310 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1S92. 



white, awns short and straw coloured. The specimen was received 

 from Nassick. 



Melonocbnchris, Nees. 



M. royleana, Nees, Ann. Nat. Hist., vii, 221 ; Eutriana abyssinica. 

 R.Br.; MelanocenchrisJaquemontiana,JaMh.aindL Spach; M. rotldana, 

 Dalz. and Gibs., Bomb. Fl, 297. 



Ver. Gooli, Bedari, Dongrit Landgeya-Kussal or Landga-Kussal 

 (Landga means wolf, the grass is supposed to resemble this 

 animal). 



Cgespitose. Culms filiform, 4-6 inches, high, branched. Leaves 

 short, narrow, flat or convolute, pointed, edges ciliate. Spikes 

 terminal, secund. Spikelets one flowered, sessile in two rows, often 

 arranged in two rows, and falling away at the joints. Two outer 

 glumes empty, linear, hairy below and produced into a straight awn. 

 The flowering glume almost always glabrous, trifid, with three 

 straight awns of a brownish colour, the two lateral smaller, the 

 central longer. 



This small elegant grass is very common in stony and barren 

 places in the Konkan and Deccan ; also in Northern India. Reports 

 from Tulapur (Poena) state that it is not a good fodder. Mr. Duthie 

 on the contrary states — "It is said to be a good grazing grass 

 when young, though rather too small to be of much use." 



Tripogon, Both. Nov, PI. Spec. 



T. zeylanicus, Nees, Stend, Syn. PL Qlum.,1., 301 ; Thw., Enum. 

 PL Zeyl. 



Cgespitose. Culm slender, about ^ feet high, pubescent. Sheath 

 villous or pubescent. Leaves very narrow, linear, convolute, 

 ending in a point, hairy. Spike terminal, solitary, narrow, lax, 

 flexuose, 3-4 inches long. Spikelets alternate, sessile, oppressed, 

 secund in two rows, not imbricate, 3-7 flowered. The two lower 

 glumes empty, persistent, keeled, unequal, the lowest smaller. 

 Flowering glumes shortly longer, 3-nerved, 3-awned. The lateral 

 awns almost mucronulate, shorter than the central. Grows in 

 Poena and North Khanara. 



The description here given is from a grass kept in the Herbarium 



