246 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



34. Enteropogon, Nees. 



Tall slender grasses with very long narrow leaves. Spikelets 

 are 2-flowered, narrow, biseriate, unilateral, imbricate on the 

 rachis of a solitary spike ; the rachilla is elongate between the 

 flowering glumes and produced beyond them and terminates in a 

 rudimentary awned glume. There are four glumes. The first two 

 glumes are hyaline, unequal-nerved and persistent. The third 

 and the fourth glumes are chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 3- 

 nerved, bicuspidate and awned below the tip ; awns are capillary, 

 straight ; the callus is bearded and articulate at the base. The 

 third glume bears a bisexual or female flower and the fourth 

 bisexual or male. Lodicules are two. Stamens are three with long 

 anthers. Styles short diverging from the base, with short stigmas 

 laterally exserted. 



