288 OLXxlti. QRAMiMBifi. (J, D. Hooker.) [Tripdgon. 



\Vith broad membranous margins, more deeply notched or bifid at the apex than in 

 any other species ; III and following bearded at the base, broadly ovate, strongly 

 3-nerved, cleft hiilf way down, outer lobes small placed low down and margined with 

 their awns half as long as the gl. or longer, inner lobes often half as long as the gl., 

 much larger than in any other species ; awn rarely as long as its gl. 



Tar. major, Stapf mss. ; stem 2—1 ft., leaves 5-6 in. narrow flat spreading, 

 spike 4-6 in., spikelets | in. bifarious 16-20-fld. — Nilghiri Hills, Nadavattam, alt. 

 6000 ft., Lawson. Pulney Hills, Wight. 



Var. lotigifolms ; stem 2 ft., leaves filiform as long as the stem, spike 3 in., 

 spikelets ^ in. secund 8-10 fld. —Nilghiri and Pulney Hills. 



9. T. filiformis, Nees ex Steud. 8yn. Q-ram. 301 ; very slender, leaves 

 filiform as long as the stem, spikes 3-10 in., spikeleta ^-5 in., gl. I ovate 

 broadly lobed on one side, IE linear-oblong or lanceolate 2-tootlied below 

 the tip, III with small shortly awned outer lobes, and short or long obtuse 

 acute or awned inner, median awn twice as long as its gl. or longer. 

 Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 33 T. semitruncatus, Nees, & T. unidentatus, 

 Nees ex Steud. I. c. ; DiUhie I. c. Plagioly trum filiforme and unidentatam, 

 Nees in Proc. Linn. 8. i. 95. Catapodium filiforme, Nees ex Duthie I. e. 

 — Tripogon, Wall. Cat. 8888, 8889. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Dalhousie to Bhotan, alt. 5-10,000 ft. Khasia 

 Hills, alt. 5-5500 ft., Wallich, &c. 



Habit of T. trifidus and only to be distinguished by the acute obtuse or awned 

 long or short teeth or lobes between the 3 awna of gl. Ill, and perhaps only a form 

 of that plant. The longer awns and minute teeth of the top of gl. II best distinguish 

 i t from T. bromoides. 



Vae. tenuispica ; spike very slender, rachis filiform, spikelets very small pale, awn 

 of gl. Ill long and slender. Tripogon, Wall. Oat. n. 88a2. — N.W. Himal., Sikkim 

 and the Khasia Hills, 



88. CYNODON, Pers. 



Perennial creeping grasses. Leaves narrow, flat. Spikelets minute, 

 1-fld., 1-2-seriate, unilateral on 3-6 digitate slender spikes, not jointed at 

 the base; rachilla jointed at the base, not produced beyond gl. Ill or at its 

 back only. Olumes 3, I and II empty, thin, keeled, persistent or separately 

 deciduous; III broader, membranous, awnless; palea as long, 2-Qerved. 

 Lodicules 2, short. Anthers large. Styles distinct. Grain oblong, free 

 within the gls. — Species 4, 3 Australian and the following. 



C. dactylon, Pers. 8yn. i. 85; gl. I and II shorter than III, rachilla 

 produced at the base ot gl. lil dorsally as a minute bristle. Kunth Enum. 

 PI. i. 259 ; Suppl. 203, t. 16, f. 1 ; Beickb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 26 ; T. Nees 

 Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. n. 19 ; Wall. Cat. n. 3803; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 297 ; Griff. Notul. iii. 50, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f. 204 ; Thwaites Enum. 

 PlZeyl. 371; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 109; Aitchis. Cat. Punjab. PI. 160; 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 32, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 52 ; Lisboa in Joum. 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. 80c. vii. (1893) 366 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 428 ; FL Austral. 

 vii. 609. 0. erectus, Presl Bel Msenk. i. 29l), Kunth I. c. 260. C. filiformis, 

 Voigt Eort. Suburb. Cole. 712. 0. linearis, Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. 90 ; 

 Wight Cat. n. 1750. C. maritimus, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. ^ Sp. i. 170. 

 0. occidentalis & portorioensis, Willi, ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 463. 

 C. radiatus. Both. Nov. PI. Sp. 38 ; Kunth I. c. 260. 0. repens, Dulac Fl. 

 Haut. Pyren. 76. C. sarmentosns, S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. PL ii. 100. 

 C. stellatua, Willd. Enum. Eort. Berol. 90 ; Kunth I. c. 260. C. virgatus. 



