Tripogon."] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 287 



lanceolate coriaceous nerve broad or narrow 2-toothed below the tip, awn 

 half as long as its gl. or shorter. Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 vii. (1893) 370. T. bengalensis, Munro mss. 



BENGAL ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6636). MALWA, the CONCAN and DECCAN, 

 Jacquemont, &c. 



Stem very slender, 1-2 ft. Leaves filiform. Spikes 6-10 in., slender. Spikelets 

 crowded or not, ; glumes subcoriaceous, uppermost flowerless ; lobes of III ovate, 

 acute, not awned, base shortly bearded; awn straight, variable iu length; palea 

 oblong-, keels scaberulous. 



Var. submuticus ; gl. I subulate-lanceolate slightly oblique towards the base very 

 much smaller and narrower than II, awn hardly longer than the lobes of the gl. 

 T. submutica, Hack, in Herb. Duthie. Western Himalaya ; below Kotgurh, Thomson. 

 Simla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Duthie. The habitat is far removed from that of all other 

 species. Duthie's specimen has the excessively slender habit and all other cha- 

 racters of the type but those above given. Thomson's are much shorter, with 

 shorter leaves, and are intermediate between Jacquemont's and the following. 



7. T. abyssinicus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 301; dwarf, very 

 slender, spikelets - in. 6-8-fld., gl. I very small ovate or subulate- 

 lanceolate unequal or lobulate-sidecl, II coriaceous linear-oblong 2-3-toothed 

 below the tip, III 2-toothed at the truncate tip, awn minute. T. minimus, 

 Hoch-st. ex Steud. 1. c. T. bromoides, Benth. in Gen. PL iii. 1200 ; Duthie 

 Grass N. W. 2nd. 33 (not of Roth.}. T. festucoides, Clarke ex Duthie I. c. 

 Danthonia leptophylla, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 421. Festuca fili- 

 formis, Steud. 1. c. Catapodium filiforme, Nees ex Steud. I. c. C. fusiforme, 

 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 128 (error for filiforme}. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Simla, alt. 5-7000 ft., JBoyle, &c. 

 WESTERN PANJAB, Stewart, &c. DISTRIB. Affghan., Tropical Africa. 



Stem 6-10 in. Leaves 2-6 in., filiform. Spikelets always very small and usually 

 rather distant; glumes rather thin, narrow; I membranous, nerve strong; II linear- 

 oblong, with a narrow membranous margin, base bearded, tip sometimes erose and 

 2-mucronate. 



** Fl. glumes 4-fid, outer lobes awned or not, inner membranous some- 

 times very short or truncate. 



8. T. bromoides, Roth. Nov. Sp. 49 ; spikes long or short, spikelets 

 i-| in. few- or many-fid., gl. I ovate or lanceolate deeply notched on one 

 side, II oblong-lanceolate bifid with a short awn in the cleft, III with 

 small awned outer lobes broad ovate acute, inner and median awn shorter 

 than the gl. Wall. Gat. n. 8887; Wight Cat. n 1793 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 301 ; Stapf in Kew Bullet. (1891) 85. T. festucoides, Jaub. & Spach III. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 49, t. 333. T. G-rimthii, Wight $ Arn. ex Wight Cat. n. 

 2658; Nees ex Steud. I.e. 301. T. lanatus, Hochst. ex Steud. I.e. T. 

 Neesianus, Wight fy Am. ex Wight Cat. n. 2059. T. zeylanicus, Nees ex 

 Wight Cat. n. 2360 ; Steud. 1. c. ; Thwaites Enum. 374 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. 

 PI. 109. Triathera bromoides, Roth, ex Kunth I. c. Bromus Myurus & 

 Festuca mysurensis, Herb. Heyne. Plagiolytrum calycinum, Nees in Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. i. 95; Wight Cat. n. 1793 & 2059. Avena mysorensis, Spreng. 

 Syst. i. 337. 



MALABAR GHATS ; from Belgaum southward, alt. 4-7000 ft. CEYLON ; in the 

 elevated districts. 



Stems 6-18 in., stout or slender. Leaves usually short, but sometimes as long 

 as the stem, flat or convolute, and filiform. Spike 3-8 in. Spikelets very variable, 

 close or distant. Grls. I membranous, nerve stout; II membranous, or coriaceous 



