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mucronate. Callus bearded. Pale nearly as long as the glume, 2-keeled, keels 

 minutely scabrid. Stamens 3. Styles 2, distinct, stigmas plumose. Grain terete. 

 Lodicules 2, cuneate. Upper flower also bisexual or imperfect or 0. When 

 complete it is like the lower. 



Locality : Deccan : Chattarshinji Hill, Poona (Bhide! , Ezekiel !).— S.M. 

 Country : Badami Fort (Bhide!); Dharwar, dry barren uplands, 2,400 ft. 

 (Sedgwick !), 



Distribution : So far endemic. 



6. Tripogon bromoides, Roth Nov. Sp. (1821), 79 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 301 ; 

 Stapf in Kew Bull. (1891), 85 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I. vii,:287.— T. festucoides , Jaub. 

 & Spach 111. PI. Or. iv, 49, t. 333.-3". lanatus, Hochst. ex Steud. I.e.— Plagio- 

 lytrum calycinum, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. i, 95.— Avena mysorensis , Spreng. 

 Syst. i, 337. 



Description : Stems 15-45 cm. high, stout or slender. Leaves usually 

 short, but sometimes as long as the stem, flat or convolute, and filiform. Spike 

 long or short, 7-20 cm. long. Spikelets very variable, 4-12 mm. long, few- or 

 many- flowered, close or distant. Lower involucral glume ovate or lanceolate, 

 deeply notched" on one side, membranous, nerve stout ; upper oblong-lanceo- 

 late, deeply bifid, with a short awn in the cleft, membranous or coriaceous, 

 with broad membranous margins. Lower floral glume and following bearded 

 at the base, broadly ovate, strongly 3-nerved, 4-fid, outer lobes small, placed 

 low down and margined with their awns half as long as the glume or longer, 

 inner lobes often half as long as the glume, much larger than in any other 

 species, awn rarely as long as its glume. 



Locality: Deccan: Poona, Agricultural College Farm (Chirka !) ; Katraj 

 Ghat (Gammine!) ; Mahableshwar, 4,500 ft., rainfall 270 inches (Sedwick & 

 Bell 4567 !), summit of Sindola plateau (Sedgwick & Bell 4841 !).— S.M. 

 Country : Belgaum Fort, walls, 2,600 ft., rainfall 50 inches (Sedgwick 2950) ; 

 from Belgaum southwards {teste Hook, f.) ; Dharwar (Talbot 2301 !) ; Bijapur 

 Dist. (Talbot 2929 ! ) ; Badami (Bhide ! ) . 



Distribution : W. Peninsula, Ceylon. 



7. Tripogon filiformis, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 301 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. 

 Ind. 33 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 288 ; Collett Fl. Simlensis (1902), 619, fig. 196. 

 — T. semitruncatus , Nees et T. unidentatus, Nees e^: Steud. I.e. ; Duthie I.e.— 

 Plagiolytrum filiforme et unidentatum, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1,95. — Cata- 

 podium filiforme, Nees ex Duthie I.e. 



Description: Stem 10-40 cm. high, very slender. Leaves filiform, as long 

 as the stem. Spikes 4-25 cm. long. Spikelets crowded, 4-10-flowered, 3-8 mm. 

 long. Lower involucral glume ovate, broadly lobed on one side ; upper narrowly 

 lanceolate, sharply toothed on one or both margins near the tip. Flowering 

 glumes 2-toothed at the tip, teeth actute or jagged, a long awn inserted in the 

 cleft and a shorter awn on the outer side of each tooth, tne glume thus being 

 3-awned, middle awn twice as long as the glume or longer. 



Locality: Deccan: Wai (Talbot 4485 I) .—S.M. Country: Belgaum 

 (Talbot!). 



Distribution : Temperate Himalaya, Khasia Hills, W. Peninsula. 



TRIBE XIII. PAPPOPHORE/E 



95. Enneapogon, Desv, ; Cke. ii, 1040. 



Species about 6, in the dry warm regions of the Old World and in Australia; 

 1 species in Western N. America. 



There is only one species in the Bombay Presidency. 



1. Enneapogon elegans, T. Cooke in Cooke Fl. Bomb. I J res. ii, 1040. — Pappo- 

 phorum elegans , Nees in Wight Cat. No. 1771 (1833) ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 

 301 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 199 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 35.— Calotheca elegans, 

 Wight & Aru. ex Steud. I.e. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1040. 



Locality : Sind : Laki (Bhide!) ; Karachi District (Woodrow). 



Distribution : Peshawar, W. Peninsula, Burma. 



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