GLXxiii. GBAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 149 



length; palea as long as the gl.,ohlong, acuminate, 2-nerved. Pedicel of arrested 

 spikelets flat, scabrid.— Gl. Ill and its palea would appear to have exchanged their 

 character of nervation. A curious gigantic state? collected by Ritchie at the Kola 

 Naddi Waterfall (in the Ooncan ?) has the upper spikelets densely softly villous, 

 gls. I and II thin hardly tubercled, the lower spikelets appear to be binate but are 

 very imperfect. 



43. XiOPKOPOeON, Hack. 



Small perennial densely tutted grasses. Leaves very narrow. Spikes 

 Metj short, solitary 2-nate or fascicled on the ends of capillary branches, 

 very fragile; joints very short, slender, tips cupnlar. Spikelets small, 

 homogamous or heterogamous, 1-2-fld., 2-3-nate, one sessile, callus conical 

 villous. Glumes 4, 1 and II chartaoeous, I oblong, broadly truncate, irre- 

 gularly 3-4-toothed, T-nerved, dorsally convex ; II longer than I, lanceolate, 

 narrowed into a straight awn, 3-5-nerved, hispidly villous on the sides, 

 and with tufts of hairs dorsally below the middle ; III hyaline, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or aristnlate, ciliolate, 1-nerved, 1-2-androns or neuter, 

 palea linear 2-nerved; IV nearly as long as III, fern, or bisexual and 

 diandrous, linear-oblong, 2-fid, lobes setit'orm and margins hispidulons; 

 awn in the cleft, much longer than the gls. tortuous and twisted ; palea 

 minute, quadrate, lobulate, 2-nerved. Lodicules 0. Anthers narrow. 

 8ti/les combined below, stigmas very long. — Species 2, Indian and a 3rd ? 

 Australian. 



In L. tridentatus the lower spikelets sometimes form a whorl at the apex of the 

 peduncle as in Germainia. In this species also the upper spikelet is usually male 

 or neuter. Hackel suggests the probability of Reiz's Andropogon mcurvatus (Obs. 

 V. 21 non Trin.) from Tranqnebar, Koenig, being a I/ophopogon. 



1. X» tridentatus, SacJc. in Engl. SfPrantl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. ii. 

 II 56, Monogr. Androp. 254, t. i. f . 14 ; stem subsimple, spikes more or 

 less closely sheathed. Lishoa in Bomb. Journ. Nat. Sist. vi. (1891) 201 ; 

 0. Kuntze, Eevis. Gen. i. 197. Andropogon tridentatus, Boxb. Fi. Ind. 

 i. 257 ; Steud. Syn. Oram. 372. Saccharum tridentatum, Bpreng. Svst. i. 

 283.— Gen. Nov. Wall. Oat. n. 8842. 



The OoNOAN and Canaea, Seyne, &a. CentkaIi Pbotinoes, Khaudua, 

 I)utMe. 



Stem 4-6 in. Leaves 2-i in., rigid, 3-nervedj sheath short, upper ventrieosej 

 ligule obscure, ciliate. Heads of spikes -J-J in. j sheaths ovoid, flattened, mem- 

 branous, caudate-acuminate. Spikes ^1 in. Spikelets J-^ in., brown when dry ; 

 gl. I of lower spikelet dorsally naked, of upper with tufts of long bristles below the 

 middle ; II back and margins villous, with a pencil of hairs on each side about the 

 middle. 



0. Kuntze, 1. c. has two varieties : o. WrigliUi, Nees mss., with red hairs at the 

 base of gl. I., and^. Munroi, with none. 



2. Xi. WHnsi-if Rook, f.; stem subcorymbosely branched above, spikes 

 long-peduncled. 



BiHAE ; at Monghir, Serb. Eort. OalcuU. 



Foliage and spikelets nearly as in L. tridentatus, but habit very different. The 

 subcorymbose branches of the stem bear subulate leaves and capillary peduncles 

 1-2 in. long embraced by almost filiform sheaths with acicular tips. Spikes solitary 

 or few together, J in. long, pale yellow-brown, fragile. — More materials are wauling 

 for a trustworthy description of the inflorescence. 



