OGfi CXLVII. GRAMINE^.. 



Pogonailierum saccJiaroideum, Beauv. Agrost. (1812), Expl. des PI. 

 p. 9, t. 11, tig. 7. The Bamboo Grass sometimes grown in gardens, 

 scarcely distinct from P. erinitiim, which Hackel makes a variety of 

 P. sacrharoideum. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 141 ; Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 222 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1197. 



26. LOPHOPOGON, Hack. 



Small perennial densely tufted grasses. Leaves very narrow. Spikes 

 short, solitary, 2-nate or fasciculate at the ends of capillary branches, 

 fragile. Spikelets usually 2-nate at each node of the rhachis; the npper 

 shortly or very shortly pedicellate, 1-2-flowered, aristate from the upper 

 floral glume ; the lower spikelet sessile, 2-flowered, not awned from the 

 upper floral glume ; lower invol.-glume of both spikelets 3-4-dentate, 

 5-7-Derved ; upper invol.-glume of same 2-dentate, aristate between the 

 teetii ; lower floral glume narrow, hyaline, empty or male ; upper floral 

 glume hyaline or membranous, that of the upper spikelet with a long 

 awn, that of the lower spikelet awnless. Lodicules 0. Stamens 2. 

 Styles very short ; stigmas exserted from the apex of the spikelet. — 

 DisxRiB. India and Australia ; species 3. 



1. Lophopogon tridentatus, f/acl-. in Engl. SfPrayitl, PJlanzenfam. 

 V. 2, part 2 (18S7) p. 26. Perennial ; stems tufted, 4-8 in. high, erect, 

 slender, terete, glabrous. Leaves 2-4 by ^-j-^ in-j linear, acuminate, 

 rigid, erect, green ; sheaths close, quite glabrous, striate, shorter than 

 the internodes, the upper ventricose ; ligule very small, truncate, 

 hyaline, ciliate. Heads of racemes erect ; sheaths ovoid, flattened, mem- 

 branous, caudate-acuminate. Eacemes usually 2, closely appressed 

 together, a])pearing like one, ^-^ in. long, erect, pilose with golden or 

 ferruginous hairs, the peduncle shortly exserted or more or less enclosed 

 in the upper sheath ; joints of rhachis very short, slender, glabrous. 

 Spikelets densely imbricate. Lower sjnkehts reaching 4 in. long, brown 

 when dry, obovate-oblong; callus yL in. long, obtuse, with a small tuft 

 of ferruginous hairs at the very tip. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume 

 chartaceous, cuneate-oblong, truncate, with 2 long lateral teeth and 1 or 

 2 shorter ones between, glabrous on the back, 5-nerved ; upper invol.- 

 glume i; in. long, membranous, lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, hirsute near 

 the apex with ferruginous hairs, and sending out an awn as long as the 

 glume ; lower floral glume ^ in. long, narrowly linear, subacute, hyaline, 

 nerveless, glabrous, epaleate ; upper floral glume ^ in. long, lanceolate, 

 entire or 2-fld, hyaline, not awaed. U2y2^er sjiilrJets very shortly pedi- 

 cellate; lower invol.-glume membranous, 3-toothed, clothed with tufta 

 of long bristles below the middle; upper floral glume with a long awn 

 •| in. long, geniculate about the middle, the column brown, twisted. 

 El. B. I. v. 7, p. 149; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (19U1) 

 p. 437. — Elowers : Oct. -Dec. 



Bahdl without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Kon-kan: Lmv\. Stocks] Deccan: 

 WooclroU', 6fil ; Poona, Jncquemonf, bW !, Woodrow, IJshna ; Sholapur, Stearf exHackef, 

 Lishoo.. S. M. Country : Bele;aum, /iV/cA/c, 882 !, Jf'oodrow. — 'Dii>T\uH. India (Central 

 rrovinues, W. Peninsula \ 



