat spreadinj, 

 spike 4^6 in., spikelets | in. bifarious 16-20 -fld.—Nilghiri Hills, Naduvattum, alt. 

 6OO0 ft., Lawson. Puluey Hills, Wight. 



Var, longifolius \ stem 2 ft., leaves filiform as long as the stem, spike 3 in., 

 spikelets ^ in. secund 8-10 fid. -Nilghiri and Pulney Hills. 



9. T. filiformis, Nees ex Steud. Syn, Gram. 301 ; very slender, leaves 

 filiform as long as the stem, spikes 3-iU in., spikelets ^-^ in., gl. I ovate 

 broadly lobed on one sid.?, IL liuear-oblong or lanceolate 2-toothed below 

 the tip, III with small shortly awnei outer lobes, and short or long obtuse 

 acute or awned inner, median awn twice as long as its gl. or longer. 

 Duthie Grass, N.W. Ind, 33 T. semitruncatus, Nees, & T. unidentatus, 

 Nees ex Steud. Lc; Duthie Lc. Plagiolytrum fiUforme and unidentatam, 

 Nees in Proc. Linn. S. i. 95. Catapodium filiforme, Nees ex Duthie l.c> 

 —Tripogon, Wall Cat. 8888, 8889. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Dalhousie to Bhotan, alt. 5-10,000 ft. KhasU 

 Hills, alt. 5-5500 ft., WalUch, &c. * 



Habit of T. trifidus and only to be distinguished by the acute obtuse or awnea 

 long or short teeth or lobes between the 3 awns of gl. Ill, and perhaps only a wf^ 

 of that plant. The longer awns and minute teeth of the top of gl. II be^t distiug'"^ 

 it frona T, hromoides. 



Vab. tenuispica; spike very slender, rachis filiform, spikelets very small P^^^' **^ 

 of gl. Ill long and slender. Tripogon, JFalL Cat. n. 88^2.— N.W. Himah, SikKi"' 

 andtheKhasiu Hills. 



88. CYNODON, Pers. 



Perennial creeping grasses. Leaves narrow, flat. Spikelets mioQ*'' 

 1-fld,, l-2-8eriate. nnilateral on 3-6 digitate slender spikes, not joi"'^^* 

 the base ; rachilla jointed at the base, " ' " - i tt r ^* o , i 



back only. Glumes 3, I and II empty 



igiudLt; aiciiuct opiji-co, """ J-- ., 



, not produced beyond gl. HI or at w 

 f, thin, keeled, persistent or srparawu 



Lodicules 2, short. Anthers large. Sti//es distinct. Grain oblong, " 

 within the gl:!. — Species 4, 3 Australian and the following. 



C. dactylon, Fers. Syn. i. 85; gl. I and II shorter than ^1, iacbil|a 

 produced at the base or gl. Ill dorsally as a minute bristle. Kunth^^" "^ 

 PI. i. 2-59; Suppl. 20.3. t. 16, f. 1 ; B'4chb. Ic. Fl Germ. t. 2f5 ; i. -*J 

 Gen. FJ. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 19; Wall. Cat. n. 3803; Dalz. ^- »'^*-^ ," ' 

 Fl. 297; Griff. Notul. ill. 50, Ic. PI. A.siat. t. 139, f. 204; Thwaitesfn^^: 

 Pl.Zeyl. 371; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109; Aitchu. Cat. Pa»j<^^- FrZl 

 Duthie Gr<,s.^. N.IF. Jnd. 32. Fodd. Gra-is. N. Ind. 52; Lxshoa ta/^'^/ 



C. occidentalis & portoricensis, Willi, ex Steud. Norn. Ed II* '• tij 



Ma 



Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 90 : Ku7?th I. c. 260. C. virga 







