Plate 2442. 



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TRIPOGON PAUPERULUS, Stapf, 



GRAMiNEiE. Tribe Ciiloride-5:. 



T. paupemlus, Stapf {sp, nov,) ; annuus, nanus, glabor, culuus 

 tenuibus, foliis spiculas superantibus vel sequantibus, vaginis infimis 

 laxis plus minusve patulo-erectis summis arctis striatis, ligulis mem- 

 branaceis ovatis obtusis, laminis angustissimis setaceo-involutis acutis 

 tenuiter prominulo-nervosis nervis circiter 11, spiculis 3-2 plus quam 

 longitudine sua inter se remotis vel solitariis in culmorum apicibus, 

 4-1-floris, gluma i. symmetrica anguste lanceolata uninervi acutissimaj 

 gluma ii. simili sea dimiclio longiore aristulata, glumis florentibus 



4-1 (summis 2—1 vacuis minoribus addiLis) explanatis oblongis 3-nervI- 

 bus inter lobos setaceo-aristatos arista subgeniculata infra genu 

 contorta instructis, paleis oblongis in carinis ciliatulis, antheris 3 

 minutis subglobosis, caryopsi angustissime cylindrica. 



Hab. India : Crest of tlie Western Ghauts near Poona, on old 

 stems of Ficus glomerata^ with mosses and Utricularia orbiculata, 

 Woodrow, 



Gramen 2-2^ poll, altum. Spiculce aristis exceptis circa 4 lin. 

 longaj ; gl. i. 2 lin,, gl. ii. ad 3 lin., gl. iii. 2*5-3 lin. (ad aristae basin) 

 longa, arista ad 5 lin. longa. 



Evidently allied to Tripogon capillatns^ Jaub. and Spach, but 

 distinct in the symmetrical outer glume, and the different armature of 

 the spikelets, particularly the much stouter and shorter middle awn of 

 glume iii. Like T, capillatus^ it seems to grow in moss. — O. Staff. 



Fig. 1. Ligiile. 2. Spikelet, "with t-wo lo-^-cr florets. 3. Flowering glume, side 

 view. 4. Same, back view, 6. Palea. 6; Stamens. 7. Carjopbis. Ail enlarged. 



SERIES IV. VOL. V. TART II, 



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