BOMBAY GRASSES. 3Y1 



of the Poona College of Science named Septochloa tripogonoides by 

 Munro. 



Tripogon, Nov. Sp. Glabrous. Culm straight, single, 2-2^ feet or 

 higher. Sheath obsoletely sti'iated. Ligula very minute. Leaves 

 glabrous, rigid, very narrow, about one line broad, 4 inches to one 

 foot and half long, ending in a long narrow point. Spike simple, 

 straight, sometimes falcate, 6 inches to one foot long. Spikelets 

 oppressed, sessile, compressed, alternate secund in two rows, ovate, 

 lanceolate, 3-4 lines long, 4-8 flowered. First glume small, 

 lanceolate, | of a line long. Second glume 3-3^ lines, lanceolate, 

 distinctly keeled. Flowering glume keeled, the keel running into a 

 mucro or short awn (|- line long) with two minute teeth on each 

 side. Falea nearly equal to the flowering glume, two-ribbed. Styles 

 free to the base. 



There are two varieties of this grass, one with short spikelets and 

 a few flowers, and the other with longer spikelets and with more 

 flowers. Both varieties are from the Konkan. This elegant grass 

 grows also in Khanan and Mysore. Uses not known. 



T. jacquemontii, Stafi^., Nov. Sp. Grass greenish-glaucous, 

 glabrous. Culm slender, erect or slightly bent at the base, 1^-2 

 feet high. Sheath rather loose, a little shorter than, or nearly as 

 long as the internode. Ligula minute, truncate. Leaves chiefly 

 at the base, linear, i-^ line broad, 3-5 inches long, rigid. Spike 

 simple, straight, or more or less flexuose and nodding, 5-6 inches 

 long, white, many flowered. Spikelets sessile, somewhat com- 

 pressed, apparently cylindric, alternate, narrow, 5-9 lines long, 

 many 13-19 flowered. First glume prominently keeled. Second 

 glume similar but ^ longer. Flowering glume 3-nerved, 3-awned, 

 the central awn longer than the lateral. Pale 2-nerved, oblong, 

 slightly shorter than the flowering glume. Lodicles a pair of 

 scales. 



This grass is found growing in Poona, Sholapur, Deccan, Konkan, 

 •n the same localities as the best species ; it is said to grow also, in 

 Bengal. It is named after Jacquemont, as he was the first to collect 

 it in Poona. 



T. capitatus, Jaub. and Spach. Under this name Jaubert and 

 Spach describe minutely and give in their Illustraiiones Plant. 



