518 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Aug., 1911. 
scabrid at the back and on the keels, 2-nerved, apex slightly bi- 
fid and erose, with a bisexual flower: grain oblong, flattened, 
as long as the pale. IV like III, but smaller and also bisexual: 
rachilla produced beyond IV and bearing a sterile awned glume 
which is much smaller than IV. . 
his specimen seemed to me to be perhaps a new species 
of Tripogon, or Chloris incompleta, Roth, with only one spike. __ 
Dr. Stapf, however, says it is 4 new species of Hnteropogon. 1 
have accordingly named it 2. Badamicum after the place 
Badami where it was collected. ae 
TRrIPoGoN RoxBureuHianum, Bhide. 
: Se cee at Badami, by R. K. Bhide, on 10th September, 
escript Stems 
tufted : leaves filiform, scarcely longer than 1 inch, ciliate with 
and borne on a flattened rachis, the internodes of which are 
alternately concave and convex. Glumes I and II empty. 1 
always remains attached to the hollow in the rachis when the 
spikelet is removed; it is hyaline, very oblique or slightly 
lobed on one side and broadly one-nerved. II very coriaceous 
and thick, broadly 3-nerved, about 2} times as long as I. 
flowering, dorsally hairy in the lower part, a little shorter than 
Dr. Stapf says it is certainly a Tripogon, but agrees with 
Lepturus Roxburghianus, Steudel, possibly and of Fi. Brit. Ind. 
certainly. I have, therefore, retained the specific name 
it 7’. Roxburghianum, Bhide 
