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2. Tricholsena Wightii, Nees, ex Steud. Syn. Gram. (1855) p. 93. 

 Stems 6-18 in. high, tufted, stout or slender. Leaves 1-6 by |— i in., 

 linear, finely acuminate, flat, glabrous or hairy ; sheaths glabrous or 

 hairy with bulbous-based hairs ; ligule a hairy line. Inflorescence a 

 narrow panicle 2-5 in. long ; branchlets and pedicels capillary, flexuous, 

 Spikelets variable in size, sometimes exceeding | in. long (including the 

 awns), silky-hairy. Glumes 4; lower invol. -glume -jJjy in. long, linear, 

 obtuse, distant from the others, strongly bearded at the base ; upper 

 invol. -glume ovate-lanceolate, tumid at the base, obtuse or subacute, 

 silky-hairy, the midnerve produced from the back into a capillary awn 

 nearly ^ in. long ; lower floral glume similar to the upper invoL-glume, 

 with a similar awn, silky-hairy, paleate, male, the palea narrow, hyaline ; 

 upper floral glume -^ in. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave, smooth, 

 thin, 2-sexual ; palea as long as the glume. Anthers -^ in. long. 

 Stigmas ^ in. long, with distinct styles free to the base or nearly so. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 7, p. 65; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 434. — Flowers : Sept. Verk. Cliota-Kagli. 



Deccan : Malhargad, Woodrow; Poona, Woodr oiu ; Maliiibleshwar, Lishoa; 

 Panchgani, Lishoa. S. M. Country : Badami, Woodrow, 23 1 — Disteib. India 

 (Eajputana, W. Peninsula) ; Arabia, Cape Verd Islands. 



&. AXONOPUS, Beauv. 



Annual or perennial grasses of various habit. Leaves subradical ; 

 ligul<^s membranous, ciliate or reduced to a ciliate rim. Panicles con- 

 sisting of digitate or more or less whorled slender or stout often spike- 

 like racemes. Spikelets ovoid or oblong, mucronate or awned, solitary, 

 2-nate or fasciculate, 2-flowered, articulate on thin pedicels, erect. 

 Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume shorter than the spikelet, hyaline, 

 acuminate or aristate, 3-nerved ; upper invol.-glume as long as the 

 upper floral glume, ovate, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves marginal and 

 hairy or villous ; floral glumes subequal ; lower oblong-ovate, 5-nerved, 

 paleate, male, the palea small, 2-partite ; upper floral glume 2-sexual, 

 ovate or oblong, narrowed into a terminal awn, thinly coriaceous ; palea 

 oblong-elliptic. Lodicules flabelliform. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear. 

 Styles free; stigmas linear, laterally exserted, shortly penicillate. 

 Grain oblong, free within the hardened glume and palea. — Distrib. 

 Species 3, one from South Africa and the Mascarene Islands to India 

 and Australia, one in the Indo-Malayan region, the third in Tropical 

 Africa. 



1. Axonopus cimicinus, Beauv. Agrosi. (1812) p. 12. A tufted 

 grass ; stems 1-2 ft. long, erect, or decumbent at the base ; nodes 

 hairy. Leaves 1-3 by §-| in., ovate-lanceolate from a broad cordate 

 base, acute, flat, glabrous or hairy, ciliate on the margins with stiff 

 bulbous-based hairs; sheaths glabrous or hairy; ligule of short hairs. 

 Infloresence in spike-like racemes, 3-10 on the top of a slender smooth 

 glabrous peduncle 2-6 in. long, with sometimes a fascicle of 2 or more 

 lower down on the peduncle ; peduncle naked in the lower part ; rhachis 

 of raceme angular, scaberulous, slender. Spikelets (including a slender 

 scaberulous awn about i in. long) \-~^ in. long, subsecund, solitary or 2- 

 (rarely 3-)nate, erect, readily disarticulating from the pedicel ; pedicels 

 unequal, scaberulous, cupular at the tip. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume 



