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es, description. 
. Size and usually looser disposition, very much like that of spikelets 2 
andflowers of Tripogon Lisboe. The lateral nerves. end in very minute 
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ipogon . Jacauemontii, Stapf. [Grimes] 5 gums v nai dc 
periore apice minutissim ui, sub- 
bipartito, glumis A a nerv ii rectam rerom, 
' lateralibus in mucronulos interdum. fere bohétlotus produetis ; S 
Perenne, 1-2 in alt. altus. Folia ligula brevissime ciliata, la 
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lin- longw, spatio eorum longit tadine 2-3 plo. breviore remote vel. inter- 
dum imprimis basin spiez v magis distantes, plus minusve seeun« 
lato truncato aucta, superior lanceolata; florentes 10-21 basi pilis 
Brevis ffultæ ovat Vis ge, apie erose, 14-2 ] long, aris 
dia 4 lin. longa, d 1-3 vacum. ` Palea bidentata 
‘superne asperula, . tiryopiia Ras pré teres glabra. 
Hab.—India, from the Western Ghats to Ben; gal: Bombay 
dency, Lisboa, G. M. Woodrow, 79; Poona, Jaequemont, $20 tis; 
Sholapur, Herb, Munro ; Bengal, "Griffith, Kew Distr., No. 6636. As 
The structure of the spikelets and flowers is, apart. eons their Moret 
bristles, which are hardly prudeed beyond t the scabrous margin of the 
small terminal lobes ; in the Ben; ecimen, » ho tae sa ar su. , 
yet very short. | 
e, especially i ‘in their anatomical stru cture. 
Tripog » fuos is nearest allied to 7. bromoides, Roth: to. whic 
. Species: T° zeylanicus; Neés in Stued.,. T. festucoides, Jaub. et Spa 
“F. Griffithii, Nai i ae hie and T. low natus, Hochst. ex Steud., 
be reduced as synonyms, es t i 
Tripogons and the yag of Eragrosti. s of the gr 
of E. corromandeliana is very great, the difference between them alm 
(din g reduced to the dape of the caryopsis and the ‘absence of aw 
minal lobes in the flowering glumes of Eragrostis. On the 
ri the two new ee s connect to a certain degree the gr 
ot us M nr 
“bich 1 find 7. bre pI Nees in Steud. is a synony 
Toe irre Viana ma ten oe Pa gi group of T. abyssinicus, N 
taken Pub poets very. ie characters, | 
stance, the orf, or reduction of awns. They are, he 
"within limited geographical areas remarka ably constant, and coinci 
ith a certain een in the Mit NA: ‘is not a to convey in 


Staph [Gremien]; gone. vacua. X 
ente Id inferio re ovarium fovei 

