600 



flat, linear-lanceolate, and with the sheaths sparingly hairy : raceme 

 compound, narrow, rays short, 2^-3-flowered : pedicels ,longish, 

 florets triandrous : glumes oval, lower one twice shorter than the 

 valves, one sinuate at the side, cuspidate, upper one equalling the 

 valves and with the lower valve obtuse. 



Madras. 



(5) V. MAifeAxoEiCA. fHochst.j 



Hochst. in Herb. Hohenhack Ind. Or. 1847, No. 137.— 

 Steudel 1. c. p. 159. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, somewhat branched, glabrous : leaves 

 elongated, narrow-acuminate, glabrous : Ugula scarcely any : panicle 

 pyramidate, elongated, rays scattered without order, smaller ones 

 capillary, 1 — 3-flowered at the apex : spikelets pedicelled : glumes 

 very minute, acute : valves nearly equal, obtuse, entire, or scarcely 

 denticulate. 



Mamgalore. 



GEFU8 XX. TKIAGHETUM. 



Vviandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 



Geit. Chxe. Panicle : spikelet 1 -flowered, muticous : glumes 2, 

 lower smaller, upper equalling the valves: floret inserted in a 

 nodule, 3-valved, valves nearly equal, nerveless, third a little 

 smaller and thinner : stigmas simply plumose : caryopsis free, 

 ovate, compressed or swollen on both sides, mucronulate, obliquely 

 truncate and scrobiculate at the base. 



(1) T. NnAGrEicniM. f Steudel. J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 176. — Herb. Hohenhack No. 931. 



Spec. Chae. Boot fibrous, densely csespitiferous : culms erect 

 from a geniculate base, glabrous : sheaths and leaves hairy from 

 tubercles, especially at the edges : leaves lanceolate, acute : ligula 

 scarcely any : panicle very narrow, straight, linear : rays very 

 short, 1 — 2-flowered: spikelets oblong, lower glume minute, 

 linear, fugacious, upper equaUing the pellucid valves: achenium 

 shorter than the valves, ovate-oblong, scarcely triquetrous at the 

 " ase. 



Neilgherries. 



