924 CXLVII. GRAM1NE.E. 



widely creeping and branched below, then ascending. Leaves small, 

 rather distant, ^-1| by |— ^ in., ovate, acute, glabrous or sparsely liairy, 

 base rounded. Panicle small, lax-ilowered. Spikelets ^3— jV "^- ^^ 

 diam., globose, few and distant ; pedicels short or long, capillary. 

 Invol. -glumes orbicular-oblong, almost hemispheric, often hispid with 

 long hairs, obscurely 7-nerved ; lower floral glume rather longer than 

 the upper, ovate-oblong, membranous, male ; upper floral glume smaller, 

 hemispheric, coriaceous, female. Palea glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 25 ; 

 Trim. ¥1 Ceyl. v. 5, p. 128 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 433; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1172. 



Seems to be but a small state of /. australis with shorter leaves, laxer 

 panicles, and smaller spikelets. 



KoNKAN : Woodrow. Dbccan : Lanoli, Woodrowl — DtsTRiB. More or less through- 

 out India ; Ceylou, China, Malay and Pacific Islands, S. America. 



7. TRICHOL^NA, Schrad. 



Erect tufted perennial (rarely annual) grasses. Leaves narrow ; ligule 

 a fringe of hairs. Spikelets 1-2-flowered, articulate on their pedicels, 

 paniculate, laterally compressed, clothed with long silky hairs. Glumes 

 3 or 4 ; lower invol. -glume somewhat remote from the upper, often 

 reduced to a minute scale or obsolete; upper invol. -glume membranous, 

 emarginate or muticous, or finely mucronate or aristate from the sinus, 

 5-nerved, usually hairy ; lower floral glume like the upper invol.-glume, 

 male or barren, with a hyaline 2-nerved subequal palea ; upper floral 

 glume much smaller than the lower, thinly chartaceous, glabrous, 

 shining, obtuse or emarginate, obscurely 5-nerved, 2-sexual. Lodicules 

 2, small. Stamens 3. Styles free. — Distbib. Species many, chiefly 

 African. 



Spikelets up to J in. long ; lower invol. -glume minute or obsolete; 



lower floral glume apieulate (not awued) 1. T. Teneriffce. 



Spikelets reaching f in. long ; lower invol.-glume yV in. long ; 



lower floral glume awned 2. T.Wiglitii. 



1. Tricolaena TenerifFae, Parlat. in Webb 4' Berth. Phyt. Canar. 

 V. 3, part 2 (1848) p. 425. Perennial ; stems many from a woody 

 rootstoek, geniculate below, slender, rigid. Leaves l|-3 by -^^-\ in., 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, convolute, rigid, glabrous; 

 sheaths glabrous ; ligule a narrow softly hairy ridge. Inflorescence <A 

 slender erect panicles 2i-4i in. long; branclilets and pedicels capillaiy. 

 Spikelets up to ^ in. long, clothed with silky hairs. Glumes 3 

 (rarely 4); lower invol.-glume minute or obsolete; upper invol.-glume 

 i in. long, ovate, acute, densely silky; lower floral glume ^ in. long, 

 ovate, acute, apieulate, paleate, the palea narrowly oblong, subobtuse, 

 hyaline ; upper floral glume -j^ in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 

 shining ; palea as long as the glume, oblong-lanceolate, subacute. 

 Anthers -^ in. long, narrowly linear. Stigmas -^j^ in. long, exserted, 

 sessile or nearly so, plumose. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 65 ; AVoodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 434.— Flowers : Aug. 



SiNi) : Stock", 639 ! ; Tiiano-Bullo-Khau, Woodrow. — Distkib. India (Pan jah, 

 W. reuinsula) ; westward to Sicily and N. Africa. 



There ia but one Sjjccimcn (a very pour one) from Siud in Ilerh. Kcw. collected by 

 Stocks ! 



