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PolyfocaJ] CLxxiii, gramine-e. (J. D. Hooker.) 101 



embracing the racliis, at length crustaceous ; II thin, acuminate; lit 

 hyaline, epaleate ; IV hyaline, paleate, fertile. Staminodes and lodicules 

 t Ovary minute; styles long, stigmas slender. Grain very small, 

 orbicular, enclosed in the hardened outer gls. — Species 8, tropical Asiatic 

 Mid Australian. 



. lijfl, mostly compound \ male spikelets termhal, superposed, ^airy ; 

 jm. 3-7. Pedicelled fern, spikelets of one bract-like gl. terminating the 

 imtofthe rachis.—Spathes ahcays tightly closed. 



1. p. bracteata, Br. in Bennett PL Bav. Jav. 20, t. 5 ; male spikes 

 wher Btiff, pedicelled epikelets mostly (nearly all) rudimentary and 

 adnate to the rachis. Steud. Sun. Gram. Coix heteroclita, Boxb. ^ 



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«• 111. 572; Wall 



«„ ,u ol^ ^^^^^' ^SSAM and the Khasia Hills, ascending to 5000 ft. Buema, 



on the Shan hills, Collett.^DiSTUiB, Tonkin. 



in\^ }A V ^^'' ^^^^^ ^^ slender ; sheaths and leaves glabrous, or hirsute with 



wrcied-based hairs. Leaves 1^-2 ft. by |-1 in,, margins rough, base contracted. 

 JTa^^^^ 3-6 in., usually long-pedicelled aud digitate ; low^er branches spreading 

 kU 1 u.' ^^^'^^^ ^*^^''^- ^^^^ spikelets \ in., glabrous or pubescent; fem. spike- 

 in Im' f? ^ '^^'' P"^^' shining; rudimentary pedicelled spikelets lanceolate, i-1 



•«»>g, at length spreading; gl. I oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 2-keeled. 



8r)iL'*'iT*"*^'**ana, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 52 ; male 

 cLn! ^^^^^^ flexuous, pedicelled spikelets free. 



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BaZzlr^Sj''^'"® ^^*i Tenasserim, Wallichi Pegu, M'Lelland, &c. ; Tenasserini, 



^3 frK^\'^5 ?"^ '^^^t'>s K^'^^roua or hispid with tubercle -based bristles.^ Leaves 

 oftenLJ';^'"-'^^^^'' narrowed from the middle to the base. Terminal infl. 

 »»ehi8 2 P"^""'*^^' ^^^»^cbes 2~2i in. ; lateral more or less enclosed in the epathe ; 

 Pe^iedled'nV f ^'' spiiele/* i in.; fern, as long, pale, shining; rudimentary 



« spifcelets I in., lanceolate, at length spreading. 





Terminal infl 



3, fem. spatfia- 



f W«;^J^ sinkes. Pedicelled fem. 



^Pfcelet^cifo J ^'^if^^^ ^^P^^<^€a., lateral 0/ simple ^pi/tets. 

 I ^J ^ffts., pedicels adnate to the rachis. • 



' «pikes*2 ?'*-'''^"' ^^""Pf ^^ Hook. Lc. PI. t, 2333 ; male infl very fragile, 

 ^•lobulate^ ^j; pedicelled spikelets free, fem. spikelets glabrous, gl. 1 



AiinuaL*'' V°^ o^'^ CoNCAN, Jacquemont, kc. 



^'"'"lJ-.2 fl'^t ^ ^^- ^n'i leaves more or less hispid with tuhercle-hased hairs, 

 ^^i" vi lot • \ 2-3 ■"•. margins thickeued. Male infl. often long-pedunclcd 



"^""^^ butsffi ^''' ^"""^'^ glabrous; sfiktlets i in. ; rudimentary gl. hke I and U 



All 



'A of simple bisexual spikes ; spikelets glabrous 



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^^'^-inQen pT' ^P^^^^^^ 2 or more. Chionachne Wightu Afj^nro .« 

 , The J). •■'/"" ^- ^' "' Tripaacum ? semiteres, Wall. Cat. n.8b2b. 



»r'^ ''^''' ^^''''^'^^^AJ Palumcotta, >J-»VW. Bubma; Taong-dong hills, 

 & ''P^SeS^^^^^^^ stents 2-2i ft., stiff, glabrous. Leaves 8-10 byj-i 'P^' 





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' " U-3 in ?' margins thickeued ; sheaths glabrous or hairy. Spathe l- 

 ;:^ , •■ '»ale part stoat, rachis glibrous; spikelets i~k in. glab 



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