620 



2-keeled, keels winged, 3-lobed at the apex : stamens 1 : styles 2, 

 stigmas elongated, puberulous : caryopsis rather terete, elongated, 

 glabrous. 



(1) E. AKTicuLATUs. fBeauv.J 



Beauv. Agrost. — Steudel 1. c. p. 301. 



Syn. EchLnalysium strictum, 3?rin. — Daotylis spieata, Willd. 



JEkgrm. Beauv. t. 14, fig. 2. — Kuntb Gram. II. t. 154. 



Spec. Chae. Boot fibrous : culms turfy, simple ; leaves flat, 

 elongated, exceeding the culm: panicle interrupted: involucre of 

 the glomerules 3 — 7-leaved, leaves exceeding the glomerules. 



Malabar. Coromandel. 



GENUS XXXVIII. TBIPOGOK 



Triaiidpia Viffynia. Sex: Syst-. 



Beriv. From IVeis three, and Pogon a beard, alluding to the 

 three bristles of the lower valves. 



Gen. Chae. Spikelets many-flowered, flowers imbricated on a 

 slender axD. at the slightly bearded nodes, perfect, 2-valved : glumes 

 2, shorter than the spikelet, lower one smaller, embracing, obliquely 

 sharpened, somewhat prsemorse on the other side, upper one 2- 

 toothed, short-subulate between the teeth, awl equalling the teeth, 

 springing from the united apex of the twin dorsal nerve : valves 2, 

 lower ovate, incurved at the sides, bi-laciniate at the apex, 3-nerved, 

 segments muticous, three straight bristles being interposed rising 

 from the middle nerve and two lateral ones : upper oblong, more 

 membranaceous, flat upwards, 2-cleft at the slightly obtuse apex, 

 lower one convolute, somewhat 4-nerved : scales 2, coloured, conical, 

 truncated, glabrous, narrow : filaments capillary : styles filiform, 

 distant : stigmas loosely villous : caryopsis elongate-cylindric, 

 slightly compressed, truncated and bi-denticulate. 



(1) T. BEOMOIDES. (Roth.) 



Ident. Both. Nov. sp. 79. — Steudel 1. c. p. 301. 



Syn. Eestuca mysorensis, Heyne. — Avena mysorensis, Spreng. 

 — T. lanatus, Hochst. in Steudel I. c. var. 



Spec. Chak. Boot fibrous, flexuose, yellowish, csespitiferous : 

 culms erect, simple, 1 — foot, thin, glabrous : leaves linear, liarrow, 

 flat or convolute, and with the sheaths hairy : ligula membranaceous, 

 very short, cut : spikes secund, rhachis angular, flexuose scabrous : 

 spikelets alternate, oblong, sessile, 7 — 8-flowered, adpressed to the 



