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to subulato-linear, chartaceo-membranaceous, ciliated with spreading hairs, 

 striate, li-4cm. long, with a small deciduous subulate microphyll. Spikelets 



fasciculately or sub-racemosely disposed, pedicellate, slender, elongate, filiform, 

 loosely and alternately flowered, 8-20cm. long, 2-3 mm. across ; rachilla 

 slender, slightly flexuous, viridescent ; internodes compressed, lato-linear, 

 puberulent above, 5-7 mm. long; pedicel 3-30 mm. long, gracile, straight, 

 covered with scaly sheaths, few- to several-jointed, puberulent ; sheaths 

 membranaceous, striate, the lower ones shorter and imbricate, subulato- 

 ovate, mucronate or cuspidate, ciliated or subciliated, several- to subnu- 

 merous-nerved, the superior ones gradually longer, the uppermost one oblong- 

 linear, with a minute subulate microphyll or sometimes a normal blade, 

 ciliated on one margin, many-nerved, about 16 mm. long. Flowers erect 

 and adpressed to the rachilla, longer than the internodes, oblong-linear, 

 sharply tapering at the apex, green, glabrous, 7-12 mm. long. Empty 

 glumes 2 or sometimes 3, approximate, sub-closely placed to the lowest 

 flower, viridescent, acute and with an apiculate scabrous tip, minutely 

 ciliated at the apical margin, many-nerved, with very loose transverse veinlets 

 between nerves, chartaceous or membranaceo-chartaceous, minutely pubescent 

 above internally ; the lower one slightly smaller and ovate to oblong-ovatc, 

 6|-9mm. long; the superior one ovate to elliptical-ovate, 8-10 mm. long; 

 the lowest one (when 3) smaller and elliptico-ovate. Flowering glume 

 enclosing the rachilla in front, subcoriaceo-chartaceous, glabrous, but minutely 

 ciliated towards the apex and puberulent at the apical tip, thin and 

 subscarious towards the margin, ovate, acute and with cuspidate tip, rounded 

 dorsally, ahout 5-7 on each side of the midrib, transverse venules loose. 

 Palea slightly shorter than the flowering glume, about 7-10 mm. long, bicari- 

 nate, chartaceo-membranaceous, viridescent, oblong, obtuse or subbifid with 

 incurved lobes and pilose at the apex, ciliated with erect-patent and 

 spinnlose hairs in carinas above, glabrous on margin but uften subciliated 

 towards the apex, 2- or sub-3-nerved on the outside of the carina, delicately 

 and loosely reticulato-nerved between carina above. Lodicules 3, erect, 

 membranaceous, nervate, ciliated above, subrhornbeo-elliptico-ovate, obtuse, 

 the posterior ones slightly oblique in size and subcuneate and thickish below, 

 about 2i mm. long. Stamens 3, exserted ; filament filiform, glabrous, longer 

 than the anther ; anther lato-linear or oblong-linear, 4-5 mm, long, light 

 yellow, shortly bifid at the apex, bi-auriculated at the base. Ovary oblong- 

 cylindrical, glabrous, about l§-2 mm. long ; style longer than the ovary, 7-8mm. 

 long including the ovary, deeply 3-fid, arms filiform, villoso-plumose, longer 

 than the connate portion, which is enlarged towards the base. Caryopsis 



