14§ CLXxtii. GBAMISE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ischnockloa, 



witli thickened margins, inarticulate. Spikelets 1-fld., minute, binate, a 

 sessile and a pedicelled, lanceolate, both awned and bisexual; calks 

 minute, ciliate. Glumes 3 (III absent) I liu ear-oblong, subooriaceous, 

 5-6-nerved, dorsally flattened, tip broadly hyaline truncate irregularly 

 2-toothed, margins incurved, keels ciliate; II oblong, keeled, obtuse or 

 truncate, S-nerved, ciliate towards the tip ; IV much shorter, very narrow, 

 cleft to the middle, lobes subulate ; awn in the cleft, capillary, geniculate, 

 palea 0. Zodicules cuueate. Stamens 3, anthers oblong. Sidles short, 

 free.. Grain subfusiform, terete, grooved one side. 



A remarkable genus, with the habit of Arthraxon (closely resembling A. micro- 

 phyllus), next which it may be provisionally placed, but not nearly related to it, 

 differing in the inarticulate flat rachis of the simple spike, bisexual awned pedicelled 

 spikelets, and absence of gl. III. 



X. Falconerl, Sooh.f. in EooJc. Ic. PI. t. 2466. 



NoETH Western Himalaya j growing amongst moss, FaXco'n.er. 



Stems 6-8 in., very slender, sparingly branched, leafy to the tips, filiform ; 

 intcrnodes concealed by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves J-} in., flat, acute or acuminate ; 

 sheath deeply furrowed, glabrous ; ligule a few hairs. Spikes J-l in., very slender, 

 green, peduncle capillary as long as the leaf-sheath ; rachis exactly linear, flexuous, 

 quite glabrous, not disarticulating at the transverse glabrous nodes. Spikelets 

 ■5J5 in. long, rather longer and broader than the internodes ; gl. I with the 2 lateral 

 (carinal) nerves only reaching the tip ; II with a stout median nerve and 2 very 

 Blender lateral ones anastomosing with it below the tip. 



42. TKEKEPOGON, Both. 



A coarse perennial grass. Leaves lanceolate, base cordate, amplexioaul. 

 Spikes few or many, corymbosely fascicled, peduncled, lower whorled, upper 

 distant ; rachis flexuous, fragile ; joints more or less deeply excavated. Spike- 

 lets solitary at the joints, with the rigid pedicel only of an upper, ovoid, 

 acute. Glumes 4, 1 thickly coriaceous, convex, beaked, transversely rugose 

 ridged or tubercled ; II sank in the cavity of the joint, rigid, sparingly 

 tubercled, acuminate ; III shorter, hyaline, paleate, usually male ; IV 

 bisexual, hyaline, deeply bifid, with a long twisted awn in the sinus ; palea 

 narrow. Zodicules broad. Anthers '6, very long. Styles free, stigmas 

 short. Grain narrowly oblong, free. 



T. eleg-anSj Soth. ex Boem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 788, Nov. PI. Sp. 62 ; Hack 

 Monogr. Androp. 267. Andropogon Priuceps, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 471, 1. 102. Ehiniachne Princepa, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 360 (i» 

 Syn.). Jardinea abyssinica, Steud. Syn. Gram. 360. 



Ckktbal India, the Conoan and Malaeae. — Disteib. Afr. trop. 



Stems 6 in. 3 ft., tufted and branching from the base, or woody as thick as a 

 crow-quill below and genieulately branching upward ; roots stout, rigid. Lemes 

 3-10 by i-f in., linear, acuminate, rather thin, and sheaths glabrous scabrid or 

 hispid with tubercle-based hairs, margins denticulate; ligule very short. Spikes 

 l-3i In., peduncle slender, stiff; rachis compressed, much narrower than the spikelets, 

 of upper spikelets tubercled ; joints as long as the spikelets, subclavate, seaberu- 

 lous, top orbicular cupped. Spikelets i-^ in., yellow or brown ; callus annular, 

 bearded ; gl. I very thick, hard, beak echinate j II with usually one transverse row 

 of tubercles ; III broad, 2-nerved, glabrous ; palea narrow, acute, nerveless j IV 

 ovate -lanceolate, 3-nerved, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, 1-nerved; awn=3-4gl. in 



