272 GraminecB. [ Tripogon. 



54. ENTEROPOGON, Nees. 

 i Tall, perennial grasses ; stem slender, erect, leafy ; spikelets 

 2 : fld., narrow, biseriate, secund, imbricate on a solitary, very 

 long, slender, curved rhachis, not articulate at the base, 

 rhachilla elongate between the fig. glumes, and produced 

 beyond them, bearing a very imperfect awned neuter glume ; 

 glumes I and II narrow, membranous, hyaline, persistent, 

 1 -veined, I much the shortest, II notched at the awned tip, 

 I'll and IV fig., chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, bicuspidate, 

 3-veined, awned below the tip, awn capillary, straight, callus 

 bearded, articulate at the base, III bisexual or fern., IV male; 

 palea narrow, bicuspidate; lodicules 2; anth. long, narrow; 

 styles short, diverging from the base, stigmas short, laterally 

 exserted; grain narrow, free within the glume and palea. — 

 Sp. 3 or 4; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. melicoides, Nees in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Ed. ii. 449 (1836). 

 Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109. Ctenium seychellense, Baker, Fl. Maurit. 452. 

 FL B. Ind. vii. 284. 



Stems 1-3 ft, erect, tufted on a short woody rootstock with 

 stout root-fibres, as thick as a crow-quill, subsimple, smooth, 

 shining, internodes long; 1. nearly as long as the stem, f-j in. 

 broad, flat, narrowed into capillary tips, scaberulous on both 

 surfaces and on the margins, midrib rather broad, pale, veins 

 4, very slender, sheaths long, ribbed, smooth, mouth auricled, 

 auricles and ligule villous with very long hairs; spike 6-10 by 

 ^ in. broad across the spikelets, rhachis quite smooth, dorsally 

 rounded ; spikelets about \ in. long, erecto-patent ; glumes 

 I and II lanceolate, keels smooth, I aristulate, II twice as 

 long, linear, awn short, III and IV equal and similar, very 

 narrow, about J in. long, strict, rigid, scaberulous all over, 

 veins strong, awn tV~to m -> palea as long as the glume, keels 

 and back most minutely scaberulous; grain not seen. 



Southern Province. Kirinde (Trimen). 

 Southern India and Burma, Seychelle Islds. 



55. TRIPOGON, Roth. 

 Densely tufted grasses, stem erect, leafy chiefly at the 

 base; 1. very narrow, rigid, flat or convolute, spikelets few or 

 many-fld., biseriate, secund, sessile on a slender, solitary, 

 terminal rhachis, not articulate at the base, rhachilla pro- 

 duced between all the glumes, but not beyond them, slender, 

 articulate at the base ; glumes few or many, I and II unequal, 



