Streptogyne.] Graminecs. 301 



tip 2-toothed, or erose and truncate or abruptly acuminate, 

 midrib ending in a mucro, lateral veins not reaching the tip, 

 silkily hairy to the middle, as are the keels of the palea, 

 callus very short ; grain half as long as the palea, red-brown. 



Elephant Pass (Gardner), Jaffna (Trimen). 

 Egypt, Trop. Asia, Africa, Australia. 



A dwarf, probably seedling form, 2-3 in. high, with a subsimple spike, 

 •was collected at Pallavarayankaddu, in the Jaffna district, by Dr. Trimen. 



70. STEEFTOGYNE, Beauv. 

 A tall, slender, erect, glabrous, perennial grass; 1. linear- 

 lanceolate, petiolate, veins minutely trabeculate; spikelets very 

 long, narrow, subterete, 1-4-fld., erect, imbricating on an erect 

 unilateral spike, sessile, not articulate at the base, rhachilla 

 very long, slender, articulate at the base; glumes 8-10 

 chartaceous, distant, upper gradually smaller, neuter, I and II 

 empty, persistent, I oblong, tip obliquely truncate, erose, 

 3-7-veined to the tip, II much longer, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shortly awned, tip entire or bidentate, veins many, 

 trabeculate, lower fig. glumes very narrow, convolute, 3-veined, 

 tip acutely bifid, awned in the sinus, callus acute, villous, 

 palea as long as the glume, very narrow, tip membranous, 

 keels close together, smooth; lodicules elongate, subclavate; 

 stam. 2-3, anth. very slender; ov. linear, narrowed into a long 

 twisted style, with 3 very long, tortuous, barbellate stigmas ; 

 grain linear, terete, free, but closely embraced by the glume 

 and palea. — Sp. 2; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. g-erontog-aea, Hook. f. 



S. crinita, Thw. Enum. 374 (non Beauv.). C. P. 922. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 333 (S. crinita). 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, internodes, 

 except the lower, very' long; 1. 6-10 by \- f in., finely acumi- 

 nate, thinly coriaceous, midrib very slender, shining beneath, 

 lateral veins few, branching off from above the base, petiole 

 ^-f in., deeply channelled above, sheaths smooth, mouth 

 auric 1 ed, ligule short, membranous, ciliate, produced over the 

 auricles; spikelets green, 1-1^ in. long; glumes I and II 

 glabrous, convolute, veins slender, equidistant, fig. glumes 

 silkily villous below the middle, 1 in. long, awn about half the 

 length of the glume, strict, neuter glumes glabrous; stigmas 

 \ in. long, those of two or more spikelets twisted together, 

 scabrid from the rather distant, spreading and recurved barbs, 

 tips spirally revolute. 



