ANDKOPOGONE.E 167 



23. Lophopogon, Hack. 



These are small densely tufted perennial grasses, with very 

 narrow leaves. The spikes are very short at the ends of very fine 

 branches, solitary, binate or fascicled, with very fragile rachis ; 

 joints are very short, slender with cupular tips. The spikelets are 

 binate one sessile and the other shortly pedicelled, with the callus 

 villous. There are four glumes. The first glume (of both the 

 sessile and the pedicelled spikelets) is oblong, truncate, irregularly 

 3- to 4-toothed, 5- to 7-nerved and dorsally convex. The second 

 glume is narrow lanceolate, longer than the first, 3- to 5-nerved, 

 hispidly villous dorsally below the middle and on the sides, aristate 

 or awned. The third glume is oblong lanceolate, hyaline, acute or 

 aristate, i-nerved, male or neuter, with a linear palea. The fourth 

 glume is hyaline, as long as the third, entire or 2-fid and awned in 

 the pedicelled and not awned in sessile spikelets, paleate with 

 female or bisexual flowers. Lodicules are not present. Stamens 

 are two. Stigmas are long. 



