198 XXVIII. GRAMiNE.E. [Trickolcena 



decumbent base, nodes shortly hairy, lower internodes short, 

 covered by the compressed leaf-sheaths, subterete with a deep 

 longitudinal groove ; ligule represented by a row of white hairs 

 less than 1 line long ; blade linear-tapering, acute, like the sheaths 

 sparsely scabridulously hairy when young ; panicle elegant, secund, 

 carried far above the foliage on the elongated slender ultimate 

 internode ; spikelets elongated, sessile or subsessile on the short 

 llexuose branches of the stoutish, scabridulous, deeply striate, 

 angular rhachis, with an involucre of stifRsh white-i-ed transparent 

 hairs about half its length ; glume I. minvite, hairy ; gl, II. sub- 

 chartaceous, convex, oblong when flattened and tapering towards 

 the bifid apex, scabridulous, especially on the 5 conspicuous straight 

 nerves, awn many times exceeding the spikelet ; gl. III. resembling 

 gl. II. but slightly shorter and narrower with a fine awn one to 

 several times its length or awnless and mucronate, slightly 

 exceeding the pale with its ^ flower ; fertile gl. subcoriaceous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, with minutely emarginate apex, 5-nerved, pale 

 .subequal similar but narrower. 



Plants reaching 2 ft. in height, lower internodes ^ to 1 in. long, 

 the slenderer penultimate one exceeding its sheath, 3 to 4 in. 

 long, the ultimate 10 to 12 in. ; leaves 1 to 7 in. long, by l\ to 

 2i lines broad, more or less ascending. Panicle 5 to 6 in. long, 

 lateral branches about 1 in. below, becoming shorter upwards, 

 with 1 to .! in. interval between ; spikelets 21 to 3 lines long ; 

 glume I. including the hairs less than ^V line ; gl. II. the length of 

 the spikelet, minutely ciliolate on the edges and sometimes 

 spai'sely shortly pilose on the back, awn 2 to 4 in. long, purplish, 

 minutely upwardly barbed ; gls. II. and III. pale stramineous or 

 pale greenish, sometimes tipped with purple ; fertile glume about H 

 length of gl. II., greenish with margins minutely ciliolate above ; 

 lodicules truncately obcuneate, anthei-s brownish, 1 line long. 



A very interesting species appi-oaching the genus Melinis in 

 the conspicuous straight nerves of its glabrescent barren glumes. 

 It is nearest to T. imiglumis Durand & Schinz, but distinguished 

 by its narrower, less robust, long-awned spikelets, minute outer 

 glume, etc. 



PuNGo A\i>(>\(i(). — An annual csespitose grass, 2 ft. high, panicles 

 secund, very long-awned, purplish. Sandy wooded meadows between 

 Caghuy and Sansamanda ; April 1857. No. 7413. Damp meadow near 

 Sansamanda : Feb. 1857. No. 2781. No. 2852 (no information). 



6. T. minutiflora Rendle sp. nov. 



Tall, csespitose, culms decumbent-ascending, branched, internodes 

 strong, terete, pubescent, except the upper enveloped for the whole 

 or greater part of their length by the sheaths ; nodes densely 

 pubescent ; ligule a line of short hairs ; leaves spreading, flat, 

 rigidulous, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, reddish, margin 

 scabridulous-pilose, faces sparsely pilose ; panicle much branched, 

 dense, narrow-lanceolate ; spikelets shortly stalked, scarcely 

 exceeding 1 line long, truncate ; gl. I. about i the length of the 

 .^pikelet, haiiy at the base only ; gl. II. thinly coriaceous below. 



